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2 wxWindows 2.5/2.6 Change Log
3 ----------------------------
4
5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x
6 ================================
7
8 OTHER CHANGES
9 =============
10
11 2.5.0
12 -----
13
14 All:
15
16 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
17 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
18 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
19 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
20 - added wxArray::SetCount()
21 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
22 by default in Unicode mode
23 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
24 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
25
26 wxBase:
27
28 - added Watcom makefiles
29
30 All GUI ports:
31
32 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
33 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
34 - added wxSplitterWindow handler to XRC
35 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
36 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
37 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
38 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
39 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
40 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
41 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
42 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
43 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
44 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
45 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
46
47 - changed to type-safe wxSizerItemList for wxSizer child items
48 Deprecated:
49 wxSizer::Remove( wxWindow* )
50 - it does not function as Remove would usually be expected to
51 and destroy the window, use Detach instead
52 wxSizer::GetOption(),
53 wxSizer::SetOption()
54 - wxSizer 'option' parameter was renamed 'proportion' to better
55 reflect its action, use Get/SetProportion instead
56 wxKeyEvent::KeyCode()
57 - use GetKeyCode instead
58 wxList:: Number, First, Last, Nth
59 - use typesafe GetCount, GetFirst, GetLast, Item instead
60 wxNode:: Next, Previous, Data
61 - use typesafe Get* instead
62 wxListBase::operator wxList&()
63 - use typesafe lists instead
64
65 Unix:
66
67 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
68 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
69
70 wxGTK:
71
72 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
73 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
74 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
75 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
76 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
77 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
78 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
79 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
80 be appended to filenames with no extension
81
82 wxMSW:
83
84 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
85 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
86 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
87 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
88 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
89 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not workign with wxTR_MULTIPLE
90 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom compiler
91 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
92 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
93 - all libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix
94 (for MinGW and Cygwin)
95
96 wxMotif:
97
98 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
99 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
100 documentation for a detailed explanation
101 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
102 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
103 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
104 with Motif 1.x compatibility
105 - implemented wxToggleButton
106 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
107 instead of a sunken border
108
109 wxUniv:
110
111 - controls in toolbars now supported
112
113 wxHTML:
114
115 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
116
117
118 OLD CHANGES
119 ===========
120
121 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
122 ================================
123
124 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
125 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
126 with '!' in the first column.
127
128 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
129 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
130 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
131 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
132 2.6 release.
133
134 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
135 of wxWindows you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
136 (see the documentation) useful.
137
138
139 wxBase:
140
141 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
142 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
143 code.
144
145 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
146 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
147 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
148 arrays containing non-pointers.
149
150 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
151 simply don't make sense for all objects
152
153 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
154 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
155 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
156
157 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
158
159 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
160 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
161 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
162 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
163 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
164
165 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
166 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
167 the default assert handling.
168
169 All (GUI):
170
171 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
172 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
173 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
174
175 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
176 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
177 instead!
178
179 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
180 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
181 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
182
183 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
184 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
185 you want to get OnChar() as well
186
187 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
188 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
189 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
190
191 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
192 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
193 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
194 will *NOT* work any longer:
195
196 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
197 ... do something ...
198 if ( flags & wxYES )
199 ... do something else ...
200
201 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
202 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
203 the ctor
204
205 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
206
207 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
208 if you derived any classes from it
209
210 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
211 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
212
213 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
214 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
215
216 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
217 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
218
219 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
220 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
221 from happening
222
223 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
224 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
225 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
226
227 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
228 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
229 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
230 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
231
232 wxMSW:
233
234 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
235 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
236 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
237 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
238 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
239 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
240 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
241 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
242 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
243 is only present for the DLLs builds.
244
245 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
246 style to avoid it
247
248 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
249 previously selected one instead of replacing it
250
251 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
252 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
253 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
254
255 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
256 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
257
258
259 Unix ports:
260
261 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
262 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
263 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
264 to compile pure C files.
