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[wxWidgets.git] / wxPython / docs / MigrationGuide.txt

diff --git a/wxPython/docs/MigrationGuide.txt b/wxPython/docs/MigrationGuide.txt
index 73771d24859c66ae3c9e3abdf9b41bca09c41426..8e5da9fe2e8b84751a7591e4c5d84fc35ff72fb3 100644 (file)
--- a/wxPython/docs/MigrationGuide.txt
+++ b/wxPython/docs/MigrationGuide.txt
@@ -124,8 +124,8 @@ function.  If you used to have something like this::
 
 Change it like so::
 
-    myCustomEventType = wxNewEventType()
-    EVT_MY_CUSTOM_EVENT = wxPyEventBinder(myCustomEventType, 1)
+    myCustomEventType = wx.NewEventType()
+    EVT_MY_CUSTOM_EVENT = wx.PyEventBinder(myCustomEventType, 1)
 
 The second parameter is an integer in [0, 1, 2] that specifies the
 number of IDs that are needed to be passed to Connect.
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ the official form of the wxPython classes.  For example::
 You shouldn't need to migrate all your modules over to use the new
 package and names right away as there are modules in place that try to
 provide as much backwards compatibility of the names as possible.  If
-you rewrote the above sample using "from wxPython.wx import *", the
+you rewrote the above sample using "from wxPython.wx import * ", the
 old wxNames, and the old style of event binding it will still work
 just fine.
 
@@ -275,19 +275,20 @@ that are affected are listed here::
     Blit(destPt, size, sourceDC, srcPt,
          rop = wxCOPY, useMask = FALSE, srcPtMask = wx.DefaultPosition)
 
-    SetClippingRegionXY SetClippingRegion(x, y, width, height)
+    SetClippingRegionXY(x, y, width, height)
     SetClippingRegion(point, size)
     SetClippingRect(rect)
     SetClippingRegionAsRegion(region);
 
        
-If you have code that draws on a DC you **will** get errors because of
-these changes, but it should be easy to fix the code.  You can either
-change the name of the *Type B* method called to the names shown
-above, or just add parentheses around the parameters as needed to turn
-them into tuples and let the SWIG typemaps turn them into the wx.Point
-or wx.Size object that is expected.  Then you will be calling the new
-*Type A* method.  For example, if you had this code before::
+If you have code that draws on a DC and you are using the new wx
+namespace then you **will** get errors because of these changes, but
+it should be easy to fix the code.  You can either change the name of
+the *Type B* method called to the names shown above, or just add
+parentheses around the parameters as needed to turn them into tuples
+and let the SWIG typemaps turn them into the wx.Point or wx.Size
+object that is expected.  Then you will be calling the new *Type A*
+method.  For example, if you had this code before::
 
     dc.DrawRectangle(x, y, width, height)
 
@@ -305,6 +306,14 @@ Then you can just simplify it like this::
 
     dc.DrawRectangle(p, s)
 
+Now before you start yelling and screaming at me for breaking all your
+code, take note that I said above "...using the new wx namespace..."
+That's because if you are still importing from wxPython.wx then there
+are some classes defined there with Draw and etc. methods that have
+2.4 compatible signatures.  However if/when the old wxPython.wx
+namespace is removed then these classes will be removed too so you
+should plan on migrating to the new namespace and new DC Draw methods
+before that time.
 
 
 
@@ -352,10 +361,9 @@ For example::
 Sizers
 ------
 
-The hack allowing the old "option" keyword parameter has been
-removed.  If you use keyworkd args with wxSizer Add, Insert, or
-Prepend then you will need to use the "proportion" name instead of
-"option".  
+The hack allowing the old "option" keyword parameter has been removed.
+If you use keyworkd args with wxSizer Add, Insert, or Prepend methods
+then you will need to use the "proportion" name instead of "option".
 
 When adding a spacer to a sizer you now need to use a wxSize or a
 2-integer sequence instead of separate width and height parameters.
@@ -378,13 +386,12 @@ into a single extension module, the "core" module is now just a few
 extensions that are linked independently, and then merged together
 later into the main namespace via Python code.
 
-Because of the above, the "internal" module names have changed, but
-you shouldn't have been using them anyway so it shouldn't bother
-you. ;-)
+Because of the above and also because of the way the new SWIG works,
+the "internal" module names have changed, but you shouldn't have been
+using them anyway so it shouldn't bother you. ;-)
 
-The wxPython.help module no longer exists and the classes therein are
-now part of the core module imported with wxPython.wx or the wx
-package.
+The help module no longer exists and the classes therein are now part
+of the core module imported with wxPython.wx or the wx package.
 
 wxPyDefaultPosition and wxPyDefaultSize are gone.  Use the
 wxDefaultPosition and wxDefaultSize objects instead.
@@ -405,3 +412,5 @@ wxPyTypeCast has been removed.  Since we've had the OOR (Original
 Object Return) for a couple years now there should be no need to use
 wxPyTypeCast at all.
 
+If you use the old wxPython package and wxPython.wx namespace then
+there are compatibility aliases for much of the above items.