Restored old wxBufferedDC functionality until it can be decided how to

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / changes.txt

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@@ -5,13 +5,39 @@ wxWindows 2.5/2.6 Change Log
 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x
 ================================
 
 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x
 ================================
 

+    Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
+    paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
+    with '!' in the first column.
+
+    Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4
+    is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.4
+    series.
+
+! windows are no longer fully repainted when resized, use new style
+  wxFULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE to force this (wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE stll
+  exists but doesn't do anything any more, this behaviour is default now)
+
+

 - no initialization/cleanup can be done in wxApp/~wxApp because they are
   now called much earlier/later than before; please move any exiting code
   from there to wxApp::OnInit()/OnExit()
 - also, OnExit() is not called if OnInit() fails
 - wxTheApp can't be assigned to any longer, use wxApp::SetInstance() instead
 - wxFileType::GetIcon() returns wxIconLocation, not wxIcon
 - no initialization/cleanup can be done in wxApp/~wxApp because they are
   now called much earlier/later than before; please move any exiting code
   from there to wxApp::OnInit()/OnExit()
 - also, OnExit() is not called if OnInit() fails
 - wxTheApp can't be assigned to any longer, use wxApp::SetInstance() instead
 - wxFileType::GetIcon() returns wxIconLocation, not wxIcon

+- wxColourDatabase is not a wxList any more, use AddColour to add new colours

 - wxWindow::Clear() is now called ClearBackground()
 - wxWindow::Clear() is now called ClearBackground()

+- pointer returned by wxFont::GetNativeFontInfo() must not be deleted now
+- wxMouseEvent::Moving() doesn't return true if mouse is being dragged any more
+- (most) controls now inherit parents colours by default, override
+  ShouldInheritColours() to return false if you don't want this to happen
+- wxApp::SendIdleEvent() now takes 2 arguments
+- wxTabView::GetLayers() changed return type from wxList& to wxTabLayerList&
+  (when WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 == 0)
+- wxID_SEPARATOR (id used for the menu separators) value changed from -1 to -2
+- wxGetNumberFromUser() is now in separate wx/numdlg.h, not wx/textdlg.h
+- wxChoice and wxCombobox now handle their size in the same way as in all the
+  other ports under MSW, new code is actually correct but different from weird
+  stuff they were doing before so the behaviour of your programs might change

 
 
 DEPRECATED METHODS SINCE 2.4.x
 
 
 DEPRECATED METHODS SINCE 2.4.x


@@ -30,11 +56,18 @@ versions, please update your code to not use them.
 - wxTheFontMapper: use wxFontMapper::Get() instead
 - wxStringHashTable: use wxHashMap instead
 - wxHashTableLong: use wxHashMap instead
 - wxTheFontMapper: use wxFontMapper::Get() instead
 - wxStringHashTable: use wxHashMap instead
 - wxHashTableLong: use wxHashMap instead

-- wxArrayString::GetStringArray: no replacement
+- wxArrayString::GetStringArray: use wxCArrayString or alternative wxWindows
+                                 methods taking wxArrayString

 - wxArrayString::Remove(index, count): use RemoveAt instead
 - wxTreeItemId conversion to long is deprecated and shouldn't be used
 - [MSW only] wxWindow::GetUseCtl3D(), GetTransparentBackground() and
              SetTransparent() as well as wxNO_3D and wxUSER_COLOURS styles
 - wxArrayString::Remove(index, count): use RemoveAt instead
 - wxTreeItemId conversion to long is deprecated and shouldn't be used
 - [MSW only] wxWindow::GetUseCtl3D(), GetTransparentBackground() and
              SetTransparent() as well as wxNO_3D and wxUSER_COLOURS styles

+- wxList keyed interface: use wxHashMap instead
+- wxColourDatabase::FindColour(): use Find() instead (NB: different ret type)
+- wxHashTable::Next: use wxHashTable::Node* or
+                     wxHashTable::compatibility_iterator to store the return
+                     value
+- wxWave class; use wxSound instead

 
 
 OTHER CHANGES
 
 
 OTHER CHANGES


@@ -43,22 +76,131 @@ OTHER CHANGES
 2.5.1
 -----
 
 2.5.1
 -----
 

-Base:
+All:

 
 

+- event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
+- added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)

 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)

+- wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
+- added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
+- added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
+- added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
+- Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
+- added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
+- wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
+- wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
+- check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
+- when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
+  (as in 2.5.0).
+- added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
+  GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
+- changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
+  on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
+- added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
+  wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
+- intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
+  wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
+- added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
+  for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
+  wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
+- renamed wxWave class to wxSound

 
 All (GUI):
 
 
 All (GUI):
 

+- added wxListBook control
+- added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
+- added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)

 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()

+- added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
+- wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
+- wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
+- bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
+- status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
+- bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
+- make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
+- wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
+- added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
+- added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
+- wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
+- added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
+- fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
+  when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
+- dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
+- added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
+- wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
+  added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
+- using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
+- added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
+- added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
+- wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
+- added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents

 
 wxMSW:
 
 
 wxMSW:
 

+- wxWindows now builds under Win64
+- fixed DDE memory leaks

 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding

+- changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
+- wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
+- several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
+- wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
+- make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
+- MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
+- fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
+- added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
+- added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
+- wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
+  should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
+  wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
+- wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
+- added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
+- experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
+- fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
+- accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
+- background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
+- fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
+- Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
+- Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
+  aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
+- Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
+  than the specified default size
+- Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall

 
 wxGTK:
 
 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
 
 wxGTK:
 
 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)

+- fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
+- fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
+- allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
+- use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
+- fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
+- wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
+- memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
+- don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
+
+wxMac:
+
+- use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
+- implemented handling of mouse wheel
+- fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
+- use unix sockets for Mach-o builds
+
+wxMotif:
+
+- look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
+
+wxHTML:
+
+- wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
+  on Unix (Markus Sinner)
+
+Unix:
+
+- added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
+- implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
+  addition to existing OSS one
+- it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)

 
 
 2.5.0
 
 
 2.5.0


@@ -90,6 +232,13 @@ All:
 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
 - added wxRecursionGuard class
 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
 - added wxRecursionGuard class
 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)

+- Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
+  When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
+  std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
+  implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
+- Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
+  it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
+  both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.

 
 wxBase:
 
 
 wxBase: