- no initialization/cleanup can be done in wxApp/~wxApp because they are
now called much earlier/later than before; please move any exiting code
from there to wxApp::OnInit()/OnExit()
+- also, OnExit() is not called if OnInit() fails
+- wxTheApp can't be assigned to any longer, use wxApp::SetInstance() instead
- wxFileType::GetIcon() returns wxIconLocation, not wxIcon
+- wxWindow::Clear() is now called ClearBackground()
DEPRECATED METHODS SINCE 2.4.x
All:
+- It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
+ huge wxWindows library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
+ separately compiled library
- added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
- added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
- use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
- added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
- added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
- wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
+- added wxRecursionGuard class
- added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
wxBase:
- added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
- added alpha channel support to wxImage
+- added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
- added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
- added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
-- wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may b resizeable (Robert Vazan)
+- wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
- added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
- added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
- implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
determine whether a window should receive idle events.
- Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
-- wxMSW and wxGTK now send menu update events only when a menu is
- about to be used.
+- send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
- improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
+- added wxMirrorDC class
+- printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
+ been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
+ report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
+ number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
+ wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
+ correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
+ improved
Unix:
- implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
- support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
+- wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
+ to contrib/src/deprecated
wxGTK: