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2 wxWidgets Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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4
5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.6.x
6 ================================
7
8 - wxFontData::GetColour() now returns a const colour
9 - wxDC objects can't be created directly now (this never worked, now it doesn't
10 even compile)
11 - For all wxInputStreams, Eof() becomes true after an attempt has been made
12 to read _past_ the end of file.
13 - wxCHECK family of macros now must be followed by a semicolon
14 - wxMBConv::cMB2WC() and cWC2MB() take size of the input buffer and return
15 length of the converted string in all cases now.
16
17
18 Deprecated methods since 2.6.x and their replacements
19 -----------------------------------------------------
20
21 - wxGetWorkingDirectory() deprecated in favour of wxGetCwd()
22 - wxDC::BeginDrawing() and wxDC::EndDrawing() deprecated, just don't use them
23
24
25 2.7.0
26 -----
27
28 All:
29
30 - wx(F)File, wxTextFile and wxInputStreams recognize Unicode BOM now
31 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
32 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
33 - Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
34 - Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build
35 - Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
36 during a search and replace.
37 - Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
38 are both used in the same program.
39 - Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
40 - wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
41 - Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
42 - Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
43 - Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
44 - Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
45 - wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
46 - Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
47 - Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
48 - Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
49 - Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
50 - Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
51 - wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
52 - Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
53 - Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta)
54 - Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed
55 - wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert()
56 - Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate()
57 - The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
58 and WXK*PAGEDOWN. If you have switch statements that use both
59 constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
60 versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
61
62
63 All (GUI):
64
65 - Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
66 - Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric()
67 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers()
68 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
69 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
70 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
71 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
72 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
73 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
74 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
75 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
76 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
77 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
78 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
79 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
80 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
81 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
82 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
83 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
84 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
85 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown()
86 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
87 - Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
88 by Sandro Sigala).
89 - Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
90 - Added wxGetMouseState function.
91 - Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
92 allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
93 - wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
94 best size.
95 - wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
96 - More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
97 - Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
98 - Added ability to use templates with static event tables
99 with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
100 - Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
101 - Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
102 - Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
103 - Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
104 behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
105 - Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
106 - Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
107 - Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
108 - UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
109 - More than one filter allowed in in wxDocTemplate filter.
110 - Added wxListBox::HitTest().
111 - Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
112 - Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
113
114 wxMSW:
115
116 - Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
117 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
118 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
119 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
120 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
121 - Removed __WIN95__ define
122 - Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
123 resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
124 target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
125 - Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
126 wxMSW faq for details).
127 - New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
128 puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
129 to the link command.
130 - wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
131 - wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
132 - Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
133 columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
134 - Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
135 show.
136 - Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys.
137 - Fixed GDI leak in wxStaticBitmap when setting images after
138 initial construction.
139 - Menu codes now stripped before measuring control labels.
140 - MFC sample now compiles in Unicode mode.
141 - Fixed SetScrollbar thumb size setting bug (set orientation before triggering
142 events).
143 - Fixed icon to cursor conversion problem for bitmaps with masks.
144 - Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
145 - wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
146 - Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
147 - Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated.
148 - Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl.
149 - Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
150 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
151 - Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
152 - Fixed out by one error in wxTextCtrl::GetStyle.
153 - Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
154 - Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
155 - Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
156 - Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
157 - wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
158 changes the system font.
159 - wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts).
160 - Fixed wxChoice/wxComboBox slow appending and infinite recursion
161 if its size is set within a paint handler (for example when embedded in a
162 wxHtmlWindow). [Now reverted due to problems in W2K and below.]
163
164 wxGTK:
165
166 - wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated.
167 - Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support.
168 - wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK.
169 - Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
170 implementation.
171 - Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
172 --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.
173 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
174 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
175 - Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
176 is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
177 previously unable to be focused before.
178 - Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
179 wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox.
180 - Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
181 class was used.
182 - Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
183 - Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
184 - Fixed problems with CJK input method.
185 - Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
186 - Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
187
188 wxMac:
189
190 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
191 - Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
192 - Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
193 Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
194 - Improved support for help and application menu items.
195 - Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
196 - Added support for 10.4 context menu.
197 - Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
198 - Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
199 - Corrected idle wake-up.
200 - Corrected wxExecute.
201 - Now makes use of full printer resolution.
202 - Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
203 - Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
204 - Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
205 - Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
206 if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
207 - Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
208 were found.
209 - Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
210 - Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
211 under Mach-O.
212 - wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
213 specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
214 - Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
215 - Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
216 end of file with an error.
217 - Xcode wxWidgets and minimal sample project files updated to create Universal
218 binaries.
219 - Fix for setting wxMenuBar more than once.
220 - wxListBox minimum size bug fixed.
221 - Fixed wxNotebook off-by-one bug in HitTest.
222 - Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
223 - Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
224
225 wxCocoa:
226
227 - wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
228
229 wxWinCE:
230
231 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
232 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
233 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
234 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
235 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
236 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
237 - New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
238 guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
239 - Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
240 - Fixed date formatting and mktime.
241 - Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
242 - Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
243 - Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
244 is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
245 directly, however.
