API and etc. updates

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

diff --git a/wxPython/docs/MigrationGuide.txt b/wxPython/docs/MigrationGuide.txt
index 431f57be559dc24e7fecb39201a4216bec5775d8..bb274019e02feac7d47f2dbe33c399760198d9f3 100644 (file)
--- a/wxPython/docs/MigrationGuide.txt
+++ b/wxPython/docs/MigrationGuide.txt
@@ -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 plam on migrating to the new namespace and new DC Draw methods
+before that time.