INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.8.x
================================
+Unicode-related changes
+-----------------------
+
+The biggest changes in wxWidgets 3.0 are the changes due to the merge of the
+old ANSI and Unicode build modes in a single build. See the Unicode overview
+in the manual for more details but here are the most important incompatible
+changes:
+
+- Many wxWidgets functions taking "const wxChar *" have been changed to take
+ either "const wxString&" so that they accept both Unicode and ANSI strings.
+ and the argument can't be NULL or "const char *" if the strings are always
+ ANSI but may be NULL. This change is normally backwards compatible except:
+
+ a) Virtual functions: derived classes versions must be modified to take
+ "const wxString&" as well to make sure that they continue to override the
+ base class version.
+
+ b) Passing NULL as argument: as NULL can't be unambiguously converted to
+ wxString, in many cases code using it won't compile any more and NULL
+ should be replaced with an empty string.
+
+
+- Some structure fields which used to be of type "const wxChar *" (such as
+ wxCmdLineEntryDesc::shortName, longName and description fields) are now of
+ type "const char *", you need to remove wxT() or _T() around the values used
+ to initialize them (which should normally always be ASCII).
+
+- wxIPC classes didn't work correctly in Unicode build before, this was fixed
+ but at a price of breaking backwards compatibility: many methods which used
+ 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.
+
+
+wxODBC library 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.
+
+
Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
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- WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 doesn't exist any more, please update your code if
you still relied on features deprecated since version 2.4
+- wxDC classes hierarchy has changed, if you derived any classes from wxDC you
+ need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and
+ uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours.
+
- Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no
longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem
in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break
- 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.
+
+- wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they can't be
+ implemented correctly any longer because automatically generated ids are not
+ necessarily allocated consecutively any more. Use GetChildren() to find the
+ next/previous control sibling instead.
Deprecated methods and their replacements
All:
+- Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen)
+- 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 wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
wxLogInterposerTemp was added.
- Added support for broadcasting to UDP sockets (Andrew Vincent).
- Documentation now includes the wx library in which each class is defined.
+- wxrc --gettext now generates references to source .xrc files (Heikki
+ Linnakangas).
+- wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared,
+ if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented.
All (Unix):
All (GUI):
+- 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 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).
- Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage().
-- Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi)..
-- Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi)..
+- Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov)
+- Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid)
+- Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid)
+- Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid)
+- Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II)
+- New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)
+- Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
+- Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
- Slovak translation added.
- Fixed tab-related drawing and hit-testing bugs in wxRichTextCtrl.
- Show standard options in wxCmdLineParser usage message (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxRect::operator+ (union) and * (intersection) (bdonner).
- Added support for two auxiliary mouse buttons to wxMouseEvent (Chris Weiland).
-- Added wxTaskBarIcon::Destroy()
+- Added wxToolTip::SetAutoPop() and SetReshow() (Jan Knepper).
+- Added wxTaskBarIcon::Destroy().
+- Added XRC handler for wxSearchCtrl (Sander Berents).
+- Read image resolution from TIFF, JPEG and BMP images (Maycon Aparecido Gasoto).
+- Add support for reading alpha data from TIFF images.
+- Added wxSYS_DCLICK_TIME system metric constant (Arne Steinarson).
+- Added wxApp::Get/SetAppDisplayName() (Brian A. Vanderburg II).
+- Added wxWindow::GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser() (Arne Steinarson).
+- Implemented wxTreeCtrl::GetPrevVisible() in the generic version and made the
+ 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)
+- Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
wxGTK:
- Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs).
- Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox).
- Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz).
+- Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale
wxMSW:
- Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications.
- Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
- wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
+- Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
+- Fix centering wxFileDialog
wxX11:
- Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
+2.8.8
+-----
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling()
+
+
+2.8.7
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Fixed bug with default proxy destruction in wxURL (Axel Gembe).
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Correct (harmless) warnings given for forward-declared DLL-exported classes
+ by mingw32 4.2 (Tim Stahlhut).
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Added gtk.window.force-background-colour wxSystemOptions option to work around
+ a background colour bug in the gtk-qt theme under KDE.
+- Implemented wxGetClientDisplayRect() correctly for wxGTK and X11-based ports.
+
+
+2.8.6
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Fixed another bug in wxFileConfig when deleting entries (Axel Gembe)
+- Added Portuguese translation (Antonio Cardoso Martins)
+
+
2.8.5
-----
- Fixed bug with symbol resolving in wxStackWalker (Axel Gembe)
- Fixed showing busy cursor for disabled windows and during wxExecute()
- Set the string of wxEVT_COMMAND_CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLED events (Luca Cappa)
+- Fix problems with timers on SMP machines in wxAnimationCtrl (Gennady)
wxGTK:
- Add right button event for wxToolbar's tools (Tim Kosse)
- Don't unconditionally add wxCAPTION style to wxMiniFrame
- Generate wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_END_LABEL_EDIT event even if label didn't change
+- Fix WX_GL_STEREO attribute handling (Tristan Mehamli)
+- Fix wxThread::SetPriority() when the thread is running (Christos Gourdoupis)
+- Fixed off by 1 bug in wxDC::GradientFillLinear() (Tim Kosse)
2.8.4
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