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2 wxWidgets Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.6.x
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8 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
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11 - For all wxInputStreams, Eof() becomes true after an attempt has been made
12 to read _past_ the end of file.
13 - wxFileName::DirExists() checks if the path of the file is a directory, not
14 if the whole name is a directory
15 - wxDialog::CreateButtonSizer() may return NULL now, please see the manual
16 - wxStaticBoxSizer now deletes the associated wxStaticBox when it is deleted
17 - Windows calling CaptureMouse() are now required to handle the
18 wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event and not call ReleaseMouse() in this case
21 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
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24 - wxFontData::GetColour() now returns a const colour.
25 - wxDC objects can't be created directly now (this never worked, now it doesn't
27 - wxCHECK family of macros now must be followed by a semicolon.
28 - wxMBConv::cMB2WC() and cWC2MB() take size of the input buffer and return
29 length of the converted string in all cases now.
30 - wxHtmlWindow::OnCellClicked() now returns bool.
31 - wxHtmlCell::OnMouseClick() was deprecated and replaced with
32 wxHtmlCell::ProcessMouseClick(); old code overriding OnMouseClick() will
33 continue to work with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6, but should be rewritten to
34 use ProcessMouseClick().
35 - wxHtmlCell::GetCursor() was deprecated and replaced with
36 wxHtmlCell::GetMouseCursor(); old code overriding GetCursor() will
37 continue to work with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6, but should be rewritten to
39 - wxHtmlCell::AdjustPagebreak() signature has changed, update your code if you
41 - wxFontEnumerator::GetFacenames() and GetEncodings() now return arrays and
42 not pointers to arrays.
43 - SetDefaultItem() method was moved from wxPanel to wxTopLevelWindow
44 - wxDialog::OnOK/OnCancel() don't exist any more, use SetAffirmative/EscapeId()
45 - wxPathList doesn't derive from (deprecated) wxStringList any more
46 - wxGLContext class has no 1:1 coupling to a wxGLCanvas class any more.
47 As a consequence, the class interface changed largely.
48 Code updates, if any are required at all, are easy to accomplish though.
51 Deprecated methods since 2.6.x and their replacements
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54 - wxGetWorkingDirectory() deprecated in favour of wxGetCwd().
55 - wxDC::BeginDrawing() and wxDC::EndDrawing() deprecated, just don't use them.
58 Major new features in 2.7 release
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61 - New AUI library supporting docking windows and much more
69 - wxMemoryDC constructor now optionally accepts a wxBitmap parameter,
70 calling SelectObject itself if a valid bitmap is passed.
71 - Reverted wxBuffered[Paint]DC to pre 2.7.1 state, added
72 wxAutoBufferedPaintDC and wxAutoBufferedPaintDCFactory.
81 - Added wxDir::FindFirst() (Francesco Montorsi).
82 - Added wxPlatformInfo class (Francesco Montorsi).
83 - Added wxLocale::IsAvailable() (Creighton).
84 - Added Malay translations (Mahrazi Mohd Kamal)
85 - Added reference counting for wxVariant
86 - For consistency, all classes having Ok() method now also have IsOk() one, use
87 of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't been deprecated yet
88 - Added wxFileName::Is(Dir|File)(Writ|Read|Execut)able() (Francesco Montorsi)
89 - Added wxFileName::GetSize() and GetHumanReadableSize() (Francesco Montorsi)
90 - Added wxSizer::Replace (Francesco Montorsi)
91 - wxXmlDocument can now optionally preserve whitespace (Francesco Montorsi)
92 - Added wxBookCtrl::ChangeSelection() and wxTextCtrl::ChangeValue() to provide
93 event-free alternatives to SetSelection() and SetValue() functions; see the
94 "Events generated by the user vs programmatically generated events" paragraph
95 in the "Event handling overview" topic for more info
99 - Added autopackage for wxGTK and an example of using autopackage for a wx
100 program (Francesco Montorsi)
104 - Support for right-to-left text layout (started by Diaa Sami during Google Summer of
105 Code, with a lot of help from Tim Kosse and others).
106 - wxAnimationCtrl added (Francesco Montorsi)
107 - Added wxAboutBox() function for displaying the standard about dialog
108 - Added wxID_PAGE_SETUP standard id.
109 - Added wxSize::IncBy() and DecBy() methods.
110 - Added wxTextCtrl::IsEmpty()
111 - Added file type parameter to wxTextCtrl::LoadFile, wxTextCtrl::SaveFile for
112 consistency with wxRichTextCtrl.
113 - wxRichTextCtrl: fixed range out-by-one bug to be consistent with wxTextCtrl API,
114 fixed some attribute bugs and added wxRichTextStyleComboCtrl.
115 - Added wxWindow::IsDoubleBuffered()
116 - Added wxHL_ALIGN_* flags to wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi)
117 - Added wxGauge::Pulse() and wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() (Francesco Montorsi)
121 - Implemented wxComboBox::SetEditable().
122 - wxSemaphore::Post() returns wxSEMA_OVERFLOW as documented (Christian Walther)
123 - Fixed a bug whereby static controls didn't use the correct text colour if the
124 parent's background colour had been set (most noticeable when switching to a
125 high-contrast theme).
126 - Respect wxBU_EXACTFIT style in wxToggleButton (Alexander Borovsky)
130 - Add parameter to the --enable-universal_binary configure option for the path
135 - Automatically use stock items for menu items with standard ids.
136 - Setting cursor now works for all controls.
137 - Implemented right-to-left support
138 - Implemented left indentation and tab stops support in wxTextCtrl (Tim Kosse).
139 - Fixed wxHTML rendering of underlined text of multiple words (Mart Raudsepp)
143 - Added wxTLW::UseNativeDecorations() and UseNativeDecorationsByDefault()
151 - Added positional parameters support to wxVsnprintf() (Francesco Montorsi).
152 - wx(F)File, wxTextFile and wxInputStreams recognize Unicode BOM now.
153 - Many fixes for UTF-16/32 handling in Unicode builds.
154 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
155 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
156 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetDocumentsDir() (Ken Thomases).
157 - Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
158 - Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build.
159 - Added possibility to specify dependencies for a wxModule.
160 - Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
161 during a search and replace.
162 - Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
163 are both used in the same program.
164 - Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
165 - wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
166 - Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
167 - Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
168 - Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
169 - Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
170 - wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
171 - Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
172 - Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
173 - Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
174 - Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
175 - Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
176 - wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
177 - Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
178 - Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta).
179 - Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed.
180 - wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert().
181 - Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate().
182 - The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
183 and WXK*PAGEDOWN. If you have switch statements that use both
184 constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
185 versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
186 - Fixed bug where wxDateTime::Now() would sometimes return an incorrect value
187 the first time it was called.
188 - Added wxString::rbegin() and rend().
189 - Added wxString::EndsWith().
190 - wxSocket::_Read continues reading from socket after exhausting pushback buffer.
191 Previously, only the buffer would be returned, even if more data was requested.
192 - Added wxPowerEvent (currently MSW-only).
193 - Make wx-config compatible with Bourne shells.
194 - Fixed wxDb::Open(wxDbConnectInf) when using connection string (Hellwolf Misty).
195 - Fixed crash in wxDb::Open() in Unicode build (Massimiliano Marretta).
196 - Fixed wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative time spans.
197 - Optionally count repeating wxLog messages instead of logging all (Lauri Nurmi).
201 - New AUI (Advanced User Interface) library for docking windows and much more.
202 - Added wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox (Jaakko Salli).
203 - Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
204 - Added wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls (Francesco Montorsi).
205 - Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric().
206 - Added wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
207 - Added clipboard events (wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY/CUT/PASTE).
208 - Allow to reorder wxGrid columns by drag-and-drop (Santiago Palacios).
209 - Added wxRadioBox::SetItemToolTip().
210 - Added support for CMYK JPEG images loading (Robert Wruck).
211 - Added wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() and subitem hit testing (Agron Selimaj).
212 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers().
213 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
214 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
215 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
216 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
217 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
218 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
219 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
220 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
221 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
222 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
223 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
224 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
225 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
226 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
227 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
228 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
229 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
230 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown().
231 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
232 - Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
234 - Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
235 - Added wxGetMouseState function.
236 - Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
237 allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
238 - wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
240 - wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
241 - wxImage::Mirror() and GetSubBitmap() now support alpha (Mickey Rose).
242 - More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
243 - Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
244 - Added ability to use templates with static event tables
245 with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
246 - Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
247 - Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
248 - Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
249 - Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
250 behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
251 - Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
252 - Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
253 - Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
254 - UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
255 - More than one filter allowed in in wxDocTemplate filter.
256 - Added wxListBox::HitTest().
257 - Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
258 - Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
259 - Added support for links to wxHtmlListBox; use code has to override
260 wxHtmlListBox::OnLinkClicked() to take advantage of it.
261 - Added an easier to use wxMenu::AppendSubMenu().
262 - wxString <-> wxColour conversions in wxColour class (Francesco Montorsi).
263 - Fixed bug with ignoring blank lines in multiline wxGrid cell labels.
264 - Added wxTextAttr::Merge() (Marcin Simonides).
265 - Added wxTB_NO_TOOLTIPS style (Igor Korot).
266 - Added wxGenericDirCtrl::CollapsePath() (Christian Buhtz).
267 - Added wxTreeCtrl::ExpandAllChildren() (Christian Buhtz)
268 - Fixed 64-bit issue in wxNotebook causing segfaults on Tru64 Unix.
269 - Made it possible to associate context help to a region of a window.
270 - Added support for tabs in wxRichTextCtrl (Ashish More).
271 - Fixed problem with zoom setting in print preview.
272 - Moved wxRichTextCtrl from the advanced library to its own.
273 - wxNB_HITTEST_* flags renamed to wxBK_HITTEST_* to serve all book controls.
274 - Added wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent and CanSetTransparent, with
275 implementations (so far) for wxMSW and wxMac.
276 - Allow customizing individual grid lines appearance (Søren Lassen).
277 - Fixed middle click events generation in generic wxTreeCtrl (Olly Betts).
278 - Added wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event that must be handled by all windows
279 that CaptureMouse() is called on.
283 - Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
284 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
285 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
286 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
287 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
288 - Removed __WIN95__ define.
289 - Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
290 resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
291 target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
292 - Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
293 wxMSW faq for details).
294 - New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
295 puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
297 - wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
298 - wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
299 - Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
300 columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
301 - Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
303 - Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys.
304 - Fixed GDI leak in wxStaticBitmap when setting images after
305 initial construction.
306 - Menu codes now stripped before measuring control labels.
307 - MFC sample now compiles in Unicode mode.
308 - Fixed SetScrollbar thumb size setting bug (set orientation before triggering
310 - Fixed icon to cursor conversion problem for bitmaps with masks.
311 - Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
312 - wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
313 - Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
314 - Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated.
315 - Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl.
316 - Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
317 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
318 - Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
319 - Fixed out by one error in wxTextCtrl::GetStyle.
320 - Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
321 - Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
322 - Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
323 - Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
324 - wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
325 changes the system font.
326 - wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts).
327 - Fixed wxChoice/wxComboBox slow appending and infinite recursion
328 if its size is set within a paint handler (for example when embedded in a
329 wxHtmlWindow). [Now reverted due to problems in W2K and below.]
330 - wxDC::GetTextExtent() width calculation is more precise for italics fonts now.
331 - Warning fixes for VC++ 5.0 (Igor Korot).
335 - Fixed handling of font encoding in non-Unicode build
336 - wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated.
337 - Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support.
338 - wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK.
339 - Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
341 - Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
342 --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.
343 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
344 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
345 - Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
346 is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
347 previously unable to be focused before.
348 - Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
349 wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox.
350 - Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
352 - Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
353 - Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
354 - Fixed problems with CJK input method.
355 - Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
356 - Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
357 - Support all border styles; wxListBox honours the borders now.
358 - wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow now generate line, page and thumb-release scroll events.
359 - Added file preview support in file dialogs.
360 - Implemented SetLineSize and GetLineSize for wxSlider.
364 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
365 - Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
366 - Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
367 Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
368 - Improved support for help and application menu items.
369 - Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
370 - Added support for 10.4 context menu.
371 - Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
372 - Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
373 - Corrected idle wake-up.
374 - Corrected wxExecute.
375 - Now makes use of full printer resolution.
376 - Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
377 - Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
378 - Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
379 - Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
380 if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
381 - Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
383 - Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
384 - Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
386 - wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
387 specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
388 - Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
389 - Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
390 end of file with an error.
391 - Xcode wxWidgets and minimal sample project files updated to create Universal
393 - Fix for setting wxMenuBar more than once.
394 - wxListBox minimum size bug fixed.
395 - Fixed wxNotebook off-by-one bug in HitTest.
396 - Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
397 - Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
398 - Fixed non-detection of process termination on Intel Macs by
399 polling for process termination in a separate thread.
403 - wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
407 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
408 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
409 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
410 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
411 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
412 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
413 - New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
414 guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
415 - Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
416 - Fixed date formatting and mktime.
417 - Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
418 - Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
419 - Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
420 is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
422 - Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
423 and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
424 - Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
425 - Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
426 - Fixed wxDatePickerCtrl usage.
430 - Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
431 - Implemented wxToggleButton (David Bjorkevik).
432 - Label in Toolbar tools implemented (Danny Raynor).
436 - Invisible text problem fixed.
437 - Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
438 - Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
439 - Implemented child process termination notifications (David Björkevik)
443 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
447 - Fixed NUM_LOCK having no effect.
448 - Fixed wxFileExists (affecting wxImage::LoadFile).
456 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
457 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
458 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
459 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
460 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
461 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
462 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
463 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
464 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
465 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
466 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
467 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
471 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
472 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
473 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
474 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
475 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
476 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
477 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
478 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
479 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
480 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
481 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
482 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
486 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
487 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
488 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
489 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
490 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
491 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
492 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
493 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
494 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
495 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
496 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
497 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
498 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
499 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
500 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
504 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
505 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
506 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
507 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
508 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
509 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
510 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
511 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
512 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
513 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
514 - Fixed domain socket handling.
518 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
519 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
520 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
521 - Various text control bug fixes.
522 - Automatic menu management improved.
523 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
524 due to dangling cycle pointers.
525 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
526 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
531 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
535 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
536 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
540 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
541 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
542 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
543 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
544 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
545 flag has been specified.
