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2 wxWidgets Change Log
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4
5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.8.x
6 ================================
7
8
9 Notice that these changes are described in more details in
10 the "Changes Since wxWidgets 2.8" section of the manual,
11 please read it if the explanation here is too cryptic.
12
13
14 Unicode-related changes
15 -----------------------
16
17 The biggest changes in wxWidgets 3.0 are the changes due to the merge of the
18 old ANSI and Unicode build modes in a single build. See the Unicode overview
19 in the manual for more details but here are the most important incompatible
20 changes:
21
22 - Many wxWidgets functions taking "const wxChar *" have been changed to take
23 either "const wxString&" (so that they accept both Unicode and ANSI strings;
24 the argument can't be NULL anymore in this case) or "const char *" (if the
25 strings are always ANSI; may still be NULL). This change is normally
26 backwards compatible except:
27
28 a) Virtual functions: derived classes versions must be modified to take
29 "const wxString&" as well to make sure that they continue to override the
30 base class version.
31
32 b) Passing NULL as argument: as NULL can't be unambiguously converted to
33 wxString, in many cases code using it won't compile any more and NULL
34 should be replaced with an empty string.
35
36 - Functions returning "const wxChar *" were changed as well. Mostly they now
37 return wxString which is then transparently convertible to either "const char
38 *" or "const wchar_t *" but in some cases, notably wxDateTime::ParseXXX(),
39 the returned string could be NULL and so a separate helper class is used. If
40 you obtain compilation errors because of this, you can always correct them by
41 explicitly assigning the function return value to a variable of wanted type.
42 A slightly more intrusive but better solution is to use ParseXXX() version
43 with wxString::const_iterator output parameter which simply returns bool to
44 indicate the parsing success.
45
46 - Some structure fields which used to be of type "const wxChar *" (such as
47 wxCmdLineEntryDesc::shortName, longName and description fields) are now of
48 type "const char *", you need to remove wxT() or _T() around the values used
49 to initialize them (which should normally always be ASCII). If you want your
50 code to remain compatible with Unicode build of previous wx version, please
51 use the special wxT_2, which is the same as wxT in 2.x only, instead.
52
53 - wxIPC classes didn't work correctly in Unicode build before, this was fixed
54 but at a price of breaking backwards compatibility: many methods which used
55 to work with "wxChar *" before use "void *" now (some int parameters were
56 also changed to size_t). While wxIPC_TEXT can still be used to transfer 7
57 bit text, the new wxIPC_UTF8TEXT format is used for transferring wxStrings.
58 Also notice that connection classes should change the parameter types of
59 their overridden OnExecute() or override a more convenient OnExec() instead.
60
61
62 wxODBC and contrib libraries removal
63 ------------------------------------
64
65 wxODBC library was unmaintained since several years and we couldn't continue
66 supporting it any longer so it was removed. Please use any of the other open
67 source ODBC libraries in the future projects.
68
69 Also the "applet", "deprecated", "fl", "mmedia" and "plot" contrib libraries
70 were removed as they were unmaintained and broken since several years.
71 The "gizmos", "ogl", "net" and "foldbar" contribs have been moved to
72 wxCode (see http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/complist.php); they are now
73 open for further development by volunteers.
74
75 The "stc" and "svg" contribs instead have been moved respectively into a new
76 "official" library stc and in the core lib.
77
78
79 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
80 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
81
82 - Default location of wxFileConfig files has changed under Windows, you will
83 need to update your code if you access these files directly.
84
85 - wxWindow::IsEnabled() now returns false if a window parent (and not
86 necessarily the window itself) is disabled, new function IsThisEnabled()
87 with the same behaviour as old IsEnabled() was added.
88
89 - Generating wxNavigationKeyEvent events doesn't work any more under wxGTK (and
90 other platforms in the future), use wxWindow::Navigate() or NavigateIn()
91 instead.
92
93 - Sizers distribute only the extra space between the stretchable items
94 according to their proportions and not all available space. We believe the
95 new behaviour corresponds better to user expectations but if you did rely
96 on the old behaviour you will have to update your code to set the minimal
97 sizes of the sizer items to be in the same proportion as the items
98 proportions to return to the old behaviour.
99
100 - Interpretation of font height in pixels parameter has changed in wxFont
101 ctor and SetPixelSize() in wxMSW: it is now used as character height and not
102 the total cell height. If you previously used negative height to explicitly
103 request character height matching, you may now change your code to use
104 positive value (passing negative height still works but is undocumented and
105 deprecated). If you used positive height before you should retest your code
106 to check if the changes correspond to your expectations. And if you do need
107 the old behaviour please contact us at wx-dev to let us know about it!
108
109 - wxWindow::Freeze/Thaw() are not virtual any more, if you overrode them in
110 your code you need to override DoFreeze/DoThaw() instead now.
111
112 - wxCalendarCtrl has native implementation in wxGTK, but it has less features
113 than the generic one. The native implementation is used by default, but you
114 can still use wxGenericCalendarCtrl instead of wxCalendarCtrl in your code if
115 you need the extra features.
116
117 - wxDocument::FileHistoryLoad() and wxFileHistory::Load() now take const
118 reference to wxConfigBase argument and not just a reference, please update
119 your code if you overrode these functions and change the functions in the
120 derived classes to use const reference as well.
121
122 - Under MSW wxExecute() arguments are now always properly quoted, as under
123 Unix, and so shouldn't contain quotes unless they are part of the argument.
124
125 - wxDocument::OnNewDocument() doesn't call OnCloseDocument() any more.
126
127 - If you use wxScrolledWindow::SetTargetWindow() you must implement its
128 GetSizeAvailableForScrollTarget() method, please see its documentation for
129 more details.
130
131 - Processing of pending events now requires a running event loop.
132 Thus initialization code (e.g. showing a dialog) previously done in wxApp::OnRun()
133 or equivalent function should now be done into wxApp::OnEventLoopEnter().
134 See wxApp::OnEventLoopEnter() and wxApp::OnEventLoopExit() docs for more info.
135
136 - wxLoadFileSelector() now allows the user to select existing files only.
137
138 - Erase background events are now not generated at all when background style is
139 changed. See the updated wxWindow::SetBackgroundStyle() description in the
140 manual for more details.
141
142 - wxTreeCtrl::GetSelection now asserts if the tree has the wxTR_MULTIPLE style.
143 Instead use GetSelections() for multiple items; or if you want only the
144 single item last touched, the new wxTreeCtrl::GetFocusedItem.
145
146 - Custom log targets should be updated to override wxLog::DoLogRecord() method
147 instead of DoLog() or DoLogString() and must be updated if they call the base
148 class versions of these functions as this won't work any more; please see the
149 documentation of wxLog for more information.
150
151 - Confusing wxGridSizer(int cols, int vgap = 0, int hgap = 0) ctor which was
152 easy to mistake for wxGridSizer(int rows, int cols) overload was removed, you
153 will need to specify both vertical and horizontal gap if you want to use this
154 overload or specify both rows and columns and the gap otherwise. Use of the
155 new constructors taking wxSize for the gap argument is preferred. The same
156 applies to wxFlexGridSizer as well.
157
158 - wxBoxSizer::AddSpacer(x) now adds space in the direction of the sizer only
159 and not in both this and the orthogonal directions. This behaviour is what
160 most of the people expect but if you really relied on this overload adding
161 space in both directions you should change your code to use AddSpacer(x, x).
162
163 - wxTextCtrl::LoadFile no longer sends a text update event.
164
165 - wxXmlDocument::Save()'s indentstep argument's interpretation was fixed
166 to match the documentation: it now really is the number of spaces in
167 indentation instead of being its double. Its default value was changed
168 accordingly, to 2.
169
170 - wxLOCALE_CONV_ENCODING flag has no effect now, catalogs are converted
171 regardless of whether the flag was specified or not. This only affects
172 legacy ANSI builds.
173
174 - wxNotebook::GetSelection() returns the new page index when called from
175 wxEVT_COMMAND_NOTEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGED event handler in wxMSW, not the old one.
176 The new behaviour is consistent with wxGTK and more logical but different
177 from the previous versions. Using wxNotebookEvent::GetSelection() instead of
178 querying the notebook selection avoids the problem and is recommended.
179
180 - wxMSW-specific wxAutomationObject::GetInstance() method now creates a new
181 instance if needed instead of failing if the application providing the
182 requested ProgID is not running. Pass wxAutomationInstance_UseExistingOnly
183 flag to it to revert to the old behaviour. It is also possible to use the
184 wxAutomationInstance_SilentIfNone flag to prevent the error message if no
185 currently running instances of this object are available.
186
187 - Signature of wxDataViewCustomRenderer::StartDrag() virtual method changed.
188 You will need to change it in your derived renderer class too if you override
189 it.
190
191 - wxDataViewCustomRenderer::Activate() and LeftClick() were replaced with the
192 new ActivateCell() method. You will need to change it in your derived
193 renderer class accordingly.
194
195 - wxThread::Wait() and wxThread::Delete() used to dispatch the events while
196 waiting for the thread to exit in wxMSW. They still do it in default build
197 with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_8 defined but won't dispatch any events, i.e. the
198 default wait mode will become wxTHREAD_WAIT_BLOCK in the next wxWidgets
199 release so you are strongly encouraged to upgrade your code to stop relying
200 on this behaviour.
201
202 - wxEVT_CHAR_HOOK events are not generated any more if the mouse is captured to
203 prevent the parent wxTopLevelWindow from interfering with the keyboard
204 handling of the window that captured the mouse.
205
206 - wxDataViewCtrl::GetSelection() now returns invalid item in all ports (this
207 behaved differently in wxMSW and wxGTK/wxOSX before) if more than one item
208 is selected in a control with wxDV_MULTIPLE style.
209
210
211 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
212 -----------------------------------------------------------
213
214 - WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 doesn't exist any more, please update your code if
215 you still relied on features deprecated since version 2.4
216
217 - wxDC classes hierarchy has changed, if you derived any classes from wxDC you
218 need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and
219 uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours.
220
221 - wxWindow::ProcessEvent() (and other wxEvtHandler methods inherited by wxWindow)
222 has been made protected to prevent wrongly using it instead of correct
223 GetEventHandler()->ProcessEvent().
224 New ProcessWindowEvent() was added for convenience.
225
226 - Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no
227 longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem
228 in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break
229 code that depends on the result being wxChar.
230
231 - The value returned by wxString::c_str() cannot be casted to non-const char*
232 or wchar_t* anymore. The solution is to use newly added wxString methods
233 char_str() (which returns a buffer convertible to char*) or wchar_str()
234 (which returns a buffer convertible to wchar_t*). These methods are
235 available in wxWidgets 2.8 series beginning with 2.8.4 as well.
236
237 - The value returned by wxString::operator[] or wxString::iterator cannot be
238 used in switch statements anymore, because it's a class instance. Code like
239 this won't compile:
240 switch (str[i]) { ... }
241 and has to be replaced with this:
242 switch (str[i].GetValue()) { ... }
243
244 - Return type of wxString::c_str() is now a helper wxCStrData struct and not
245 const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to both "const char *"
246 and "const wchar_t *", so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot
247 apply the conversion. This can happen in 2 cases:
248
249 + There is an ambiguity because the function being called is overloaded to
250 take both "const char *" and "const wchar_t *" as the compiler can't choose
251 between them. In this case you may use s.wx_str() to call the function
252 matching the current build (Unicode or not) or s.mb_str() or s.wc_str() to
253 explicitly select narrow or wide version of it.
254
255 Notice that such functions are normally not very common but unfortunately
256 Microsoft decided to extend their STL with standard-incompatible overloads
257 of some functions accepting "const wchar_t *" so you may need to replace
258 some occurrences of c_str() with wx_str() when using MSVC 8 or later.
259
260 + Some compilers, notably Borland C++ and DigitalMars, don't correctly
261 convert operator?: operands to the same type and fail with compilation
262 error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting to const
263 wxChar*: wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "")
264
265 - wxCtime() and wxAsctime() return char*; this is incompatible with Unicode
266 build in wxWidgets 2.8 that returned wchar_t*.
267
268 - DigitalMars compiler has a bug that prevents it from using
269 wxUniChar::operator bool in conditions and it erroneously reports type
270 conversion ambiguity in expressions such as this:
271 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); *p; ++p )
272 This can be worked around by explicitly casting to bool:
273 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); (bool)*p; ++p )
274
275 - Virtual wxHtmlParser::AddText() takes wxString, not wxChar*, argument now.
276
277 - Functions that took wxChar* arguments that could be NULL in wxWidgets 2.8
278 are deprecated and passing NULL to them won't compile anymore, wxEmptyString
279 must be used instead.
280
281 - wxTmemxxx() functions take either wxChar* or char*, not void*: use memxxx()
282 with void pointers.
283
284 - Removed insecure wxGets() and wxTmpnam() functions.
285
286 - Removed global GetLine() function from wx/protocol/protocol.h, use
287 wxProtocol::ReadLine() instead.
288
289 - wxVariant no longer derives from wxObject. wxVariantData also no longer
290 derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you
291 can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments.
292
293 - wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they couldn't be
294 implemented correctly any longer because automatically generated ids are not
295 necessarily allocated consecutively now. Use GetChildren() to find the
296 next/previous control sibling instead.
297
298 - Calling wxConfig::Write() with an enum value will fail to compile because
299 wxConfig now tries to convert all unknown types to wxString automatically.
300 The simplest solution is to cast the enum value to int.
301
302 - Several wxImage methods which previously had "long bitmaptype" parameters
303 have been changed to accept "wxBitmapType bitmaptype", please use enum
304 wxBitmapType in your code.
305
306 - wxGridCellEditor::EndEdit() signature has changed and it was split in two
307 functions, one still called EndEdit() and ApplyEdit(). See the documentation
308 of the new functions for more details about how grid editors should be
309 written now.
310
311 - wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGE event renamed to wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED and shouldn't
312 be vetoed any more, use the new wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING event to do it.
313
314 - wxListCtrlCompare function used with wxListCtrl::SortItems() must now declare
315 its third parameter as wxIntPtr and not long (this allows passing pointers
316 to it under 64 bit platforms too).
317
318 - Global wxPendingEvents and wxPendingEventsLocker objects were removed.
319 You may use wxEventLoopBase::SuspendProcessingOfPendingEvents instead of
320 locking wxPendingEventsLocker now.
321
322 - wxBitmapButton::GetBitmapXXX() overloads returning non-const wxBitmap
323 references have been removed, modifying the returned bitmaps never worked and
324 now results in compile-time error.
325
326 - wxLogXXX() are now macros, not functions. Because of this calling them with
327 an explicit scope resolution operator ("::wxLogError()") doesn't work any
328 longer, just remove it. Also notice that using them inside an "if" statement
329 without enclosing parentheses results in warnings from g++ with -Wparentheses,
330 add parentheses around the if statement body to work around it.
331
332 - wxList::Member() now returns bool and not a pointer/iterator. This shouldn't
333 require any changes as it was always meant to be used for checking for the
334 presence of an element in the list only. If you used it as Find(), simple do
335 use Find() instead.
336
337 - wxLongLongFmtSpec is now a normal and not wide string so you will need to
338 change expressions of the form wxT("%") wxLongLongFmtSpec wxT("x") to
339 just "%" wxLongLongFmtSpec "x", i.e. simply remove wxT() from the strings you
340 concatenate with it.
341
342 - wxST_MARKUP doesn't exist any more, use wxControl::SetLabelMarkup() instead.
343
344 - wxComboBox::IsEmpty(), which was previously available in some ports (but not
345 wxMSW), doesn't exist any more, use either IsListEmpty() or IsTextEmpty().
346
347 - wxSingleChoiceDialog ctors and Create() now have 2 overloaded versions: one
348 taking void** client data and the deprecated one taking char**. This can
349 result in compilation errors due to an ambiguity between them if you pass
350 NULL as client data. To fix this, cast NULL explicitly to "void**".
351
352
353 Deprecated methods and their replacements
354 -----------------------------------------
355
356 - wxCreateGreyedImage() deprecated, use wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale() instead.
357 - wxString::GetWriteBuf() and UngetWriteBuf() deprecated, using wxStringBuffer
358 or wxStringBufferLength instead.
359 - wxDIRCTRL_SHOW_FILTERS style is deprecated, filters are alwsys shown if
360 specified so this style should simply be removed
361 - wxDocManager::MakeDefaultName() replaced by MakeNewDocumentName() and
362 wxDocument::GetPrintableName() with GetUserReadableName() which are simpler
363 to use
364 - wxXmlProperty class was renamed to wxXmlAttribute in order to use standard
365 terminology. Corresponding wxXmlNode methods were renamed to use
366 "Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names.
367 - wxConnection::OnExecute() is not formally deprecated yet but new code should
368 use simpler OnExec() version which is called with wxString argument
369 - Various wxMenuItem methods were deprecated in favour of more consisently
370 named new versions:
371 . GetLabel() is now GetItemLabelText()
372 . GetText() is not GetItemLabel()
373 . GetLabelFromText() is now GetLabelText()
374 . SetText() is now SetItemLabel()
375 - wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen
376 ctor now take respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a
377 plain "int style"; use the new wxBrush/wxPen style names (wxBRUSHSTYLE_XXX
378 and wxPENSTYLE_XXX) instead of the old deprecated wxXXX styles.
379 - EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGE was deprecated, use EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED instead if you
380 don't veto the event in its handler and EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING if you do.
381 - EVT_CALENDAR_DAY event has been deprecated, use EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED.
382 - EVT_CALENDAR_MONTH and EVT_CALENDAR_YEAR events are deprecated,
383 use EVT_CALENDAR_PAGE_CHANGED which replaces both of them.
384 - wxCalendarCtrl::EnableYearChange() and wxCAL_NO_YEAR_CHANGE are deprecated.
385 There is no replacement for this functionality, it is being dropped as it is
386 not available in native wxCalendarCtrl implementations.
387 - wxDC::SetClippingRegion(const wxRegion&) overload is deprecated as it used
388 different convention from the other SetClippingRegion() overloads: wxRegion
389 passed to it was interpreted in physical, not logical, coordinates. Replace
390 it with SetDeviceClippingRegion() if this was the correct thing to do in your
391 code.
392 - wxTE_AUTO_SCROLL style is deprecated as it's always on by default anyhow.
393 - wxThreadHelper::Create() has been renamed to CreateThread which has a better
394 name for a mix-in class, and allows setting the thread type.
395 - wxDos2UnixFilename, wxUnix2DosFilename, wxStripExtension, wxGetTempFileName,
396 wxExpandPath, wxContractPath, wxRealPath, wxCopyAbsolutePath, wxSplitPath
397 were deprecated in favour of wxFileName methods. See docs for more info.
398 - wxEvtHandler::TryValidator/Parent() are deprecated, override the new and
399 documented TryBefore/After() methods if you used to override these ones.
400 - wxGetMultipleChoices() is deprecated, use wxGetSelectedChoices() which has
401 the same signature but returns -1 and not 0 if the dialog was cancelled.
402 - building the windows which are placed inside wxStaticBoxes as siblings of the
403 wxStaticBox is still allowed but it's deprecated as it gives some problems
404 on some ports (e.g. wxGTK).
405 You should now create windows placed inside a wxStaticBox as children of
406 the static box itself.
407 - wxMouseState::{Left,Middle,Right}Down() were renamed to XXXIsDown() for
408 consistency with wxMouseEvent and the old names were deprecated.
409 - wxFont::SetNoAntiAliasing() was deprecated, it never really worked in most
410 ports and was always marked as "experimental" API. It will be replaced with
411 wxDC-level anti-aliasing control in the future.
412 - wxValidator::SetBellOnError() incorrectly interpreted its argument (it
413 disabled the bell when it was true) and was replaced by SuppressBellOnError()
414 with more expected semantics.
415 - wxPORTRAIT and wxLANDSCAPE are now elements of wxPrintOrientation enum and
416 wxPrintData::SetOrientation(int) takes wxPrintOrientation and not int.
417 - Second parameter of wxSlider::SetTickFreq(int n, int pos) is deprecated,
418 simply remove it from your code and use wxSlider::SetTickFreq(int n) as it
419 was never used anyhow.
420 - wxSingleChoiceDialog ctor and Create() take "void**" client data pointer
421 instead of "char**". As the client data is typically untyped, you should
422 simply remove the casts to "char**" which you probably have in your code if
423 you use these functions.
424 - wxDataViewCtrl::StartEditor(item, n) taking column index is now deprecated,
425 use EditItem(item, GetColumn(n)), which takes the column itself, instead.
426
427
428 Major new features in this release
429 ----------------------------------
430
431 - wxWidgets is now always built with Unicode support but provides the same
432 simple (i.e. "char *"-tolerant) API as was available in ANSI build in the
433 past.
434
435 - wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally,
436 depending on what is optimal for the target platform.
437
438 - New propgrid library containing wxPropertyGrid and related classes.
439
440 - new ribbon library for advanced toolbars.
441
442 - Many enhancements to wxDataViewCtrl.
443
444 - Event loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
445
446 - Events can now be connected to any functor, not necessarily a method of
447 wxEvtHandler-derived class. The compile-time safety was also improved.
448
449 - Documentation for wxWidgets has been converted from LaTex to C++ headers
450 with Doxygen comments and significantly improved in the process (screenshots
451 of various controls were added, more identifiers are now linked to their
452 definition &c). Any reports about inaccuracies in the documentation are
453 welcome (and due to using the simple Doxygen syntax it is now easier than
454 ever to submit patches correcting them! :-)
455
456 - Support for persistent objects automatically saving and restoring their state
457 was added.
458
459
460 2.9.4:
461 ------
462
463 All:
464
465 - Added wxLogFormatter to allow customizing wxLog output (Sébastien Gallou).
466 - Added "%z" support to wxDateTime::Format() and Parse() (Armel Asselin).
467 - Add wxHTTP::SetPostBuffer(wxMemoryBuffer) and SetPostText() (Eran Ifrah).
468 - Fix wrong time zone used in wxDateTime::UNow().
469 - Fix performance of wxStdInputStream with MSVC8/9 (wsu).
470 - Added wxFileName::Exists().
471
472 All (GUI):
473
474 - Added strike-through support to wxFont (Igor Korot).
475 - Fix infinite loop in wxHtmlEasyPrinting when trying to page break images
476 taller than the page height in wxHtmlEasyPrinting (Laurent Poujoulat).
477 - Added wxFilePickerCtrl::SetInitialDirectory().
478 - Added wxDataViewItemAttr::SetBackgroundColour() and implemented it in generic
479 wxDataViewCtrl (Andrew Xu).
480 - Fix item alignment in icon view in the generic wxListCtrl.
481 - Support font-family/style, text-decoration in wxHtmlWindow (Blake Oleander).
482 - Show ribbon tools help strings in tooltips (John Roberts).
483 - Improve row/column selection modes in wxGrid (joostn).
484 - Send wxEVT_UPDATE_UI for wxRibbonButtonBar and wxRibbonToolBar (Emilien Kia).
485 - Add InsertXXXButton() to wxRibbonButtonBar and wxRibbonToolBar (Emilien Kia).
486 - Allow enabling/disabling and toggling tools in wxRibbonToolBar (Emilien Kia).
487 - Fix multiple item selection in generic wxTreeCtrl (Igor Korot).
488 - Implement wxMenuBar::IsEnabledTop() for all major ports (Igor Korot).
489 - Implement best size calculation for report mode wxListCtrl.
490 - Fix setting of the frame icon when using non-standard icon sizes (vid).
491 - Implement wxDV_ROW_LINES in generic wxDataViewCtrl (RedCAT).
492
493 GTK:
494
495 - Implement support for wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT (Armel Asselin).
496 - Fix wxNotebook best size calculation.
497
498 MSW:
499
500 - Fixed regression with initial focus in the dialogs in 2.9.3.
501 - Added support for wxEXEC_MAKE_GROUP_LEADER to wxExecute (tteras).
502 - Set wxMenu being closed in wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events (Marcin Malich).
503 - Fix coordinates and Z-position for joystick events (Markus Juergens).
504 - Fix size of the font returned by wxTextCtrl::GetStyle() (Igor Korot).
505 - Add wxActiveXContainer::QueryClientSiteInterface and implement it in
506 wxWebViewIE to improve the default behaviour (Allonii)
507
508 OSX:
509
510 - Provide native implementations of wxDatePickerCtrl and wxTimePickerCtrl.
511 - Fix handling of positional parameters in wxPrintf() &c (David Connet).
512
513 Univ:
514
515 - Fix regression with read-only wxComboBox appearance (Jason Erb).
516
517
518
519 2.9.3: (released 2011-12-14)
520 ------
521
522 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.9.2
523
524 - wxPanel::SetBackgroundBitmap() was removed, derive your class from
525 wxCustomBackgroundWindow and use its method with the same name instead.
526
527 All:
528
529 - Fix parsing of negated long options in wxCmdLineParser (roed_bis).
530 - Fix crash in wxArray::insert() overload taking iterator range (wsu).
531 - Added wxEventFilter class and wxEvtHandler::{Add,Remove}Filter().
532 - Added convenient wxCmdLineParser::AddLong{Option,Switch}() wrappers.
533 - Added wxStopWatch::TimeInMicro() and wxGetUTCTimeUSec() and improved
534 wxStopWatch precision.
535 - Made wxGetLocalTimeMillis() really return local time, added
536 wxGetUTCTimeMillis() returning what this function used to return.
537 - Added wxCriticalSection::TryEnter() (Catalin Raceanu).
538 - Add support for OpenBSD to wxDialUpManager (brad0).
539 - Added wxEXEC_HIDE_CONSOLE flag.
540
541 All (GUI):
542
543 - Added wxWebView library (Steven Lamerton & Auria, GSoC 2011 project).
544 - Added wxTreeListCtrl class.
545 - Added wxTimePickerCtrl class.
546 - Added wxRichToolTip class.
547 - Added documented, public wxNavigationEnabled<> class.
548 - Added wxTextCtrl::PositionToCoords() (Navaneeth).
549 - Added support for wxHELP button to wxMessageDialog.
550 - Added wxBannerWindow class.
551 - Allow setting window shape to arbitrary wxGraphicsPath.
552 - Added wxTextEntry::AutoCompleteDirectories().
553 - Support float, double and file name values in wxGenericValidator (troelsk).
554 - Add support for custom numeric formats to wxGrid (Kinaou Hervé).
555 - Fix keyboard navigation in wxGrid with hidden columns (ivan_14_32).
556 - Add wxDataViewEvent::IsEditCancelled() (Allonii).
557 - Send EVT_DATAVIEW_ITEM_CONTEXT_MENU events even when not clicking on an item.
558 - Allow marking wxTreeBook nodes to expand initially in XRC (RedTide).
559 - Added customizable wxDocManager::OnMRUFileNotExist() virtual method.
560 - Fix stock labels when not using mnemonics for Chinese (cw.ahbong).
561 - Added wxComboBox::IsListEmpty() and IsTextEmpty().
562 - Added wxDataViewCtrl::GetSelectedItemsCount() and HasSelection().
563 - Added wxFLP_SMALL and wxDIRP_SMALL styles.
564 - Added support for saving alpha with TIFF images.
565 - Added wxPersistentSplitter.
566 - Derive wxAuiNotebook from wxBookCtrlBase (Steven Lamerton).
567 - Fix tooltips in wxSearchCtrl and other composite controls (Catalin Raceanu).
568 - Allow converting to and from wxGraphicsBitmap and wxImage directly.
569 - Allow wxGraphicsFont creation without passing by wxFont.
570 - Added wxDataViewCustomRenderer::ActivateCell().
571 - Add "checked" property for toolbar tool elements in XRC.
572 - Allow customization of the locations where persistent settings are stored.
573 - Restore support for reusing ids more than 254 times (Armel Asselin).
574 - Added wxIMAGE_OPTION_ORIGINAL_{WIDTH,HEIGHT} (Catalin Raceanu).
575 - Add wxTopLevelWindow::SetRepresentedFilename() (Andrej Vodopivec).
576
577 OSX:
578
579 - Implement wxRegion::Equal() (Dr.Acula).
580 - Implement wxFileType::GetOpenCommand().
581 - wxGetOsVersion() now returns more sensible version numbers, e.g. 10 and 6
582 for OS X 10.6.
583 - Added wxApp::MacOpenFiles and deprecated wxApp::MacOpenFile.
584 - Implement wxEVT_CHAR_HOOK event generation in wxOSX/Cocoa.
585 - Implemented wxComboBox::Popup() and Dismiss() in wxOSX/Cocoa (joostn).
586
587 GTK:
588
589 - Generate events for two auxiliary mouse buttons in wxGTK (Marcin Wojdyr).
590 - Fix conflict between wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT and wxICON_EXCLAMATION (David Hart).
591
592 MSW:
593
594 - Added wxGCDC(wxEnhMetaFileDC) ctor (Marcin Wojdyr).
595 - Added wxTopLevelWindow::MSWGetSystemMenu().
596 - Multiline text controls no longer select all content when gaining focus from
597 the keyboard.
598 - Implement wxStackWalker for x86-64 (Artur Bać).
599
600
601 2.9.2: (released 2011-07-05)
602 ------
603
604 All:
605
606 - Added cwd and env arguments to wxExecute() (Emilien Kia).
607 - Added "rest" argument to wxString::Before{First,Last}().
608 - Added wxThread::OnKill() and OnDelete() callbacks.
609 - Added wxFile::GetLastError() and ClearLastError() (ryazanov).
610 - Added negatable command line switches (Armel Asselin).
611 - Added wxVersionInfo and various GetLibraryVersionInfo() functions (troelsk).
612 - Added wxNumberFormatter for dealing with thousands separators.
613 - Added wxIntegerValidator<> and wxFloatingPointValidator<> validators.
614 - Added wxIMAGE_OPTION_GIF_COMMENT to read and write GIF comments (troelsk).
615 - Added wxStack<> template class.
616 - Added precision parameter to wxString::From[C]Double().
617 - Added wxThread::Wait() and Delete() "wait mode" parameter (Catalin Raceanu).
618 - Allow showing milliseconds in wxLog time stamps (tan).
619 - Added support for processing instructions in wxXmlDocument (Nick Matthews).
620 - Added wxThreadEvent for communicating between threads to wxBase.
621
622 Unix:
623
624 - Fix spurious errors when writing to child process pipe (ryazanov).
625
626 All (GUI):
627
628 - Implement support for markup in wxButton and wxStaticText.
629 - Added wxRichMessageDialog (Rickard Westerlund, GSoC 2010 project).
630 - Added wxCommandLinkButton (Rickard Westerlund, GSoC 2010 project).
631 - Added wxUIActionSimulator (Steven Lamerton, GSoC 2010 project).
632 - Added support for dynamic auto-completion in wxTextEntry.
633 - Added images support to wxToggleButton (Garrick Meeker).
634 - wxAUI: support auto-orientable toolbars (wsu).
635 - wxAUI: add support for icons in pane title bars (triton).
636 - Added wxPanel::SetBackgroundBitmap().
637 - Added wxDataViewCtrl::Set/GetCurrentItem().
638 - Added possibility to disable individual wxDataViewCtrl items (Neno Ganchev).
639 - wxHTML: render in RTL order inside RTL window (Richard Bullington-McGuire).
640 - wxRibbon: added EVT_RIBBONGALLERY_CLICKED event (John Roberts).
641 - wxRibbon: allow hiding the panels and showing tabs only (snowleopard).
642 - Add support for child documents to docview framework.
643 - Add support for CP-866 encoding to wxEncodingConverter (madnut).
644 - Consistency fixes for keyboard events across all major ports.
645 - Added EVT_RIBBONBAR_TAB_LEFT_DCLICK event (snowleopard).
646 - Fix display of right aligned columns in wxGenericListCtrl (jl).
647 - Restore text drag-and-drop in wxSTC broken by Scintilla 2 update (Jens Lody).
648 - Add support for id ranges to XRC (David Hart).
649 - Added wxToolbook XRC handler (Andrea Zanellato).
650 - Added wxDocManager::FindTemplate() (troelsk).
651 - Return bool, not void, from wxImage::ConvertAlphaToMask() (troelsk).
652 - Fixed resizing columns in wxGrid when they were reordered.
653 - Fixed keyboard navigation when wxGrid columns are reordered.
654 - Added wxImage::Rotate180() (Jeff Tupper).
655 - Added support for saving TGA files.
656 - Added wxArtProvider returning higher quality icons from Tango project.
657 - wxPropertyGrid: Added "HasAlpha" attribute for wxColourProperty.
658 - wxPropertyGrid: Disabling a property didn't work properly if a child item
659 was selected (Sébastien Gallou).
660 - Added support for saving PNG files with palette (troelsk).
661 - Added support for saving as GIF and animated GIF (troelsk).
662 - Fix wxWrapSizer minimal size calculation (Catalin Raceanu).
663 - Added wxFont::Underlined() and MakeUnderlined() methods.
664 - Added wxFont::SetSymbolicSize() and related methods.
665 - Fix SVG files generation in locales using decimal comma (snowleopard).
666 - Fix setting tooltips for generic wxSpinCtrl (Catalin Raceanu).
667 - Added support for reading image resolutions from PNG images (scottb).
668 - wxComboCtrl, wxOwnerDrawnComboBox: better support for themed and custom
669 panel backgrounds, especially on OS X.
670 - Add WXK_CONTROL_A..WXK_CONTROL_Z constants (Jan van Dijk).
671 - Add support for alpha channel in colours in wxSVGFileDC (snowleopard).
672 - Allow customizing AUI tab colours in wxAuiTabArt (snowleopard).
673 - Added wxAffineMatrix2D class (Catalin Raceanu).
674 - Allow showing preview frame non modally (John Roberts).
675 - Improve appearance of the generic wxHyperlinkCtrl (David Connet).
676
677 GTK:
678
679 - Improve print/page setup dialog (rafravago).
680 - Switch to GtkTooltip from deprecated GtkTooltips (Emilien Kia).
681 - wxTLW generates wxEVT_MAXIMIZE.
682 - Fix copying clipboard data to primary selection (David Hart).
683 - Implement wxGraphicsContext::GetSize() (Marcin Wojdyr).
684 - Implement wxCalendarCtrl::SetDateRange() for the native control.
685
686 MSW:
687
688 - Native implementation of wxHyperlinkCtrl and wxProgressDialog under modern
689 Windows versions (Rickard Westerlund, GSoC 2010 project).
690 - Fix Cygwin 1.7 build (David Gangola).
691 - Allow using wxDC::DrawText() with multiline texts.
692 - Fix wxBitmapButton best size determination broken in 2.9.1.
693 - Center task dialog-based wxProgressDialog on the parent (John Roberts).
694 - wxAutomationObject::GetInstance() creates objects on demand (Kolya Kosenko).
695 - Fix EVT_UPDATE_UI generation for items in submenus (wsu).
696 - Added support for world transformation matrix to wxDC (Catalin Raceanu).
697
698 OSX:
699
700 - Implement auto-completion support in wxTextEntry.
701 - Implement switching to default video mode in wxDisplay (soren).
702
703
704 2.9.1:
705 ------
706
707 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.9.0
708
709 - wxStandardPaths doesn't use vendor name by default under MSW and OSX to
710 remain compatible with 2.8 behaviour but this makes it incompatible with
711 2.9.0. Please use UseAppInfo(AppInfo_AppName | AppInfo_VendorName) explicitly
712 to use the vendor name in the paths returned by wxStandardPaths.
713
714 - wxDataViewModel::GetAttr() is now const, as it should have been from the very
715 beginning. You will need to change it to be const in your derived model
716 class too if you override it.
717
718
719 All:
720
721 - Added wxFileSystemWatcher (Bartosz Bekier, Google Summer of Code project).
722 - Added wxStd{Input,Output}Stream classes (Jonathan Liu).
723 - Include port number in host header in wxHTTP (Marcin 'Malcom' Malich).
724 - Added wxTempFile::Flush().
725 - Added support for wxLongLong and wxULongLong in wxVariant.
726 - Added wxVector::swap().
727 - Many wxLog improvements:
728 * wxLogXXX() functions are now thread-safe.
729 * Log levels can now be set independently for different log components.
730 * wxLog::DoLogRecord() has access to the location of the log message
731 (file, line and function name) and id of the thread which generated it.
732 * SetThreadActiveTarget() allows to set up thread-specific log targets.
733 - Fix output buffer overflow in wxBase64Decode() (Eric W. Savage).
734 - Added bilinear image resizing algorithm to wxImage (bishop).
735 - Fix bug with position argument in wxImage::Size() (Byron Sorgdrager).
736 - Added wxImage::ClearAlpha() (Javier Torres).
737 - Fix bug with parsing concatenated switches in wxCmdLineParser (Mike Funduc).
738 - Added wxMBConv::cMB2WC(wxCharBuffer) and cWC2MB(wxWCharBuffer) overloads.
739 - Added wxAny class; a modern, backwards-incompatible replacement for
740 wxVariant.
741 - wxDateTime timezone functions now dynamic (no caching).
742 - Added wxHttp::GetCookie and wxHttp::HasCookies (dodge).
743 - Added support for unique volume names to wxFileName (Neno Ganchev).
744 - Correct bugs when using wxTextInputStream with wxConvAuto (Leon Buikstra).
745 - Don't crash when input is empty in wxFileConfig ctor (Lukasz Michalski).
746 - Correct wxSocket::Peek() to not block (Anders Larsen).
747 - Added IEC and SI units support to GetHumanReadableSize() (Julien Weinzorn).
748 - Add convenient wxString::ToStd{String,Wstring}() helpers.
749 - Added wxTranslations class to allow localization without changing locale.
750 It provides more flexible languages enumeration API as well.
751 - Added wxResourceTranslationsLoader for loading translations from Windows
752 resources.
753 - Added wxMessageQueue::Clear().
754 - Added wxConfig::Read(float *) overload (Terry Farnham).
755 - Always use decimal point (and not the current locale separator) in wxConfig.
756 - Fix posting of binary data using wxHTTP (Catalin Raceanu).
757
758 Unix:
759
760 - Return signed return code from wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC).
761 - Allow to use WX_APPNAME_DATA_DIR environment var to override the return value
762 of wxStandardPaths::GetDataDir().
763
764 All (GUI):
765
766 - Added support for showing bitmaps in wxButton.
767 - Added wxInfoBar.
768 - Added stretchable spaces support to wxToolBar.
769 - Added support for corner, row and column headers renderers to wxGrid.
770 - wxWindow::SetAutoLayout() now works for all windows, not just panels.
771 - Support wxListCtrl columns, items and image lists in XRC (Kinaou Hervé).
772 - Added support for wxFileCtrl to XRC (Kinaou Hervé).
773 - Added ownfg, ownbg and ownfont tags to XRC.
774 - Added wxEditableListBox XRC handler.
775 - Added multiple selection support to wxDirCtrl (Steve Lamerton).
776 - wxGrid: add possibility to prevent resizing of individual rows/columns.
777 - wxGrid: allow changing the horizontal alignment of numeric cells.
778 - wxHTML: add support for table borders width (Laurent Humbertclaude).
779 - wxHTML: add limited support for span elements styles (Nigel Paton).
780 - Added wxMouseEventsManager.
781 - Building OpenGL library is now enabled by default.
782 - Fixed wxDataViewCtrl::Set{Foreground,Background}Colour().
783 - Added wxDataViewRenderer::EnableEllipsize().
784 - Improve wxTreeCtrl::ScrollTo() in generic version (Raanan Barzel).
785 - Added wxFont::[Make]{Bold,Italic,Smaller,Larger} and Scale[d]() methods.
786 - Added wxDC::CopyAttributes() and use it in wxBufferedDC.
787 - Added wxTextWrapper helper class useful for wrapping lines of text.
788 - Added EVT_DATAVIEW_CACHE_HINT() event (Trigve).
789 - Added wxLB_NO_SB style (implemented for MSW only; Dario Senic).
790 - Added long version field to wxAboutDialogInfo (Jeff Tupper).
791 - Added wxWindow::CanScroll() behaving like the old HasScrollbar() and made
792 HasScrollbar() really check for the scrollbar existence.
793 - Added wxKeyEvent::IsKeyInCategory() (Jeff Tupper).
794 - Add A0 and A1 paper formats support (Martin Perktold).
795 - Fixed wxComboCtrl popup size on Mac (scrollbars were always shown).
796 - Fixed wxComboCtrl focus problem on Mac (first-time popup
797 dismissed immediately as text control grabbed the focus).
798 - wxPropertyGrid: added wxPG_EX_MULTIPLE_SELECTION.
799 - wxPropertyGrid: added functions for editing property labels.
800 - wxPropertyGrid: many fixes to property validation failure behaviour. Added
801 new flags: wxPG_VFB_SHOW_MESSAGEBOX and wxPG_VFB_SHOW_MESSAGE_ON_STATUSBAR.
802 - wxPropertyGrid: Added wxPropertyGrid::DedicateKey().
803 - wxPropertyGrid: wxArrayStringProperty now uses wxEditableListBox.
804 - wxPropertyGrid: Added "Delimiter" attribute for wxArrayStringProperty.
805 - wxPropertyGridManager: added wxPG_NO_INTERNAL_BORDER,
806 wxPG_EX_NO_TOOLBAR_DIVIDER and wxPG_EX_TOOLBAR_SEPARATOR styles for finer
807 control over borders. Borders around property grid are now native for
808 consistency.
809 - Added wxPropertyGridManager::ShowHeader().
810 - Added wxXmlResource::LoadObjectRecursively().
811 - Added wxColour::Set/GetRGB() and Set/GetRGBA() methods (Marcel Haß).
812 - wxRTC: added wxRICHTEXT_HANDLER_USE_CSS flag for HTML handler to use CSS
813 where possible.
814 - wxRTC: corrected centring and right-justification spacing.
815 - wxRTC: fixed style selection reset after editing a style.
816 - wxRTC: can now edit line spacing in .1 increments from 1 to 2.
817 - wxRTC: added PaintAboveContent function for drawing on top of text.
818 - Added wxBORDER_THEME to XRC.
819 - wxGraphicsContext is now enabled by default if supported by the platform.
820 - Fix building with using system libpng 1.4 (Volker Grabsch).
821 - Add wxComboBox::Popup() and Dismiss() methods (Igor Korot).
822 - Added wxTreeCtrl::SelectChildren() (Nikolay Tiushkov).
823 - Show pages icons in window list menu in wxAuiNotebook (Ronny Krüger).
824 - Add "initial selection" parameter to wxGetSingleChoice() (Nikolay Tiushkov).
825 - Implement wxDocument::Revert() (troelsk).
826 - Allow overriding print preview frame creation in docview (troelsk).
827 - Added support for gradient stops in wxGraphicsContext (Kit Bishop).
828 - Added wxTransparentColour.
829 - Added wxToolBar::GetToolByPos().
830 - Added wxProgressDialog::Was{Cancelled,Skipped}() (Julien Weinzorn).
831 - Added wxTreeCtrl::{Clear,Set}FocusedItem() (Nikolay Tiushkov).
832 - Added "filter changed" event to wxFileCtrl (Bill Jones).
833 - wxAUI: update floating window position and not only size on resize (MacGyver).
834 - Added wxComboCtrl::SetTextCtrlStyle().
835 - Also update client data in wxRearrangeList control (John Roberts).
836 - Generate more click events in wxGrid when using native header (John Roberts).
837
838 GTK:
839
840 - wxRadioBox constructor uses default consistent with other ports now.
841 - Implement wxMask copy ctor.
842 - Partially implemented wxTextCtrl::GetStyle() (Igor Romanov).
843 - Corrected themed border display.
844 - Fix wxClipboard::GetData() for asymmetric wxDataObjects (Timothy Lee).
845
846 Mac:
847
848 - Implement wxWindow::ShowWithEffect() in wxOSX/Cocoa.
849 - Correct min/max pages display in the print dialog (Auria).
850 - Fix wxDataViewColumn::GetWidth() in Cocoa (Neno Ganchev).
851
852 MSW:
853
854 - Translate wxMessageDialog labels to the language of the current locale.
855 - Allow changing the height of wxChoice and wxComboBox.
856 - Update CRT environment block in wxSetEnv() too.
857 - Fix wxMDIChildFrame::SetSize() (Lars Rosenboom).
858 - Fix wxTreeCtrl::UnselectItem() in single selection controls.
859 - Allow customizing wxStandardPaths logic for program directory determination.
860 - Use time in wxDateTime <-> SYSTEMTIME conversion (troelsk).
861 - Setting colours for wxSpinCtrl now works.
862 - Worked around child window and caret positioning bug (in Windows) when using
863 wxBORDER_THEME in a container window.
864 - Suppressed spurious character event for decimal key in numeric keypad.
865 - Allow to not create wxPaintDC in EVT_PAINT handler.
866 - Fix sending of wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_COL_DRAGGING events in wxListCtrl.
867 - Allow putting the UAC symbol on buttons (Chris Spencer).
868 - Fix wxTaskBarIcon for older Windows systems (Daniel Wyatt).
869 - Fixed wxOwnerDrawnComboBox keyboard handling: drop-down is no longer
870 displayed when arrow key is pressed (without Alt).
871 - In some rare cases wxOwnerDrawnComboBox drop-down animation could display
872 as garbage. This has now been greatly reduced (mcben).
873 - Fixed wxComboCtrl::SetButtonPosition() on Vista/Win7.
874 - Allow accessing 64/32 bit registry from 32/64 bit code (Rickard Westerlund).
875
876 i18n:
877
878 - Korean translations added (Sungkee Jung).
879 - Romanian translations added (Manuel Ciosici).
880
881
882 2.9.0
883 -----
884
885 All:
886
887 - Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen).
888 - Cleaned up wxURI and made it Unicode-friendly.
889 - Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski).
890 - Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it.
891 - Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
892 - Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)
893 - Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr).
894 - Added numeric options support to wxCmdLineParser (crjjrc)
895 - Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi).
896 - Added wxDateTime::FormatISOCombined() and ParseISODate/Time/Combined()
897 - Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
898 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
899 - Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
900 - Implemented wxMemoryFSHandler::FindFirst/Next().
901 - Added wxEventLoop::DispatchTimeout().
902 - Added wxZlibStream::SetDictionary() (Axel Gembe).
903 - Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz).
904 - Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev).
905 - Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev).
906 - Allow using wxEventLoop in console applications (Lukasz Michalski).
907 - Added functions for Base64 en/decoding (Charles Reimers).
908 - Added support for binary data to wxConfig (Charles Reimers).
909 - Added functions for atomically inc/decrementing integers (Armel Asselin).
910 - wxLogInterposer has been added to replace wxLogPassThrough and new
911 wxLogInterposerTemp was added.
912 - Added support for broadcasting to UDP sockets (Andrew Vincent).
913 - Documentation now includes the wx library in which each class is defined.
914 - wxrc --gettext now generates references to source .xrc files (Heikki
915 Linnakangas).
916 - wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared,
917 if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented.
918 - Added wxWeakRef<T>, wxScopedPtr<T>, wxScopedArray<T>, wxSharedPtr<T> templates
919 and renamed old wx/ptr_{scpd,shrd}.h headers to wx/scoped{ptr,array}.h and
920 wx/sharedptr.h (but old headers are still provided for compatibility).
921 - Added wxVector<T> class templates
922 - Added wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_SET() and wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_NULL() to wx/scopeguard.h.
923 - Added wxEvtHandler::QueueEvent() replacing AddPendingEvent() and
924 wxQueueEvent() replacing wxPostEvent().
925 - wxString now uses std::[w]string internally by default, meaning that it is
926 now thread-safe if the standard library provided with your compiler is.
927 - Added wxCmdLineParser::AddUsageText() (Marcin 'Malcom' Malich).
928 - Fix reading/writing UTF-7-encoded text streams.
929 - Corrected bug in wxTimeSpan::IsShorterThan() for equal time spans.
930 - Use std::unordered_{map,set} for wxHashMap/Set if available (Jan van Dijk).
931 - Added wxString::Capitalize() and MakeCapitalized().
932 - Added wxArray::swap().
933 - Added wxSHUTDOWN_LOGOFF and wxSHUTDOWN_FORCE wxShutdown() flags (troelsk).
934 - Added wxSocket::ShutdownOutput().
935 - Handle exceptions thrown from overridden wxView::OnCreate() gracefully.
936 - Added wxPATH_RMDIR_FULL/RECURSIVE wxFileName::Rmdir() flags (Marcin Malich).
937 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetAppDocumentsDir().
938 - Added wx-prefixed versions of DECLARE_NO_{COPY,ASSIGN}_CLASS macros.
939 - Added wxFileName::ReplaceEnvVariable and wxFileName::ReplaceHomeDir.
940 - Added wxProtocol::SetDefaultTimeout(); the default timeout for both wxHTTP and wxFTP
941 protocols is 60 seconds.
942 - Added wxStrnlen() for safe computation of string length.
943 - Added wxImage::Clear() (troelsk).
944 - Added wxLog::Log().
945 - Added wxProtocolLog and use it in wxFTP.
946 - Added wxXmlResource::GetResourceNode().
947 - Optimize wxString::Replace() to use an O(N) algorithm (Kuang-che Wu).
948 - Added support of %l format specifier to wxDateTime::ParseFormat().
949 - wxImage handlers can now support multiple extensions (Ivan Krestinin).
950 - Added wxFileName::StripExtension() (troelsk).
951 - Added wxLOCALE_DATE/TIME_FMT support to wxLocale::GetInfo().
952 - Store page setup data directly in wxDocManager (troelsk).
953
954 All (Unix):
955
956 - Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski).
957 - Noticeably (by a factor of ~150) improve wxIPC classes performance.
958 - Configure options --with-opengl and --enable-mediactrl now default to "auto":
959 if OpenGL and GStreamer libraries are available the "gl" and "media" wx libraries
960 are automatically built.
961
962 All (GUI):
963
964 - Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes.
965 - Integrated wxPropertyGrid in wxWidgets itself (Jaakko Salli).
966 - Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK.
967 - Added wxHeaderCtrl and allow using it in wxGrid.
968 - Added wxRearrangeList, wxRearrangeCtrl and wxRearrangeDialog.
969 - Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames().
970 - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
971 - Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications.
972 - Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect().
973 - Added wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson).
974 - Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski).
975 - Support custom labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson for wxMac version).
976 - Added wxScrolledWindow::ShowScrollbars().
977 - Also added wxCANCEL_DEFAULT to wxMessageDialog.
978 - Allow copying text in the log dialogs.
979 - Added multisample (anti-aliasing) support to wxGLCanvas (Olivier Playez).
980 - Added wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_DROPDOWN/CLOSEUP events (Igor Korot).
981 - Added wxCAL_SHOW_WEEK_NUMBERS wxCalendarCtrl style (Sören Meyer-Eppler).
982 - Initialize wx{Client,Paint,Window}DC with fonts/colours of its window.
983 - Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows.
984 - Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr).
985 - Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron).
986 - Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse).
987 - Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron).
988 - Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage().
989 - Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov).
990 - Added wxTextEntry::SetHint().
991 - Made wxLogWindow thread-safe (Barbara Maren Winkler).
992 - Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid).
993 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid).
994 - Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid).
995 - Added support for drop-down toolbar buttons to XRC.
996 - Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II).
997 - New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr).
998 - Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
999 - Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
1000 - Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
1001 - Fixed tab-related drawing and hit-testing bugs in wxRichTextCtrl.
1002 - Implemented background colour in wxRichTextCtrl.
1003 - Fixed crashes in helpview when opening a file.
1004 - Set locale to the default in all ports, not just wxGTK.
1005 - Added wxJoystick::GetButtonState/Position() (Frank C Szczerba).
1006 - Added wxGridUpdateLocker helper class (Evgeniy Tarassov).
1007 - Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
1008 - Added wxWindow::NavigateIn() in addition to existing Navigate().
1009 - Add support for <data> tags to wxrc.
1010 - Support wxAPPLY and wxCLOSE in CreateStdDialogButtonSizer() (Marcin Wojdyr).
1011 - Show standard options in wxCmdLineParser usage message (Francesco Montorsi).
1012 - Added wxRect::operator+ (union) and * (intersection) (bdonner).
1013 - Added support for two auxiliary mouse buttons to wxMouseEvent (Chris Weiland).
1014 - Added wxToolTip::SetAutoPop() and SetReshow() (Jan Knepper).
1015 - Added wxTaskBarIcon::Destroy().
1016 - Added XRC handler for wxSearchCtrl (Sander Berents).
1017 - Read image resolution from TIFF, JPEG and BMP images (Maycon Aparecido Gasoto).
1018 - Add support for reading alpha data from TIFF images.
1019 - Added wxSYS_DCLICK_TIME system metric constant (Arne Steinarson).
1020 - Added wxApp::Get/SetAppDisplayName() (Brian A. Vanderburg II).
1021 - Added wxWindow::GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser() (Arne Steinarson).
1022 - Implemented wxTreeCtrl::GetPrevVisible() in the generic version and made the
1023 behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions.
1024 - Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table
1025 to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance.
1026 - Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren()
1027 (Szczepan Holyszewski).
1028 - Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
1029 - Added support for automatic dialog scrolling, via the new
1030 wxDialogLayoutAdapter class and various new wxDialog functions. See the
1031 topic "Automatic Scrolling Dialogs" in the manual for further details.
1032 - Added support for resizing wxWizard bitmaps to the current page height,
1033 via SetBitmapPlacement, SetBitmapBackgroundColour and SetMinimumBitmapWidth.
1034 Also made it easier to derive from wxWizard and override behaviour.
1035 - Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window.
1036 - Add support for wxDatePickerCtrl in wxGenericValidator (Herry Ayen Yang)
1037 - Added wxWindow::HasFocus().
1038 - Added wxGLCanvas::IsDisplaySupported().
1039 - Added wxApp::SetNativeTheme() (Stefan H.).
1040 - Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
1041 - Freeze() and Thaw() now recursively freeze/thaw the children too.
1042 - Generalized wxScrolledWindow into wxScrolled<T> template that can derive
1043 from any window class, not just wxPanel.
1044 - Allow having menu separators with ids != wxID_SEPARATOR (Jeff Tupper)
1045 - Fix appending items to sorted wxComboCtrl after creation (Jaakko Salli)
1046 - Don't blit area larger than necessary in wxBufferedDC::UnMask (Liang Jian)
1047 - Fixed wxPixelData<wxImage> compilation (Leonardo Fernandes).
1048 - Added wxImage::GetType() (troelsk).
1049 - Added wxGenericStaticBitmap suitable for display of large bitmaps.
1050 - Support wxListCtrl::GetViewRect() in report view too.
1051 - Implement wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() in generic version (David Barnard).
1052 - Add column parameter to wxListCtrl::GetItemText() (Allann Jones).
1053 - Added wxVListBox::GetItemRect() (Javier Urien).
1054 - Show busy cursor in wxLaunchDefaultBrowser and add wxBROWSER_NOBUSYCURSOR.
1055 - Added wxFlexGridSizer::Is{Row,Col}Growable() (Marcin Wojdyr).
1056 - Added "enabled" and "hidden" attributes to radio box items in XRC.
1057 - wxWindow::IsBeingDeleted() now returns true not only if the window itself is
1058 marked for destruction but also if any of its parent windows are.
1059 - Improved drawing of the hint during column move in wxGrid (Santo Pfingsten).
1060 - Add wxGridSelectRowsOrColumns selection mode to wxGrid.
1061 - Add wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING event matching wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED.
1062 - Get/HasModifiers() of wxKeyEvent are now also available in wxMouseEvent.
1063 - Provide new/old cell value in wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING/CHANGED events.
1064 - Added wxArtProvider::GetNativeSizeHint(); GetSizeHint() as well as
1065 GetNativeSizeHint() now return more sensible values in wxMSW and wxMac and
1066 no longer return bogus values.
1067 - Added wxControl::SetLabelText() and EscapeMnemonics().
1068 - Added support for wxFILTER_EMPTY and wxFILTER_DIGITS styles to wxTextValidator;
1069 added also the SetCharIncludes() and SetCharExcludes() utilities.
1070 - Added wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_FILTER and many wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_COMPRESSION_* options
1071 to wxImage and wxPNGHandler to allow for custom compression levels when saving PNGs
1072 (Perdana Panduwana)
1073 - Added GetValue(), GetRange(), GetMessage() functions to wxProgressDialog
1074 - Moved yield functions to wxEventLoopBase and implemented for wxMSW and wxGTK
1075 a selective wxEventLoopBase::YieldFor() function.
1076 Added also wxEventLoopBase::IsYielding to help cure re-entrancy problems with Yield().
1077 - Render <th> element contents in bold in wxHTML.
1078 - Added wxGrid::{Set,Get}{Row,Col}Sizes() methods (Andrey Putrin).
1079 - Add support for wxSP_WRAP in the generic version of wxSpinCtrlDouble.
1080 - Add alignment flags support to wxSpinCtrl[Double] (Andrew Radke).
1081 - Added wxGetSelectedChoices() replacing wxGetMultipleChoices() (Kolya Kosenko).
1082 - Check whether document fits into page horizontally in wxHtmlPrintout, see the
1083 new CheckFit() method for more information.
1084 - Allow reading GIFs with incorrectly specified animation size.
1085 - Return number of frames in animated GIF from wxGIFHandler::GetImageCount().
1086 - Improved anchors handling in wxHTML.
1087
1088 wxGTK:
1089
1090 - Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi).
1091 - Ellipsize long strings in wxStatusBar (Francesco Montorsi)
1092 - Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
1093 - Native keyboard navigation implementation.
1094 - Added wxCB_SORT support to wxComboBox (Evgeniy Tarassov).
1095 - Don't overwrite primary selection with clipboard and vice versa.
1096 - Implemented support for underlined fonts in wxStaticText.
1097 - wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints size increments now work.
1098 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetSize() returns the size including the WM decorations.
1099 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetClientSize() returns 0x0 when the window is minimized.
1100 - Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse).
1101 - Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff).
1102 - Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option.
1103 - Added support for GTK+ print backend
1104 - Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).
1105 - Fix wxDC::Blit() support for user scale and source offset (Marcin Wojdyr).
1106
1107 wxMac:
1108
1109 - Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls).
1110 - Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs).
1111 - Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox).
1112 - Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz).
1113 - Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale.
1114 - Native wxCollapsiblePane implementation.
1115
1116 wxMSW:
1117
1118 - Fix many problems with selection in multi-selection wxTreeCtrl (Jonathan Liu).
1119 - Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications.
1120 - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
1121 - wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
1122 - wxCheckListBox now also supports use of client data (Marcin Malich).
1123 - Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
1124 - Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it.
1125 - Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk).
1126 - Use vertical scrollbar in wxMessageDialog if it's too big to fit on screen.
1127 - Show resize gripper on resizable dialogs (Kolya Kosenko).
1128 - Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron).
1129 - Use different Win32 class names in different wx instances (Thomas Hauk).
1130 - Support multiline labels for wxCheckBox and wxToggleButton.
1131 - Print preview is now rendered in the resolution used by printer and
1132 accurately represents what will be printed. This fixes wxHtmlEasyPrinting
1133 preview inaccuracies on Windows; on other platforms, native preview
1134 should be used.
1135 - Implement wxFileName::SetTimes() for directories (Steve Lamerton).
1136 - Added wxToolTip::SetMaxWidth() and improved default wrapping (Joachim Hönig).
1137 - Changed default toolbar bitmaps size from obsolete 16x15 to 24x24 used
1138 by modern apps.
1139 - Ellipsize long strings in wxStatusBar (Francesco Montorsi)
1140 - Fix spurious repaint when changing tooltip text (Jonathan Liu).
1141 - Fix wxSP_WRAP and wxSP_ARROW_KEYS in wxSpinCtrlDouble (Andrew Radke).
1142
1143 wxX11:
1144
1145 - Added mouse wheel support (David Hart).
1146 - Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
1147
1148 wxDFB:
1149
1150 - Implement wxBitmap ctor from XBM data.
1151
1152 i18n:
1153 -----
1154
1155 - Slovak translations added (Ivan Masár).
1156
1157
1158 2.8.10:
1159 -------
1160
1161 All:
1162
1163 - wxHashMap::insert() doesn't update the value if it didn't insert the element
1164 any more (Marcin Malich).
1165 - Correct bug in wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative spans.
1166 - Correct several bugs in wxList using end() iterators (Suzumizaki-Kimitaka).
1167 - Added Vietnamese translation (Tran Ngoc Quan).
1168 - Updated Slovenian translation (Martin Srebotnjak).
1169 - Corrected Serbian locale name (Cody Precord).
1170 - Fix wxURL::GetInputStream() for URLs with special characters in credentials
1171 (Robert Wruck).
1172 - Fix wxURI::GetUser() for URIs without password.
1173 - Correct wxDateTime DST computation for 2006 and later (Christopher Barker).
1174
1175 All (GUI):
1176
1177 - wxRTC: fixed input that uses Alt on Mac OS X, for example Polish Pro input.
1178 Also fixed a bug whereby e.g. Croatian keys didn't work, by moving more code
1179 to key down handler.
1180 - wxRTC: fixed a problem with HTML list generation.
1181 - wxRTC: no longer deletes a character when content is selected before
1182 pressing Delete.
1183 - wxRTC: fixed inability to select no superscript and no subscript in
1184 formatting dialog.
1185 - wxRTC: fixed centering and right-justification when combined with left
1186 indentation.
1187 - wxRTC: fixed lack of right margin when centering or right-justifying.
1188 - wxRTC: fixed wrong descent when wrapping lines with different font sizes.
1189 - wxRTC: fixed wrapping problem for long lines.
1190 - wxRTC: all buffer margins now respected.
1191 - wxRTC: Added wxRE_CENTRE_CARET to centre the caret line vertically.
1192 - Fixed wxHTML's pagebreaks computation in tables (D.J.Stauffer).
1193 - Fixed wxHtmlWindow::SelectionToText() to correctly insert newlines after
1194 single-cell paragraphs.
1195 - Fixed wxHTML's line breaks handling in <pre> blocks broken in 2.8.8 (#10120).
1196 - wxHTML: don't include extra whitespace in table cells.
1197 - Implemented wxWindow::DragAcceptFiles() on all platforms.
1198 - Added wxAUI_MGR_LIVE_RESIZE flag to wxAuiManager and made it the default on
1199 wxMac with CoreGraphics where sash drawing isn't implemented.
1200 - Use bitmap mask in wxSplashScreen.
1201 - Translate "(c)" and "(C)" to the real copyright sign in wxAboutBox.
1202 - Fix painting of highlight border for merged cells in wxGrid (K. Jones).
1203 - Fix handling of long lines in wxGridCellAutoWrapStringRenderer.
1204
1205 All (Unix):
1206
1207 - Return false from wxSingleInstanceChecker::IsAnotherRunning() if an error
1208 occurred while opening or reading the lock file (Lauri Nurmi).
1209
1210 wxMSW:
1211
1212 - Fixed bug with using non default encoding in wxTextCtrl in ANSI build.
1213 - Restored generation of events for accelerators when there is no menu bar.
1214 - Fixed wxArtProvider::GetSizeHint() to return 16x16 for wxART_FRAME_ICON.
1215 - Fixed toolbar buttons so that they don't disappear temporarily when clicked
1216 if the event handler causes window update.
1217 - Fix display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron).
1218 - Fix best size calculation for wxNotebook with multiple rows (Alex McCarthy).
1219 - Correct coordinates of wxDropFilesEvent (Dmitriy Maksimov).
1220 - Fix handling of abandoned mutexes in wxMutex (David Heffernan).
1221 - Avoid warnings about deprecated localtime with MSVC8/9 (Chris Stankevitz).
1222 - Fixed invisible CHM tooltip text bug when window text colour is black.
1223 - Automatically adjust toolbar's tool size if the provided bitmaps
1224 don't fit into the default size.
1225 - Don't generate EVT_LISTBOX_DCLICK events with incorrect indices.
1226 - Don't reuse the double click handled by activation event handler for toggling
1227 the item in wxTreeCtrl.
1228
1229
1230 wxMSW/CE:
1231
1232 - Don't hardcode the menu bar height (Michele Spighi).
1233
1234 wxGTK:
1235
1236 - Fixed printing to use fonts sizes adjustment consistent with wxMSW.
1237 - Make colours used by list, tree and status bar controls more consistent with
1238 the system theme settings (Tim Kosse).
1239 - Worked around bug in GTK+ < 2.14 where enabling some controls such
1240 as wxButton didn't re-enable sensitivity until the mouse was moved.
1241
1242 wxOS2:
1243
1244 - Added implementation for wxSingleInstanceChecker contributed by Lauri Nurmi
1245
1246
1247 2.8.9
1248 -----
1249
1250 All:
1251
1252 - Optimize wxString::Replace() for single character arguments.
1253 - Updated Hindi translation (Priyank Bolia).
1254 - Use tr1::unordered_{map,set} for wxHash{Map,Set} implementation if available
1255 in STL build; in particular do not use deprecated hash_{map,set} which
1256 results in a lot of warnings from newer g++ (Jan Van Dijk and Pete Stieber).
1257
1258 All (GUI):
1259
1260 - Added support for reading alpha channel in BMP format (Kevin Wright).
1261 - Fixed help viewer bug whereby the splitter sash in wxHtmlHelpWindow could
1262 go underneath the left-hand pane, permanently, after resizing the
1263 help window.
1264 - Fixed wxHTML default font size for printing to be 12pt regardless of the
1265 platform, instead of depending on GUI toolkit's screen configuration.
1266 - Support wxDP_ALLOWNONE style in generic wxDatePickerCtrl version.
1267 - Set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar correctly in the events generated by generic
1268 wxListCtrl (Mikkel S).
1269 - Fix changing size of merged cells in wxGrid (Laurent Humbertclaude).
1270 - Fixed wrapping bug in wxRichTextCtrl when there were images present;
1271 now sets the cursor to the next line after pressing Shift+Enter.
1272 - Fixed Cmd+Back, Cmd+Del word deletion behaviour in wxRichTextCtrl.
1273 - Fix crash when reading malformed PCX images.
1274 - Fix bug with wrong transparency in GIF animations (troelsk).
1275 - Store palette information for XPM images in wxImage (troelsk).
1276 - Fixed selection bugs and auto list numbering in wxRichTextCtrl.
1277 - Significantly optimize wxGrid::BlockToDeviceRect() for large grids (kjones).
1278 - Introduced new wxAuiToolBar class for better integration and look-and-feel.
1279 - Fix a crash in wxAuiFrameManager when Update() was called in between mouse-up
1280 and mouse-down events
1281 - wxAUI: added various NULL-ptr asserts.
1282 - Fixed problem with Floatable(false) not working in wxAuiFrameManager.
1283 - Fixed maximize bug in wxAUI.
1284 - Allow period in link anchors in wxHTML.
1285 - Fixed memory corruption in wxHTML when parsing "&;" in the markup.
1286 - Fixed event type in EVT_GRID_CMD_COL_MOVE and EVT_GRID_COL_MOVE.
1287 - wxGrid doesn't steal focus when hiding editor any more (Tom Eckert).
1288
1289 All (Unix):
1290
1291 - MIME types reading fixed when running under GNOME, reading .desktop
1292 files and also the default application list.
1293 - Added filesys.no-mimetypesmanager system option so that applications that
1294 must load an XRC file at program startup don't have to incur the
1295 mime types manager initialization penalty.
1296
1297 wxMSW:
1298
1299 - Potentially incompatible change: wxExecute() arguments are now quoted if they
1300 contain spaces and existing quotes are escaped with a backslash. However, to
1301 preserve compatibility, the argument is unchanged if it is already quoted.
1302 Notice that this behaviour will change in wxWidgets 3.0 where all arguments
1303 will be quoted, please update your code now if you are affected and use only
1304 wxWidgets 2.8.9 or later.
1305 - Fix keyboard support in wxSpinCtrl broken in 2.8.8.
1306 - Compile fix for WinCE in window.cpp (no VkKeyScan in Windows CE).
1307 - Support disabling items before adding them to the menu (Christian Walther).
1308 - Allow to call SetFont(wxNullFont) to reset the font to default.
1309 - Implement UUID::operator==() and !=() (SQLAware Corporation).
1310 - Fixed long standing (introduced in 2.6.3) bug which resulted in always
1311 creating a DIB and not DDB in wxBitmap(const wxImage&) ctor.
1312 - Fix the bug with wxFileDialog not being shown at all if the default file name
1313 was invalid.
1314 - Fix hang in keyboard navigation code with radio buttons under Windows 2000.
1315 - Implement wxWinINetInputStream::GetSize() (spicerno).
1316 - Always copy "has alpha" flag when copying bitmaps (SQLAware Corporation).
1317
1318 wxGTK:
1319
1320 - Fixed masking of disabled bitmaps in wxMenuItem and wxStaticBitmap.
1321 - Fixed generation of events for an initially empty wxDirPickerCtrl.
1322 - Fixed detection of Meta key state so that NumLock isn't misdetected
1323 as Meta (requires GTK+ 2.10).
1324 - Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).
1325
1326 wxMac:
1327
1328 - Fixed a glitch where clicking on a scrollbar (but not moving the scrollbar)
1329 would cause the window to scroll.
1330
1331
1332 2.8.8
1333 -----
1334
1335 All:
1336
1337 - Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner).
1338 - Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date().
1339 - Initialize current line in wxTextBuffer ctor (Suzuki Masahiro).
1340 - Improved performance of XML parsing (Francesco Montorsi).
1341 - Fix wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date() to handle missing seconds (Joe Nader).
1342
1343 All (GUI):
1344
1345 - Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling().
1346 - Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
1347 - Ensure that wxGrid::AutoSizeColumn/Row() never sets column/row size
1348 smaller than the minimal size.
1349 - Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
1350 - wxRichTextCtrl performance has been improved considerably.
1351 - Several wxRichTextCtrl style, paste and undo bugs fixed.
1352 - Added wxRichTextCtrl superscript and subscript support (Knut Petter Lehre).
1353 - wxNotebook RTTI corrected, so now wxDynamicCast(notebook, wxBookCtrlBase)
1354 works.
1355 - When focus is set to wxScrolledWindow child, scroll it into view.
1356 - Improve wximage::ResampleBox() (Mihai Ciocarlie).
1357 - Implemented ScrollList() in generic wxListCtrl (Tim Kosse).
1358 - SaveAs in docview takes into account path now.
1359 - Fixed wxXmlResource::GetText() to convert data to current locale's
1360 charset in ANSI build.
1361 - wxGrid now indicates focus by using different colour for selection
1362 and hiding cell cursor when it doesn't have focus.
1363 - Added alpha support to wxImage::Paste() (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1364 - Use current date when opening popup in generic wxDatePickerCtrl.
1365 - Remove associated help text from wxHelpProvider when a window is destroyed.
1366 - Added wxSizerFlags::ReserveSpaceEvenIfHidden() and
1367 wxRESERVE_SPACE_EVEN_IF_HIDDEN sizer flag.
1368 - Added wxWindow::ClientToWindowSize() and WindowToClientSize() helpers.
1369 - Added wxSizer::ComputeFittingClientSize() and ComputeFittingWindowSize().
1370 - Fixed wxSizer::SetSizeHints() to work when the best size decreases.
1371 - Fixed crash in wxHtmlHelpController if the help window is still open.
1372 - Fixed generic art provider to scale bitmaps down to client-specific
1373 best size if needed.
1374 - Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
1375 - Fixed timing of malformed animated GIFs in wxHTML (Gennady Feller).
1376 - Fixed incorrect layout width caching in wxHTML (Jeff Tupper).
1377 - wxHTML: preserve TAB characters when copying <pre> content to clipboard.
1378 - Set focus to wxCalendarCtrl when it is clicked.
1379 - Don't clear the list control when wxLC_[HV]RULES style is toggled.
1380 - Don't crash when Ctrl-Shift-T is pressed in empty wxStyledTextControl.
1381
1382 All (Unix):
1383
1384 - Fixed shared libraries to not depend on GStreamer when built with
1385 --enable-media; only wxMedia library depends on it now.
1386 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now uses xdg-open if available.
1387 - Don't close UDP socket if an empty datagram is received (Mikkel S)
1388 - Honour locale modifiers such a "@valencia" in system locale (Tim Kosse)
1389
1390 wxMSW:
1391
1392 - Fix rare bug with messages delivered to wrong wxSocket (Tim Kosse).
1393 - Fix setting icons when they have non-default (16*16 and 32*32) sizes.
1394 - Fixed wxLocale::GetInfo to use the C locale.
1395 - Don't enable disabled windows when showing them (Harry McKame).
1396 - Fix assert when using owner-drawn menu items with the newest (Vista) SDK.
1397 - Fixed wxTextCtrl to not process clipboard events twice if there's
1398 a custom wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_* event handler.
1399 - Fix wxComboBox to not lose the current value if it was programmatically set
1400 to a value not in a list of choices on popup close (Kolya Kosenko)
1401 - Switching wxListCtrl to report mode from another one now uses full row
1402 highlight, just as if the control were created in report mode initially.
1403 - Use correct index of the right-clicked column in wxListCtrl in the
1404 corresponding event even when the control is scrolled horizontally.
1405 - Implement wxRadioBox::Reparent() correctly (Vince Harron).
1406 - Make context sensitive help work for the text part of wxSpinCtrl.
1407 - wxFileType::GetCommand() now looks at Explorer associations and CurVer
1408 for increased reliability and conformance to user expectations.
1409 - Fixed double Init() call in wxTopLevelWindow causing a memory leak on
1410 SmartPhone.
1411 - Fixed rendering of borders for wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH(2) style when
1412 using Windows XP's Classic UI theme.
1413 - Text controls with wxTE_RICH style now also generate wxClipboardTextEvents.
1414 - Fixed wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_ENTER generation in wxSpinCtrl.
1415 - Fixed wxSpinCtrl::GetClientSize() to return sensible value and not just
1416 spin button's client size.
1417 - Fixed IMPLEMENT_APP() to be compatible with the -WU flag of Borland C++
1418 compiler (Matthias Bohm).
1419 - Correct size calculation for toolbars containing controls under pre-XP
1420 systems (Gerald Giese)
1421
1422 wxGTK:
1423
1424 - Return false from wxEventLoop::Dispatch() if gtk_main_quit() was called and
1425 so the loop should exit (Rodolfo Schulz de Lima).
1426 - Implement wxListBox::EnsureVisible() (Andreas Kling)
1427 - Fixed wxCURSOR_HAND to map to GDK_HAND2 and not GDK_HAND1, for consistency
1428 with other applications.
1429 - Fix wxNotebook::GetPage{Text,Image}() when they were called from the page
1430 change event handler for the first added page (Mikkel S).
1431 - Fixed wxBitmapButton to use focus and hover bitmaps correctly.
1432 - Fixed race condition which could cause idle processing to stop without
1433 processing all pending events.
1434 - wxAcceleratorTable now works with buttons too.
1435
1436 wxMac:
1437
1438 - Fixed cursor for wxBusyCursor and wxContextHelp.
1439 - Fixed wxListCtrl to respect items' non-default fonts.
1440 - wxListCtrl::SetColumnWidth() now supports wxLIST_AUTOSIZE.
1441 - Fixed handling of transparent background in borderless wxBitmapButton.
1442
1443
1444 2.8.7
1445 -----
1446
1447 All:
1448
1449 - Fixed bug with default proxy destruction in wxURL (Axel Gembe).
1450
1451 wxMSW:
1452
1453 - Correct (harmless) warnings given for forward-declared DLL-exported classes
1454 by mingw32 4.2 (Tim Stahlhut).
1455
1456 wxGTK:
1457
1458 - Added gtk.window.force-background-colour wxSystemOptions option to work around
1459 a background colour bug in the gtk-qt theme under KDE.
1460 - Implemented wxGetClientDisplayRect() correctly for wxGTK and X11-based ports.
1461
1462
1463 2.8.6
1464 -----
1465
1466 All:
1467
1468 - Fixed another bug in wxFileConfig when deleting entries (Axel Gembe)
1469 - Added Portuguese translation (Antonio Cardoso Martins)
1470
1471
1472 2.8.5
1473 -----
1474
1475 All (GUI):
1476
1477 - Added colour normalization to PNM image handler (Ray Johnston)
1478 - Fixed selecting part of word from right to left in wxHTML (Michael Hieke)
1479 - Selecting text in wxHTML with character precision was made easier, it's
1480 enough to select half of a character (Michael Hieke)
1481 - Significantly improved startup times of XRC-based applications using
1482 embedded resources on Unix (requires resources recompilation)
1483 - Fixed freeing of "static" alpha data in wxImage (Axel Gembe)
1484 - Don't invalidate the font in SetNativeFontInfo[Desc]() if the string is
1485 invalid, to conform to the documented behaviour (Langhammer)
1486 - Fixed wxXPMHandler::SaveFile for images with more than 92 colors.
1487
1488 wxMSW:
1489
1490 - Correct problem with page setup dialog when using landscape mode
1491 - Added msw.font.no-proof-quality system option, see manual for description
1492 - Fix appearance of notebook with non-top tabs under Windows Vista
1493 - Fixed bug with symbol resolving in wxStackWalker (Axel Gembe)
1494 - Fixed showing busy cursor for disabled windows and during wxExecute()
1495 - Set the string of wxEVT_COMMAND_CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLED events (Luca Cappa)
1496 - Fix problems with timers on SMP machines in wxAnimationCtrl (Gennady)
1497
1498 wxGTK:
1499
1500 - Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works
1501 - More work on setting defaults in GNOME print dialogs.
1502 - Also made landscape printing work as per wxMSW.
1503 - Add support for clipping in GNOME print backend.
1504 - Speed up wxBitmap::Rescale()
1505 - Add right button event for wxToolbar's tools (Tim Kosse)
1506 - Don't unconditionally add wxCAPTION style to wxMiniFrame
1507 - Generate wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_END_LABEL_EDIT event even if label didn't change
1508 - Fix WX_GL_STEREO attribute handling (Tristan Mehamli)
1509 - Fix wxThread::SetPriority() when the thread is running (Christos Gourdoupis)
1510 - Fixed off by 1 bug in wxDC::GradientFillLinear() (Tim Kosse)
1511
1512
1513 2.8.4
1514 -----
1515
1516 All:
1517
1518 - Fix bug in wxFileConfig when recreating a group (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1519 - Fix wxStringOutputStream::Write() in Unicode build when the argument
1520 overlaps UTF-8 characters boundary
1521 - Account for lines without newline at the end in wxExecute()
1522
1523 All (Unix):
1524
1525 - Handle socket shutdown by the peer correctly in wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
1526
1527 All (GUI):
1528
1529 - Allow status bar children in XRC (Edmunt Pienkowski)
1530 - Fix memory leak in wxWizard when not using sizers for the page layout
1531 - Added wxListCtrl::SetItemPtrData()
1532 - wxHTML: Apply table background colour between the cells too (Michael Hieke)
1533
1534 wxMSW:
1535
1536 - Corrected wxStaticBox label appearance when its foreground colour was set:
1537 it didn't respect font size nor background colour then (Juan Antonio Ortega)
1538 - Don't lose combobox text when it's opened and closed (Kolya Kosenko)
1539 - Corrected GetChecked() for events from checkable menu items (smanders)
1540 - Fixed popup menus under Windows NT 4
1541 - Fixed bug in wxThread::Wait() in console applications introduced in 2.8.3
1542 - Support right-aligned/centered owner drawn items in wxListCtrl (troelsk)
1543 - Compilation fixed with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6==0
1544 - Fix wxComboCtrl colours under Windows Vista (Kolya Kosenko)
1545
1546 wxGTK:
1547
1548 - Fix infinite loop when adding a wxStaticText control to a toolbar
1549 - Fix wxNO_BORDER style for wxRadioBox (David Hart)
1550 - Fix wxTextCtrl::GetLineText() for empty lines (Marcin Wojdyr)
1551
1552 wxMac:
1553
1554 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND) (Adrian Secord)
1555
1556 wxUniv:
1557
1558 - Fix wxTextCtrl::SetSelection(-1, -1) to behave as documented (Anders Larsen)
1559 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND)
1560 - Fix setting background colour for controls with transparent background
1561
1562
1563 2.8.3
1564 -----
1565
1566 All:
1567
1568 - Shut down the sockets gracefully (Sergio Aguayo)
1569 - Fix extra indentation in wxHTML_ALIGN_JUSTIFY display (Chacal)
1570
1571 wxMac:
1572
1573 - Corrected top border size for wxStaticBox with empty label (nusi)
1574
1575 wxMSW:
1576
1577 - Fixed wxFileName::GetSize() for large files
1578
1579 wxGTK:
1580
1581 - Fixed handling of accelerators using PageUp/Down keys
1582
1583
1584 2.8.2
1585 -----
1586
1587 All:
1588
1589 - Added wxSizerFlags::Shaped() and FixedMinSize() methods.
1590 - Added wxCSConv::IsOk() (Manuel Martin).
1591 - Added wxDateTime::GetDateOnly().
1592 - Made wxTextFile work with unseekable files again (David Hart).
1593 - Added wxCONFIG_USE_SUBDIR flag to wxFileConfig (Giuseppe Bilotta).
1594 - Added wxSearchCtrl::[Get|Set]DescriptiveText.
1595 - Fixed detection of number of processors under Linux 2.6
1596 - Fixed Base64 computation in wxHTTP (p_michalczyk)
1597 - Fix handling of wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR in wxDatagramSocket (troelsk)
1598
1599 Unix Ports:
1600
1601 - Fixed crash in wxGetUserName() in Unicode build
1602
1603 wxMSW
1604
1605 - Fix lack of spin control update event when control lost focus.
1606 - Corrected drawing of bitmaps for disabled menu items.
1607
1608 wxGTK
1609
1610 - Fix hang on startup when using GTK+ options in Unicode build
1611
1612 wxMac
1613
1614 - Fix position of the centered windows (didn't take menu bar size into account)
1615 - Added support for the wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT style.
1616
1617 wxX11:
1618
1619 - Don't crash in wxWindow dtor if the window hadn't been really Create()d.
1620
1621 wxUniv:
1622
1623 - Fixed wxComboBox always sorted.
1624
1625
1626 2.8.1
1627 -----
1628
1629 All:
1630
1631 - Fix compilation with wxUSE_STL=1.
1632 - wxGrid::GetBestSize() returns same size the grid would have after AutoSize().
1633 - Added wxTreeCtrl::CollapseAll[Children]() and IsEmpty() (Francesco Montorsi).
1634 - Several RTL-related positioning fixes (Diaa Sami).
1635 - Fix wxConfig::DeleteGroup() for arguments with trailing slash (David Hart).
1636 - Fix memory leak in wxGrid::ShowCellEditControl() (Christian Sturmlechner).
1637
1638 wxMSW:
1639
1640 - Fixed compilation with Borland C++ in Unicode mode but without MSLU.
1641 - Show taskbar icon menu on right button release, not press.
1642
1643 wxGTK:
1644
1645 - Don't crash if command line is not valid UTF-8 (Unicode build only).
1646
1647 wxUniv:
1648
1649 - It is now possible to set background colour of wxStaticText.
1650
1651
1652 2.8.0
1653 -----
1654
1655 All:
1656
1657 - Added wxSearchCtrl (Vince Harron).
1658 - wxCSConv("UTF-16/32") now behaves correctly, i.e. same as wxMBConvUTF16/32.
1659 - wxArrayString::Alloc() now works as reserve() and doesn't clear array contents.
1660 - Fixed long standing bug in wxFileConfig groups renaming (Antti Koivisto).
1661 - New option wxFS_READ | wxFS_SEEKABLE for wxFileSystem::OpenFile() to return
1662 a stream that is seekable.
1663 - Fixed bug in wxCalendarCtrl::HitTest() when clicking on month change arrows.
1664 - Added wxWindow::GetWindowBorderSize() and corrected wxTreeCtrl::GetBestSize().
1665 for a control with borders (Tim Kosse).
1666
1667 wxMSW:
1668
1669 - Fixed version script problems when using configure with cygwin/mingw32.
1670 - Use system default paper size for printing instead of A4.
1671 - Fix (harmless) assert in virtual list control under Vista.
1672 - Fix colours when converting wxBitmap with alpha to wxImage (nusi).
1673
1674 wxGTK:
1675
1676 - Allow dynamically changing most of text control styles.
1677 - Enable use of libgnomeprintui by default in configure.
1678
1679
1680 2.7.2
1681 -----
1682
1683 All:
1684
1685 - Added wxFFile overload to wxFileName::CreateTemporaryFileName().
1686 - Added GetTempDir() to wxFileName and wxStandardPaths.
1687 - Added wxTar streams.
1688 - Added wxFilterFSHandler and wxArchiveFSHandler.
1689 - Added wxString::ToLongLong() and ToULongLong().
1690
1691 All (GUI):
1692
1693 - wxMemoryDC constructor now optionally accepts a wxBitmap parameter,
1694 calling SelectObject itself if a valid bitmap is passed.
1695 - Reverted wxBuffered[Paint]DC to pre 2.7.1 state, added
1696 wxAutoBufferedPaintDC and wxAutoBufferedPaintDCFactory.
1697 - Renamed wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() to just Pulse().
1698 - Added wxCollapsiblePane (Francesco Montorsi).
1699 - Added wxSimpleHtmlListBox (Francesco Montorsi).
1700 - Printing framework fixes by Robert J. Lang. Bugs fixed,
1701 wxPrinterDC::GetPaperRect() and other functions added to allow
1702 easier printing implementation, and the documentation updated.
1703 - Many enhancements to wxRichTextCtrl including URL support,
1704 formatting and symbol dialogs, print/preview, and better list
1705 formatting.
1706 - Support for loading TGA files added (Seth Jackson).
1707 - Added wxTB_RIGHT style for right-aligned toolbars (Igor Korot).
1708 - wxHtmlWindow now generates events on link clicks (Francesco Montorsi).
1709 - wxHtmlWindow now also generates wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY event.
1710
1711 Unix Ports:
1712
1713 - Added autopackage for wxGTK and an example of using autopackage for a wx
1714 program (Francesco Montorsi).
1715
1716 wxGTK:
1717
1718 - More RTL work.
1719 - Support wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB.
1720 - Speed up MIME types loading. Only the GNOME database should be loaded under
1721 GNOME etc. For this, the code queries the X11 session protocol.
1722 - wxCaret redraw problem during scrolling fixed.
1723
1724
1725 2.7.1
1726 -----
1727
1728 All:
1729
1730 - Added wxDir::FindFirst() (Francesco Montorsi).
1731 - Added wxPlatformInfo class (Francesco Montorsi).
1732 - Added wxLocale::IsAvailable() (Creighton).
1733 - Added Malay translations (Mahrazi Mohd Kamal).
1734 - Added reference counting for wxVariant.
1735 - For consistency, all classes having Ok() method now also have IsOk() one, use
1736 of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't been deprecated yet.
1737 - Added wxFileName::Is(Dir|File)(Writ|Read|Execut)able() (Francesco Montorsi).
1738 - Added wxFileName::GetSize() and GetHumanReadableSize() (Francesco Montorsi).
1739 - Added wxSizer::Replace (Francesco Montorsi).
1740 - wxXmlDocument can now optionally preserve whitespace (Francesco Montorsi).
1741 - Added wxBookCtrl::ChangeSelection() and wxTextCtrl::ChangeValue() to provide
1742 event-free alternatives to SetSelection() and SetValue() functions; see the
1743 "Events generated by the user vs programmatically generated events" paragraph
1744 in the "Event handling overview" topic for more info.
1745
1746 All (GUI):
1747
1748 - Support for right-to-left text layout (started by Diaa Sami during Google Summer of
1749 Code, with a lot of help from Tim Kosse and others).
1750 - wxAnimationCtrl added (Francesco Montorsi).
1751 - Added wxAboutBox() function for displaying the standard about dialog.
1752 - Added wxID_PAGE_SETUP standard id.
1753 - Added wxSize::IncBy() and DecBy() methods.
1754 - Added wxTextCtrl::IsEmpty().
1755 - Added file type parameter to wxTextCtrl::LoadFile, wxTextCtrl::SaveFile for
1756 consistency with wxRichTextCtrl.
1757 - wxRichTextCtrl: fixed range out-by-one bug to be consistent with wxTextCtrl API,
1758 fixed some attribute bugs and added wxRichTextStyleComboCtrl.
1759 - Added wxWindow::IsDoubleBuffered().
1760 - Added wxHL_ALIGN_* flags to wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
1761 - Added wxGauge::Pulse() and wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() (Francesco Montorsi).
1762
1763 wxMSW:
1764
1765 - Implemented wxComboBox::SetEditable().
1766 - wxSemaphore::Post() returns wxSEMA_OVERFLOW as documented (Christian Walther)
1767 - Fixed a bug whereby static controls didn't use the correct text colour if the
1768 parent's background colour had been set (most noticeable when switching to a
1769 high-contrast theme).
1770 - Respect wxBU_EXACTFIT style in wxToggleButton (Alexander Borovsky).
1771
1772 wxMac:
1773
1774 - Add parameter to the --enable-universal_binary configure option for the path
1775 to the SDK.
1776
1777 wxGTK:
1778
1779 - Automatically use stock items for menu items with standard ids.
1780 - Setting cursor now works for all controls.
1781 - Implemented right-to-left support.
1782 - Implemented left indentation and tab stops support in wxTextCtrl (Tim Kosse).
1783 - Fixed wxHTML rendering of underlined text of multiple words (Mart Raudsepp).
1784
1785 wxUniv:
1786
1787 - Added wxTLW::UseNativeDecorations() and UseNativeDecorationsByDefault().
1788
1789
1790 2.7.0
1791 -----
1792
1793 All:
1794
1795 - Added positional parameters support to wxVsnprintf() (Francesco Montorsi).
1796 - wx(F)File, wxTextFile and wxInputStreams recognize Unicode BOM now.
1797 - Many fixes for UTF-16/32 handling in Unicode builds.
1798 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
1799 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
1800 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetDocumentsDir() (Ken Thomases).
1801 - Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
1802 - Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build.
1803 - Added possibility to specify dependencies for a wxModule.
1804 - Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
1805 during a search and replace.
1806 - Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
1807 are both used in the same program.
1808 - Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
1809 - wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
1810 - Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
1811 - Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
1812 - Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
1813 - Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
1814 - wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
1815 - Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
1816 - Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
1817 - Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
1818 - Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
1819 - Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
1820 - wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
1821 - Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
1822 - Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta).
1823 - Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed.
1824 - wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert().
1825 - Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate().
1826 - The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
1827 and WXK*PAGEDOWN. If you have switch statements that use both
1828 constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
1829 versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
1830 - Fixed bug where wxDateTime::Now() would sometimes return an incorrect value
1831 the first time it was called.
1832 - Added wxString::rbegin() and rend().
1833 - Added wxString::EndsWith().
1834 - wxSocket::_Read continues reading from socket after exhausting pushback buffer.
1835 Previously, only the buffer would be returned, even if more data was requested.
1836 - Added wxPowerEvent (currently MSW-only).
1837 - Make wx-config compatible with Bourne shells.
1838 - Fixed wxDb::Open(wxDbConnectInf) when using connection string (Hellwolf Misty).
1839 - Fixed crash in wxDb::Open() in Unicode build (Massimiliano Marretta).
1840 - Fixed wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative time spans.
1841 - Optionally count repeating wxLog messages instead of logging all (Lauri Nurmi).
1842
1843 All (GUI):
1844
1845 - New AUI (Advanced User Interface) library for docking windows and much more.
1846 - Added wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox (Jaakko Salli).
1847 - Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
1848 - Added wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls (Francesco Montorsi).
1849 - Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric().
1850 - Added wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
1851 - Added clipboard events (wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY/CUT/PASTE).
1852 - Allow to reorder wxGrid columns by drag-and-drop (Santiago Palacios).
1853 - Added wxRadioBox::SetItemToolTip().
1854 - Added support for CMYK JPEG images loading (Robert Wruck).
1855 - Added wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() and subitem hit testing (Agron Selimaj).
1856 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers().
1857 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
1858 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
1859 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
1860 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
1861 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
1862 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
1863 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
1864 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
1865 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
1866 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
1867 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
1868 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
1869 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
1870 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
1871 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
1872 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
1873 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
1874 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown().
1875 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
1876 - Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
1877 by Sandro Sigala).
1878 - Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
1879 - Added wxGetMouseState function.
1880 - Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
1881 allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
1882 - wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
1883 best size.
1884 - wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
1885 - wxImage::Mirror() and GetSubBitmap() now support alpha (Mickey Rose).
1886 - More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
1887 - Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
1888 - Added ability to use templates with static event tables
1889 with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
1890 - Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
1891 - Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
1892 - Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
1893 - Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
1894 behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
1895 - Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
1896 - Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
1897 - Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
1898 - UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
1899 - More than one filter allowed in wxDocTemplate filter.
1900 - Added wxListBox::HitTest().
1901 - Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
1902 - Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
1903 - Added support for links to wxHtmlListBox; use code has to override
1904 wxHtmlListBox::OnLinkClicked() to take advantage of it.
1905 - Added an easier to use wxMenu::AppendSubMenu().
1906 - wxString <-> wxColour conversions in wxColour class (Francesco Montorsi).
1907 - Fixed bug with ignoring blank lines in multiline wxGrid cell labels.
1908 - Added wxTextAttr::Merge() (Marcin Simonides).
1909 - Added wxTB_NO_TOOLTIPS style (Igor Korot).
1910 - Added wxGenericDirCtrl::CollapsePath() (Christian Buhtz).
1911 - Added wxTreeCtrl::ExpandAllChildren() (Christian Buhtz)
1912 - Fixed 64-bit issue in wxNotebook causing segfaults on Tru64 Unix.
1913 - Made it possible to associate context help to a region of a window.
1914 - Added support for tabs in wxRichTextCtrl (Ashish More).
1915 - Fixed problem with zoom setting in print preview.
1916 - Moved wxRichTextCtrl from the advanced library to its own.
1917 - wxNB_HITTEST_* flags renamed to wxBK_HITTEST_* to serve all book controls.
1918 - Added wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent and CanSetTransparent, with
1919 implementations (so far) for wxMSW and wxMac.
1920 - Allow customizing individual grid lines appearance (Søren Lassen).
1921 - Fixed middle click events generation in generic wxTreeCtrl (Olly Betts).
1922 - Added wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event that must be handled by all windows
1923 that CaptureMouse() is called on.
1924
1925 wxMSW:
1926
1927 - Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
1928 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
1929 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
1930 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
1931 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
1932 - Removed __WIN95__ define.
1933 - Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
1934 resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
1935 target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
1936 - Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
1937 wxMSW faq for details).
1938 - New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
1939 puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
1940 to the link command.
1941 - wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
1942 - wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
1943 - Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
1944 columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
1945 - Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
1946 show.
1947 - Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys.
1948 - Fixed GDI leak in wxStaticBitmap when setting images after
1949 initial construction.
1950 - Menu codes now stripped before measuring control labels.
1951 - MFC sample now compiles in Unicode mode.
1952 - Fixed SetScrollbar thumb size setting bug (set orientation before triggering
1953 events).
1954 - Fixed icon to cursor conversion problem for bitmaps with masks.
1955 - Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
1956 - wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
1957 - Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
1958 - Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated.
1959 - Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl.
1960 - Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
1961 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
1962 - Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
1963 - Fixed out by one error in wxTextCtrl::GetStyle.
1964 - Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
1965 - Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
1966 - Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
1967 - Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
1968 - wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
1969 changes the system font.
1970 - wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts).
1971 - Fixed wxChoice/wxComboBox slow appending and infinite recursion
1972 if its size is set within a paint handler (for example when embedded in a
1973 wxHtmlWindow). [Now reverted due to problems in W2K and below.]
1974 - wxDC::GetTextExtent() width calculation is more precise for italics fonts now.
1975 - Warning fixes for VC++ 5.0 (Igor Korot).
1976
1977 wxGTK:
1978
1979 - Fixed handling of font encoding in non-Unicode build
1980 - wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated.
1981 - Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support.
1982 - wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK.
1983 - Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
1984 implementation.
1985 - Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
1986 --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.
1987 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
1988 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
1989 - Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
1990 is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
1991 previously unable to be focused before.
1992 - Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
1993 wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox.
1994 - Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
1995 class was used.
1996 - Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
1997 - Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
1998 - Fixed problems with CJK input method.
1999 - Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
2000 - Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
2001 - Support all border styles; wxListBox honours the borders now.
2002 - wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow now generate line, page and thumb-release scroll events.
2003 - Added file preview support in file dialogs.
2004 - Implemented SetLineSize and GetLineSize for wxSlider.
2005
2006 wxMac:
2007
2008 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
2009 - Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
2010 - Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
2011 Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
2012 - Improved support for help and application menu items.
2013 - Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
2014 - Added support for 10.4 context menu.
2015 - Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
2016 - Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
2017 - Corrected idle wake-up.
2018 - Corrected wxExecute.
2019 - Now makes use of full printer resolution.
2020 - Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
2021 - Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
2022 - Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
2023 - Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
2024 if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
2025 - Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
2026 were found.
2027 - Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
2028 - Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
2029 under Mach-O.
2030 - wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
2031 specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
2032 - Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
2033 - Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
2034 end of file with an error.
2035 - Xcode wxWidgets and minimal sample project files updated to create Universal
2036 binaries.
2037 - Fix for setting wxMenuBar more than once.
2038 - wxListBox minimum size bug fixed.
2039 - Fixed wxNotebook off-by-one bug in HitTest.
2040 - Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
2041 - Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
2042 - Fixed non-detection of process termination on Intel Macs by
2043 polling for process termination in a separate thread.
2044
2045 wxCocoa:
2046
2047 - wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
2048
2049 wxWinCE:
2050
2051 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
2052 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
2053 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
2054 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
2055 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
2056 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
2057 - New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
2058 guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
2059 - Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
2060 - Fixed date formatting and mktime.
2061 - Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
2062 - Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
2063 - Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
2064 is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
2065 directly, however.
2066 - Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
2067 and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
2068 - Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
2069 - Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
2070 - Fixed wxDatePickerCtrl usage.
2071
2072 wxUniv:
2073
2074 - Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
2075 - Implemented wxToggleButton (David Bjorkevik).
2076 - Label in Toolbar tools implemented (Danny Raynor).
2077
2078 wxX11:
2079
2080 - Invisible text problem fixed.
2081 - Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
2082 - Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
2083 - Implemented child process termination notifications (David Björkevik)
2084
2085 Unix:
2086
2087 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
2088
2089 wxMGL:
2090
2091 - Fixed NUM_LOCK having no effect.
2092 - Fixed wxFileExists (affecting wxImage::LoadFile).
2093
2094
2095 2.6.2
2096 -----
2097
2098 All:
2099
2100 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
2101 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
2102 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
2103 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
2104 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
2105 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
2106 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
2107 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
2108 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
2109 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
2110 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
2111 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
2112
2113 All (GUI):
2114
2115 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
2116 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
2117 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
2118 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
2119 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
2120 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
2121 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
2122 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
2123 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
2124 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
2125 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
2126 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
2127
2128 wxMSW:
2129
2130 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
2131 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
2132 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
2133 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
2134 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
2135 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
2136 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
2137 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
2138 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
2139 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
2140 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
2141 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
2142 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
2143 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
2144 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
2145
2146 wxGTK:
2147
2148 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
2149 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
2150 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
2151 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
2152 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
2153 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
2154 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
2155 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
2156 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
2157 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
2158 - Fixed domain socket handling.
2159
2160 wxMac:
2161
2162 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
2163 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
2164 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
2165 - Various text control bug fixes.
2166 - Automatic menu management improved.
2167 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
2168 due to dangling cycle pointers.
2169 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
2170 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
2171 showing modally).
2172
2173 wxOS2
2174
2175 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
2176
2177 wxUniv:
2178
2179 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
2180 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
2181
2182 wxMotif:
2183
2184 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
2185 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
2186 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
2187 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
2188 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
2189 flag has been specified.
2190 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
2191 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
2192 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
2193 showing modally).
2194
2195 wxMGL:
2196
2197 - Fixed crash on exit.
2198 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
2199
2200 wxX11:
2201
2202 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
2203
2204
2205 2.6.1
2206 -----
2207
2208 All:
2209
2210 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
2211 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
2212
2213 All (GUI):
2214
2215 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
2216 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
2217 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
2218 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
2219 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
2220 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
2221 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
2222 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
2223 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
2224 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
2225
2226 wxMSW:
2227
2228 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
2229 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
2230 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
2231 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
2232 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
2233 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
2234 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
2235 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
2236 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
2237 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
2238 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
2239 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
2240 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
2241 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
2242 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
2243 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
2244 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
2245 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
2246 - Compiles again with WIN64.
2247 - Winelib compilation now works.
2248 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
2249 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
2250 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
2251 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
2252 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
2253 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
2254 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
2255 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
2256 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
2257 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
2258 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
2259 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
2260 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
2261
2262 wxWinCE:
2263
2264 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
2265
2266 wxGTK:
2267
2268 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
2269 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
2270 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
2271 - Added bitmap support in menus.
2272
2273 wxMac:
2274
2275 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
2276 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
2277 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
2278 incorrect state.
2279 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
2280 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
2281 - Window menu now added automatically.
2282 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
2283 - Modified function key support fixed.
2284 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
2285
2286 wxX11:
2287
2288 - Menu problems fixed.