265
266
267 wxThread and related classes:
268
269 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
270 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
271 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
272 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
273
274 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
275 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
276 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
277 (i.e. absense of race conditions) using the old API.
278
279 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
280 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
281 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
282
283 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
284 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
285
286
287 OTHER CHANGES
288 =============
289
290 2.4.0
291 -----
292
293 wxMSW:
294
295 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
296
297 2.3.4
298 -----
299
300 All:
301
302 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
303 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
304 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
305
306 Unix (Base/GUI):
307
308 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
309 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
310 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
311
312 wxGTK:
313 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
314 - Addition of native frame site grip.
315
316 wxX11:
317 - Unicode support through Pango library.
318
319 wxMSW:
320
321 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
322 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
323
324 wxHTML:
325
326 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
327
328 2.3.3
329 -----
330
331 wxBase:
332
333 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
334 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
335 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
336 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
337 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
338 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri)
339 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
340 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
341 after (non standard) STL hash_map
342 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
343 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
344 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
345 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
346 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
347 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
348 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
349
350 Unix (Base/GUI):
351
352 - wxWindows may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
353 programs and not only GNU make
354 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
355 - wxWindows may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
356 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
357 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
358 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
359
360 All (GUI):
361
362 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
363 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
364 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
365 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
366 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
367 wxWindows dialogs
368 - significantly improved native font support
369 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
370 wxHashTable
371 - added IFF image handler
372 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
373 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
374 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
375 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
376 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
377 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
378 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
379 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
380 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
381 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
382 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
383 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
384 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
385 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
386 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
387 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
388 - wxMessageOutput class added
389 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
390 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
391 table fills up
392 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
393 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
394 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
395 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
396 (Rene Rivera).
397 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
398 whether a label edit was cancelled.
399 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor (use of wxTheFontMapper is now
400 deprecated)
401
402 wxMSW:
403
404 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
405 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
406 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
407 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
408 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
409 - changing wxWindows styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
410 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
411 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
412 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
413 - improvements to wxWindows applications behaviour when the system colours
414 are changed
415 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
416 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
417 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
418 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
419 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
420 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
421 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
422 recursion any more
423 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
424 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
425 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
426 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
427 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
428 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supoprted (simply use "\n" in the label)
429 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
430 has the capture before release it.
431 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
432 - default button handling is now closer to expected
433 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
434 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
435 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
436 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
437 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
438 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
439 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
440 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
441 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
442 provided in wxFontData
443 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
444 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
445
446 wxGTK:
447
448 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
449 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
450 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
451 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
452 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
453 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
454 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
455 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
456 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
457 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
458 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
459 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
460 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
461
462 wxMotif:
463
464 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
465 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
466 - improved toolbar control alignment
467 - implemented wxSpinButton
468 - implemented wxCheckListBox
469 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
470 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
471
472 wxX11:
473
474 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
475 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
476
477 wxMac:
478
479 - Many improvements
480
481 wxOS2:
482
483 - First alpha-quality release
484
485 wxHTML:
486
487 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
488 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
489 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
490 - fixed alignment handling in tables
491 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
492
493 2.3.2
494 -----
495
496 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
497
498 wxBase:
499
500 - wxRegEx class added
501 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
502 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
503 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
504 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
505 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
506
507 All (GUI):
508
509 - support for virtual list control added
510 - column images in report mode of the list control
511 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
512 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
513 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
514 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
515 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
516 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
517 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
518 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
519 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
520 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
521 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
522 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
523
524 wxMSW:
525
526 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
527 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
528 project files
529
530 wxGTK:
531
532 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
533 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
534 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
535 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
536
537 wxMac:
538
539 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
540 Tools
541
542 wxHTML:
543
544 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
545 to tags parsing
546 - added support for animated GIFs
547
548 2.3.1
549 -----
550
551 wxBase:
552
553 - Fixes for gcc 3.0
554 - Fixed new charset detection code
555 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
556 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
557 - Added wxDir::Traverse
558 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
559 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
560 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
561
562 All (GUI):
563
564 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
565 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
566 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
567 push on a custom event handler for example)
568 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
569 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
570 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
571 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
572 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
573 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
574 first-time saved
575 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
576 - Various wxXML enhancements
577 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
578 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
579 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
580 instead of GetId()
581 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
582 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
583
584 wxMSW:
585
586 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
587 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
588 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
589 alt or shift) now work
590 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
591 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
592 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
593 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
594 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
595 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
596 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
597 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
598 - We now send iconize events
599 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
600 - Added mousewheel processing
601 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
602 wxWindows at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
603 in wxDC
604 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
605 child frame styles are honoured
606
607 wxGTK:
608
609 - Fixed slider rounding bug
610 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
611 - We now send iconize events
612 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
613 GetSelection() results
614
615 2.3.0
616 -----
617
618 wxBase:
619
620 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
621 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
622 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
623 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
624 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
625 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
626 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
627 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
628 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
629 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
630
631 All (GUI):
632
633 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
634 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
635 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
636 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
637 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
638 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
639 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
640 wxImage methods and ctor)
641 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
642 - ODBC documentation complete!!
643 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
644 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
645 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
646 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
647
648 wxMSW:
649
650 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
651 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
652 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
653 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
654
655 wxGTK:
656
657 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
658
659 wxHTML:
660
661 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
662 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
663
664 2.2.0
665 -----
666
667 wxBase:
668
669 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
670 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
671 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
672 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
673 - Completed Czech translations
674 - Some stream corrections
675 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
676 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
677 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
678 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
679
680 All (GUI):
681
682 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
683 flicker-free dragging is now possible
684 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
685 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
686 - Paper names now translated
687 - wxGrid fixes
688 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
689 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
690 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
691 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
692 File dialog.
693 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
694 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
695 writing code
696 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
697 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
698 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
699 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
700
701 wxMSW:
702
703 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
704 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
705 backward compatibility, please set
706 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
707 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
708 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
709 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
710 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
711 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
712 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
713 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
714 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
715 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
716 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
717 - wxFrame restores focus better
718 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
719 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
720 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
721 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
722 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
723 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
724 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
725 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
726 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
727 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
728
729 wxGTK:
730
731 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
732
733 wxMotif:
734
735 - Small compilation fixes
736
737 Documentation:
738
739 - wxCaret documented
740
741 2.1.16
742 ------
743
744 wxBase:
745
746 All (GUI):
747
748 wxMSW:
749
750 - Various bug fixes
751 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
752 files. This works under VC++ only
753 - Modal dialog handling improved
754 - Printer dialog now modal
755
756 wxGTK:
757
758 - Various bug fixes
759
760 wxMotif:
761
762 - Various bug fixes
763
764 2.1.15
765 ------
766
767 Documentation:
768
769 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
770
771 File hierarchy:
772
773 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
774 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
775
776 wxBase:
777
778 - wxSocket support
779 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
780 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
781 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
782 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
783 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
784 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
785 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
786 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
787 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
788 only so far)
789 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
790 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
791 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
792 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
793 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
794 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
795 is available)
796 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
797
798 all (GUI):
799
800 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
801 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
802 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
803 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
804 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
805 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
806 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
807 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
808 John Norris)
809 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
810 MIME types if available (Unix only)
811 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
812 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
813 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
814 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
815 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
816 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
817 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
818 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
819 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
820 - wxDragImage class added
821 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
822 controllers, as well as native help
823 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
824
825 wxMSW:
826
827 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
828 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
829 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
830 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
831 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
832 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
833 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
834 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
835 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
836 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
837 Unix ports
838 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
839 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
840 - wxSetCursorEvent added
841
842 wxGTK:
843
844 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
845 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
846 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
847
848 wxMotif:
849
850 - wxMenu::Enable works
851 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
852 - OGL samples made to work again
853
854 wxHTML:
855
856 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
857 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
858 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
859 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
860 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
861 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
862 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
863 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
864 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
865 - improved HTML printing
866 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions (&nbsp; etc.)
867 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
868 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
869 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
870
871
872 NOTE: for changes after wxWindows 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
873 change log.
874
875 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
876 -----------------------
877
878 wxGTK:
879
880 - JPEG support added.
881 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
882
883 wxMSW:
884
885 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
886 SetTabSize added.
887 - JPEG support added.
888 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
889 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
890 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
891
892 wxMotif:
893
894
895 General:
896
897 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
898
899
900 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
901 -------------------------------
902
903 wxGTK:
904
905 - wxGLCanvas fixes.
906 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
907
908 wxMSW:
909
910 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
911 - Fixed window cursor setting.
912 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
913 - Some makefile fixes.
914
915 wxMotif:
916
917 - None.
918
919 General:
920
921 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
922 - More topic overviews.
923 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
924 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
925 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
926
927
928 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
929 --------------------------
930
931 wxGTK:
932
933 - wxExecute improved.
934
935 wxMSW:
936
937 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
938 expected).
939 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
940 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
941 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
942 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
943 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
944 - Fixed focus-related crash.
945
946 wxMotif:
947
948 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
949 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
950
951 General:
952
953 - wxLocale documented.
954 - Added include filenames to class reference.
955 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
956 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
957 (though doesn't display help yet).
958
959 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
960 --------------------------
961
962 wxGTK:
963
964 - Miscellaneous fixes.
965
966 wxMSW:
967
968 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
969 rationalised.
970 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWindows as DLL.
971
972 wxMotif:
973
974 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
975 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
976 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
977 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
978 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
979 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
980 crashes for some reason).
981 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
982 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
983
984 General:
985
986 - Further doc improvements.
987 - wxGenericValidator added.
988 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
989 automatically.
990
991 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
992 -------------------------
993
994 wxGTK:
995
996 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
997 - wxToolTip class added.
998 - Miscellaneous fixes.
999
1000 wxMSW:
1001
1002 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
1003 - Makefiles for more compilers.
1004 - TWIN32 support added.
1005 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
1006 factored out program/library settings.
1007 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
1008
1009 wxMotif:
1010
1011 - A few more colour fixes.
1012 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
1013 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
1014 - wxChoice crash fix.
1015 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
1016
1017 General:
1018
1019 - wxBusyCursor class added.
1020 - Added samples/dde.
1021 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
1022
1023 Beta 2, January 1999
1024 --------------------
1025
1026 wxGTK:
1027
1028 wxMSW:
1029
1030 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
1031
1032 wxMotif:
1033
1034 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
1035 the right place.
1036 - Cured some widget table clashes.
1037 - Added thread support (Robert).
1038 - wxPoem sample now works.
1039
1040 General:
1041
1042 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
1043 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
1044 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
1045 or below).
1046 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
1047 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
1048 sample.
1049 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
1050
1051 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
1052 --------------------------
1053
1054 wxGTK:
1055
1056 - Various
1057
1058 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
1059
1060
1061 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
1062 ----------------------------
1063
1064 wxMSW:
1065
1066 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
1067 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
1068 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
1069 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
1070 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
1071 on a tab.
1072 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
1073 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
1074 of Stefan Csomor.
1075
1076 wxMotif:
1077
1078 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
1079 without (permanently) resizing the window.
1080 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
1081 that disabled scrollbar paging.
1082 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
1083 colours correctly.
1084 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
1085 when any button was pressed.
1086 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
1087 have a white background.
1088 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
1089 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
1090 they have sensible colours by default.
1091 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
1092 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
1093 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
1094 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
1095 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
1096
1097 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
1098 ----------------------------
1099
1100 wxMSW:
1101
1102 - More documentation updates, especially for
1103 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
1104 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
1105 of wxTrace.
1106 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
1107 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
1108 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
1109 position.
1110 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
1111
1112 wxMotif:
1113
1114 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
1115 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
1116 child frames).
1117 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
1118 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
1119 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
1120 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
1121 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
1122 the debugging implementation.
1123 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
1124 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
1125 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
1126 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
1127 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
1128 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
1129 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
1130
1131 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
1132
1133 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
1134 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
1135 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
1136 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
1137 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
1138 - wxNotebook almost done.
1139 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
1140 to vertical toolbars).
1141
1142 More recently:
1143
1144 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
1145 to scrollbars).
1146 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
1147 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
1148 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
1149
1150 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
1151 ----------------------------
1152
1153 wxMSW:
1154
1155 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
1156 sample.
1157 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
1158 - A few more makefiles added.
1159 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
1160 - Further doc updates.
1161 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
1162
1163 wxMotif:
1164
1165 - First start at Motif port.
1166 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
1167 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
1168 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
1169 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
1170
1171 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
1172 --------------------------
1173
1174 wxMSW:
1175
1176 - wxBitmap debugged.
1177 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
1178 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
1179 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
1180 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
1181 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
1182 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
1183 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
1184
1185 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
1186 ------------------------
1187
1188 wxMSW:
1189
1190 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
1191 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
1192 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
1193 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
1194 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
1195 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
1196 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
1197 changes, wxNotebook.
1198 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
1199
1200 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
1201 -----------------------
1202
1203 wxMSW:
1204
1205 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
1206 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
1207 Windows functions, for efficiency.
1208 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
1209 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
1210 don't support it.
1211 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
1212 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
1213
1214 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
1215 -----------------------
1216
1217 wxMSW:
1218
1219 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
1220 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
1221
1222 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
1223 -----------------------
1224
1225 wxMSW:
1226
1227 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
1228 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
1229 wxMenuBar.
1230 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
1231 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
1232 wxMenuItem accessors.
1233 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
1234 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
1235 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
1236 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
1237 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
1238 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
1239 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
1240 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
1241 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
1242 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
1243 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
1244 first, then doing the assignment.
1245 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
1246 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
1247
1248 Generic:
1249
1250 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
1251 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
1252
1253 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
1254 ----------------------
1255
1256 wxMSW:
1257
1258 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
1259 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
1260 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
1261 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
1262 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
1263 require application-supplied positioning code though.
1264 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
1265 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
1266 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
1267
1268 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
1269 ------------------------
1270
1271 wxMSW:
1272
1273 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
1274 fields were used.
1275 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1276 compilation and pragmas.
1277 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
1278 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
1279
1280 Generic:
1281
1282 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
1283 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1284 compilation and pragmas.
1285 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
1286
1287 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
1288 ------------------------
1289
1290 wxMSW:
1291
1292 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
1293 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
1294 some reason :-(
1295 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
1296 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
1297 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
1298 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWindows
1299 startup/exit.
1300 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
1301 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
1302 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
1303 VADIM'S CHANGES:
1304 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
1305 compatibility functions.
1306 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
1307 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
1308 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
1309 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
1310 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
1311 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
1312 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
1313
1314 Generic:
1315
1316 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
1317 - Added samples/png.
1318 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
1319 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
1320 header files.
1321 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
1322
1323 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
1324 ------------------------
1325
1326 wxMSW:
1327
1328 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1329 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
1330 cleaned up properly before exit.
1331 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
1332 automatically.
1333 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
1334 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
1335 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
1336 unresolved issues.
1337 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
1338 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
1339 tray area.
1340 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWindows in the same
1341 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
1342 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
1343 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
1344
1345 Generic:
1346
1347 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1348 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
1349 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
1350 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
1351 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
1352 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
1353 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
1354 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
1355 allow better control of memory.
1356 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
1357 checking.
1358 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
1359 float to long in wxToolBar files.
