wxWindows 2 Change Log
----------------------
-2.4.0
+INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
+================================
+
+wxBase:
+
+- wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
+ under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
+ code.
+
+- wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
+ architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
+ used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
+ arrays containing non-pointers.
+
+- wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
+ simply don't make sense for all objects
+
+- wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
+ by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
+ add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
+
+- wxCondition now must be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
+ documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
+ unfortunately needed as the old class didn't behave correctly in all cases
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
+ allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
+ in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
+
+ You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
+ but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your codei
+ instead!
+
+- wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
+ your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
+ the occurences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
+
+- wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
+ have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
+ ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
+ will *NOT* work any longer:
+
+ if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
+ ... do something ...
+ if ( flags & wxYES )
+ ... do something else ...
+
+- wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
+
+- wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
+ if you derived any classes from it
+
+- wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
+ unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
+
+- wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
+ now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
+
+- WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
+ they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
+
+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
+ 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.
+
+- child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
+ style to avoid it, wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT style is now obsolete and has no
+ effect
+
+- all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
+ previously selected one instead of replacing it
+
+- wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
+ return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
+ never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
+
+- wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
+ anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
+
+Unix ports:
+
+- You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
+ `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
+ and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
+ to compile pure C files.
+
+
+OTHER CHANGES
+=============
+
+2.3.3
+-----
+
+wxBase:
+
+- wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
+- fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
+- modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
+ (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
+- memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri)
+- fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
+- added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
+ after (non standard) STL hash_map
+- wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
+- wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
+- fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
+- added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor (use of wxTheFontMapper is now
+ deprecated)
+
+Unix (Base/GUI):
+
+- wxWindows may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
+ programs and not only GNU make
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
+ small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
+- implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
+- added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
+- added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
+ wxWindows dialogs
+- significantly improved native font support
+- wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
+ wxHashTable
+- added IFF image handler
+- fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
+- support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
+- support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
+- wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
+- added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
+- added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
+- added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
+- added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
+- added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
+ for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
+- added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
+- added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
+- refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
+- huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
+- changing wxWindows styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
+- wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
+- fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
+- fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
+- improvements to wxWindows applications behaviour when the system colours
+ are changed
+- fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
+- wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
+- bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
+- showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
+ recursion any more
+- wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
+- the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
+- wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
+- wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
+- Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can
+ be used in FL
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
+- wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
+- wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
+- added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
+- new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
+ Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
+- support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
+- fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
+- implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
+ (unlike thread work)
+
+wxHTML:
+
+- fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
+- added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
+ wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
+- fixed alignment handling in tables
+- fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
+
+2.3.2
+-----
+
+New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
+
+wxBase:
+
+- wxRegEx class added
+- wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
+- wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
+- more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
+ glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
+ capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- support for virtual list control added
+- column images in report mode of the list control
+- wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
+- wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
+- polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
+- wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
+- fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
+- new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
+- wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
+- wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
+- wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
+- wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
+- support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
+- new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
+ project files
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- fixed popup menu positioning bug
+
+wxHTML:
+
+- new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
+ to tags parsing
+- added support for animated GIFs
+
+2.3.1
-----
+wxBase:
+
+- Fixes for gcc 3.0
+- Fixed new charset detection code
+- ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
+- Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
+- Added wxDir::Traverse
+- Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
+- Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
+ so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
+- 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)
+- Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
+ GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
+- Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
+- Improvements to Tex2RTF
+- Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
+- Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
+ first-time saved
+- Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
+- Various wxXML enhancements
+- Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
+- Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
+- Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
+ instead of GetId()
+- Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
+- Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
+ accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
+- Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
+ alt or shift) now work
+- Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
+- Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
+- Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
+- Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
+ wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
+- Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
+- Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
+- Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
+- We now send iconize events
+- Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
+- Added mousewheel processing
+- Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
+ wxWindows at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
+ in wxDC
+- Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
+ child frame styles are honoured
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Fixed slider rounding bug
+- Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
+- We now send iconize events
+- Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
+ GetSelection() results
+
2.3.0
-----
wxBase:
-- wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too
+- fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
+- wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
+- wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
- wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
- wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
+- wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
+- wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
+- wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
+ detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
+ cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
+- wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
+- wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
+- FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
+- new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
+- added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
+ (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
+ wxImage methods and ctor)
+- ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
+- ODBC documentation complete!!
+- ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
+- ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
+- ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
+- ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
wxMSW:
- threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
- fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
+- it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
+ other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
+
+wxHTML:
+
+- mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
+- visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
2.2.0
-----
- almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
- and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
+ and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
splitted into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
- added support for charsets and <meta> tag