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