246 - Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
247 and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
248 - Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
249 - Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
250
251 wxUniv:
252
253 - Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
254
255 wxX11:
256
257 - Invisible text problem fixed.
258 - Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
259 - Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
260
261 Unix:
262
263 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
264
265
266 2.6.2
267 -----
268
269 All:
270
271 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
272 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
273 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
274 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
275 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
276 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
277 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
278 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
279 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
280 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
281 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
282 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
283
284 All (GUI):
285
286 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
287 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
288 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
289 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
290 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
291 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
292 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
293 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
294 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
295 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
296 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
297 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
298
299 wxMSW:
300
301 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
302 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
303 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
304 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
305 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
306 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
307 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
308 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
309 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
310 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
311 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
312 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
313 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
314 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
315 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
316
317 wxGTK:
318
319 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
320 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
321 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
322 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
323 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
324 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
325 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
326 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
327 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
328 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
329 - Fixed domain socket handling.
330
331 wxMac:
332
333 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
334 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
335 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
336 - Various text control bug fixes.
337 - Automatic menu management improved.
338 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
339 due to dangling cycle pointers.
340 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
341 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
342 showing modally).
343
344 wxOS2
345
346 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
347
348 wxUniv:
349
350 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
351 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
352
353 wxMotif:
354
355 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
356 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
357 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
358 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
359 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
360 flag has been specified.
361 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
362 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
363 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
364 showing modally).
365
366 wxMGL:
367
368 - Fixed crash on exit.
369 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
370
371 wxX11:
372
373 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
374
375
376 2.6.1
377 -----
378
379 All:
380
381 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
382 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
383
384 All (GUI):
385
386 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
387 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
388 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
389 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
390 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
391 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
392 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
393 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
394 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
395 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
396
397 wxMSW:
398
399 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
400 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
401 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
402 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
403 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
404 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
405 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
406 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
407 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
408 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
409 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
410 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
411 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
412 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
413 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
414 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
415 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
416 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
417 - Compiles again with WIN64.
418 - Winelib compilation now works.
419 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
420 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
421 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
422 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
423 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
424 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
425 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
426 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
427 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
428 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
429 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
430 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
431 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
432
433 wxWinCE:
434
435 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
436
437 wxGTK:
438
439 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
440 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
441 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
442 - Added bitmap support in menus.
443
444 wxMac:
445
446 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
447 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
448 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
449 incorrect state.
450 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
451 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
452 - Window menu now added automatically.
453 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
454 - Modified function key support fixed.
455 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
456
457 wxX11:
458
459 - Menu problems fixed.
460 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
461 - Fixed a font memory leak.
462 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
463
464
465 2.6.0
466 -----
467
468 All:
469
470 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
471 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
472
473 All (GUI):
474
475 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
476 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
477
478 wxMSW:
479
480 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
481 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
482 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
483
484 wxWinCE:
485
486 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
487
488 wxGTK:
489 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
490 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
491 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
492 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
493 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
494 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
495 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
496
497 wxMac:
498 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
499
500 2.5.5
501 -----
502
503 All:
504
505 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
506 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
507 - Added wxDebugReport class.
508 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
509 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
510 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
511 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
512 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
513 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
514
515 All (GUI):
516
517 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
518 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
519 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
520 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
521 the whole virtual area.
522 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
523 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
524 isn't used to set the window size.
525 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
526 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
527 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
528 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
529
530 Unix:
531
532 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
533
534 wxMSW:
535
536 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
537 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
538 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
539 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
540 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
541 handling (Jamie Gadd).
542
543 wxGTK:
544
545 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
546 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
547 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
548 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
549 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
550 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
551 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
552 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
553
554 wxMac:
555
556 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
557
558 wxPalmOS:
559
560 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
561
562 wxWinCE:
563
564 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
565 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
566 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
567 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
568 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
569 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
570 with correct titlebar style.
571 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
572 PocketPC guidelines
573 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
574 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
575 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
576 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
577 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
578 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
579 to the dialog's toolbar.
580
581 2.5.4
582 -----
583
584 All:
585
586 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
587 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
588 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
589 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
590 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
591 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
592 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
593 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
594 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
595 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
596 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
597 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
598 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
599 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
600 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
601 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
602 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
603 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
604 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
605 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
606 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
607 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
608 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
609 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
610 printing stuff in the GTK port.
611 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
612 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
613 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
614 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
615 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
616 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
617 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
618 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
619 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
620 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
621 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
622 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
623 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
624 due to a rounding error.
625 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
626 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
627 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
628 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
629 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
630 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
631 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
632 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
633
634
635 All (GUI):
636
637 - added wxMediaCtrl
638 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
639 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
640 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
641 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
642 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
643 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
644 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
645 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
646 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
647 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
648 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
649 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
650 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
651 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
652 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
653 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
654 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
655
656 Unix:
657
658 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
659
660 wxGTK:
661
662 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
663 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
664 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
665 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
666 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
667 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
668 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
669 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
670 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
671 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
672 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
673 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
674 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
675 errors otherwise.
