to work with "wxChar *" before use "void *" now (some int parameters were
also changed to size_t). While wxIPC_TEXT can still be used to transfer 7
bit text, the new wxIPC_UTF8TEXT format is used for transferring wxStrings.
+ Also notice that connection classes should change the parameter types of
+ their overridden OnExecute() or override a more convenient OnExec() instead.
-wxODBC library removal
-----------------------
+wxODBC and contrib libraries removal
+------------------------------------
wxODBC library was unmaintained since several years and we couldn't continue
supporting it any longer so it was removed. Please use any of the other open
source ODBC libraries in the future projects.
+Also the "applet", "deprecated", "fl", "mmedia" and "plot" contrib libraries
+were removed as they were unmaintained and broken since several years.
+The "gizmos", "ogl", "net" and "foldbar" contribs have been moved to
+wxCode (see http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/complist.php); they are now
+open for futher development by volunteers.
+
+The "stc" and "svg" contribs instead have been moved respectively into a new
+"official" library stc and in the core lib.
+
Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
sizes of the sizer items to be in the same proportion as the items
proportions to return to the old behaviour.
+- wxWindow::Freeze/Thaw() are not virtual any more, if you overrode them in
+ your code you need to override DoFreeze/Thaw() instead now.
+
+- wxCalendarCtrl has native implementation in wxGTK, but it has less features
+ than the generic one. The native implementation is used by default, but you
+ can still use wxGenericCalendarCtrl instead of wxCalendarCtrl in your code if
+ you need the extra features.
+
+
Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
-----------------------------------------------------------
- Removed global GetLine() function from wx/protocol/protocol.h, use
wxProtocol::ReadLine() instead.
-
+
- wxVariant no longer derives from wxObject. wxVariantData also no longer
derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you
can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments.
- wxXmlProperty class was renamed to wxXmlAttribute in order to use standard
terminology. Corresponding wxXmlNode methods were renamed to use
"Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names.
+- wxConnection::OnExecute() is not formally deprecated yet but new code should
+ use simpler OnExec() version which is called with wxString argument
+- wxMenuItem::GetLabel has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabelText
+- wxMenuItem::GetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabel
+- wxMenuItem::GetLabelFromText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetLabelText
+- wxMenuItem::SetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::SetItemLabel
+- wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen ctor now take
+ respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a plain "int style";
+ use the new wxBrush/wxPen style names (wxBRUSHSTYLE_XXX and wxPENSTYLE_XXX) instead
+ of the old deprecated wxXXX styles (which however are still available).
+- EVT_CALENDAR_DAY event has been deprecated, use EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED.
+- EVT_CALENDAR_MONTH and EVT_CALENDAR_YEAR events are deprecated,
+ use EVT_CALENDAR_PAGE_CHANGED which replaces both of them.
+- wxCalendarCtrl::EnableYearChange() and wxCAL_NO_YEAR_CHANGE are deprecated.
+
Major new features in this release
All:
- Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen)
+- Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski)
+- Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it
- Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe)
- Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
- Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)
- Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr).
+- Added numeric options support to wxCmdLineParser (crjjrc)
- Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi).
+- Added wxDateTime::FormatISOCombined() and ParseISODate/Time/Combined()
- Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
- Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
- Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
Linnakangas).
- wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared,
if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented.
+- Added wxWeakRef<T>, wxScopedPtr<T>, wxSharedPtr<T> class templates
+- Added wxVector<T> class templates
+- Added wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_SET() and wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_NULL() to wx/scopeguard.h.
+- Added wxEvtHandler::QueueEvent() replacing AddPendingEvent() and
+ wxQueueEvent() replacing wxPostEvent().
+- wxString now uses std::[w]string internally by default, meaning that it is
+ now thread-safe if the standard library provided with your compiler is.
All (Unix):
All (GUI):
+- Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes
+- Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK
- Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames()
- Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
- Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications
- Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect()
+- Added wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson)
+- Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski)
+- Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows
+- Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)
- Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron).
- Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse).
- Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron).
behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions.
- Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table
to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance.
-- Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren(). (Szczepan Holyszewski)
+- Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren()
+ (Szczepan Holyszewski).
- Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
-- Added support for automatic dialog scrolling, via the new wxDialogLayoutAdapter
- class and various new wxDialog functions. See the topic "Automatic Scrolling
- Dialogs" in the manual for further details.
+- Added support for automatic dialog scrolling, via the new
+ wxDialogLayoutAdapter class and various new wxDialog functions. See the
+ topic "Automatic Scrolling Dialogs" in the manual for further details.
- Added support for resizing wxWizard bitmaps to the current page height,
via SetBitmapPlacement, SetBitmapBackgroundColour and SetMinimumBitmapWidth.
Also made it easier to derive from wxWizard and override behaviour.
+- Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window
+- Add support for wxDatePickerCtrl in wxGenericValidator (Herry Ayen Yang)
+- Added wxWindow::HasFocus().
+- Added wxGLCanvas::IsDisplaySupported().
+- Added wxApp::SetNativeTheme() (Stefan H.).
+- Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
+- Freeze() and Thaw() now recursively freeze/thaw the children too.
+- Generalized wxScrolledWindow into wxScrolled<T> template that can derive
+ from any window class, not just wxPanel.
+- Allow having menu separators with ids != wxID_SEPARATOR (Jeff Tupper)
wxGTK:
- Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse).
- Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff).
- Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option.
+- Added support for GTK+ print backend
wxMac:
- Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox).
- Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz).
- Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale
+- Added native wxCollapsiblePane
wxMSW:
- Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
- Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it
- Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk)
+- Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron)
wxX11:
- Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling()
- Improve wximage::ResampleBox() (Mihai Ciocarlie)
- Implemented ScrollList() in generic wxListCtrl (Tim Kosse)
+- Fixed wxXmlResource::GetText() to convert data to current locale's
+ charset in ANSI build.
wxMSW:
- Fix rare bug with messages delivered to wrong wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
+- Fix setting icons when they have non-default (16*16 and 32*32) sizes
+- Fixed wxLocale::GetInfo to use the C locale.
+- Don't enable disabled windows when showing them (Harry McKame).
+- Fix assert when using owner-drawn menu items with the newest (Vista) SDK
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Return false from wxEventLoop::Dispatch() if gtk_main_quit() was called and
+ so the loop should exit (Rodolfo Schulz de Lima)
2.8.7
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