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-wxWidgets 2.5 Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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+wxWidgets Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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+
+2.6.0
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+
+All:
+
+- wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
+- Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
+ non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
+- Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
+- wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
+
+wxWinCE:
+
+- Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
+
+wxGTK:
+- New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
+ --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
+ --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
+ --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
+ --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
+- wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
+- Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
+
+wxMac:
+- Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
2.5.5
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All:
-- wxURI::GetUser and wxURI::HasUser have been renamed to wxURI::GetUserInfo and wxURI::HasUserInfo respectively so that wxURI::GetUser returns the old username that were in the HTTP specification along with wxURI::GetPassword (Note that if you used wxURI::GetUser from 2.5.3 you should rename all instances of it to wxURI::GetUserInfo).
-- Added
+- wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
+ user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
+- Added wxDebugReport class.
+- Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
+- Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
+- Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
+- Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
+- Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
+- Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
All (GUI):
- Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
- Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
-- Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just
- the client, or the whole virtual area.
+- Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
+ the whole virtual area.
+- Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
+- Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
+ isn't used to set the window size.
+- Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
+- wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
+ splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
+- Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
+
+Unix:
+
+- Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
+- wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
+- fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
+- wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
+- Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
+ handling (Jamie Gadd).
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
+- Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
+- Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
+- Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
+- Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
+- Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
+- GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
+ and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
+
+wxMac:
+
+- Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
wxPalmOS:
-- native wxRadioBox implementation
+- Native wxRadioBox implementation.
+
+wxWinCE:
+- Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
+- Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
+ You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
+- Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
+- Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
+- wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
+ with correct titlebar style.
+- Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
+ PocketPC guidelines
+- Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
+- Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
+- Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
+- Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
+- Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
+- wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
+ to the dialog's toolbar.
2.5.4
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- 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
+- added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works 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)
+- BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
- use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
- wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
- XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
printing stuff in the GTK port.
- Deprecated print setup dialog.
- Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
-- The samples\db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
+- The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
- added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
- wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
- wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
wxSystemSettings::Get*()
-- wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
- the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
+- wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
+ the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
- Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits