Recent Changes for wxPython
=====================================================================
-2.5.5.0
+
+2.6.0.1
+-------
+
+Added wx.BrushFromBitmap to create a stippled brush in a single step.
+Also added missing brysh style flags: wx.STIPPLE_MASK
+wx.STIPPLE_MASK_OPAQUE.
+
+wxMSW: Fix for default control colours when the system text fg colour
+is not black.
+
+wxGTK: Patch #1171754, It is now possible to have a menu item that
+both has an icon and is a submenu.
+
+wxMSW: Patch #1197009, better refreshes when windows are moved and
+resized.
+
+wxMSW: Patch #1197468. Keeps track of pending size/position changes
+in case there is more than one adjustment for a window in a single
+DeferWindowPos set, then the pending values can be used for defaults
+instead of current values.
+
+Fixed the typemap that converts a Python list of strings to a
+wxArrayString so it uses the wxPython default encoding.
+
+Several docstrings added and updated. Lots more to go.
+
+wxMac: Strings added to the clipboard or used in DnD no longer have an
+extra null character at the end.
+
+Added wx.GetXDisplay that returns a raw swigified pointer for the X11
+Display, or None for the non-X11 platforms.
+
+wxMenu: Don't send an event when selecting an already selected radio
+item.
+
+Added wx.LaunchDefaultBrowser.
+
+wxMSW: Fixed erroneous selection of content in wx.ComboBox when within
+a wx.StaticBox.
+
+wxMSW: Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
+
+Ensure that Python is still in an initialized state before doing any
+locking or unlocking in wxPyBeginBlockThreads and wxPyEndBlockThreads
+as these can be triggered after Python has been finalized in embedding
+situations.
+
+Added alternate constructors for wx.Font: wx.FontFromPixelSize,
+wx.FFont, wx.FFontFromPixelSize. See the docstrings or new api docs
+for details.
+
+Added wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea Gavana. It is a control like
+static text that acts like a hyper-link, launching the system's
+default browser in response to the clicks.
+
+Added an optional parameter to wxversion.select that allows you to
+specify that the extra components specified in the version string are
+required. For example, if you ask for "2.6-unicode" but only the ansi
+version is installed then by default the ansi version will be selected
+as it considered close enough since the version numbers match. If you
+want to force the options to be required then you can just add a True
+parameter, like this::
+
+ import wxversion
+ wxversion.select("2.6-unicode", True)
+ import wx
+
+Tweaked wx.lib.buttons such that flat buttons (e.g. have no bevel and
+a wx.BORDER_NONE style flag) paint themed backgrounds if there are
+transparent areas and the parent is displaying a theme.
+
+wxMSW: Fix for wrong sash colour of wx.SplitterWindow in the silver
+theme on XP.
+
+Added a wx.xrc.XmlResourceHandler for the Ticker class. See
+wx/lib/ticker_xrc.py
+
+wxSTC: Fixed CmdKeyAssign key bindings for Ctrl-Backspace.
+
+wxMSW: Fixed a bug in wx.TextCtrl where all the lines were being used
+to calculate the best size, instead of using a reasonable limit.
+
+XRCed: Use wx.GetDefaultPyEncoding/wx.SetDefaultPyEncoding for
+changing active encoding. Fixed pasting siblings (Ctrl key pressed
+while pasting).
+
+wx.lib.filebrowsebutton: Bug fix from Chad Netzer for when
+self.history is None.
+
+wx.ogl: Patch from Davide Salomoni that adds an optional point
+parameter to LineShape.InsertLineControlPoint allowing one to
+optionally specify where the new control point has to be drawn.
+
+wxMSW: setting foreground colour for wx.CheckBox now works when using
+XP themes.
+
+More updates to the docview library modules and sample apps from the
+ActiveGrid folks. Their sample IDE is now able to integrate with
+Subversion.
+
+wx.grid.Grid: Ensure that the grid gets the focus when it is
+left-clicked. Note that if you have custom widgets that handle the
+EVT_LEFT_DOWN event but do not call event.Skip() then you will
+probably want to add a call to self.SetFocus in the event handler.
+
+wxGTK: Add wxSTAY_ON_TOP support [Patch 1206023]
+
+wx.TreeCtrl: wx.EVT_TREE_ITEM_MENU event made consistent on all
+platforms. The location of the click or the item is included in the
+event as well.
+
+wxGTK: Setting background colour of a window now only affects the
+window itself, not the borders, scrollbars, etc. (Bug #1204069)
+
+Print framework: Add more paper sizes and code to fallback to an
+explicit paper size if a known paper size is not found for the
+printer.
+
+wxMac: Applied patch for bug #1206181 Option-key decodes are wrong,
+also applied patch for bug #1205691 Modified Fn keys don't work.
+
+wx.Image: Fixed to preserve alpha channel in Rotate90 method.
+
+wxMSW: Fixed incorrect background colour on wx.CheckListBox.
+
+wxMSW: Fixed drawing of owner drawn buttons with multiline labels
+
+Removed a bunch of unnecessary files, and removed or replaced images
+that we're not sure of their origin or license.
+
+The default DoGetBestSize is updated to not always return the current
+size if the window has no sizer, children, or minsize set. Instead
+the current size is set as the minsize. This solves the occasional
+problem where a sizer may cause a childless panel to grow but never
+shrink.
+
+wxMSW: When converting a wx.Icon to a bitmap check if the icon has an
+alpha channel and set the bitmap to use it.
+
+
+
+
+
+2.6.0.0
+-------
+* 26-Apr-2005
+
+wxMSW: Fixed wx.TransientPopupWindow (and therefore wx.TipWindow) to
+auto-dismiss when the mouse is clicked outside of the popup like it is
+supposed to.
+
+wxMSW: Fixed bug #1167891 wx.Notebook display problem with wx.NB_MULTILINE.
+
+wxMSW: Fixed bad cliping of hidden windows inside of wx.StaticBox.
+
+wxGTK: The configure flags for selecting GTK+ 1.2.x or 2.x has
+changed slightly. It is now --with-gtk[=VERSION] where VERSION is
+either '1', '2' or 'any'. The default is '2'.
+
+wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the following methods for alternate ways
+to set and fetch text from the document buffer. They work similarly
+to the existing methods of the same name, except that they don't go
+through the same string/unicode <--> wxString conversions. The "Raw"
+methods will do no conversions at all and in a unicode build of
+wxPython the strings will be in the utf-8 encoding and in an ansi
+build no assumption is made about the encoding. The "UTF8" functions
+will attempt to always get/set utf-8 text, which it will always be
+able to do in a unicode build, and in an ansi build it will depend on
+the content of the utf-8 used being compatible with the current
+encoding, (you'll get an exception otherwise.)
+
+ =================== ====================
+ AddTextRaw AddTextUTF8
+ InsertTextRaw InsertTextUTF8
+ GetCurLineRaw GetCurLineUTF8
+ GetLineRaw GetLineUTF8
+ GetSelectedTextRaw GetSelectedTextUTF8
+ GetTextRangeRaw GetTextRangeUTF8
+ SetTextRaw SetTextUTF8
+ GetTextRaw GetTextUTF8
+ AppendTextRaw AppendTextUTF8
+ =================== ====================
+
+
+wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the StyleSetFontEncoding(style, enc)
+method that allows you to set the encoding to be used by the font for
+a particular style.
+
+wxMac: Fixed wx.ComboBox to forward the EVT_CHAR, EVT_KEY_DOWN,
+EVT_KEY_UP and EVT_TEXT events from its embedded text control.
+
+wxMac: Corrected refresh bugs in wxGrid.
+
+XRCed: Updated to version 0.1.5.
+ * Added wxWizard, wxWizardPageSimple (only from pull-down menu).
+ * Hide command for test window.
+ * Replacing classes works better.
+ * Added Locate tool.
+
+
+
+
+2.5.5.1
-------
+* 8-Apr-2005
wxMSW: Fixed bug #1022383, 'several ComboBoxes appear selected'
activating the cell editors to a EVT_CHAR event handler. This is done
so the character inserted into the editor will be the "cooked" char
value (including accented or composed keys) rather than the raw code
-provided by the EVT_KEY_DOWN event.
+provided by the EVT_KEY_DOWN event.
Added orient parameter to wx.MDIParentFrame.Tile()
wxMSW: wxTextCtrl with wx.TE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if
-available.
+available.
Added GetCount, GetCountRGB, and GetCountColour methods to
-wx.ImageHistogram.
+wx.ImageHistogram.
wxMSW: wx.Window.Refresh changed to explicitly refresh all children as
well as the parent. Previously it was implicitly done because parents
wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas: applied patch fixing problems with X server
crash when using nVidia cards (patch 1155132)
+wx.lib.mixins.listctrl: Patches from Toni Brkic:
+ * Bugfix for TextEditMixin when the view can't be scrolled
+ * Enhancement for ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin, allowing it to manage
+ the width of any column.
+
+wxMac: removal and reusing toolbar tools like the other platforms is
+now possible.
+
+wxMac: Correct radio tool selection after calling Realize a 2nd time.
+
+wxMSW: Applied patch #1166587, removes all flicker from wx.StaticBox
+
+Added wx.lib.foldpanelbar, Andrea Gavana's port of Jorgen Bodde's C++
+wxFoldPanelBar classes to Python.
+
+wxGTK: Applied patch #1173802, reimplementation of GtkFileChooser
+wxFileDialog by Mart Raudsepp. Note that this new file dialog is only
+used on GTK2 >= 2.4. For earlier GTK2 versions and GTK1 then the
+older generic file dialog is used.
+
+wxMSW: fixes to static box borders calculations (finalizes patch
+#1166587)
+
+wx.Image: Use Python's buffer interface API for all image data and
+alpha Set/Get methods and the ImageFromData* constructors. They all
+still copy the buffer except for SetDataBuffer and SetAlphaBuffer, but
+this gives more flexibility on where the data can come from.
+
+Added MDI support to XRC
+
+Added wx.animate module and a demo. The wx.animate module provides a
+control that is able to display an animated GIF file.
+
+wx.lib.plot.py: Applied patch from Werner F. Bruhin that allows either
+vertical and/or horizontal gridlines.
+
+wxMSW: Extra space given for top border of wx.StaticBoxSizer so the
+upper line is not cliped when there is no label.
+
+wxMSW: Restored old behaviour of wx.StaticBox.SetBackgroundColour only
+affecting the label.
+
+wxMSW: Fixed missing EVT_RIGHT_DOWN and EVT_TREE_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK
+events in a wx.TreeCtrl.
+
+Added wx.GetTopLevelWindows() function which returns a copy of the
+list of top-level windows that currently exist in the application.
+
+Updated docview library modules and sample apps from the ActiveGrid
+folks.
+
+Added the ActiveGrid IDE as a sample application.
2.5.4.1
-------
+* 16-Mar-2005
wx.Sizer Add, Insert, and Prepend functions now return a reference to the
wx.SizerItem that was added to the sizer, and the wx.SizerItem has a
out-of-sync assert is generated when clicking on a radio button and
then calling GetValue().
-Some XRC changes:
+Some XRC changes:
- Added 'icon' property to wxFrame and wxDialog
- No longer ignores menu bitmaps on non-MSW platforms
- Notebook page bitmaps are now supported
Added wx.EXEC_NODISABLE flag for wx.Execute, which will prevent all
the app's windows being disabled while a synchronous child process is
-running.
+running.
wxMSW: Much work to correct painting (or leaving transparent) of
control backgrounds, properly using background themes on XP, etc.
a temporary 'fix' until properly fixed before 2.6.
wxMac: Toolbar is now more native looking with borderless toolbar
-buttons.
+buttons.
wxMac: Switched wx.Bitmap to use newer Quartz object types and APIs
internally. This results in faster display and better alpha support.
Doc/View framework in pure Python code. See wx.lib.docview for the
base implementation and wx.lib.pydocview for Python-specific
extensions. There are also a couple sample applications located in
-samples/docview.
+samples/docview.
Added GetBitmap, GetIcon to wx.ImageList.
style=wx.BUFFER_VIRTUAL_AREA parameter.
wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl: Add support for the EVT_TREE_ITEM_GETTOOLTIP
-event.
+event.
Added Resize, SetRGBRect, Size, and GetOrFindMaskColour methods to
-wx.Image.
+wx.Image.
Added wx.Rect.IsEmpty
2.5.3.1
-------
+* 9-Nov-2004
wxMac focus and border refreshes corrected.
enabled (does an enable itself)
Added wx.lib.ogl.DrawnShape, and fixed various little bugs in the new
-OGL.
+OGL.
Added support to XRC and XRCed for the 3-state checkbox flags and also
for wx.ToggleButton. Updated the generic window styles supported by
-XRCed.
+XRCed.
It is now possible to create "stock" buttons. Basically this means
that you only have to provide one of the stock IDs (and either an
button with "Cancel" as the label and if run on wxGTK2 then there will
also be an image of a red X::
- b = wx.Button(parent, wx.ID_CANCEL)
+ b = wx.Button(parent, wx.ID_CANCEL)
Added wx.lib.ticker.Ticker class from Chris Mellon.
- Removed FloatDCWrapper for conversion to ints and ints in
arguments
- Imported modules given leading underscore to name.
- - Added Cursor Line Tracking and User Point Labels.
+ - Added Cursor Line Tracking and User Point Labels.
- Demo for Cursor Line Tracking and Point Labels.
- Size of plot preview frame adjusted to show page better.
- Added helper functions PositionUserToScreen and
Applied patch from Pim Van Heuven that modifies 4 files:
- wxPython/demo/ListCtrl_edit.py (new demo)
- wxPython/demo/Main.py (include new demo in demo app)
- - wxPython/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py (several improvements to
+ - wxPython/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py (several improvements to
TextEditMixin)
- wxPython/wx/lib/wxpTag.py (some small fixes)
Added (thanks to Kevin Ollivier!) wrappers for wx.WebKitCtrl for the
OSX build. Other platforms will raise an exception if you try to use
-it.
+it.
wxPython on OSX can now be built in Unicode mode, can support multiple
version installs, and comes with an uninstaller script.
2.5.2.8
-------
+* 27-Aug-2004
Predominantly a bug-fix release.
of property panels, since Reparent on wxMac is not implemented.
* Add support for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL to the XRC handler for
- wxScrolledWindow.
+ wxScrolledWindow.
* Add support for all wxListBox styles to the XRC handler for
- wxCheckListBox.
+ wxCheckListBox.
* Fix for wx.Listbook.DeleteAllPages to really delete everything.
2.5.2.7
-------
+* 14-Aug-2004
wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
sizers. This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
have been reverted. The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the 2.4
implemetation. In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
-parameters.
+parameters.
Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.
-2.5.1.5
--------
+2.5.1.5 (the 'this is *not* a joke' release)
+-----------------------------------------------
+* 2-Apr-2004
(See also the MigrationGuide_ file for details about some of the
big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
it.
Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
-"Adi" Sieker.
+"Adi" Sieker.
Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.
2.4.2.4
-------
+* 1-Oct-2003
Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
2.4.1.2
-------
+* 19-Jun-2003
Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
2.4.0.7
-------
+* 24-Mar-2003
Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
TRUE/FALSE values.
2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)
------------------------------------------
+* 11-Mar-2003
The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)
----------------------------------------------
+* 7-Mar-2003
A few little but annoying bug fixes.
2.4.0.4
-------
+* 7-Mar-2003
+
Added missing wxRect methods
Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
-always call them. The functions are:
+always call them. The functions are::
wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
2.4.0.2
-------
+* 23-Jan-2003
+
Several bug fixes.
Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
2.4.0.1
-------
+* 10-Jan-2003
+
No major new features since 2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
enhancements.
2.3.4.2
-------
+* 21-Dec-2002
+
Various bug fixes.
2.3.4.1
-------
+* 18-Dec-2002
+
Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
2.3.3.1
-------
+* 19-Sep-2002
+
Added wxSplashScreen.
Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
2.3.2.1
-------
+* 20-Dec-2001
+
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.
2.3.2
-----
+* 11-Dec-2001
+
Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
2.3.1
-----
+* 10-Jul-2001
+
Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
on a custom event handler for example.)
2.3.0
-----
+* 22-May-2001
+
Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
-2.2.6
+2.2.7
-----
+* 19-Jun-2001
No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
2.2.5
-----
+* 30-Jan-2001
New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond
that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
New in 2.2.2
------------
+* 26-Oct-2000
Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
New in 2.2.1
------------
+* 22-Aug-2000
Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
New in 2.2.0
------------
+* 17-Jul-2000
Added wxLog and friends.
New in 2.1.16
-------------
+* 12-Jun-2000
Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
New in 2.1.15
-------------
+* 25-Apr-2000
Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
What's new in 2.1.13
--------------------
+* 3-Feb-2000
+
Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
What's new in 2.1.11
--------------------
+* 13-Nov-1999
+
Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
syncronized.
What's new in 2.1.5
-------------------
+* 12-Oct-1999
+
This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done. No new
major features.
What's new in 2.1.4
---------------------
+-------------------
+* 7-Oct-1999
This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
-example, the following are equivallent:
+example, the following are equivallent::
win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
-wxApp.outputWindowClass like this:
+wxApp.outputWindowClass like this::
class MyApp(wxApp):
outputWindowClass = MyClass
What's new in 2.1b3
--------------------
+* 1-Sep-1999
This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.
What's new in 2.1b2
---------------------
+-------------------
+* 6-Aug-1999
Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
What's new in 2.1b1
---------------------
+-------------------
+* 28-Jun-1999
+
Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
What's new in 2.0b9
-------------------
+* 1-May-1999
+
Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
What's new in 2.0b8
-------------------
+* 28-Mar-1999
+
Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
Several missing methods from various classes.
What's new in 2.0b7
-------------------
+* 15-Mar-1999
+
Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
What's new in 2.0b6
-------------------
+* 4-Mar-1999
+
Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
What's new in 2.0b5
-------------------
+* 25-Feb-1999
+
Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
What's new in 0.5.3
-------------------
+* 30-Jan-1999
+
Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
What's new in 0.5.0
-------------------
-Changed the import semantics from ``"from wxPython import *"`` to
+Changed the import semantics from ``"from wxPython import *"`` to
``"from wxPython.wx import *"`` This is for people who are worried about
namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then
prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."
What's new in 0.4.2
-------------------
+* 21-Oct-1998
wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
-static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm
-<H.v.d.Heijden@phys.tue.nl> for his astute detective work on tracking
-down a nasty DECREF bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a
-DSM (Dumb Stupid Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less
-because the behavior was so different on different platforms.
+static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm van der
+Heijden for his astute detective work on tracking down a nasty DECREF
+bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a DSM (Dumb Stupid
+Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less because the
+behavior was so different on different platforms.
The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
must have been a different issue all along...
What's New in 0.4
-----------------
+* 2-Oct-1998
1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
+
+wxPython 0.3
+------------
+* 9-Aug-1998
+
+The first "modern" version of wxPython. See
+http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/WxPythonHistory
+
+
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