676 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
677 - Added wxRawBitmap support
678 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
679 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
680 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
681
682 wxMac:
683
684 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
685 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
686 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
687 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
688
689 wxMSW:
690
691 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
692 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
693 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
694 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
695 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
696
697 wxWinCE:
698 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
699 but not mentioned anywhere.
700 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
701
702 wxUniv:
703
704 - wxBU_... button align flags support
705 - vertical notebook orientation support
706 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
707 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
708
709 wxPalmOS:
710
711 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
712 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
713 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
714 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
715 - enumeration of available volumes
716 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
717 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
718 - native wxColourDialog implementation
719 - native wxSystemSettings colours
720 - native wxButton implementation
721 - native wxCheckBox implementation
722 - native wxSlider implementation
723 - native wxToggleButton implementation
724 - native wxRadioButton implementation
725 - native wxStaticText implementation
726 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
727
728
729 2.5.3
730 -----
731
732 All:
733
734 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
735 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
736 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
737 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
738 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
739 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
740 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
741 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
742 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
743 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
744 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
745 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
746 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
747 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
748 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
749 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
750
751 All (GUI):
752
753 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
754 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
755 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
756 is discouraged
757 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
758 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
759 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
760 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
761 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
762 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
763 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
764 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
765 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
766 - added samples/splash
767 - added support for stock buttons
768 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
769 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
770 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
771 - added wxChoicebook control
772 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
773 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
774 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
775 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
776 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
777 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
778 supported, instead of zero.
779 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
780
781 Unix:
782
783 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
784 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
785 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
786 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
787 - wx-config has new --version-full option
788
789 wxCocoa:
790
791 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
792 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
793 - Tooltips now supported
794 - wxSound now supported
795 - wxDisplay now supported
796 - Some stock cursors now supported
797
798 wxMac:
799
800 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
801 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
802 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
803 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
804
805 wxGTK:
806
807 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
808 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
809 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
810 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
811 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
812 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
813 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
814 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
815 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
816 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
817 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
818 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
819 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
820 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
821 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
822 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
823 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
824 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
825 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
826
827 wxMotif:
828
829 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
830
831 wxMSW:
832
833 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
834 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
835 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
836 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
837 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
838 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
839 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
840 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
841 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
842 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
843 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
844 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
845 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
846 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
847
848 wxUniv/X11:
849
850 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
851
852 wxWinCE:
853
854 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
855 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
856 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
857 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
858
859 wxHTML:
860
861 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
862 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
863
864
865 2.5.2
866 -----
867
868 All:
869
870 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
871 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
872 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
873 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
874 of run-time) now
875 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
876 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
877 to forward declare these classes.
878
879 All (GUI):
880
881 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
882 resulting in much better display of scaled images
883 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
884 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
885 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
886 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
887 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
888 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
889 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
890 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
891 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
892 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
893 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
894 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
895 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
896
897 wxMSW:
898
899 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
900 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
901 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
902 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
903 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
904 even try to do it by default -- now it does
905 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
906 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
907 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
908 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
909 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
910 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
911
912 wxGTK:
913
914 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
915
916 wxMotif:
917
918 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
919 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
920 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
921 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
922
923 wxUniv/X11:
924
925 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
926
927 wxHTML:
928
929 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
930 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
931
932 Unix:
933
934 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
935 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
936
937 wxODBC:
938
939 - Full Unicode support is now available
940 - BLOB support is working
941
942
943 2.5.1
944 -----
945
946 All:
947
948 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
949 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
950 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
951 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
952 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
953 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
954 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
955 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
956 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
957 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
958 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
959 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
960 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
961 (as in 2.5.0).
962 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
963 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
964 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
965 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
966 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
967 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
968 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
969 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
970 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
971 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
972 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
973 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
974
975 All (GUI):
976
977 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
978 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
979 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
980 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
981 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
982 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
983 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
984 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
985 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
986 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
987 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
988 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
989 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
990 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
991 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
992 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
993 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
994 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
995 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
996 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
997 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
998 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
999 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
1000 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
1001 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
1002 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
1003
1004 wxMSW:
1005
1006 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
1007 - fixed DDE memory leaks
1008 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
1009 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
1010 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
1011 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
1012 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
1013 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
1014 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1015 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
1016 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
1017 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
1018 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
1019 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
1020 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
1021 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
1022 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
1023 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
1024 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1025 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
1026 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
1027 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
1028 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
1029 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
1030 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
1031 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
1032 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
1033 than the specified default size
1034 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
1035
1036 wxGTK:
1037
1038 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
1039 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
1040 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
1041 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
1042 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1043 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
1044 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
1045 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
1046 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
1047
1048 wxMac:
1049
1050 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1051 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
1052 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
1053 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
1054
1055 wxMotif:
1056
1057 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
1058
1059 wxHTML:
1060
1061 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
1062 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
1063
1064 Unix:
1065
1066 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
1067 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
1068 addition to existing OSS one
1069 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
1070
1071
1072 2.5.0
1073 -----
1074
1075 All:
1076
1077 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
1078 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
1079 separately compiled library
1080 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
1081 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1082 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
1083 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
1084 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
1085 - added wxArray::SetCount()
1086 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
1087 by default in Unicode mode
1088 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
1089 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
1090 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
1091 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
1092 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
1093 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
1094 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
1095 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
1096 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
1097 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
1098 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
1099 - added wxRecursionGuard class
1100 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
1101 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
1102 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
1103 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
1104 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
1105 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
1106 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
1107 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
1108
1109 wxBase:
1110
1111 - added Watcom makefiles
1112 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
1113
1114 All GUI ports:
1115
1116 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
1117 - added wxListbook control
1118 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
1119 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
1120 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
1121 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
1122 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
1123 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
1124 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
1125 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
1126 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
1127 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
1128 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
1129 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
1130 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
1131 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
1132 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
1133 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
1134 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
1135 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1136 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
1137 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
1138 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
1139 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
1140 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
1141 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
1142 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
1143 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
1144 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
1145 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
1146 default extension for the template
1147 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
1148 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
1149 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
1150 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
1151 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
1152 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
1153 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
1154 to allow better rich text support.
1155 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
1156 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
1157 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
1158 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
1159 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
1160 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
1161 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
1162 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
1163 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
1164 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
1165 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
1166 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
1167 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
1168 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
1169 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
1170 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
1171 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
1172 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
1173 - added wxMirrorDC class
1174 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
1175 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
1176 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
1177 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
1178 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
1179 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
1180 improved
1181
1182 Unix:
1183
1184 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
1185 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
1186 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
1187 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
1188 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
1189
1190 Generic controls:
1191
1192 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
1193 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
1194 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
1195 to contrib/src/deprecated
1196
1197 wxGTK:
1198
1199 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
1200 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
1201 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
1202 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
1203 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
1204 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
1205 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
1206 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
1207 be appended to filenames with no extension
1208 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
1209 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
1210 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
1211 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
1212
1213 wxMac:
1214
1215 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
1216 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1217
1218 wxMSW:
1219
1220 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
1221 - added wxCrashReport
1222 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
1223 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
1224 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
1225 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
1226 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
1227 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
1228 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
1229 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
1230 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
1231 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
1232 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
1233 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
1234 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
1235 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
1236 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
1237 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
1238 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
1239 - improved border handling under Windows XP
1240 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
1241 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
1242 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
1243 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
1244 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
1245 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
1246 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
1247
1248 wxMotif:
1249
1250 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
1251 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
1252 documentation for a detailed explanation
1253 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
1254 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
1255 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
1256 with Motif 1.x compatibility
1257 - implemented wxToggleButton
1258 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
1259 instead of a sunken border
1260 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
1261 - finished wxClipboard implementation
1262
1263 wxUniv:
1264
1265 - controls in toolbars now supported
1266
1267 wxHTML:
1268
1269 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
1270 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
1271 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
1272 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
1273 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
1274
1275
1276 OLD CHANGES
1277 ===========
1278
1279 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
1280 ================================
1281
1282 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
1283 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
1284 with '!' in the first column.
1285
1286 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
1287 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
1288 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
1289 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
1290 2.6 release.
1291
1292 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
1293 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
1294 (see the documentation) useful.
1295
1296
1297 wxBase:
1298
1299 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
1300 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
1301 code.
1302
1303 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
1304 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
1305 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
1306 arrays containing non-pointers.
1307
1308 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
1309 simply don't make sense for all objects
1310
1311 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
1312 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
1313 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
1314
1315 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
1316
1317 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
1318 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
1319 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
1320 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
1321 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
1322
1323 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
1324 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
1325 the default assert handling.
1326
1327 All (GUI):
1328
1329 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
1330 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
1331 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
1332
1333 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
1334 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
1335 instead!
1336
1337 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
1338 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
1339 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
1340
1341 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
1342 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
1343 you want to get OnChar() as well
1344
1345 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
1346 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
1347 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
1348
1349 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
1350 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
1351 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
1352 will *NOT* work any longer:
1353
1354 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
1355 ... do something ...
1356 if ( flags & wxYES )
1357 ... do something else ...
1358
1359 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
1360 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
1361 the ctor
1362
1363 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
1364
1365 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
1366 if you derived any classes from it
1367
1368 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
1369 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
1370
1371 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
1372 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
1373
1374 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
1375 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
1376
1377 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
1378 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
1379 from happening
1380
1381 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
1382 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
1383 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
1384
1385 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
1386 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
1387 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
1388 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
1389
1390 wxMSW:
1391
1392 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
1393 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
1394 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
1395 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
1396 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
1397 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
1398 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
1399 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
1400 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
1401 is only present for the DLLs builds.
1402
1403 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
1404 style to avoid it
1405
1406 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
1407 previously selected one instead of replacing it
1408
1409 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
1410 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
1411 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
1412
1413 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
1414 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
1415
1416
1417 Unix ports:
1418
1419 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
1420 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
1421 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
1422 to compile pure C files.
1423
1424
1425 wxThread and related classes:
1426
1427 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
1428 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
1429 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
1430 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
1431
1432 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
1433 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
1434 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
1435 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
1436
1437 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
1438 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
1439 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
1440
1441 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
1442 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
1443
1444
1445 OTHER CHANGES
1446 =============
1447
1448 2.4.0
1449 -----
1450
1451 wxMSW:
1452
1453 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
1454
1455 2.3.4
1456 -----
1457
1458 All:
1459
1460 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
1461 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
1462 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
1463
1464 Unix (Base/GUI):
1465
1466 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
1467 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
1468 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
1469
1470 wxGTK:
1471 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
1472 - Addition of native frame site grip.
1473
1474 wxX11:
1475 - Unicode support through Pango library.
1476
1477 wxMSW:
1478
1479 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
1480 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
1481
1482 wxHTML:
1483
1484 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
1485
1486 2.3.3
1487 -----
1488
1489 wxBase:
1490
1491 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
1492 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
1493 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
1494 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
1495 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
1496 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1497 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
1498 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
1499 after (non standard) STL hash_map
1500 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
1501 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
1502 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
1503 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
1504 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
1505 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
1506 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
1507
1508 Unix (Base/GUI):
1509
1510 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
1511 programs and not only GNU make
1512 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
1513 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
1514 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
1515 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
1516 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
1517
1518 All (GUI):
1519
1520 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
1521 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
1522 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
1523 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
1524 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
1525 wxWidgets dialogs
1526 - significantly improved native font support
1527 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
1528 wxHashTable
1529 - added IFF image handler
1530 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
1531 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
1532 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
1533 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1534 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
1535 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
1536 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1537 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
1538 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
1539 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
1540 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
1541 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
1542 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
1543 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1544 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
1545 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
1546 - wxMessageOutput class added
1547 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
1548 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
1549 table fills up
1550 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
1551 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
1552 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
1553 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
1554 (Rene Rivera).
1555 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
1556 whether a label edit was cancelled.
1557 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
1558
1559 wxMSW:
1560
1561 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
1562 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
1563 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
1564 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
1565 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
1566 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
1567 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
1568 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
1569 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
1570 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
1571 are changed
1572 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
1573 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
1574 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
1575 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
1576 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
1577 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
1578 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
1579 recursion any more
1580 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
1581 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
1582 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
1583 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
1584 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
1585 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
1586 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
1587 has the capture before release it.
1588 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
1589 - default button handling is now closer to expected
1590 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
1591 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
1592 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
1593 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
1594 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
1595 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
1596 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
1597 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
1598 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
1599 provided in wxFontData
1600 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
1601 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
1602
1603 wxGTK:
1604
1605 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
1606 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
1607 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
1608 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
1609 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
1610 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
1611 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
1612 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
1613 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
1614 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
1615 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
1616 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
1617 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
1618
1619 wxMotif:
1620
1621 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
1622 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
1623 - improved toolbar control alignment
1624 - implemented wxSpinButton
1625 - implemented wxCheckListBox
1626 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
1627 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
1628
1629 wxX11:
1630
1631 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
1632 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
1633
1634 wxMac:
1635
1636 - Many improvements
1637
1638 wxOS2:
1639
1640 - First alpha-quality release
1641
1642 wxHTML:
1643
1644 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1645 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1646 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1647 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1648 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1649
1650 2.3.2
1651 -----
1652
1653 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1654
1655 wxBase:
1656
1657 - wxRegEx class added
1658 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1659 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1660 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1661 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1662 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1663
1664 All (GUI):
1665
1666 - support for virtual list control added
1667 - column images in report mode of the list control
1668 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1669 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1670 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1671 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1672 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1673 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1674 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1675 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1676 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1677 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1678 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1679 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1680
1681 wxMSW:
1682
1683 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1684 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1685 project files
1686
1687 wxGTK:
1688
1689 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1690 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1691 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1692 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1693
1694 wxMac:
1695
1696 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1697 Tools
1698
1699 wxHTML:
1700
1701 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1702 to tags parsing
1703 - added support for animated GIFs
1704
1705 2.3.1
1706 -----
1707
1708 wxBase:
1709
1710 - Fixes for gcc 3.0
1711 - Fixed new charset detection code
1712 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
1713 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
1714 - Added wxDir::Traverse
1715 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
1716 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
1717 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
1718
1719 All (GUI):
1720
1721 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
1722 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
1723 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
1724 push on a custom event handler for example)
1725 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1726 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
1727 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
1728 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
1729 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
1730 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
1731 first-time saved
1732 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
1733 - Various wxXML enhancements
1734 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
1735 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
1736 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
1737 instead of GetId()
1738 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
1739 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
1740
1741 wxMSW:
1742
1743 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
1744 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
1745 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
1746 alt or shift) now work
1747 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
1748 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
1749 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
1750 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
1751 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
1752 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
1753 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
1754 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
1755 - We now send iconize events
1756 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
1757 - Added mousewheel processing
1758 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
1759 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
1760 in wxDC
1761 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
1762 child frame styles are honoured
1763
1764 wxGTK:
1765
1766 - Fixed slider rounding bug
1767 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
1768 - We now send iconize events
1769 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
1770 GetSelection() results
1771
1772 2.3.0
1773 -----
1774
1775 wxBase:
1776
1777 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
1778 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
1779 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
1780 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
1781 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1782 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
1783 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
1784 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
1785 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
1786 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
1787
1788 All (GUI):
1789
1790 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
1791 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
1792 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
1793 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
1794 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
1795 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
1796 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
1797 wxImage methods and ctor)
1798 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
1799 - ODBC documentation complete!!
1800 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
1801 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
1802 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
1803 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
1804
1805 wxMSW:
1806
1807 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1808 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1809 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1810 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1811
1812 wxGTK:
1813
1814 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
1815
1816 wxHTML:
1817
1818 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
1819 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
1820
1821 2.2.0
1822 -----
1823
1824 wxBase:
1825
1826 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
1827 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
1828 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
1829 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
1830 - Completed Czech translations
1831 - Some stream corrections
1832 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
1833 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
1834 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
1835 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
1836
1837 All (GUI):
1838
1839 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
1840 flicker-free dragging is now possible
1841 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
1842 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
1843 - Paper names now translated
1844 - wxGrid fixes
1845 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
1846 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
1847 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
1848 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
1849 File dialog.
1850 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
1851 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
1852 writing code
1853 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
1854 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
1855 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
1856 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
1857
1858 wxMSW:
1859
1860 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
1861 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
1862 backward compatibility, please set
1863 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
1864 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
1865 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
1866 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
1867 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
1868 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
1869 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
1870 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
1871 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
1872 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
1873 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
1874 - wxFrame restores focus better
1875 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
1876 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
1877 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
1878 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
1879 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
1880 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
1881 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
1882 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
1883 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
1884 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
1885
1886 wxGTK:
1887
1888 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
1889
1890 wxMotif:
1891
1892 - Small compilation fixes
1893
1894 Documentation:
1895
1896 - wxCaret documented
1897
1898 2.1.16
1899 ------
1900
1901 wxBase:
1902
1903 All (GUI):
1904
1905 wxMSW:
1906
1907 - Various bug fixes
1908 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1909 files. This works under VC++ only
1910 - Modal dialog handling improved
1911 - Printer dialog now modal
1912
1913 wxGTK:
1914
1915 - Various bug fixes
1916
1917 wxMotif:
1918
1919 - Various bug fixes
1920
1921 2.1.15
1922 ------
1923
1924 Documentation:
1925
1926 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
1927
1928 File hierarchy:
1929
1930 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
1931 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
1932
1933 wxBase:
1934
1935 - wxSocket support
1936 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
1937 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
1938 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
1939 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
1940 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
1941 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
1942 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
1943 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
1944 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
1945 only so far)
1946 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
1947 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
1948 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
1949 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
1950 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
1951 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
1952 is available)
1953 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
1954
1955 all (GUI):
1956
1957 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
1958 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
1959 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
1960 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
1961 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1962 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1963 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1964 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1965 John Norris)
1966 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1967 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1968 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1969 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1970 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1971 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1972 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1973 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1974 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1975 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1976 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1977 - wxDragImage class added
1978 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1979 controllers, as well as native help
1980 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1981
1982 wxMSW:
1983
1984 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1985 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1986 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1987 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1988 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1989 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1990 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1991 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1992 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1993 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1994 Unix ports
1995 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1996 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1997 - wxSetCursorEvent added
1998
1999 wxGTK:
2000
2001 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
2002 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
2003 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
2004
2005 wxMotif:
2006
2007 - wxMenu::Enable works
2008 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
2009 - OGL samples made to work again
2010
2011 wxHTML:
2012
2013 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
2014 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
2015 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
2016 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
2017 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
2018 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
2019 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
2020 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
2021 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
2022 - improved HTML printing
2023 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions (&nbsp; etc.)
2024 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
2025 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
2026 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
2027
2028
2029 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
2030 change log.
2031
2032 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
2033 -----------------------
2034
2035 wxGTK:
2036
2037 - JPEG support added.
2038 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
2039
2040 wxMSW:
2041
2042 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
2043 SetTabSize added.
2044 - JPEG support added.
2045 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
2046 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
2047 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
2048
2049 wxMotif:
2050
2051
2052 General:
2053
2054 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
2055
2056
2057 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
2058 -------------------------------
2059
2060 wxGTK:
2061
2062 - wxGLCanvas fixes.
2063 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
2064
2065 wxMSW:
2066
2067 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
2068 - Fixed window cursor setting.
2069 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
2070 - Some makefile fixes.
2071
2072 wxMotif:
2073
2074 - None.
2075
2076 General:
2077
2078 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
2079 - More topic overviews.
2080 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
2081 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
2082 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
2083
2084
2085 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
2086 --------------------------
2087
2088 wxGTK:
2089
2090 - wxExecute improved.
2091
2092 wxMSW:
2093
2094 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
2095 expected).
2096 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
2097 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
2098 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
2099 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
2100 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
2101 - Fixed focus-related crash.
2102
2103 wxMotif:
2104
2105 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
2106 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
2107
2108 General:
2109
2110 - wxLocale documented.
2111 - Added include filenames to class reference.
2112 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
2113 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
2114 (though doesn't display help yet).
2115
2116 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
2117 --------------------------
2118
2119 wxGTK:
2120
2121 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2122
2123 wxMSW:
2124
2125 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
2126 rationalised.
2127 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
2128
2129 wxMotif:
2130
2131 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
2132 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
2133 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
2134 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
2135 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
2136 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
2137 crashes for some reason).
2138 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
2139 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
2140
2141 General:
2142
2143 - Further doc improvements.
2144 - wxGenericValidator added.
2145 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
2146 automatically.
2147
2148 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
2149 -------------------------
2150
2151 wxGTK:
2152
2153 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
2154 - wxToolTip class added.
2155 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2156
2157 wxMSW:
2158
2159 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
2160 - Makefiles for more compilers.
2161 - TWIN32 support added.
2162 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
2163 factored out program/library settings.
2164 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
2165
2166 wxMotif:
2167
2168 - A few more colour fixes.
2169 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
2170 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
2171 - wxChoice crash fix.
2172 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
2173
2174 General:
2175
2176 - wxBusyCursor class added.
2177 - Added samples/dde.
2178 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
2179
2180 Beta 2, January 1999
2181 --------------------
2182
2183 wxGTK:
2184
2185 wxMSW:
2186
2187 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
2188
2189 wxMotif:
2190
2191 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
2192 the right place.
2193 - Cured some widget table clashes.
2194 - Added thread support (Robert).
2195 - wxPoem sample now works.
2196
2197 General:
2198
2199 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
2200 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
2201 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
2202 or below).
2203 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
2204 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
2205 sample.
2206 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
2207
2208 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
2209 --------------------------
2210
2211 wxGTK:
2212
2213 - Various
2214
2215 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
2216
2217
2218 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
2219 ----------------------------
2220
2221 wxMSW:
2222
2223 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
2224 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
2225 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
2226 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
2227 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
2228 on a tab.
2229 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
2230 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
2231 of Stefan Csomor.
2232
2233 wxMotif:
2234
2235 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
2236 without (permanently) resizing the window.
2237 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
2238 that disabled scrollbar paging.
2239 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
2240 colours correctly.
2241 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
2242 when any button was pressed.
2243 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
2244 have a white background.
2245 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
2246 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
2247 they have sensible colours by default.
2248 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
2249 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
2250 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
2251 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
2252 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
2253
2254 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
2255 ----------------------------
2256
2257 wxMSW:
2258
2259 - More documentation updates, especially for
2260 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
2261 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
2262 of wxTrace.
2263 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
2264 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
2265 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
2266 position.
2267 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
2268
2269 wxMotif:
2270
2271 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
2272 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
2273 child frames).
2274 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
2275 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
2276 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
2277 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
2278 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
2279 the debugging implementation.
2280 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
2281 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
2282 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
2283 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
2284 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
2285 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
2286 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
2287
2288 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
2289
2290 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
2291 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
2292 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
2293 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
2294 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
2295 - wxNotebook almost done.
2296 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
2297 to vertical toolbars).
2298
2299 More recently:
2300
2301 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
2302 to scrollbars).
2303 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
2304 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
2305 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
2306
2307 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
2308 ----------------------------
2309
2310 wxMSW:
2311
2312 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
2313 sample.
2314 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
2315 - A few more makefiles added.
2316 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
2317 - Further doc updates.
2318 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
2319
2320 wxMotif:
2321
2322 - First start at Motif port.
2323 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
2324 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
2325 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
2326 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
2327
2328 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
2329 --------------------------
2330
2331 wxMSW:
2332
2333 - wxBitmap debugged.
2334 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
2335 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
2336 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
2337 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
2338 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
2339 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
2340 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
2341
2342 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
2343 ------------------------
2344
2345 wxMSW:
2346
2347 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
2348 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
2349 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
2350 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
2351 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
2352 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
2353 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
2354 changes, wxNotebook.
2355 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
2356
2357 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
2358 -----------------------
2359
2360 wxMSW:
2361
2362 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
2363 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
2364 Windows functions, for efficiency.
2365 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
2366 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
2367 don't support it.
2368 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
2369 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
2370
2371 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
2372 -----------------------
2373
2374 wxMSW:
2375
2376 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
2377 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
2378
2379 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
2380 -----------------------
2381
2382 wxMSW:
2383
2384 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
2385 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
2386 wxMenuBar.
2387 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
2388 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
2389 wxMenuItem accessors.
2390 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
2391 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
2392 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
2393 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
2394 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
2395 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
2396 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
2397 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
2398 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
2399 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
2400 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
2401 first, then doing the assignment.
2402 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
2403 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
2404
2405 Generic:
2406
2407 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
2408 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
2409
2410 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
2411 ----------------------
2412
2413 wxMSW:
2414
2415 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
2416 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
2417 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
2418 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
2419 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
2420 require application-supplied positioning code though.
2421 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
2422 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
2423 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
2424
2425 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
2426 ------------------------
2427
2428 wxMSW:
2429
2430 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
2431 fields were used.
2432 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2433 compilation and pragmas.
2434 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
2435 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
2436
2437 Generic:
2438
2439 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
2440 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2441 compilation and pragmas.
2442 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
2443
2444 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
2445 ------------------------
2446
2447 wxMSW:
2448
2449 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
2450 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
2451 some reason :-(
2452 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
2453 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
2454 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
2455 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
2456 startup/exit.
2457 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
2458 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
2459 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
2460 VADIM'S CHANGES:
2461 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
2462 compatibility functions.
2463 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
2464 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
2465 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
2466 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
2467 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
2468 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
2469 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
2470
2471 Generic:
2472
2473 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
2474 - Added samples/png.
2475 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
2476 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
2477 header files.
2478 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
2479
2480 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
2481 ------------------------
2482
2483 wxMSW:
2484
2485 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2486 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
2487 cleaned up properly before exit.
2488 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
2489 automatically.
2490 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
2491 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
2492 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
2493 unresolved issues.
2494 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
2495 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
2496 tray area.
2497 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
2498 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
2499 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
2500 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
2501
2502 Generic:
2503
2504 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2505 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
2506 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
2507 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
2508 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
2509 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
2510 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
2511 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
2512 allow better control of memory.
2513 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
2514 checking.
2515 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
2516 float to long in wxToolBar files.
2517
2518 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
2519 ------------------------
2520
2521 wxMSW:
2522
2523 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
2524 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
2525 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
2526 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
2527 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
2528 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
2529 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
2530 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
2531 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
2532 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
2533 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
2534 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
2535 IUnknown.
2536 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
2537 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
2538 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
2539 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
2540 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
2541 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
2542 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
2543 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
2544 internal implementation.
2545 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
2546 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
2547 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
2548
2549 Generic:
2550
2551 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
2552 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
2553 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
2554 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
2555 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
2556
2557 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
2558 --------------------------
2559
2560 wxMSW:
2561
2562 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2563 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2564 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
2565 changes.
2566 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
2567 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
2568 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
2569 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
2570 again.
2571 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
2572 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
2573 e.g. wxDC.
2574
2575 Generic:
2576
2577 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2578 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2579 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
2580 changes.
2581 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
2582 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
2583 docs/gtk.
2584 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
2585 created dynamically, not as a global object.
2586 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
2587 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
2588 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
2589 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
2590 - Added gcc pragmas.
2591 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
2592 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
2593 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
2594 added a few references to wxTransString.
2595 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
2596 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
2597 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
2598 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
2599 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
2600 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
2601 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
2602 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
2603 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
2604 MoreRequested.
2605
2606 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
2607 --------------------------
2608
2609 All:
2610
2611 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
2612 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
2613 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
2614 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
2615 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
2616 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
2617 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
2618 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
2619 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
2620 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
2621 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
2622 scrolling toolbars.
2623 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
2624 to help printing with multiple pages.
2625 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
2626 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
2627 implementation updated to use these base classes.
2628 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
2629 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
2630 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
2631 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
2632 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
2633 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
2634 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
2635 New files from Vadim:
2636 include\wx\string.h
2637 include\wx\debug.h
2638 include\wx\file.h
2639 include\wx\log.h
2640 include\wx\intl.h
2641 src\common\string.cpp
2642 src\common\log.cpp
2643 src\common\intl.cpp
2644 src\common\file.cpp
2645 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2646 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2647 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2648 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2649 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2650 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2651 including changes to defs.h.
2652 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2653 introduced.
2654 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2655 hidden).
2656 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2657 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2658 trick).
2659 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2660
2661 Alpha 3, September 1997
2662 -----------------------
2663
2664 All:
2665
2666 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2667 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2668 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2669 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2670 - Started documentation.
2671
2672 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2673 ------------------------
2674
2675 All:
2676
2677 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2678 with MetroWerks compiler.
2679 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2680 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2681 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2682 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2683 for testing purposes.
2684 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2685 handlers.
2686 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2687 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2688 fully).
2689 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2690 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2691 a separate file.
2692
2693 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2694 -----------------------
2695
2696 Generic:
2697
2698 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2699
2700 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2701 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2702 wxString instead of char *.
2703 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2704 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2705 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
2706 as wxbWindow now removed.
2707 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
2708 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
2709 - PrologIO revised.
2710 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
2711 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
2712 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
2713 Windows settings.
2714 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
2715 settings mucho rationalised.
2716 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
2717 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
2718 classes removed.
2719 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
2720 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
2721 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
2722 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
2723 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
2724 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
2725 of event handlers.
2726 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
2727 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
2728 wxToolBarBase
2729 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
2730 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
2731 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
2732 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
2733 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
2734 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
2735 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
2736 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
2737 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
2738 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
2739 in the future.
2740 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
2741 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
2742 variables instead.
2743 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
2744 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
2745 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
2746 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
2747 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
2748 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
2749 Win95.
2750 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
2751 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
2752 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
2753 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
2754 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
2755 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).