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