-19th December '99: wxWindows 2.1.12 released
+6th January '2000: wxWindows 2.1.12 released
-Who has a BigEndian computer (e.g. Sparc) that runs a 15 and/or
-16 bit colour mode? I need this for testing purposes, i.e. this
+Who has a BigEndian computer (e.g. Sparc or PowerPC) that runs a 15
+and/or 16 bit colour mode? I need this for testing purposes, i.e. this
person could help me by running a small testprogram and sending
me the output.
+Improved support for GTK's themes, changes in font sizes (and
+the dialogs' ability to react to that) and related things.
+
+Added Calendar control.
+
+Added classes for recoding text (e.g. from Windows encoding to ISO encoding
+and for converting to and from Unicode).
+
+Updated the 64-bit long class (a class that substitutes a 64-bit int
+type on platforms which don't provide a native one).
+
+Added wxImage::Replace() (for replacing colours) and wxImage::GetSubImage().
+Also corrected conversion from mono bitmaps to wxImage.
+
+Added wxBitmap::GetSubBitmap().
+
+Removed some flicker from tree ctrl. Minor optical changes.
+
+Added support for multiple font and colour support for items in
+list ctrls and tree ctrls.
+
+Added support for multiple-selection file dialog.
+
Implemented wxMenuBar::Insert() and wxMenu::Insert(). There is
also a Remove() method now, but the GTK doesn't really like that.
wxGTK no longer gives warnings if the application shows a dialog
before entering the main loop.
+Added string to long/ulong/float conversion routines and some
+more string related things.
+
Updated documentation for wxFile, wxFFile and their respective
stream classes. Documented some more stream classes.
Improved wxHTML and its help system. Options dialog, better printing,
-history index.
+history index. Also implemented more (cite, definition lists, etc).
Corrected wxRegion::GetBox().
Added wxDir class. Useful as a replacement for wxFileGetFirst()
and wxFileGetNext().
+Fixed Y2000 bug in file dialog (sic.)
+
Added wxStopWatch class.
wxBitmap now derives from wxGDIObject.
The ODBC classes can now be configured at run-time if they
are to use forward-only cursors or not.
-Added wxDateTime class.
+Added wxDateTime class. The existing classes wxTime and wxDate
+have been reimplemented and corrected using wxDateTime.
Rewritten wxThread to have a flag controlling if the
thread will delete its C++ class itself ("delete this") or
Minor compile and build fixes for different architectures.
Added more flags to wxSizer for proportional sizing and
-centering and alignment combination.
+centering and alignment combination and a wxNotebookSizer.
Added controls to wxToolBars (e.g. combobox) and DeleteTool.
-Fixed problem with reading flushable streams.
+Fixed several problems with buffered streams. Added support for
+setting the end-of-line mode (Mac,DOS,Unix) in wxTextOutputStream.
Added code to send events from one thread to another and added
function to wake up idle system (needed for sending inter-thread
Corrected segfaults in wxGLCanvas and stupid race when using
several such canvasses.
-Some minor updates to wxSockets.
+Some minor updates to wxSockets. Fixed timeout problem.
-Speed-up for new encoding related font code.
+Speed-up for new encoding related font code. Minor fixes.
Changed wxListBox to send deferred events, i.e. events emitted by
the listbox won't get processed before the next idle message.
-Some more minor changes.
+More minor changes and fixes.
+
+Began work on a new dialog and resource editor (wxDesigner).
7st November '99: wxWindows 2.1.11 released