dll fixes, prefix fix

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / changes.txt

diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index 495a95b8531f1d85c8291865bb342417d090c0d4..d8c86d74e3bcea921ac1fb5f58a8a81523447eca 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -5,22 +5,182 @@ wxWindows 2.5/2.6 Change Log
 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x
 ================================
 
 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x
 ================================
 

+- wxFileType::GetIcon() returns wxIconLocation, not wxIcon
+
+
+DEPRECATED METHOD SINCE 2.4.x
+=============================
+
+Deprecated methods may still be used but will disappear in future wxWindows
+versions, please update your code to not use them.
+
+- wxDocManager::GetNoHistoryFiles() renamed to GetHistoryFilesCount()
+- wxSizer::Remove(wxWindow *), use Detach() instead [it is more clear]
+- wxSizer::Set/GetOption(): use Set/GetProportion() instead
+- wxKeyEvent::KeyCode(): use GetKeyCode instead
+- wxList::Number, First, Last, Nth: use GetCount, GetFirst/Last, Item instead
+- wxNode::Next, Previous, Data: use GetNext, GetPrevious, GetData instead
+- wxListBase::operator wxList&(): use typesafe lists instead
+- wxTheFontMapper: use wxFontMapper::Get() instead
+- wxStringHashTable: use wxHashMap instead
+- wxHashTableLong: use wxHashMap instead
+- wxArrayString::GetStringArray: no replacement
+- wxArrayString::Remove(index, count): use RemoveAt instead
+
+

 OTHER CHANGES
 =============
 
 2.5.0
 -----
 
 OTHER CHANGES
 =============
 
 2.5.0
 -----
 

+All:
+
+- added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
+- use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
+- wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
+- added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
+- added wxArray::SetCount()
+- wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
+  by default in Unicode mode
+- bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
+- added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
+- added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
+- added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
+- fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
+- chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
+  and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
+- Added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
+
+wxBase:
+
+- added Watcom makefiles
+- fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
+
+All GUI ports:
+
+- added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
+- added alpha channel support to wxImage
+- added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
+- added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
+- added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
+- added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
+- implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
+- improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
+- fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
+- implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
+- support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
+- added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
+- fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
+- WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
+- it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
+  by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
+- Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
+- FL: rmoved const from EnableTool parameters
+- FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
+- In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
+  wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
+- Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
+- Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
+  delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
+  a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
+  the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
+  default extension for the template
+- Speeded up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
+- Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
+- Wizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
+- Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
+- Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
+- wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
+- Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
+  to allow better rich text support.
+- implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
+- Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
+

 Unix:
 
 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
 Unix:
 
 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version

+- fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
+- added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
+- added support for GNU/Hurd in configure

 
 

-All:
+wxGTK:
+
+- added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
+- added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
+- fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
+- made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
+- fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
+  window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
+- added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
+- fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
+  be appended to filenames with no extension
+- added SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
+
+wxMac:
+
+- generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
+- wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
+- support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
+- wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
+- wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
+- fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
+- fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom compiler
+- fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
+- fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
+- all libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix
+  (for MinGW and Cygwin)
+- When using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported - added
+  WXEXPORTDLL
+- A wxEvtHandler object was not removed from wxPendingEvents on deletion.
+  wxPendingEventsLocker was being deleted in App before all wxEvtHandler
+  objects have been destroyed resulting in stale handler/lock
+  ptrs; fixed
+- Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer neccessary
+  to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
+- wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
+  or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
+- Improved border handling so it no longer shows a thin and
+  sunken border under XP
+- partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
+  enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
+  wxWindows to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
+  Proper XP theme support is planned for 2.6
+- disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles
+  if the version of CommCtl doesn't support it (XP)
+- fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
+
+wxMotif:
+
+- made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
+  does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
+  documentation for a detailed explanation
+- implemented wxWakeUpIdle
+- for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
+  xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
+  with Motif 1.x compatibility
+- implemented wxToggleButton
+- wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
+  instead of a sunken border
+- implemented wxBitmapDataObject
+- finished wxClipboard implementation
+
+wxUniv:
+
+- controls in toolbars now supported
+
+wxHTML:
+
+- added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
+- added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
+- it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
+  <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
+- wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker

 
 

-- Implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter
-  Stieber)
-- Improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
-- Fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem

 
 OLD CHANGES
 ===========
 
 OLD CHANGES
 ===========


@@ -139,13 +299,13 @@ All (GUI):
 wxMSW:
 
 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
 wxMSW:
 
 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more

-  but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx/include
+  but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx

   where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
   the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
   xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
   class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
   make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
   where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
   the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
   xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
   class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
   make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now

-  use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[u][d][ver].(lib|dll)
+  use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)

   where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
   is only present for the DLLs builds.
 
   where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
   is only present for the DLLs builds.
 


@@ -303,8 +463,7 @@ All (GUI):
   (Rene Rivera).
 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
   whether a label edit was cancelled.
   (Rene Rivera).
 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
   whether a label edit was cancelled.

-- added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor (use of wxTheFontMapper is now
-  deprecated)
+- added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor

 
 wxMSW:
 
 
 wxMSW: