- Identical functionality of wxFileDialog::ParseWildcard,
wxGenericDirCtrl::ParseFilter, Motif and MSW parsing native dialogs
is now accessible in ::wxParseCommonDialogsFilter
-- wxNotebookSizer and wxBookCtrlSizer are now deprecated -- the are no longer
+- wxNotebookSizer and wxBookCtrlSizer are now deprecated -- they are no longer
needed, you can treat wxNotebook as any other control and put it directly
into the sizer that was wxNotebookSizer's parent sizer in old code.
- wxFile methods now return wxFileOffset which may be a 64 bit integer type,
even on 32 bit platforms, instead of off_t and so the return value of
wxFile::Length(), for example, shouldn't be assigned to off_t variable any
more (the compiler might warn you about this).
+- wxListItem::m_data is now of type wxUIntPtr, not long, for compatibility
+ with 64 bit systems
DEPRECATED METHODS SINCE 2.4.x
and has now been removed
- wxTaskBarIcon::OnXXX() virtual methods: use events instead
- obsolete and not used wxUSE_GENERIC_DIALOGS_IN_MSW has been removed
+- wxDbTable::wxDbTable with wxChar* deprecated, same with wxString& instead
OTHER CHANGES
- active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
- sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
- added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
+- added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
+
All (GUI):
- the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
- wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
- it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
+- added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
+- wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
+ supported, instead of zero.
Unix:
builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
- wx-config has new --version-full option
-wxMAC:
+wxMac:
- Fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX (RN)
- Added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock (RN)
- Added wxDrawerWindow class for drawer windows for OSX >= 10.2 (RN - from Jason Bagley)
+- Native font dialog on OSX 10.2 and greater (RN)
wxGTK:
- don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
- implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
- fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
+- fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
wxUniv/X11:
wxWinCE:
-- added native SmartPhone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
-- added native SmartPhone wxChoice implementation using spinners
-- added automatized but customizable handling of native SmartPhone menus
+- added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
+- added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
+- added automatized but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
- fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
wxHTML: