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-wxWidgets 2.5 Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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+---------------------------------------------------------------
+wxWidgets Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
+---------------------------------------------------------------
+
+2.6.2
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
+- Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
+- Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
+- Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
+- Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
+- Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
+- Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
+- wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
+- Added wxLongLong::ToDouble()
+- Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs
+- Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett)
+- Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
+- wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
+ added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour
+- Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
+- Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
+- Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
+- Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
+- Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
+- Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
+- Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
+- wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
+- Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
+- Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
+- Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
+- Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
+- Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
+- Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
+- Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
+- Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
+- Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
+- Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd)
+- Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd)
+- Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff)
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
+- Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
+- Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
+- wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
+ instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
+- Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
+ GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
+- Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
+
+wxMac:
+
+- Automatic menu management improved.
+- Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
+ due to dangling cycle pointers.
+
+wxOS2
+
+- Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
+
+wxUniv:
+
+- Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
+- Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
+
+wxMotif:
+
+- Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
+- wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
+- Fixed button size in common dialogs.
+- Made wxFileDialog translatable.
+- All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
+ flag has been specified.
+- Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
+ be created with a "sensible" initial width.
+
+wxMGL:
+
+- Fixed crash on exit.
+- Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
+
+wxX11:
+
+- Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
+
+
+2.6.1
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
+- Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
+- Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
+- Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
+- wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
+- Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
+- Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
+- Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
+- Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
+- PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
+- wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
+ (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
+- Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
+ eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
+- Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
+ by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
+- Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
+ allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
+- Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
+- Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
+ window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
+ checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
+- A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
+- Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
+- Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
+- Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
+- wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
+- Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
+- Compiles again with WIN64.
+- Winelib compilation now works.
+- When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
+ channel and set the bitmap to use it.
+- wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
+- Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
+- wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
+- Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
+- Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
+- wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
+- DDE fixed for Unicode.
+- Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
+- wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
+- Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
+- Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
+
+wxWinCE:
+
+- Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
+- Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
+- Fixed scrollbar border colour.
+- Added bitmap support in menus.
+
+wxMac:
+
+- Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
+ .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
+- Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
+ incorrect state.
+- Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
+- Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
+- Window menu now added automatically.
+- Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
+- Modified function key support fixed.
+- wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
+
+wxX11:
+
+- Menu problems fixed.
+- wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
+- Fixed a font memory leak.
+- Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
+
+
+2.6.0
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
+- Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
+ non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
+- Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
+- wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
+
+wxWinCE:
+
+- Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
+
+wxGTK:
+- New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
+ --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
+ --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
+ --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
+ --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
+- wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
+- Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
+
+wxMac:
+- Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
+
+2.5.5
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
+ user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
+- Added wxDebugReport class.
+- Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
+- Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
+- Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
+- Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
+- Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
+- Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
+ GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
+- Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
+- Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
+ the whole virtual area.
+- Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
+- Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
+ isn't used to set the window size.
+- Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
+- wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
+ splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
+- Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
+
+Unix:
+
+- Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
+- wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
+- fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
+- wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
+- Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
+ handling (Jamie Gadd).
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
+- Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
+- Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
+- Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
+- Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
+- Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
+- GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
+ and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
+
+wxMac:
+
+- Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
+
+wxPalmOS:
+
+- Native wxRadioBox implementation.
+
+wxWinCE:
+
+- Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
+- Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
+ You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
+- Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
+- Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
+- wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
+ with correct titlebar style.
+- Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
+ PocketPC guidelines
+- Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
+- Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
+- Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
+- Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
+- Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
+- wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
+ to the dialog's toolbar.
2.5.4
-----
- added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
- changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
- implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
-- added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that for embedded null chars
+- added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
- 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
-- BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey ODonnell)
+- 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)
- XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
printing stuff in the GTK port.
- Deprecated print setup dialog.
- Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
-- The samples\db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
+- The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
- added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
- wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
- wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
wxSystemSettings::Get*()
-- wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
- the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
+- wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
+ the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
- Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
due to a rounding error.
- Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
- SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return
- that.
+ SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
- Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
+- "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
+- wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
+- wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
+- added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
All (GUI):
- wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
- wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
+- wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
+ in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
+- added wxImage::InitAlpha()
Unix:
- Added wxRawBitmap support
- Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
interaction with wxWidgets' events.
+- wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
wxMac:
- native wxToggleButton implementation
- native wxRadioButton implementation
- native wxStaticText implementation
+- native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
2.5.3
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