1360
1361 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
1362 ------------------------
1363
1364 wxMSW:
1365
1366 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
1367 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
1368 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
1369 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
1370 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
1371 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
1372 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
1373 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
1374 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
1375 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
1376 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
1377 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
1378 IUnknown.
1379 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
1380 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
1381 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
1382 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
1383 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
1384 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
1385 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
1386 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
1387 internal implementation.
1388 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
1389 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
1390 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
1391
1392 Generic:
1393
1394 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
1395 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
1396 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
1397 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
1398 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
1399
1400 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
1401 --------------------------
1402
1403 wxMSW:
1404
1405 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1406 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1407 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
1408 changes.
1409 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
1410 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
1411 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
1412 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
1413 again.
1414 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
1415 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
1416 e.g. wxDC.
1417
1418 Generic:
1419
1420 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1421 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1422 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
1423 changes.
1424 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
1425 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
1426 docs/gtk.
1427 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
1428 created dynamically, not as a global object.
1429 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
1430 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
1431 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
1432 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
1433 - Added gcc pragmas.
1434 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
1435 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
1436 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
1437 added a few references to wxTransString.
1438 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
1439 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
1440 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
1441 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
1442 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
1443 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
1444 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
1445 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
1446 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
1447 MoreRequested.
1448
1449 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
1450 --------------------------
1451
1452 All:
1453
1454 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
1455 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
1456 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
1457 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
1458 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
1459 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
1460 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
1461 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
1462 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
1463 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
1464 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
1465 scrolling toolbars.
1466 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
1467 to help printing with multiple pages.
1468 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
1469 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
1470 implementation updated to use these base classes.
1471 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
1472 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
1473 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
1474 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
1475 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
1476 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
1477 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
1478 New files from Vadim:
1479 include\wx\string.h
1480 include\wx\debug.h
1481 include\wx\file.h
1482 include\wx\log.h
1483 include\wx\intl.h
1484 src\common\string.cpp
1485 src\common\log.cpp
1486 src\common\intl.cpp
1487 src\common\file.cpp
1488 No longer use GNU wxString files.
1489 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
1490 src\common\filefn.cpp.
1491 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
1492 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
1493 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
1494 including changes to defs.h.
1495 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
1496 introduced.
1497 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
1498 hidden).
1499 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
1500 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
1501 trick).
1502 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
1503
1504 Alpha 3, September 1997
1505 -----------------------
1506
1507 All:
1508
1509 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
1510 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
1511 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
1512 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
1513 - Started documentation.
1514
1515 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
1516 ------------------------
1517
1518 All:
1519
1520 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
1521 with MetroWerks compiler.
1522 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
1523 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
1524 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
1525 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
1526 for testing purposes.
1527 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
1528 handlers.
1529 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
1530 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
1531 fully).
1532 - Added back wxRadioBox.
1533 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
1534 a separate file.
1535
1536 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
1537 -----------------------
1538
1539 Generic:
1540
1541 At this point, the following has been achieved:
1542
1543 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
1544 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
1545 wxString instead of char *.
1546 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
1547 old system event system) and code size reduced.
1548 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
1549 as wxbWindow now removed.
1550 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
1551 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
1552 - PrologIO revised.
1553 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
1554 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
1555 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
1556 Windows settings.
1557 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
1558 settings mucho rationalised.
1559 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
1560 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
1561 classes removed.
1562 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
1563 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
1564 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
1565 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
1566 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
1567 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
1568 of event handlers.
1569 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
1570 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
1571 wxToolBarBase
1572 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
1573 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95
1574 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
1575 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
1576 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
1577 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
1578 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
1579 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
1580 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
1581 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
1582 in the future.
1583 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
1584 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
1585 variables instead.
1586 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
1587 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
1588 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
1589 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
1590 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
1591 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
1592 Win95.
1593 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
1594 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
1595 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
1596 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
1597 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
1598 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).
1599
1600