-----------------------------
-wxWindows 2.5/2.6 Change Log
-----------------------------
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+wxWidgets 2.5 Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
-INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x
-================================
+2.5.4
+-----
-- wxDocManager::GetNoHistoryFiles() renamed to GetHistoryFilesCount()
+All:
+
+- new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
+- Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
+- wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
+- added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
+- added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
+- changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
+- implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
+- added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that for embedded null chars
+- Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
+- A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
+ SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
+ behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
+- BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey ODonnell)
+- use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
+- wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
+- XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
+- wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
+- wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
+ item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
+
+Unix:
+
+- wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
+- native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
+
+wxMac:
+
+- wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
+- wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
+- wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
+
+wxUniv:
+
+- wxBU_... button align flags support
+- vertical notebook orientation support
+- 3rd state support for checkboxes
+- wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
+
+
+2.5.3
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- support for huge (>2 Gb) files (Tim Kosse)
+- number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
+- fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
+- fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
+- fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
+- support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
+ (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
+- added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
+- basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
+- fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
+- deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
+- active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
+- sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
+- added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
+- added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
+- fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
+- added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
+ of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
+ is discouraged
+- added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
+- added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
+- wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
+- added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
+- added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
+- implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
+- added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
+- added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
+ wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
+- added samples/splash
+- added support for stock buttons
+- added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
+- support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
+- recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
+- added wxChoicebook control
+- smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
+- the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
+- wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
+- it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
+- added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
+- wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
+ supported, instead of zero.
+
+Unix:
+
+- wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
+- security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
+- wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
+ builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
+- wx-config has new --version-full option
+
+wxCocoa:
+
+- added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
+- fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
+- Tooltips now supported
+- wxSound now supported
+- wxDisplay now supported
+- Some stock cursors now supported
+
+wxMac:
+
+- fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
+- added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
+- added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
+- wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
+ configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
+- fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
+- implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
+- implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
+- implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
+- wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
+- added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
+- implemented text underlining under GTK2
+- implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
+- implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
+ in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
+- implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
+ freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
+- wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
+- implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
+- added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
+ icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
+- fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
+
+wxMotif:
+
+- added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
+- set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
+- support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
+- wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
+- restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
+- fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
+- fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
+- fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
+- wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
+- fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
+- don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
+- implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
+- fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
+- fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
+
+wxUniv/X11:
+
+- fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
+
+wxWinCE:
+
+- added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
+- added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
+- added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
+- fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
+
+wxHTML:
+
+- added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
+ than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
+
+
+2.5.2
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
+- Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
+- wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
+ with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
+ of run-time) now
+- when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
+ wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
+ to forward declare these classes.
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
+ resulting in much better display of scaled images
+- Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
+- implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
+- support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
+- The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
+ sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
+ will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
+ window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
+ size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
+ windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
+ min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
+ are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
+- added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
+- it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
+- Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
+ XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
+- wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
+- wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
+ even try to do it by default -- now it does
+- wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
+ won't exit even though there are no top level windows
+- wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
+- wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
+- fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
+- subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
+
+wxMotif:
+
+- removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
+- wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
+ and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
+ motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
+
+wxUniv/X11:
+
+- implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
+
+wxHTML:
+
+- improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
+- <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
+
+Unix:
+
+- fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
+- added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
+
+wxODBC:
+
+- Full Unicode support is now available
+- BLOB support is working
+
+
+2.5.1
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
+- added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
+- wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
+- wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
+- added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
+- added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
+- added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
+- Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
+- added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
+- wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
+- wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
+- check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
+- when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
+ (as in 2.5.0).
+- added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
+ GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
+- changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
+ on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
+- added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
+ wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
+- intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
+ wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
+- added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
+ for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
+ wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
+- renamed wxWave class to wxSound
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
+- added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
+- added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
+- added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
+- wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
+- wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
+- bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
+- status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
+- bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
+- make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
+- wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
+- added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
+- added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
+- wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
+- added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
+- fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
+ when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
+- dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
+- added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
+- wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
+ added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
+- using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
+- added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
+- added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
+- wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
+- added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- wxWidgets now builds under Win64
+- fixed DDE memory leaks
+- fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
+- wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
+- changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
+- wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
+- several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
+- wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
+- make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
+- MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
+- fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
+- added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
+- added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
+- wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
+ should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
+ wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
+- wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
+- added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
+- experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
+- fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
+- accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
+- background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
+- fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
+- Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
+- Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
+ aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
+- Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
+ than the specified default size
+- Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
+- fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
+- fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
+- allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
+- use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
+- fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
+- wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
+- memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
+- don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
+
+wxMac:
+
+- use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
+- implemented handling of mouse wheel
+- fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
+- use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
+
+wxMotif:
+
+- look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
+
+wxHTML:
+
+- wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
+ on Unix (Markus Sinner)
+
+Unix:
+
+- added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
+- implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
+ addition to existing OSS one
+- it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
-OTHER CHANGES
-=============
2.5.0
-----
All:
+- It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
+ huge wxWidgets 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
- wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
- added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
- added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
- added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
- fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
+- chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
+ and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
+- added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
+- 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)
+- Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
+ When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
+ std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
+ implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
+- Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
+ it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
+ both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
wxBase:
All GUI ports:
+- added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
+- added wxListbook control
- 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 be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
- added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
- added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
- implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
- implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
- support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
- added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
+- added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
- fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
- WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
- it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
-- changed to type-safe wxSizerItemList for wxSizer child items
- Deprecated:
- wxSizer::Remove( wxWindow* )
- - it does not function as Remove would usually be expected to
- and destroy the window, use Detach instead
- wxSizer::GetOption(),
- wxSizer::SetOption()
- - wxSizer 'option' parameter was renamed 'proportion' to better
- reflect its action, use Get/SetProportion instead
- wxKeyEvent::KeyCode()
- - use GetKeyCode instead
- wxList:: Number, First, Last, Nth
- - use typesafe GetCount, GetFirst, GetLast, Item instead
- wxNode:: Next, Previous, Data
- - use typesafe Get* instead
- wxListBase::operator wxList&()
- - use typesafe lists instead
-- Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so
- far)
-- FL: rmoved const from EnableTool parameters
+- Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
+- FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
- FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
- In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
default extension for the template
-- Speeded up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
+- sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
- Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
-- Wizard now validates as well as doing data transfer when
- pressing Back or Next
+- wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
- Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
+- Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
+- wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
+- Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
+ to allow better rich text support.
+- implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
+- Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
+- Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
+ custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
+- Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
+- wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
+ user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
+- wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
+ sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
+ DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
+- Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
+ CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
+- Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
+ 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.
+- 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:
- fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
- fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
- added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
+- added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
+- wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
+
+Generic controls:
+
+- implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
+- support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
+- wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
+ to contrib/src/deprecated
wxGTK:
- added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
- fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
be appended to filenames with no extension
-- added SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
+- added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
+- fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
+- fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
+- don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
+
+wxMac:
+
+- generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
+- generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
wxMSW:
- possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
+- added wxCrashReport
- wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
- support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
- wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
- wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
-- fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not workign with wxTR_MULTIPLE
-- fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom compiler
+- fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
+- fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
+- fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
- fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
- fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
-- all libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix
- (for MinGW and Cygwin)
-- When using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported - added
- WXEXPORTDLL
-- A wxEvtHandler object was not removed from wxPendingEvents on deletion.
- wxPendingEventsLocker was being deleted in App before all wxEvtHandler
- objects have been destroyed resulting in stale handler/lock
- ptrs; fixed
-- Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer neccessary
+- added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
+- libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
+- when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
+- fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
+- Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
- wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
-- Improved border handling so it no longer shows a thin and
- sunken border under XP
+- improved border handling under Windows XP
- partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
- wxWindows to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
- Proper XP theme support is planned for 2.6
-- disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles
- if the version of CommCtl doesn't support it (XP)
+ wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
+- disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
+- fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
+- added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
+- you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
wxMotif:
2.6 release.
NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
- of wxWindows you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
+ of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
(see the documentation) useful.
! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
- (i.e. absense of race conditions) using the old API.
+ (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
- wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
- fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
- modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
(if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
-- memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri)
+- memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
- fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
- added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
after (non standard) STL hash_map
Unix (Base/GUI):
-- wxWindows may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
+- wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
programs and not only GNU make
- wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
-- wxWindows may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
+- wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
- fixed thread priority setting under Linux
- implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
- added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
- added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
- wxWindows dialogs
+ wxWidgets dialogs
- significantly improved native font support
- wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
wxHashTable
(Rene Rivera).
- Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
whether a label edit was cancelled.
-- added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor (use of wxTheFontMapper is now
- deprecated)
+- added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
wxMSW:
- fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
- refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
- huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
-- changing wxWindows styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
+- changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
- wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
- fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
- fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
-- improvements to wxWindows applications behaviour when the system colours
+- improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
are changed
- choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
- fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
- wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
- wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
- Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
-- Multiline labels in buttons are now supoprted (simply use "\n" in the label)
+- Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
- Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
has the capture before release it.
- fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
- Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
- Added mousewheel processing
- Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
- wxWindows at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
+ wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
in wxDC
- Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
child frame styles are honoured
fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
-NOTE: for changes after wxWindows 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
+NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
change log.
2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
- Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
rationalised.
-- Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWindows as DLL.
+- Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
wxMotif:
- Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
- Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
- Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
- of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWindows
+ of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
startup/exit.
- Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
- Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
tray area.
-- Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWindows in the same
+- Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
- Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
- Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
- Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
wxToolBarBase
wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
- wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95
+ wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
- Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
- wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now