- 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).
+ to initialize them (which should normally always be ASCII). If you want your
+ code to remain compatible with Unicode build of previous wx version, please
+ use the special wxT_2, which is the same as wxT in 2.x only, instead.
- 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
were removed as they were unmaintained and broken since several years.
The "gizmos", "ogl", "net" and "foldbar" contribs have been moved to
wxCode (see http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/complist.php); they are now
-open for futher development by volunteers.
+open for further development by volunteers.
The "stc" and "svg" contribs instead have been moved respectively into a new
"official" library stc and in the core lib.
regardless of whether the flag was specified or not. This only affects
legacy ANSI builds.
+- wxNotebook::GetSelection() returns the new page index when called from
+ wxEVT_COMMAND_NOTEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGED event handler in wxMSW, not the old one.
+ The new behaviour is consistent with wxGTK and more logical but different
+ from the previous versions. Using wxNotebookEvent::GetSelection() instead of
+ querying the notebook selection avoids the problem and is recommended.
+
+- wxMSW-specific wxAutomationObject::GetInstance() method now creates a new
+ instance if needed instead of failing if the application providing the
+ requested ProgID is not running. Pass wxAutomationInstance_UseExistingOnly
+ flag to it to revert to the old behaviour. It is also possible to use the
+ wxAutomationInstance_SilentIfNone flag to prevent the error message if no
+ currently running instances of this object are available.
+
+- Signatures of wxDataViewCustomRenderer::Activate(), LeftClick() and
+ StartDrag() virtual methods changed. You will need to change them in your
+ derived renderer class too if you override them.
+
+- wxThread::Wait() and wxThread::Delete() used to dispatch the events while
+ waiting for the thread to exit in wxMSW. They still do it in default build
+ with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_8 defined but won't dispatch any events, i.e. the
+ default wait mode will become wxTHREAD_WAIT_BLOCK in the next wxWidgets
+ release so you are strongly encouraged to upgrade your code to stop relying
+ on this behaviour.
+
+- wxEVT_CHAR_HOOK events are not generated any more if the mouse is captured to
+ prevent the parent wxTopLevelWindow from interfering with the keyboard
+ handling of the window that captured the mouse.
+
Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
-----------------------------------------------------------
- Virtual wxHtmlParser::AddText() takes wxString, not wxChar*, argument now.
-- Functions that took wxChar* arguments that could by NULL in wxWidgets 2.8
+- Functions that took wxChar* arguments that could be NULL in wxWidgets 2.8
are deprecated and passing NULL to them won't compile anymore, wxEmptyString
must be used instead.
without enclosing parentheses results in warnings from g++ with -Wparentheses,
add parentheses around the if statement body to work around it.
-- wxList::Member() now returns book and not a pointer/iterator. This shouldn't
+- wxList::Member() now returns bool and not a pointer/iterator. This shouldn't
require any changes as it was always meant to be used for checking for the
presence of an element in the list only. If you used it as Find(), simple do
use Find() instead.
just "%" wxLongLongFmtSpec "x", i.e. simply remove wxT() from the strings you
concatenate with it.
+- wxST_MARKUP doesn't exist any more, use wxControl::SetLabelMarkup() instead.
+
Deprecated methods and their replacements
-----------------------------------------
with more expected semantics.
- wxPORTRAIT and wxLANDSCAPE are now elements of wxPrintOrientation enum and
wxPrintData::SetOrientation(int) takes wxPrintOrientation and not int.
-
+- Second parameter of wxSlider::SetTickFreq(int n, int pos) is deprecated,
+ simply remove it from your code and use wxSlider::SetTickFreq(int n) as it
+ was never used anyhow.
Major new features in this release
----------------------------------
All:
+- Use standard implementations of container classes by default, you need to
+ explicitly set wxUSE_STD_CONTAINERS to 0 to use wxWidgets implementations.
+- Added cwd and env arguments to wxExecute() (Emilien Kia).
- Added "rest" argument to wxString::Before{First,Last}().
- Added wxThread::OnKill() and OnDelete() callbacks.
+- Added wxFile::GetLastError() and ClearLastError() (ryazanov).
+- Added negatable command line switches (Armel Asselin).
+- Added wxVersionInfo and various GetLibraryVersionInfo() functions (troelsk).
+- Added wxNumberFormatter for dealing with thousands separators.
+- Added wxIntegerValidator<> and wxFloatingPointValidator<> validators.
+- Added wxIMAGE_OPTION_GIF_COMMENT to read and write GIF comments (troelsk).
+- Added wxStack<> template class.
+- Added precision parameter to wxString::From[C]Double().
+- Added wxThread::Wait() and Delete() "wait mode" parameter (Catalin Raceanu).
+- Allow showing milliseconds in wxLog time stamps (tan).
+- Added support for processing instructions in wxXmlDocument (Nick Matthews).
+
+Unix:
+
+- Fix spurious errors when writing to child process pipe (ryazanov).
All (GUI):
+- Implement support for markup in wxButton and wxStaticText.
- Added wxRichMessageDialog (Rickard Westerlund, GSoC 2010 project).
- Added wxCommandLinkButton (Rickard Westerlund, GSoC 2010 project).
- Added wxUIActionSimulator (Steven Lamerton, GSoC 2010 project).
- wxAUI: support auto-orientable toolbars (wsu).
+- wxAUI: add support for icons in pane title bars (triton).
+- Added wxPanel::SetBackgroundBitmap().
- Added wxDataViewCtrl::Set/GetCurrentItem().
+- Added possibility to disable individual wxDataViewCtrl items (Neno Ganchev).
- wxHTML: render in RTL order inside RTL window (Richard Bullington-McGuire).
- wxRibbon: added EVT_RIBBONGALLERY_CLICKED event (John Roberts).
+- wxRibbon: allow hiding the panels and showing tabs only (snowleopard).
- Add support for CP-866 encoding to wxEncodingConverter (madnut).
- Consistency fixes for keyboard events across all major ports.
- Added EVT_RIBBONBAR_TAB_LEFT_DCLICK event (snowleopard).
- Fix display of right aligned columns in wxGenericListCtrl (jl).
- Restore text drag-and-drop in wxSTC broken by Scintilla 2 update (Jens Lody).
-- Improve wxGTK print/page setup dialog (rafravago).
+- Add support for id ranges to XRC (David Hart).
- Added wxToolbook XRC handler (Andrea Zanellato).
+- Added wxDocManager::FindTemplate() (troelsk).
+- Return bool, not void, from wxImage::ConvertAlphaToMask() (troelsk).
+- Fixed resizing columns in wxGrid when they were reordered.
+- Added wxImage::Rotate180() (Jeff Tupper).
+- Added support for saving TGA files.
+- Added wxArtProvider returning higher quality icons from Tango project.
+- wxPropertyGrid: Added "HasAlpha" attribute for wxColourProperty.
+- Added support for saving PNG files with palette (troelsk).
+- Added support for saving as GIF and animated GIF (troelsk).
+- Fix wxWrapSizer minimal size calculation (Catalin Raceanu).
+- Added wxFont::Underlined() and MakeUnderlined() methods.
+- Added wxFont::SetSymbolicSize() and related methods.
+- Fix SVG files generation in locales using decimal comma (snowleopard).
+- Fix setting tooltips for generic wxSpinCtrl (Catalin Raceanu).
+- Added support for reading image resolutions from PNG images (scottb).
+- wxComboCtrl, wxOwnerDrawnComboBox: better support for themed and custom
+ panel backgrounds, especially on OS X.
+- Add WXK_CONTROL_A..WXK_CONTROL_Z constants (Jan van Dijk).
+- Add support for alpha channel in colours in wxSVGFileDC (snowleopard).
+
+GTK:
+
+- Improve print/page setup dialog (rafravago).
+- Switch to GtkTooltip from deprecated GtkTooltips (Emilien Kia).
+- wxTLW generates wxEVT_MAXIMIZE.
+- Fix copying clipboard data to primary selection (David Hart).
+- Implement wxGraphicsContext::GetSize() (Marcin Wojdyr).
MSW:
- Fix Cygwin 1.7 build (David Gangola).
- Allow using wxDC::DrawText() with multiline texts.
- Fix wxBitmapButton best size determination broken in 2.9.1.
+- Center task dialog-based wxProgressDialog on the parent (John Roberts).
+- wxAutomationObject::GetInstance() creates objects on demand (Kolya Kosenko).
+- Fix EVT_UPDATE_UI generation for items in submenus (wsu).
+
+OSX:
+- Implement switching to default video mode in wxDisplay (soren).
2.9.1:
------
-INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE SINCE 2.9.0
+INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.9.0
- wxStandardPaths doesn't use vendor name by default under MSW and OSX to
remain compatible with 2.8 behaviour but this makes it incompatible with
dismissed immediately as text control grabbed the focus).
- wxPropertyGrid: added wxPG_EX_MULTIPLE_SELECTION.
- wxPropertyGrid: added functions for editing property labels.
-- wxPropertyGrid: many fixes to property validation failure behavior. Added
+- wxPropertyGrid: many fixes to property validation failure behaviour. Added
new flags: wxPG_VFB_SHOW_MESSAGEBOX and wxPG_VFB_SHOW_MESSAGE_ON_STATUSBAR.
- wxPropertyGrid: Added wxPropertyGrid::DedicateKey().
- wxPropertyGrid: wxArrayStringProperty now uses wxEditableListBox.
- In some rare cases wxOwnerDrawnComboBox drop-down animation could display
as garbage. This has now been greatly reduced (mcben).
- Fixed wxComboCtrl::SetButtonPosition() on Vista/Win7.
+- Allow accessing 64/32 bit registry from 32/64 bit code (Rickard Westerlund).
i18n:
- 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
+ behaviour between Unicode and non-unicode builds
- 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)
- sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
- added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
- added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
-- fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
+- fixed wxString's behaviour with inserted null characters
All (GUI):
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