546 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
547 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
548 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
553 - Fixed crash on exit.
554 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
558 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
566 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
567 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
571 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
572 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
573 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
574 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
575 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
576 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
577 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
578 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
579 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
580 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
584 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
585 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
586 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
587 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
588 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
589 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
590 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
591 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
592 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
593 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
594 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
595 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
596 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
597 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
598 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
599 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
600 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
601 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
602 - Compiles again with WIN64.
603 - Winelib compilation now works.
604 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
605 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
606 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
607 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
608 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
609 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
610 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
611 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
612 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
613 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
614 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
615 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
616 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
620 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
624 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
625 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
626 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
627 - Added bitmap support in menus.
631 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
632 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
633 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
635 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
636 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
637 - Window menu now added automatically.
638 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
639 - Modified function key support fixed.
640 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
644 - Menu problems fixed.
645 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
646 - Fixed a font memory leak.
647 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
655 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
656 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
660 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
661 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
665 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
666 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
667 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
671 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
674 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
675 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
676 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
677 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
678 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
679 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
680 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
683 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
690 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
691 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
692 - Added wxDebugReport class.
693 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
694 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
695 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
696 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
697 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
698 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
702 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
703 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
704 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
705 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
706 the whole virtual area.
707 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
708 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
709 isn't used to set the window size.
710 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
711 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
712 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
713 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
717 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
721 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
722 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
723 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
724 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
725 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
726 handling (Jamie Gadd).
730 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
731 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
732 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
733 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
734 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
735 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
736 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
737 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
741 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
745 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
749 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
750 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
751 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
752 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
753 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
754 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
755 with correct titlebar style.
756 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
758 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
759 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
760 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
761 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
762 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
763 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
764 to the dialog's toolbar.
771 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
772 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
773 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
774 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
775 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
776 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
777 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
778 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
779 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
780 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
781 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
782 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
783 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
784 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
785 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
786 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
787 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
788 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
789 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
790 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
791 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
792 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
793 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
794 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
795 printing stuff in the GTK port.
796 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
797 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
798 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
799 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
800 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
801 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
802 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
803 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
804 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
805 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
806 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
807 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
808 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
809 due to a rounding error.
810 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
811 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
812 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
813 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
814 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
815 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
816 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
817 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
823 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
824 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
825 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
826 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
827 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
828 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
829 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
830 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
831 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
832 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
833 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
834 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
835 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
836 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
837 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
838 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
839 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
843 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
847 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
848 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
849 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
850 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
851 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
852 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
853 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
854 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
855 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
856 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
857 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
858 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
859 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
861 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
862 - Added wxRawBitmap support
863 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
864 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
865 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
869 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
870 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
871 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
872 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
876 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
877 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
878 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
879 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
880 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
883 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
884 but not mentioned anywhere.
885 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
889 - wxBU_... button align flags support
890 - vertical notebook orientation support
891 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
892 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
896 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
897 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
898 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
899 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
900 - enumeration of available volumes
901 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
902 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
903 - native wxColourDialog implementation
904 - native wxSystemSettings colours
905 - native wxButton implementation
906 - native wxCheckBox implementation
907 - native wxSlider implementation
908 - native wxToggleButton implementation
909 - native wxRadioButton implementation
910 - native wxStaticText implementation
911 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
919 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
920 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
921 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
922 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
923 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
924 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
925 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
926 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
927 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
928 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
929 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
930 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
931 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
932 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
933 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
934 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
938 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
939 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
940 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
942 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
943 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
944 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
945 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
946 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
947 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
948 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
949 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
950 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
951 - added samples/splash
952 - added support for stock buttons
953 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
954 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
955 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
956 - added wxChoicebook control
957 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
958 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
959 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
960 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
961 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
962 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
963 supported, instead of zero.
964 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
968 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
969 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
970 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
971 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
972 - wx-config has new --version-full option
976 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
977 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
978 - Tooltips now supported
979 - wxSound now supported
980 - wxDisplay now supported
981 - Some stock cursors now supported
985 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
986 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
987 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
988 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
992 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
993 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
994 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
995 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
996 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
997 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
998 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
999 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
1000 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
1001 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
1002 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
1003 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
1004 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
1005 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
1006 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
1007 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
1008 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
1009 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
1010 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
1014 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
1018 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
1019 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
1020 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
1021 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
1022 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
1023 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
1024 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
1025 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
1026 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
1027 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
1028 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
1029 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1030 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
1031 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
1035 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
1039 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
1040 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
1041 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
1042 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
1046 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
1047 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
1055 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
1056 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
1057 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
1058 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
1060 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
1061 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
1062 to forward declare these classes.
1066 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
1067 resulting in much better display of scaled images
1068 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
1069 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
1070 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
1071 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
1072 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
1073 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
1074 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
1075 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
1076 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
1077 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
1078 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
1079 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
1080 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
1084 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
1085 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
1086 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
1087 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
1088 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
1089 even try to do it by default -- now it does
1090 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
1091 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
1092 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
1093 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
1094 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
1095 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
1099 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
1103 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
1104 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
1105 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
1106 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
1110 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
1114 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
1115 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
1119 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
1120 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
1124 - Full Unicode support is now available
1125 - BLOB support is working
1133 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
1134 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
1135 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
1136 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
1137 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
1138 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
1139 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
1140 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
1141 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
1142 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
1143 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
1144 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
1145 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
1147 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
1148 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1149 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
1150 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
1151 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
1152 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1153 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
1154 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
1155 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
1156 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
1157 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
1158 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
1162 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1163 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
1164 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
1165 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
1166 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
1167 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
1168 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
1169 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
1170 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
1171 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
1172 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
1173 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
1174 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
1175 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
1176 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
1177 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
1178 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
1179 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1180 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
1181 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
1182 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
1183 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
1184 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
1185 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
1186 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
1187 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
1191 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
1192 - fixed DDE memory leaks
1193 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
1194 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
1195 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
1196 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
1197 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
1198 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
1199 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1200 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
1201 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
1202 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
1203 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
1204 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
1205 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
1206 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
1207 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
1208 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
1209 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1210 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
1211 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
1212 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
1213 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
1214 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
1215 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
1216 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
1217 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
1218 than the specified default size
1219 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
1223 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
1224 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
1225 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
1226 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
1227 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1228 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
1229 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
1230 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
1231 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
1235 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1236 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
1237 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
1238 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
1242 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
1246 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
1247 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
1251 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
1252 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
1253 addition to existing OSS one
1254 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
1262 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
1263 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
1264 separately compiled library
1265 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
1266 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1267 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
1268 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
1269 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
1270 - added wxArray::SetCount()
1271 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
1272 by default in Unicode mode
1273 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
1274 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
1275 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
1276 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
1277 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
1278 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
1279 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
1280 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
1281 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
1282 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
1283 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
1284 - added wxRecursionGuard class
1285 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
1286 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
1287 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
1288 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
1289 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
1290 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
1291 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
1292 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
1296 - added Watcom makefiles
1297 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
1301 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
1302 - added wxListbook control
1303 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
1304 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
1305 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
1306 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
1307 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
1308 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
1309 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
1310 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
1311 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
1312 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
1313 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
1314 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
1315 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
1316 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
1317 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
1318 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
1319 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
1320 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1321 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
1322 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
1323 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
1324 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
1325 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
1326 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
1327 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
1328 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
1329 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
1330 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
1331 default extension for the template
1332 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
1333 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
1334 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
1335 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
1336 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
1337 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
1338 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
1339 to allow better rich text support.
1340 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
1341 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
1342 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
1343 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
1344 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
1345 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
1346 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
1347 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
1348 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
1349 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
1350 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
1351 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
1352 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
1353 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
1354 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
1355 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
1356 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
1357 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
1358 - added wxMirrorDC class
1359 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
1360 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
1361 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
1362 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
1363 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
1364 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
1369 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
1370 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
1371 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
1372 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
1373 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
1377 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
1378 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
1379 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
1380 to contrib/src/deprecated
1384 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
1385 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
1386 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
1387 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
1388 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
1389 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
1390 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
1391 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
1392 be appended to filenames with no extension
1393 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
1394 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
1395 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
1396 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
1400 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
1401 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1405 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
1406 - added wxCrashReport
1407 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
1408 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
1409 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
1410 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
1411 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
1412 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
1413 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
1414 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
1415 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
1416 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
1417 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
1418 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
1419 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
1420 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
1421 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
1422 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
1423 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
1424 - improved border handling under Windows XP
1425 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
1426 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
1427 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
1428 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
1429 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
1430 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
1431 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
1435 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
1436 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
1437 documentation for a detailed explanation
1438 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
1439 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
1440 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
1441 with Motif 1.x compatibility
1442 - implemented wxToggleButton
1443 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
1444 instead of a sunken border
1445 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
1446 - finished wxClipboard implementation
1450 - controls in toolbars now supported
1454 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
1455 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
1456 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
1457 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
1458 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
1464 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
1465 ================================
1467 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
1468 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
1469 with '!' in the first column.
1471 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
1472 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
1473 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
1474 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
1477 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
1478 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
1479 (see the documentation) useful.
1484 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
1485 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
1488 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
1489 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
1490 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
1491 arrays containing non-pointers.
1493 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
1494 simply don't make sense for all objects
1496 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
1497 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
1498 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
1500 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
1502 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
1503 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
1504 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
1505 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
1506 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
1508 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
1509 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
1510 the default assert handling.