2289 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
2290 - Fixed a font memory leak.
2291 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
2292
2293
2294 2.6.0
2295 -----
2296
2297 All:
2298
2299 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
2300 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
2301
2302 All (GUI):
2303
2304 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
2305 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
2306
2307 wxMSW:
2308
2309 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
2310 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
2311 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
2312
2313 wxWinCE:
2314
2315 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
2316
2317 wxGTK:
2318 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
2319 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
2320 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
2321 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
2322 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
2323 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
2324 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
2325
2326 wxMac:
2327 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
2328
2329 2.5.5
2330 -----
2331
2332 All:
2333
2334 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
2335 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
2336 - Added wxDebugReport class.
2337 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
2338 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
2339 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
2340 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
2341 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
2342 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
2343
2344 All (GUI):
2345
2346 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
2347 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
2348 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
2349 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
2350 the whole virtual area.
2351 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
2352 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
2353 isn't used to set the window size.
2354 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
2355 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
2356 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
2357 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
2358
2359 Unix:
2360
2361 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
2362
2363 wxMSW:
2364
2365 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
2366 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
2367 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
2368 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
2369 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
2370 handling (Jamie Gadd).
2371
2372 wxGTK:
2373
2374 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
2375 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
2376 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
2377 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
2378 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
2379 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
2380 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
2381 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
2382
2383 wxMac:
2384
2385 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
2386
2387 wxPalmOS:
2388
2389 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
2390
2391 wxWinCE:
2392
2393 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
2394 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
2395 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
2396 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
2397 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
2398 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
2399 with correct titlebar style.
2400 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
2401 PocketPC guidelines
2402 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
2403 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
2404 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
2405 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
2406 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
2407 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
2408 to the dialog's toolbar.
2409
2410 2.5.4
2411 -----
2412
2413 All:
2414
2415 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
2416 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
2417 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
2418 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
2419 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
2420 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
2421 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
2422 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
2423 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
2424 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
2425 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
2426 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
2427 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
2428 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
2429 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
2430 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
2431 behaviour between Unicode and non-unicode builds
2432 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
2433 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
2434 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
2435 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
2436 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
2437 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
2438 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
2439 printing stuff in the GTK port.
2440 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
2441 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
2442 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
2443 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
2444 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
2445 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
2446 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
2447 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
2448 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
2449 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
2450 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
2451 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
2452 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
2453 due to a rounding error.
2454 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
2455 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
2456 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
2457 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
2458 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
2459 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
2460 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
2461 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
2462
2463
2464 All (GUI):
2465
2466 - added wxMediaCtrl
2467 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
2468 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
2469 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
2470 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
2471 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
2472 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
2473 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
2474 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
2475 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
2476 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
2477 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
2478 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
2479 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
2480 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
2481 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
2482 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
2483 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
2484
2485 Unix:
2486
2487 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
2488
2489 wxGTK:
2490
2491 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
2492 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
2493 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
2494 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
2495 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
2496 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
2497 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
2498 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
2499 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
2500 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
2501 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
2502 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
2503 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
2504 errors otherwise.
2505 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
2506 - Added wxRawBitmap support
2507 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
2508 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
2509 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
2510
2511 wxMac:
2512
2513 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
2514 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
2515 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
2516 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
2517
2518 wxMSW:
2519
2520 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
2521 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
2522 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
2523 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
2524 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
2525
2526 wxWinCE:
2527 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
2528 but not mentioned anywhere.
2529 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
2530
2531 wxUniv:
2532
2533 - wxBU_... button align flags support
2534 - vertical notebook orientation support
2535 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
2536 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
2537
2538 wxPalmOS:
2539
2540 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
2541 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
2542 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
2543 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
2544 - enumeration of available volumes
2545 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
2546 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
2547 - native wxColourDialog implementation
2548 - native wxSystemSettings colours
2549 - native wxButton implementation
2550 - native wxCheckBox implementation
2551 - native wxSlider implementation
2552 - native wxToggleButton implementation
2553 - native wxRadioButton implementation
2554 - native wxStaticText implementation
2555 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
2556
2557
2558 2.5.3
2559 -----
2560
2561 All:
2562
2563 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
2564 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
2565 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
2566 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
2567 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
2568 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
2569 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
2570 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
2571 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
2572 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
2573 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
2574 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
2575 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
2576 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
2577 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
2578 - fixed wxString's behaviour with inserted null characters
2579
2580 All (GUI):
2581
2582 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
2583 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
2584 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
2585 is discouraged
2586 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
2587 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
2588 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
2589 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
2590 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
2591 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
2592 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
2593 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
2594 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
2595 - added samples/splash
2596 - added support for stock buttons
2597 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
2598 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
2599 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
2600 - added wxChoicebook control
2601 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
2602 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
2603 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
2604 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
2605 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
2606 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
2607 supported, instead of zero.
2608 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
2609
2610 Unix:
2611
2612 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
2613 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
2614 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
2615 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
2616 - wx-config has new --version-full option
2617
2618 wxCocoa:
2619
2620 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
2621 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
2622 - Tooltips now supported
2623 - wxSound now supported
2624 - wxDisplay now supported
2625 - Some stock cursors now supported
2626
2627 wxMac:
2628
2629 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
2630 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
2631 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
2632 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
2633
2634 wxGTK:
2635
2636 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
2637 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
2638 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
2639 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
2640 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
2641 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
2642 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
2643 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
2644 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
2645 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
2646 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
2647 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
2648 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
2649 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
2650 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
2651 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
2652 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
2653 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
2654 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
2655
2656 wxMotif:
2657
2658 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
2659
2660 wxMSW:
2661
2662 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
2663 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
2664 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
2665 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
2666 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
2667 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
2668 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
2669 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
2670 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
2671 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
2672 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
2673 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
2674 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
2675 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
2676
2677 wxUniv/X11:
2678
2679 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
2680
2681 wxWinCE:
2682
2683 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
2684 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
2685 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
2686 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
2687
2688 wxHTML:
2689
2690 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
2691 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
2692
2693
2694 2.5.2
2695 -----
2696
2697 All:
2698
2699 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
2700 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
2701 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
2702 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
2703 of run-time) now
2704 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
2705 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
2706 to forward declare these classes.
2707
2708 All (GUI):
2709
2710 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
2711 resulting in much better display of scaled images
2712 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
2713 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
2714 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
2715 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
2716 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
2717 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
2718 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
2719 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
2720 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
2721 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
2722 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
2723 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
2724 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
2725
2726 wxMSW:
2727
2728 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
2729 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
2730 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
2731 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
2732 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
2733 even try to do it by default -- now it does
2734 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
2735 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
2736 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
2737 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
2738 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
2739 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
2740
2741 wxGTK:
2742
2743 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
2744
2745 wxMotif:
2746
2747 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
2748 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
2749 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
2750 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
2751
2752 wxUniv/X11:
2753
2754 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
2755
2756 wxHTML:
2757
2758 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
2759 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
2760
2761 Unix:
2762
2763 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
2764 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
2765
2766 wxODBC:
2767
2768 - Full Unicode support is now available
2769 - BLOB support is working
2770
2771
2772 2.5.1
2773 -----
2774
2775 All:
2776
2777 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
2778 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
2779 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
2780 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
2781 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
2782 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
2783 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
2784 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
2785 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
2786 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
2787 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
2788 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
2789 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
2790 (as in 2.5.0).
2791 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
2792 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
2793 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
2794 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
2795 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
2796 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
2797 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
2798 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
2799 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
2800 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
2801 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
2802 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
2803
2804 All (GUI):
2805
2806 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
2807 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
2808 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
2809 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
2810 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
2811 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
2812 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
2813 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
2814 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
2815 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
2816 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
2817 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
2818 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
2819 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
2820 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
2821 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
2822 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
2823 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
2824 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
2825 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
2826 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
2827 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
2828 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
2829 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
2830 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
2831 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
2832
2833 wxMSW:
2834
2835 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
2836 - fixed DDE memory leaks
2837 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
2838 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
2839 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
2840 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
2841 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
2842 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
2843 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
2844 - MDI child frames are not always resizable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
2845 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
2846 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
2847 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
2848 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
2849 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
2850 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
2851 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
2852 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
2853 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
2854 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
2855 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
2856 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
2857 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
2858 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
2859 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
2860 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
2861 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
2862 than the specified default size
2863 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
2864
2865 wxGTK:
2866
2867 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
2868 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
2869 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
2870 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
2871 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
2872 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
2873 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
2874 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
2875 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
2876
2877 wxMac:
2878
2879 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
2880 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
2881 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
2882 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
2883
2884 wxMotif:
2885
2886 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
2887
2888 wxHTML:
2889
2890 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
2891 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
2892
2893 Unix:
2894
2895 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
2896 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
2897 addition to existing OSS one
2898 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
2899
2900
2901 2.5.0
2902 -----
2903
2904 All:
2905
2906 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
2907 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
2908 separately compiled library
2909 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
2910 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
2911 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
2912 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
2913 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
2914 - added wxArray::SetCount()
2915 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
2916 by default in Unicode mode
2917 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
2918 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
2919 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
2920 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
2921 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
2922 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
2923 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
2924 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
2925 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
2926 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
2927 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
2928 - added wxRecursionGuard class
2929 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
2930 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
2931 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
2932 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
2933 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
2934 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
2935 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
2936 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
2937
2938 wxBase:
2939
2940 - added Watcom makefiles
2941 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
2942
2943 All GUI ports:
2944
2945 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
2946 - added wxListbook control
2947 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
2948 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
2949 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
2950 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
2951 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizable (Robert Vazan)
2952 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
2953 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
2954 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
2955 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
2956 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
2957 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
2958 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
2959 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
2960 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
2961 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
2962 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
2963 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
2964 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
2965 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
2966 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
2967 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
2968 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
2969 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
2970 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
2971 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
2972 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
2973 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
2974 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
2975 default extension for the template
2976 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
2977 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
2978 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
2979 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
2980 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
2981 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
2982 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
2983 to allow better rich text support.
2984 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
2985 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
2986 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
2987 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
2988 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
2989 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
2990 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
2991 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
2992 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
2993 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
2994 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
2995 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
2996 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
2997 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
2998 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
2999 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
3000 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
3001 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
3002 - added wxMirrorDC class
3003 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
3004 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
3005 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
3006 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
3007 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
3008 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
3009 improved
3010
3011 Unix:
3012
3013 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
3014 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
3015 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
3016 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
3017 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
3018
3019 Generic controls:
3020
3021 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
3022 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
3023 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
3024 to contrib/src/deprecated
3025
3026 wxGTK:
3027
3028 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
3029 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
3030 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
3031 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
3032 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
3033 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
3034 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
3035 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
3036 be appended to filenames with no extension
3037 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
3038 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
3039 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
3040 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
3041
3042 wxMac:
3043
3044 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
3045 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
3046
3047 wxMSW:
3048
3049 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
3050 - added wxCrashReport
3051 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
3052 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
3053 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
3054 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
3055 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
3056 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
3057 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
3058 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
3059 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
3060 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
3061 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
3062 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
3063 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
3064 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
3065 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
3066 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
3067 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
3068 - improved border handling under Windows XP
3069 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
3070 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
3071 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
3072 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
3073 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
3074 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
3075 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
3076
3077 wxMotif:
3078
3079 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
3080 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
3081 documentation for a detailed explanation
3082 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
3083 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
3084 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
3085 with Motif 1.x compatibility
3086 - implemented wxToggleButton
3087 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
3088 instead of a sunken border
3089 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
3090 - finished wxClipboard implementation
3091
3092 wxUniv:
3093
3094 - controls in toolbars now supported
3095
3096 wxHTML:
3097
3098 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
3099 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
3100 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
3101 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
3102 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
3103
3104
3105 OLD CHANGES
3106 ===========
3107
3108 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
3109 ================================
3110
3111 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
3112 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
3113 with '!' in the first column.
3114
3115 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
3116 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
3117 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
3118 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
3119 2.6 release.
3120
3121 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
3122 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
3123 (see the documentation) useful.
3124
3125
3126 wxBase:
3127
3128 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
3129 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
3130 code.
3131
3132 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
3133 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
3134 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
3135 arrays containing non-pointers.
3136
3137 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
3138 simply don't make sense for all objects
3139
3140 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
3141 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
3142 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
3143
3144 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
3145
3146 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
3147 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
3148 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
3149 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
3150 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
3151
3152 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
3153 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
3154 the default assert handling.
3155
3156 All (GUI):
3157
3158 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
3159 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
3160 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
3161
3162 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
3163 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
3164 instead!
3165
3166 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
3167 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
3168 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
3169
3170 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
3171 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
3172 you want to get OnChar() as well
3173
3174 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
3175 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
3176 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
3177
3178 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
3179 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
3180 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
3181 will *NOT* work any longer:
3182
3183 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
3184 ... do something ...
3185 if ( flags & wxYES )
3186 ... do something else ...
3187
3188 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
3189 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
3190 the ctor
3191
3192 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
3193
3194 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
3195 if you derived any classes from it
3196
3197 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
3198 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
3199
3200 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
3201 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
3202
3203 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
3204 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
3205
3206 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
3207 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
3208 from happening
3209
3210 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
3211 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
3212 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
3213
3214 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
3215 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
3216 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
3217 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
3218
3219 wxMSW:
3220
3221 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
3222 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
3223 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
3224 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
3225 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
3226 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
3227 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
3228 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
3229 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
3230 is only present for the DLLs builds.
3231
3232 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
3233 style to avoid it
3234
3235 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
3236 previously selected one instead of replacing it
3237
3238 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
3239 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
3240 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
3241
3242 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
3243 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
3244
3245
3246 Unix ports:
3247
3248 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
3249 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
3250 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
3251 to compile pure C files.
3252
3253
3254 wxThread and related classes:
3255
3256 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
3257 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
3258 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
3259 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
3260
3261 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
3262 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
3263 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
3264 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
3265
3266 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
3267 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
3268 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
3269
3270 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
3271 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
3272
3273
3274 OTHER CHANGES
3275 =============
3276
3277 2.4.0
3278 -----
3279
3280 wxMSW:
3281
3282 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
3283
3284 2.3.4
3285 -----
3286
3287 All:
3288
3289 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
3290 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
3291 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
3292
3293 Unix (Base/GUI):
3294
3295 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
3296 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
3297 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
3298
3299 wxGTK:
3300 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
3301 - Addition of native frame site grip.
3302
3303 wxX11:
3304 - Unicode support through Pango library.
3305
3306 wxMSW:
3307
3308 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
3309 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
3310
3311 wxHTML:
3312
3313 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
3314
3315 2.3.3
3316 -----
3317
3318 wxBase:
3319
3320 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
3321 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
3322 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
3323 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
3324 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
3325 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
3326 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
3327 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
3328 after (non standard) STL hash_map
3329 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
3330 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
3331 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
3332 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
3333 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
3334 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
3335 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
3336
3337 Unix (Base/GUI):
3338
3339 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
3340 programs and not only GNU make
3341 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
3342 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
3343 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
3344 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
3345 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
3346
3347 All (GUI):
3348
3349 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
3350 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
3351 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
3352 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
3353 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
3354 wxWidgets dialogs
3355 - significantly improved native font support
3356 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
3357 wxHashTable
3358 - added IFF image handler
3359 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
3360 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
3361 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
3362 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
3363 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
3364 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
3365 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
3366 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
3367 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
3368 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
3369 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
3370 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
3371 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
3372 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
3373 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
3374 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
3375 - wxMessageOutput class added
3376 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
3377 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
3378 table fills up
3379 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
3380 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
3381 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
3382 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
3383 (Rene Rivera).
3384 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
3385 whether a label edit was cancelled.
3386 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
3387
3388 wxMSW:
3389
3390 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
3391 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
3392 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
3393 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
3394 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
3395 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
3396 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
3397 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
3398 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
3399 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
3400 are changed
3401 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
3402 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
3403 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
3404 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
3405 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
3406 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
3407 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
3408 recursion any more
3409 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
3410 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
3411 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
3412 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
3413 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
3414 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
3415 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
3416 has the capture before release it.
3417 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
3418 - default button handling is now closer to expected
3419 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
3420 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
3421 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
3422 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
3423 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
3424 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
3425 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
3426 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
3427 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
3428 provided in wxFontData
3429 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
3430 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
3431
3432 wxGTK:
3433
3434 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
3435 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
3436 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
3437 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
3438 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
3439 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
3440 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
3441 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
3442 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
3443 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
3444 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
3445 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
3446 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
3447
3448 wxMotif:
3449
3450 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
3451 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
3452 - improved toolbar control alignment
3453 - implemented wxSpinButton
3454 - implemented wxCheckListBox
3455 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
3456 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
3457
3458 wxX11:
3459
3460 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
3461 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
3462
3463 wxMac:
3464
3465 - Many improvements
3466
3467 wxOS2:
3468
3469 - First alpha-quality release
3470
3471 wxHTML:
3472
3473 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
3474 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
3475 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
3476 - fixed alignment handling in tables
3477 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
3478
3479 2.3.2
3480 -----
3481
3482 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
3483
3484 wxBase:
3485
3486 - wxRegEx class added
3487 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
3488 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
3489 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
3490 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
3491 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
3492
3493 All (GUI):
3494
3495 - support for virtual list control added
3496 - column images in report mode of the list control
3497 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
3498 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
3499 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
3500 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
3501 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
3502 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
3503 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
3504 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
3505 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
3506 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
3507 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
3508 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
3509
3510 wxMSW:
3511
3512 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
3513 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
3514 project files
3515
3516 wxGTK:
3517
3518 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
3519 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
3520 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
3521 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
3522
3523 wxMac:
3524
3525 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
3526 Tools
3527
3528 wxHTML:
3529
3530 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
3531 to tags parsing
3532 - added support for animated GIFs
3533
3534 2.3.1
3535 -----
3536
3537 wxBase:
3538
3539 - Fixes for gcc 3.0
3540 - Fixed new charset detection code
3541 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
3542 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
3543 - Added wxDir::Traverse
3544 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
3545 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
3546 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
3547
3548 All (GUI):
3549
3550 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
3551 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
3552 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
3553 push on a custom event handler for example)
3554 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
3555 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
3556 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
3557 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
3558 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
3559 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
3560 first-time saved
3561 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
3562 - Various wxXML enhancements
3563 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
3564 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
3565 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
3566 instead of GetId()
3567 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
3568 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
3569
3570 wxMSW:
3571
3572 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
3573 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
3574 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
3575 alt or shift) now work
3576 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
3577 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
3578 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
3579 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
3580 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
3581 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
3582 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
3583 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
3584 - We now send iconize events
3585 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
3586 - Added mousewheel processing
3587 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
3588 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
3589 in wxDC
3590 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
3591 child frame styles are honoured
3592
3593 wxGTK:
3594
3595 - Fixed slider rounding bug
3596 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
3597 - We now send iconize events
3598 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
3599 GetSelection() results
3600
3601 2.3.0
3602 -----
3603
3604 wxBase:
3605
3606 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
3607 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
3608 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
3609 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
3610 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
3611 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
3612 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
3613 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
3614 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
3615 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
3616
3617 All (GUI):
3618
3619 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
3620 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
3621 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
3622 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
3623 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
3624 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
3625 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
3626 wxImage methods and ctor)
3627 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
3628 - ODBC documentation complete!!
3629 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
3630 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
3631 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
3632 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
3633
3634 wxMSW:
3635
3636 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
3637 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
3638 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
3639 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
3640
3641 wxGTK:
3642
3643 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
3644
3645 wxHTML:
3646
3647 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
3648 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
3649
3650 2.2.0
3651 -----
3652
3653 wxBase:
3654
3655 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
3656 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
3657 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
3658 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
3659 - Completed Czech translations
3660 - Some stream corrections
3661 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
3662 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
3663 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
3664 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
3665
3666 All (GUI):
3667
3668 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
3669 flicker-free dragging is now possible
3670 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
3671 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
3672 - Paper names now translated
3673 - wxGrid fixes
3674 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
3675 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
3676 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
3677 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
3678 File dialog.
3679 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
3680 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
3681 writing code
3682 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
3683 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
3684 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
3685 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
3686
3687 wxMSW:
3688
3689 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
3690 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
3691 backward compatibility, please set
3692 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
3693 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
3694 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
3695 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
3696 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
3697 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
3698 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
3699 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
3700 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
3701 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
3702 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
3703 - wxFrame restores focus better
3704 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
3705 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
3706 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
3707 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
3708 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
3709 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
3710 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
3711 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
3712 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizable again
3713 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
3714
3715 wxGTK:
3716
3717 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
3718
3719 wxMotif:
3720
3721 - Small compilation fixes
3722
3723 Documentation:
3724
3725 - wxCaret documented
3726
3727 2.1.16
3728 ------
3729
3730 wxBase:
3731
3732 All (GUI):
3733
3734 wxMSW:
3735
3736 - Various bug fixes
3737 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
3738 files. This works under VC++ only
3739 - Modal dialog handling improved
3740 - Printer dialog now modal
3741
3742 wxGTK:
3743
3744 - Various bug fixes
3745
3746 wxMotif:
3747
3748 - Various bug fixes
3749
3750 2.1.15
3751 ------
3752
3753 Documentation:
3754
3755 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
3756
3757 File hierarchy:
3758
3759 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
3760 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
3761
3762 wxBase:
3763
3764 - wxSocket support
3765 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
3766 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
3767 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
3768 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
3769 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
3770 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
3771 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
3772 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
3773 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
3774 only so far)
3775 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
3776 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
3777 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
3778 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
3779 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
3780 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
3781 is available)
3782 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
3783
3784 all (GUI):
3785
3786 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
3787 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
3788 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
3789 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
3790 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
3791 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
3792 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
3793 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
3794 John Norris)
3795 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
3796 MIME types if available (Unix only)
3797 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
3798 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
3799 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
3800 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
3801 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
3802 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
3803 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
3804 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
3805 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
3806 - wxDragImage class added
3807 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
3808 controllers, as well as native help
3809 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
3810
3811 wxMSW:
3812
3813 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
3814 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
3815 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
3816 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
3817 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
3818 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
3819 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
3820 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
3821 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
3822 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
3823 Unix ports
3824 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
3825 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
3826 - wxSetCursorEvent added
3827
3828 wxGTK:
3829
3830 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
3831 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
3832 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
3833
3834 wxMotif:
3835
3836 - wxMenu::Enable works
3837 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
3838 - OGL samples made to work again
3839
3840 wxHTML:
3841
3842 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
3843 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
3844 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
3845 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
3846 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
3847 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
3848 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
3849 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
3850 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
3851 - improved HTML printing
3852 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions (&nbsp; etc.)
3853 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
3854 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
3855 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
3856
3857
3858 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
3859 change log.
3860
3861 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
3862 -----------------------
3863
3864 wxGTK:
3865
3866 - JPEG support added.
3867 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
3868
3869 wxMSW:
3870
3871 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
3872 SetTabSize added.
3873 - JPEG support added.
3874 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
3875 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
3876 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
3877
3878 wxMotif:
3879
3880
3881 General:
3882
3883 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
3884
3885
3886 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
3887 -------------------------------
3888
3889 wxGTK:
3890
3891 - wxGLCanvas fixes.
3892 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
3893
3894 wxMSW:
3895
3896 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
3897 - Fixed window cursor setting.
3898 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
3899 - Some makefile fixes.
3900
3901 wxMotif:
3902
3903 - None.
3904
3905 General:
3906
3907 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
3908 - More topic overviews.
3909 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
3910 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
3911 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
3912
3913
3914 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
3915 --------------------------
3916
3917 wxGTK:
3918
3919 - wxExecute improved.
3920
3921 wxMSW:
3922
3923 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
3924 expected).
3925 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
3926 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
3927 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
3928 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
3929 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
3930 - Fixed focus-related crash.
3931
3932 wxMotif:
3933
3934 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
3935 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
3936
3937 General:
3938
3939 - wxLocale documented.
3940 - Added include filenames to class reference.
3941 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
3942 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
3943 (though doesn't display help yet).
3944
3945 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
3946 --------------------------
3947
3948 wxGTK:
3949
3950 - Miscellaneous fixes.
3951
3952 wxMSW:
3953
3954 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
3955 rationalised.
3956 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
3957
3958 wxMotif:
3959
3960 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
3961 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
3962 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
3963 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
3964 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
3965 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
3966 crashes for some reason).
3967 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
3968 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
3969
3970 General:
3971
3972 - Further doc improvements.
3973 - wxGenericValidator added.
3974 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
3975 automatically.
3976
3977 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
3978 -------------------------
3979
3980 wxGTK:
3981
3982 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
3983 - wxToolTip class added.
3984 - Miscellaneous fixes.
3985
3986 wxMSW:
3987
3988 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
3989 - Makefiles for more compilers.
3990 - TWIN32 support added.
3991 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
3992 factored out program/library settings.
3993 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
3994
3995 wxMotif:
3996
3997 - A few more colour fixes.
3998 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
3999 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
4000 - wxChoice crash fix.
4001 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
4002
4003 General:
4004
4005 - wxBusyCursor class added.
4006 - Added samples/dde.
4007 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
4008
4009 Beta 2, January 1999
4010 --------------------
4011
4012 wxGTK:
4013
4014 wxMSW:
4015
4016 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
4017
4018 wxMotif:
4019
4020 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
4021 the right place.
4022 - Cured some widget table clashes.
4023 - Added thread support (Robert).
4024 - wxPoem sample now works.
4025
4026 General:
4027
4028 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
4029 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
4030 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
4031 or below).
4032 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
4033 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
4034 sample.
4035 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
4036
4037 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
4038 --------------------------
4039
4040 wxGTK:
4041
4042 - Various
4043
4044 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
4045
4046
4047 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
4048 ----------------------------
4049
4050 wxMSW:
4051
4052 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
4053 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
4054 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
4055 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
4056 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
4057 on a tab.
4058 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
4059 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
4060 of Stefan Csomor.
4061
4062 wxMotif:
4063
4064 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
4065 without (permanently) resizing the window.
4066 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
4067 that disabled scrollbar paging.
4068 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
4069 colours correctly.
4070 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
4071 when any button was pressed.
4072 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
4073 have a white background.
4074 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
4075 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
4076 they have sensible colours by default.
4077 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
4078 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
4079 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
4080 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
4081 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
4082
4083 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
4084 ----------------------------
4085
4086 wxMSW:
4087
4088 - More documentation updates, especially for
4089 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
4090 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
4091 of wxTrace.
4092 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
4093 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
4094 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
4095 position.
4096 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
4097
4098 wxMotif:
4099
4100 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
4101 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
4102 child frames).
4103 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
4104 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
4105 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
4106 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
4107 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
4108 the debugging implementation.
4109 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
4110 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
4111 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
4112 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
4113 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
4114 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
4115 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
4116
4117 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
4118
4119 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
4120 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
4121 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
4122 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
4123 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
4124 - wxNotebook almost done.
4125 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
4126 to vertical toolbars).
4127
4128 More recently:
4129
4130 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
4131 to scrollbars).
4132 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
4133 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
4134 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
4135
4136 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
4137 ----------------------------
4138
4139 wxMSW:
4140
4141 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
4142 sample.
4143 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
4144 - A few more makefiles added.
4145 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
4146 - Further doc updates.
4147 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
4148
4149 wxMotif:
4150
4151 - First start at Motif port.
4152 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
4153 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
4154 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
4155 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
4156
4157 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
4158 --------------------------
4159
4160 wxMSW:
4161
4162 - wxBitmap debugged.
4163 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
4164 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
4165 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
4166 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
4167 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
4168 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
4169 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
4170
4171 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
4172 ------------------------
4173
4174 wxMSW:
4175
4176 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
4177 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
4178 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
4179 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
4180 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
4181 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
4182 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
4183 changes, wxNotebook.
4184 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
4185
4186 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
4187 -----------------------
4188
4189 wxMSW:
4190
4191 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
4192 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
4193 Windows functions, for efficiency.
4194 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
4195 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
4196 don't support it.
4197 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
4198 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
4199
4200 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
4201 -----------------------
4202
4203 wxMSW:
4204
4205 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
4206 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
4207
4208 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
4209 -----------------------
4210
4211 wxMSW:
4212
4213 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
4214 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
4215 wxMenuBar.
4216 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
4217 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
4218 wxMenuItem accessors.
4219 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
4220 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
4221 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
4222 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
4223 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
4224 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
4225 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
4226 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
4227 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
4228 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
4229 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
4230 first, then doing the assignment.
4231 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
4232 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
4233
4234 Generic:
4235
4236 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
4237 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
4238
4239 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
4240 ----------------------
4241
4242 wxMSW:
4243
4244 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
4245 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
4246 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
4247 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
4248 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
4249 require application-supplied positioning code though.
4250 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
4251 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
4252 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
4253
4254 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
4255 ------------------------
4256
4257 wxMSW:
4258
4259 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
4260 fields were used.
4261 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
4262 compilation and pragmas.
4263 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
4264 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
4265
4266 Generic:
4267
4268 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
4269 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
4270 compilation and pragmas.
4271 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
4272
4273 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
4274 ------------------------
4275
4276 wxMSW:
4277
4278 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
4279 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
4280 some reason :-(
4281 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
4282 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
4283 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
4284 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
4285 startup/exit.
4286 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
4287 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
4288 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
4289 VADIM'S CHANGES:
4290 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
4291 compatibility functions.
4292 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
4293 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
4294 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
4295 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
4296 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
4297 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
4298 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
4299
4300 Generic:
4301
4302 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
4303 - Added samples/png.
4304 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
4305 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
4306 header files.
4307 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
4308
4309 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
4310 ------------------------
4311
4312 wxMSW:
4313
4314 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
4315 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
4316 cleaned up properly before exit.
4317 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
4318 automatically.
4319 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
4320 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
4321 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
4322 unresolved issues.
4323 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
4324 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
4325 tray area.
4326 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
4327 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
4328 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
4329 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
4330
4331 Generic:
4332
4333 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
4334 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
4335 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
4336 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
4337 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
4338 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
4339 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
4340 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
4341 allow better control of memory.
4342 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
4343 checking.
4344 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
4345 float to long in wxToolBar files.
4346
4347 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
4348 ------------------------
4349
4350 wxMSW:
4351
4352 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
4353 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
4354 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
4355 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
4356 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
4357 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
4358 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
4359 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
4360 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
4361 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
4362 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
4363 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
4364 IUnknown.
4365 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
4366 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
4367 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
4368 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
4369 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
4370 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
4371 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
4372 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
4373 internal implementation.
4374 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
4375 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
4376 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
4377
4378 Generic:
4379
4380 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
4381 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
4382 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
4383 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
4384 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
4385
4386 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
4387 --------------------------
4388
4389 wxMSW:
4390
4391 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
4392 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
4393 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
4394 changes.
4395 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
4396 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
4397 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
4398 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
4399 again.
4400 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
4401 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
4402 e.g. wxDC.
4403
4404 Generic:
4405
4406 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
4407 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
4408 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
4409 changes.
4410 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
4411 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
4412 docs/gtk.
4413 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
4414 created dynamically, not as a global object.
4415 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
4416 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
4417 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
4418 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
4419 - Added gcc pragmas.
4420 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
4421 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
4422 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
4423 added a few references to wxTransString.
4424 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
4425 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
4426 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
4427 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
4428 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
4429 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
4430 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
4431 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
4432 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
4433 MoreRequested.
4434
4435 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
4436 --------------------------
4437
4438 All:
4439
4440 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
4441 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
4442 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
4443 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
4444 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
4445 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
4446 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
4447 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
4448 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
4449 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
4450 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
4451 scrolling toolbars.
4452 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
4453 to help printing with multiple pages.
4454 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
4455 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
4456 implementation updated to use these base classes.
4457 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
4458 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
4459 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
4460 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
4461 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
4462 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
4463 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
4464 New files from Vadim:
4465 include\wx\string.h
4466 include\wx\debug.h
4467 include\wx\file.h
4468 include\wx\log.h
4469 include\wx\intl.h
4470 src\common\string.cpp
4471 src\common\log.cpp
4472 src\common\intl.cpp
4473 src\common\file.cpp
4474 No longer use GNU wxString files.
4475 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
4476 src\common\filefn.cpp.
4477 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
4478 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
4479 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
4480 including changes to defs.h.
4481 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
4482 introduced.
4483 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
4484 hidden).
4485 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
4486 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
4487 trick).
4488 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
4489
4490 Alpha 3, September 1997
4491 -----------------------
4492
4493 All:
4494
4495 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
4496 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
4497 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
4498 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
4499 - Started documentation.
4500
4501 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
4502 ------------------------
4503
4504 All:
4505
4506 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
4507 with MetroWerks compiler.
4508 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
4509 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
4510 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
4511 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
4512 for testing purposes.
4513 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
4514 handlers.
4515 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
4516 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
4517 fully).
4518 - Added back wxRadioBox.
4519 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
4520 a separate file.
4521
4522 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
4523 -----------------------
4524
4525 Generic:
4526
4527 At this point, the following has been achieved:
4528
4529 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
4530 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
4531 wxString instead of char *.
4532 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
4533 old system event system) and code size reduced.
4534 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
4535 as wxbWindow now removed.
4536 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
4537 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
4538 - PrologIO revised.
4539 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
4540 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
4541 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
4542 Windows settings.
4543 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
4544 settings mucho rationalised.
4545 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
4546 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
4547 classes removed.
4548 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
4549 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
4550 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
4551 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
4552 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
4553 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
4554 of event handlers.
4555 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
4556 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
4557 wxToolBarBase
4558 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
4559 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
4560 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
4561 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
4562 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
4563 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
4564 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
4565 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
4566 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
4567 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
4568 in the future.
4569 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
4570 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
4571 variables instead.
4572 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
4573 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
4574 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
4575 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
4576 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
4577 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
4578 Win95.
4579 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
4580 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
4581 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
4582 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
4583 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
4584 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).