the "Changes Since wxWidgets 2.8" section of the manual,
please read it if the explanation here is too cryptic.
+Table of contents of this section:
+
+ - Unicode-related changes
+ - wxODBC and contrib libraries removal
+ - Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors
+ - Build system changes
+ - Major new features in this release
+
Unicode-related changes
-----------------------
error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting to const
wxChar*: wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "")
+- wxDateTime::ParseXXX() overloads don't return anything when called with
+ wxCStrData argument. If you need to test the parsing success, use a newer
+ overload taking wxString::const_iterator and returning bool or explicitly
+ select a narrow or wide char version to use by casting c_str() to either
+ "char*" or "wchar_t*". Or create a temporary wxString and parse it instead.
+
- wxCtime() and wxAsctime() return char*; this is incompatible with Unicode
build in wxWidgets 2.8 that returned wchar_t*.
result in compilation errors due to an ambiguity between them if you pass
NULL as client data. To fix this, cast NULL explicitly to "void**".
+- wxChoicebookEvent, wxListbookEvent, wxNotebookEvent, wxToolbookEvent and
+ wxTreebookEvent are now all synonyms for wxBookCtrlEvent. The existing code
+ using the old names continues to work but they can't be forward-declared
+ any more. Use wxBookCtrlEvent in your code if you need to forward-declare
+ it or just include the appropriate header instead of forward declaration.
+
Deprecated methods and their replacements
-----------------------------------------
possible or wxWindowDisabler otherwise.
+Changes in behaviour visible to end users
+-----------------------------------------
+
+- In wxMSW wxSpinCtrl used to prevent the user from entering more digits than
+ could fit in its visible area. This was inconsistent with the other ports and
+ now the control scrolls if too much text is added.
+
+
+Build system changes
+--------------------
+
+- In wxMSW makefile builds, "_x64" is used instead of "_amd64" when compiling
+ for this architecture in the architecture-specific paths and library names.
+ TARGET_CPU can still be specified as "amd64" for compatibility but "x64"
+ should be used now.
+
+- Official wxMSW binaries, i.e. those built with OFFICIAL_BUILD=1, built with
+ MSVC now include the version of the compiler used and the architecture if
+ it's not the default "x86". E.g. a library built with MSVC 10 for amd64 is
+ called "wxbase294ud_vc110_amd64.dll" now.
+
+
Major new features in this release
----------------------------------
was added.
-2.9.4:
+2.9.5: (released ????-??-??)
+----------------------------
+
+All:
+
+- Add separate read/written bytes counters and per-direction NOWAIT and WAITALL
+ flags to wxSocket (Rob Bresalier).
+- Add wxDir::Close() method (Silverstorm82).
+- Fix compilation of wxHash{Map,Set} with g++ 4.7 (Nathan Ridge).
+- Fix posting large amounts of data in wxHTTP (Platonides).
+- Add wxFile::ReadAll() for consistency with wxFFile.
+- Add wxDateTime::DiffAsDateSpan() and wxDateSpan::GetTotalMonths() (jonasr).
+- Added Nepali translation (Him Prasad Gautam).
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Add wxBITMAP_PNG() macro similar to wxBITMAP() but for PNG files.
+- Add new wxSimplebook class.
+- Support hexadecimal numbers in wxSpinCtrl.
+- Respect window max size in wxBoxSizer (Nathan Ridge).
+- Add support for searching in wxWebView for MSW and GTK (Allonii).
+- Add generic wxFileSystem support to wxWebView with
+ wxWebViewFSHandler (Nick Matthews).
+- Add possibility to hide and show again wxRibbonBar pages (wxBen).
+- Add wxRibbonBar pages highlighting (wxBen).
+- Add expand/collapse button to wxRibbonBar (rakeshthp).
+- Fix item data access in wxDataViewListCtrl (Kry).
+- Fix problem with floating maximized AUI panes (Laurent Poujoulat).
+- Add owned client data support to wxRibbonButtonBar. Notice that the client
+ data now must be set using the SetItemClient{Data,Object}() methods and not
+ when inserting the button (Laurent Poujoulat).
+- Add wxBitmapButton::NewCloseButton().
+- Add wxTextEntry::SelectNone() (troelsk).
+- Restore the original wxGrid col/row size when unhiding it (Michael Richards).
+- Fix text origin and extent computations in wxSVGFileDC (Neil Chittenden).
+- Show tooltips for the too long items in generic wxTreeCtrl (Steven Houchins).
+- Add wxStyledTextCtrl::AnnotationClearLine() (sentieshar).
+- Add support for background-color style to span element in wxHTML (gevorg).
+- Add limited support for CSS styles for <a> tags too in wxHTML (gevorg).
