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.
+
+
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
Major new features in this release
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
All (Unix):
All (GUI):
+- Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes
- Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames()
- Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
- Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications
- 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.
+- Added wxWrapSizer
+- Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window
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:
All:
- Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner)
+- Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date()
All (GUI):
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
+
+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