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+2.3.3
+-----
+Added wxSplashScreen.
+
+Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
+
+Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
+
+The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
+wxPopupWindow if available so they can extend beyond the client area
+of the STC if needed.
+
+Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
+added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
+be loaded from any Python "file-like" object.
+
+Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
+data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
+convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
+
+Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
+This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
+row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
+spanning.  Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
+Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
+wxFlexGridSizer.
+
+Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
+
+Added wxBufferedDC.
+
+Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla 1.40 to Scintilla 1.45
+
+UNICODE!
+
+    wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
+    disabled.  Previous to wxPython 2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
+    used.  Starting with 2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
+    it is also available in wxWindows on the platform.  Currently
+    wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
+    the recent release of GTK+ 2.0 it is only a matter of time until
+    it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
+
+    Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
+    family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
+    same unicode binaries on win95/98/ME platforms as well!  This is
+    done by using a special library and DLL with the application
+    called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode).  It simply gets out of
+    the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
+    win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
+    versions of the windows API.  So far I have not been able to get
+    this to work perfectly on win9x.  Most things work fine but
+    wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
+    unicode build on win95.
+
+    So how do you use it?  It's very simple.  When unicode is enabled,
+    then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
+    from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
+    parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
+    accept either a Python string or unicode object.  If a string
+    object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
+    converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
+    system encoding.  If you need to use a string in some other
+    encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
+    codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
+    method.
+
+Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
+
+Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
+
+Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
+
+A little black magic...  When the C++ object (for a window or
+whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
+to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it.  This leads to
+crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
+pointer.  The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
+Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
+a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted.  This works
+for any class that is OOR aware.
+
+Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
+wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
+derived classes.
+
+
+
+
+2.3.2.1
+-------
+Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
+well as the Python thread state.  This time it works on SMP machines
+without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
+
+Added some patches from library contributors.
+
+
+
+2.3.2

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 Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
 and a demo to show them in action.
 
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 Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
 and a demo to show them in action.
 

-Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust.
+Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/. )

 
 Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
 
 Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
 
 
 Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
 
 Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
 

+Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
+Rolinsky.
+
+Added a new "constructor" to most of the window classes that calls the
+default C++ contructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
+coresponding Create(...) method.  This allows you to do a 2-step
+creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
+as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
+passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
+resource.  The name of the new "constructor" is the original name of
+the class with a "Pre" in it.  For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
+etc.
+
+Updated to version 1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
+accordingly.  While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
+from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality.  This
+means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
+are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
+wxSTC flag accordingly.
+
+Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
+column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
+using wxColumnSorterMixin.
+
+Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
+
+Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
+
+Added pySketch to the samples.
+
+Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
+are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
+multi-processor machine.
+
+Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
+messages however is wished.  See demo/Main.py for an example.
+
+Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
+
+The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
+wxShape and derived classes.  This means that functions and methods
+that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
+created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
+exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
+original C++ pointer.
+
+Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
+DrawPointList.
+
+Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
+
+Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
+text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
+
+Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
+and from web browsers.  It's still not 100% bullet-proof for all types
+of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
+browsers on Windows.  On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape 4.x works,
+if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
+wx-dev list.
+
+Added wxStopWatch.
+
+Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
+
+Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
+will now Disconnect the event.
+
+Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
+
+Added wxFileHistory.
+
+Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
+by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars.  Added a demo to show
+this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
+same document.
+
+Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
+
+Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
+Feuer.
+
+Added the "SplitTree gizmos" which are a collection of classes that
+were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
+additional columns for each item.  The classes are
+wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
+wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
+also be useful by themselves.
+
+Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
+from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
+wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first.  The
+visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
+SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful.  See
+wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
+details.