- 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.
+- Event loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
-- Documentation sources for wxWidgets have been converted from LaTex to Doxygen-styled
- headers; this allowed many improvements on the documentation (screenshots,
- better linking, function signature checks, etc).
- Any report about inaccuracies in documentation is welcome.
+- Documentation for wxWidgets has been converted from LaTex to C++ headers
+ with Doxygen comments and significantly improved in the process (screenshots
+ of various controls were added, more identifiers are now linked to their
+ definition &c). Any reports about inaccuracies in the documentation are
+ welcome (and due to using the simple Doxygen syntax it is now easier than
+ ever to submit patches correcting them! :-)
2.9.0
All (Unix):
- Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski).
+- Noticeably (by a factor of ~150) improve wxIPC classes performance.
All (GUI):
- 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.
+- Improved drawing of the hint during column move in wxGrid (Santo Pfingsten).
- Add wxGridSelectRowsOrColumns selection mode to wxGrid.
- Get/HasModifiers() of wxKeyEvent are now also available in wxMouseEvent.