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@@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
   your code if you overrode these functions and change the functions in the
   derived classes to use const reference as well.
 
   your code if you overrode these functions and change the functions in the
   derived classes to use const reference as well.
 

+- Under MSW wxExecute() arguments are now always properly quoted, as under
+  Unix, and so shouldn't contain quotes unless they are part of the argument.
+
+- wxDocument::OnNewDocument() doesn't call OnCloseDocument() any more.

 
 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
 -----------------------------------------------------------
 
 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
 -----------------------------------------------------------


@@ -132,7 +136,7 @@ Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
   const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to both "const char *"
   and "const wchar_t *", so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot
   apply the conversion. This can happen in 2 cases:
   const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to both "const char *"
   and "const wchar_t *", so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot
   apply the conversion. This can happen in 2 cases:

-  
+

   + There is an ambiguity because the function being called is overloaded to
     take both "const char *" and "const wchar_t *" as the compiler can't choose
     between them. In this case you may use s.wx_str() to call the function
   + There is an ambiguity because the function being called is overloaded to
     take both "const char *" and "const wchar_t *" as the compiler can't choose
     between them. In this case you may use s.wx_str() to call the function


@@ -208,7 +212,7 @@ Deprecated methods and their replacements
   use simpler OnExec() version which is called with wxString argument
 - wxMenuItem::GetLabel has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabelText
 - wxMenuItem::GetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabel
   use simpler OnExec() version which is called with wxString argument
 - wxMenuItem::GetLabel has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabelText
 - wxMenuItem::GetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabel

-- wxMenuItem::GetLabelFromText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetLabelText 
+- wxMenuItem::GetLabelFromText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetLabelText

 - wxMenuItem::SetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::SetItemLabel
 - wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen ctor now take
   respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a plain "int style";
 - wxMenuItem::SetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::SetItemLabel
 - wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen ctor now take
   respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a plain "int style";


@@ -238,6 +242,9 @@ Major new features in this release
 - wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally,
   depending on what is optimal for the target platform.
 
 - wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally,
   depending on what is optimal for the target platform.
 

+- New propgrid library containing wxPropertyGrid and related classes, many
+  enhancements to wxDataViewCtrl.
+

 - Events loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
 
 
 - Events loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
 
 


@@ -246,9 +253,10 @@ Major new features in this release
 
 All:
 
 
 All:
 

-- Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen)
+- Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen).
+- Cleaned up wxURI and made it Unicode-friendly.

 - Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski)
 - Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski)

-- Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it
+- Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it.

 - Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe)
 - Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
 - Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)
 - Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe)
 - Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
 - Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)


@@ -285,6 +293,9 @@ All:
 - Fix reading/writing UTF-7-encoded text streams.
 - Corrected bug in wxTimeSpan::IsShorterThan() for equal time spans.
 - Use std::unordered_{map,set} for wxHashMap/Set if available (Jan van Dijk).
 - Fix reading/writing UTF-7-encoded text streams.
 - Corrected bug in wxTimeSpan::IsShorterThan() for equal time spans.
 - Use std::unordered_{map,set} for wxHashMap/Set if available (Jan van Dijk).

+- Added wxString::Capitalize() and MakeCapitalized().
+- Added wxArray::swap().
+- Added wxSHUTDOWN_LOGOFF and wxSHUTDOWN_FORCE wxShutdown() flags (troelsk).

 
 All (Unix):
 
 
 All (Unix):
 


@@ -292,29 +303,33 @@ All (Unix):
 
 All (GUI):
 
 
 All (GUI):
 

-- Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes
-- Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK
-- Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames()
+- Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes.
+- Integrated wxPropertyGrid in wxWidgets itself (Jaakko Salli).
+- Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK.
+- Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames().

 - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
 - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).

-- Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications
-- Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect()
-- Added wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson)
-- Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski)
+- Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications.
+- Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect().
+- Added wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson).
+- Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski).
+- Support custom labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson for wxMac version).
+- Also added wxCANCEL_DEFAULT to wxMessageDialog.
+- Allow copying text in the log dialogs.

 - Added multisample (anti-aliasing) support to wxGLCanvas (Olivier Playez).
 - Initialize wx{Client,Paint,Window}DC with fonts/colours of its window.
 - Added multisample (anti-aliasing) support to wxGLCanvas (Olivier Playez).
 - Initialize wx{Client,Paint,Window}DC with fonts/colours of its window.

-- Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows
-- Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)
+- Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows.
+- Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr).

 - Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron).
 - Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse).
 - Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron).
 - Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage().
 - Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron).
 - Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse).
 - Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron).
 - Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage().

-- Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov)
+- Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov).

 - Made wxLogWindow thread-safe (Barbara Maren Winkler).
 - Made wxLogWindow thread-safe (Barbara Maren Winkler).

-- Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid)
-- Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid)
-- Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid)
-- Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II)
-- New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)
+- Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid).
+- Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid).
+- Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid).
+- Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II).
+- New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr).

 - Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
 - Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
 - Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
 - Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
 - Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
 - Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().


@@ -373,6 +388,12 @@ All (GUI):
 - Added wxVListBox::GetItemRect() (Javier Urien).
 - Show busy cursor in wxLaunchDefaultBrowser and add wxBROWSER_NOBUSYCURSOR.
 - Added wxFlexGridSizer::Is{Row,Col}Growable() (Marcin Wojdyr).
 - Added wxVListBox::GetItemRect() (Javier Urien).
 - Show busy cursor in wxLaunchDefaultBrowser and add wxBROWSER_NOBUSYCURSOR.
 - Added wxFlexGridSizer::Is{Row,Col}Growable() (Marcin Wojdyr).

+- Added "enabled" and "hidden" attributes to radio box items in XRC.
+- wxWindow::IsBeingDeleted() now returns true not only if the window itself is
+  marked for destruction but also if any of its parent windows are.
+- Improved drawing of the hint during column move in wxGrid.
+- Add wxGridSelectRowsOrColumns selection mode to wxGrid.
+- Get/HasModifiers() of wxKeyEvent are now also available in wxMouseEvent.

 
 wxGTK:
 
 
 wxGTK:
 


@@ -390,16 +411,16 @@ wxGTK:
 - Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option.
 - Added support for GTK+ print backend
 - Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).
 - Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option.
 - Added support for GTK+ print backend
 - Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).

+- Fix wxDC::Blit() support for user scale and source offset (Marcin Wojdyr).

 
 wxMac:
 
 - Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls).
 
 wxMac:
 
 - Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls).

-- Added support for changing button labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson).

 - Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs).
 - Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox).
 - Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz).
 - Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs).
 - Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox).
 - Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz).

-- Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale
-- Added native wxCollapsiblePane
+- Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale.
+- Native wxCollapsiblePane implementation.

 
 wxMSW:
 
 
 wxMSW:
 


@@ -407,12 +428,13 @@ wxMSW:
 - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
 - wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
 - Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
 - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
 - wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
 - Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon

-- Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it
-- Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk)
-- Show resize gripper on resizeable dialogs (Kolya Kosenko)
-- Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron)
-- Use different Win32 class names in different wx instances (Thomas Hauk)
-- Support multiline labels for wxCheckBox.
+- Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it.
+- Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk).
+- Use vertical scrollbar in wxMessageDialog if it's too big to fit on screen.
+- Show resize gripper on resizeable dialogs (Kolya Kosenko).
+- Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron).
+- Use different Win32 class names in different wx instances (Thomas Hauk).
+- Support multiline labels for wxCheckBox and wxToggleButton.

 - Print preview is now rendered in the resolution used by printer and
   accurately represents what will be printed. This fixes wxHtmlEasyPrinting
   preview inaccuracies on Windows; on other platforms, native preview
 - Print preview is now rendered in the resolution used by printer and
   accurately represents what will be printed. This fixes wxHtmlEasyPrinting
   preview inaccuracies on Windows; on other platforms, native preview


@@ -423,6 +445,10 @@ wxX11:
 - Added mouse wheel support (David Hart).
 - Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
 
 - Added mouse wheel support (David Hart).
 - Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
 

+wxDFB:
+
+- Implement wxBitmap ctor from XBM data.
+

 
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