1514 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
1515 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
1516 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
1518 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
1519 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
1522 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
1523 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
1524 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
1526 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
1527 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
1528 you want to get OnChar() as well
1530 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
1531 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
1532 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
1534 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
1535 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
1536 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
1537 will *NOT* work any longer:
1539 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
1540 ... do something ...
1541 if ( flags & wxYES )
1542 ... do something else ...
1544 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
1545 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
1548 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
1550 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
1551 if you derived any classes from it
1553 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
1554 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
1556 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
1557 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
1559 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
1560 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
1562 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
1563 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
1566 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
1567 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
1568 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
1570 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
1571 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
1572 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
1573 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
1577 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
1578 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
1579 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
1580 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
1581 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
1582 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
1583 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
1584 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
1585 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
1586 is only present for the DLLs builds.
1588 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
1591 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
1592 previously selected one instead of replacing it
1594 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
1595 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
1596 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
1598 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
1599 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
1604 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
1605 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
1606 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
1607 to compile pure C files.
1610 wxThread and related classes:
1612 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
1613 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
1614 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
1615 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
1617 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
1618 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
1619 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
1620 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
1622 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
1623 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
1624 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
1626 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
1627 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
1638 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
1645 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
1646 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
1647 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
1651 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
1652 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
1653 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
1656 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
1657 - Addition of native frame site grip.
1660 - Unicode support through Pango library.
1664 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
1665 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
1669 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
1676 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
1677 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
1678 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
1679 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
1680 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
1681 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1682 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
1683 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
1684 after (non standard) STL hash_map
1685 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
1686 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
1687 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
1688 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
1689 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
1690 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
1691 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
1695 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
1696 programs and not only GNU make
1697 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
1698 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
1699 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
1700 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
1701 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
1705 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
1706 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
1707 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
1708 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
1709 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
1711 - significantly improved native font support
1712 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
1714 - added IFF image handler
1715 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
1716 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
1717 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
1718 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1719 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
1720 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
1721 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1722 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
1723 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
1724 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
1725 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
1726 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
1727 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
1728 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1729 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
1730 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
1731 - wxMessageOutput class added
1732 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
1733 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
1735 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
1736 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
1737 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
1738 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
1740 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
1741 whether a label edit was cancelled.
1742 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
1746 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
1747 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
1748 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
1749 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
1750 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
1751 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
1752 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
1753 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
1754 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
1755 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
1757 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
1758 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
1759 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
1760 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
1761 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
1762 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
1763 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
1765 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
1766 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
1767 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
1768 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
1769 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
1770 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
1771 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
1772 has the capture before release it.
1773 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
1774 - default button handling is now closer to expected
1775 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
1776 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
1777 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
1778 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
1779 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
1780 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
1781 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
1782 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
1783 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
1784 provided in wxFontData
1785 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
1786 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
1790 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
1791 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
1792 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
1793 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
1794 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
1795 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
1796 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
1797 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
1798 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
1799 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
1800 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
1801 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
1802 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
1806 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
1807 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
1808 - improved toolbar control alignment
1809 - implemented wxSpinButton
1810 - implemented wxCheckListBox
1811 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
1812 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
1816 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
1817 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
1825 - First alpha-quality release
1829 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1830 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1831 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1832 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1833 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1838 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1842 - wxRegEx class added
1843 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1844 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1845 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1846 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1847 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1851 - support for virtual list control added
1852 - column images in report mode of the list control
1853 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1854 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1855 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1856 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1857 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1858 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1859 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1860 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1861 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1862 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1863 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1864 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1868 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1869 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1874 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1875 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1876 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1877 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1881 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1886 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1888 - added support for animated GIFs
1896 - Fixed new charset detection code
1897 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
1898 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
1899 - Added wxDir::Traverse
1900 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
1901 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
1902 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
1906 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
1907 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
1908 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
1909 push on a custom event handler for example)
1910 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1911 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
1912 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
1913 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
1914 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
1915 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
1917 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
1918 - Various wxXML enhancements
1919 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
1920 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
1921 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
1923 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
1924 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
1928 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
1929 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
1930 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
1931 alt or shift) now work
1932 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
1933 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
1934 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
1935 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
1936 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
1937 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
1938 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
1939 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
1940 - We now send iconize events
1941 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
1942 - Added mousewheel processing
1943 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
1944 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
1946 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
1947 child frame styles are honoured
1951 - Fixed slider rounding bug
1952 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
1953 - We now send iconize events
1954 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
1955 GetSelection() results
1962 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
1963 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
1964 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
1965 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
1966 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1967 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
1968 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
1969 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
1970 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
1971 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
1975 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
1976 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
1977 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
1978 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
1979 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
1980 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
1981 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
1982 wxImage methods and ctor)
1983 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
1984 - ODBC documentation complete!!
1985 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
1986 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
1987 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
1988 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
1992 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1993 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1994 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1995 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1999 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
2003 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
2004 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
2011 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
2012 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
2013 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
2014 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
2015 - Completed Czech translations
2016 - Some stream corrections
2017 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
2018 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
2019 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
2020 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
2024 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
2025 flicker-free dragging is now possible
2026 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
2027 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
2028 - Paper names now translated
2030 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
2031 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
2032 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
2033 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
2035 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
2036 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
2038 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
2039 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
2040 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
2041 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
2045 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
2046 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
2047 backward compatibility, please set
2048 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
2049 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
2050 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
2051 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
2052 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
2053 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
2054 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
2055 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
2056 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
2057 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
2058 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
2059 - wxFrame restores focus better
2060 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
2061 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
2062 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
2063 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
2064 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
2065 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
2066 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
2067 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
2068 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
2069 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
2073 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
2077 - Small compilation fixes
2081 - wxCaret documented
2093 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
2094 files. This works under VC++ only
2095 - Modal dialog handling improved
2096 - Printer dialog now modal
2111 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
2115 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
2116 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
2121 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
2122 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
2123 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
2124 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
2125 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
2126 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
2127 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
2128 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
2129 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
2131 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
2132 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
2133 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
2134 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
2135 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
2136 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
2138 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
2142 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
2143 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
2144 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
2145 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
2146 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
2147 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
2148 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
2149 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
2151 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
2152 MIME types if available (Unix only)
2153 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
2154 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
2155 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
2156 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
2157 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
2158 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
2159 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
2160 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
2161 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
2162 - wxDragImage class added
2163 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
2164 controllers, as well as native help
2165 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
2169 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
2170 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
2171 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
2172 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
2173 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
2174 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
2175 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
2176 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
2177 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
2178 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
2180 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
2181 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
2182 - wxSetCursorEvent added
2186 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
2187 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
2188 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
2192 - wxMenu::Enable works
2193 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
2194 - OGL samples made to work again
2198 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
2199 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
2200 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
2201 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
2202 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
2203 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
2204 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
2205 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
2206 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
2207 - improved HTML printing
2208 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
2209 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
2210 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
2211 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
2214 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
2217 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
2218 -----------------------
2222 - JPEG support added.
2223 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
2227 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
2229 - JPEG support added.
2230 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
2231 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
2232 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
2239 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
2242 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
2243 -------------------------------
2248 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
2252 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
2253 - Fixed window cursor setting.
2254 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
2255 - Some makefile fixes.
2263 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
2264 - More topic overviews.
2265 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
2266 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
2267 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
2270 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
2271 --------------------------
2275 - wxExecute improved.
2279 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
2281 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
2282 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
2283 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
2284 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
2285 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
2286 - Fixed focus-related crash.
2290 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
2291 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
2295 - wxLocale documented.
2296 - Added include filenames to class reference.
2297 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
2298 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
2299 (though doesn't display help yet).
2301 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
2302 --------------------------
2306 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2310 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
2312 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
2316 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
2317 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
2318 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
2319 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
2320 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
2321 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
2322 crashes for some reason).
2323 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
2324 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
2328 - Further doc improvements.
2329 - wxGenericValidator added.
2330 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
2333 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
2334 -------------------------
2338 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
2339 - wxToolTip class added.
2340 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2344 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
2345 - Makefiles for more compilers.
2346 - TWIN32 support added.
2347 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
2348 factored out program/library settings.
2349 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
2353 - A few more colour fixes.
2354 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
2355 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
2356 - wxChoice crash fix.
2357 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
2361 - wxBusyCursor class added.
2362 - Added samples/dde.
2363 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
2365 Beta 2, January 1999
2366 --------------------
2372 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
2376 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
2378 - Cured some widget table clashes.
2379 - Added thread support (Robert).
2380 - wxPoem sample now works.
2384 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
2385 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
2386 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
2388 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
2389 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
2391 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
2393 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
2394 --------------------------
2400 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
2403 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
2404 ----------------------------
2408 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
2409 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
2410 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
2411 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
2412 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
2414 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
2415 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
2420 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
2421 without (permanently) resizing the window.
2422 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
2423 that disabled scrollbar paging.
2424 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
2426 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
2427 when any button was pressed.
2428 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
2429 have a white background.
2430 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
2431 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
2432 they have sensible colours by default.
2433 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
2434 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
2435 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
2436 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
2437 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
2439 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
2440 ----------------------------
2444 - More documentation updates, especially for
2445 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
2446 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
2448 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
2449 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
2450 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
2452 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
2456 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
2457 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
2459 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
2460 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
2461 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
2462 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
2463 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
2464 the debugging implementation.
2465 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
2466 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
2467 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
2468 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
2469 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
2470 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
2471 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
2473 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
2475 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
2476 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
2477 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
2478 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
2479 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
2480 - wxNotebook almost done.
2481 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
2482 to vertical toolbars).
2486 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
2488 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
2489 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
2490 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
2492 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
2493 ----------------------------
2497 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
2499 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
2500 - A few more makefiles added.
2501 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
2502 - Further doc updates.
2503 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
2507 - First start at Motif port.
2508 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
2509 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
2510 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
2511 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
2513 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
2514 --------------------------
2518 - wxBitmap debugged.
2519 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
2520 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
2521 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
2522 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
2523 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
2524 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
2525 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
2527 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
2528 ------------------------
2532 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
2533 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
2534 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
2535 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
2536 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
2537 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
2538 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
2539 changes, wxNotebook.
2540 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
2542 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
2543 -----------------------
2547 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
2548 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
2549 Windows functions, for efficiency.
2550 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
2551 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
2553 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
2554 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
2556 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
2557 -----------------------
2561 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
2562 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
2564 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
2565 -----------------------
2569 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
2570 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
2572 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
2573 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
2574 wxMenuItem accessors.
2575 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
2576 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
2577 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
2578 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
2579 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
2580 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
2581 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
2582 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
2583 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
2584 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
2585 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
2586 first, then doing the assignment.
2587 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
2588 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
2592 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
2593 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
2595 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
2596 ----------------------
2600 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
2601 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
2602 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
2603 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
2604 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
2605 require application-supplied positioning code though.
2606 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
2607 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
2608 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
2610 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
2611 ------------------------
2615 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
2617 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2618 compilation and pragmas.
2619 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
2620 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
2624 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
2625 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2626 compilation and pragmas.
2627 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
2629 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
2630 ------------------------
2634 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
2635 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
2637 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
2638 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
2639 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
2640 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
2642 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
2643 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
2644 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
2646 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
2647 compatibility functions.
2648 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
2649 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
2650 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
2651 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
2652 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
2653 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
2654 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
2658 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
2659 - Added samples/png.
2660 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
2661 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
2663 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
2665 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
2666 ------------------------
2670 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2671 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
2672 cleaned up properly before exit.
2673 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
2675 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
2676 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
2677 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
2679 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
2680 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
2682 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
2683 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
2684 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
2685 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
2689 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2690 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
2691 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
2692 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
2693 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
2694 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
2695 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
2696 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
2697 allow better control of memory.
2698 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
2700 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
2701 float to long in wxToolBar files.
2703 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
2704 ------------------------
2708 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
2709 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
2710 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
2711 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
2712 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
2713 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
2714 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
2715 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
2716 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
2717 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
2718 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
2719 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
2721 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
2722 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
2723 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
2724 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
2725 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
2726 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
2727 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
2728 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
2729 internal implementation.
2730 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
2731 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
2732 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
2736 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
2737 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
2738 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
2739 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
2740 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
2742 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
2743 --------------------------
2747 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2748 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2749 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
2751 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
2752 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
2753 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
2754 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
2756 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
2757 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
2762 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2763 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2764 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
2766 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
2767 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
2769 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
2770 created dynamically, not as a global object.
2771 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
2772 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
2773 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
2774 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
2775 - Added gcc pragmas.
2776 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
2777 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
2778 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
2779 added a few references to wxTransString.
2780 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
2781 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
2782 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
2783 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
2784 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
2785 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
2786 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
2787 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
2788 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
2791 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
2792 --------------------------
2796 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
2797 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
2798 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
2799 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
2800 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
2801 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
2802 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
2803 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
2804 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
2805 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
2806 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
2808 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
2809 to help printing with multiple pages.
2810 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
2811 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
2812 implementation updated to use these base classes.
2813 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
2814 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
2815 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
2816 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
2817 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
2818 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
2819 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
2820 New files from Vadim:
2826 src\common\string.cpp
2830 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2831 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2832 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2833 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2834 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2835 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2836 including changes to defs.h.
2837 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2839 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2841 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2842 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2844 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2846 Alpha 3, September 1997
2847 -----------------------
2851 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2852 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2853 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2854 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2855 - Started documentation.
2857 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2858 ------------------------
2862 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2863 with MetroWerks compiler.
2864 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2865 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2866 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2867 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2868 for testing purposes.
2869 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2871 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2872 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2874 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2875 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2878 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2879 -----------------------
2883 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2885 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2886 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2887 wxString instead of char *.
2888 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2889 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2890 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
2891 as wxbWindow now removed.
2892 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
2893 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
2895 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
2896 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
2897 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
2899 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
2900 settings mucho rationalised.
2901 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
2902 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
2904 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
2905 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
2906 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
2907 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
2908 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
2909 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
2911 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
2912 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
2914 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
2915 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
2916 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
2917 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
2918 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
2919 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
2920 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
2921 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
2922 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
2923 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
2925 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
2926 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
2928 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
2929 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
2930 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
2931 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
2932 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
2933 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
2935 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
2936 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
2937 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
2938 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
2939 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
2940 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).