+- Add "inherit" to <font> XRC tag (Steffen Olszewski, Gero Meßsysteme GmbH).
+- Add support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style to wxScrolled<> (Catalin Raceanu).
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Allow building wxGTK3 with Broadway backend (Kolya Kosenko).
+- Provide native implementation of wxNotificationMessage using libnotify.
+- Generate clipboard events for wxComboBox and not only wxTextCtrl.
+- Improve drag-and-drop of URLs.
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Fix setting colours for the text part of wxComboBox (Igor Korot).
+- Add support for CURRENCY and SCODE types to OLE Automation helpers (PB).
+- Allow setting LCID used by wxAutomationObject (PB).
+- Better support for SAFEARRAY in OLE Automation code (PB).
+- Fix calling Iconize(false) on hidden top level windows (Christian Walther).
+- Don't send any events from wxSpinCtrl::SetRange() even if the value changed.
+
+
+2.9.4: (released 2012-07-09)
------
+INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.9.3
+
+- wxDataViewListCtrl doesn't delete its client data any more for compatibility
+ with wxListCtrl, use full wxDataViewCtrl if you don't need compatibility.
+
All:
- Added wxLogFormatter to allow customizing wxLog output (Sébastien Gallou).
- Implement wxThread::SetConcurrency() for POSIX systems (Igor Korot).
- Fix deadlock due to too many events in Unix console apps (Lukasz Michalski).
- Added wxDir::GetNameWithSep().
+- Allow unloading wxPluginLibrary objects in any order (manyleaves).
+- Fix passing strings with embedded NULs in wxThreadEvents (Steffen Olszewski).
All (GUI):
+- Add wxGrid::Render() for printing wxGrid (John Roberts).
- Added strike-through support to wxFont (Igor Korot).
- Add support for horizontal mouse wheel events to MSW and GTK (Lauri Nurmi).
- Fix infinite loop in wxHtmlEasyPrinting when trying to page break images
- Send wxEVT_UPDATE_UI for wxRibbonButtonBar and wxRibbonToolBar (Emilien Kia).
- Add InsertXXXButton() to wxRibbonButtonBar and wxRibbonToolBar (Emilien Kia).
- Allow enabling/disabling and toggling tools in wxRibbonToolBar (Emilien Kia).
+- Add wxRibbonBar::DeletePage() and ClearPages() methods (Emilien Kia).
+- Implement support for extension button to wxRibbonPanel (Emilien Kia).
- Fix multiple item selection in generic wxTreeCtrl (Igor Korot).
- Implement wxMenuBar::IsEnabledTop() for all major ports (Igor Korot).
- Implement best size calculation for report mode wxListCtrl.
- Added wxAcceleratorEntry::ToRawString() (Armel Asselin).
- Added wxDataViewEvent::SetDragFlags() and GetDropEffect() (Friedrich).
- Added support for fields and virtual attributes to wxRichTextCtrl.
+- Added custom text and dimension scaling to wxRichTextCtrl.
+- Added pixel font size capability to wxTextAttr and wxRichTextCtrl.
+- Fully implement wxStyledTextCtrl::PositionToXY() (troelsk).
+- Added wxDataViewListCtrl::{Set,Get}ItemData().
+- Added wxDataViewListCtrl::GetItemCount() (Kry).
+- Added support for Korean Johab and Vietnamese encodings (jank9201).
+- Fix off by 1 bug with setting font size in points in wxHTML (gevorg).
+- Fix return value of wxGenericListCtrl::InsertColumn() (Sebastian Walderich).
GTK:
+- Added support for GTK+ 3 (John Chain and Paul Cornett)
- Implement support for wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT (Armel Asselin).
+- Implement stippled/hatched pens/brushes in wxGraphicsContext (Kit Bishop).
- Fix wxNotebook best size calculation.
- Implement wxDirDialog::Create() and wxFileDialog::Create() (vinayakgarg).
- Fix const methods display in assert dialog (vinayakgarg).
- Implement native tab art for wxAUI (Jens Lody and Teodor Petrov).
+- Fix pasting large amounts of text (Bradley Hawkins).
+- Show gstreamer errors if wxMediaCtrl fails to play file.
+- Fix wxGridCellEnumEditor mouse handling (Fulvio Senore).
MSW:
- Fix coordinate handling in wxDC::Blit() when source DC is a DIB.
- Fix handling of composite windows in wxToolTip (Armel Asselin).
- Add VT_I8 support to wxAutomationObject (PB).
+- Fix wxListbook size calculations to avoid spurious scrollbars.
+- Fix code compilation with wxUSE_UNICODE_UTF8 (Kolya Kosenko).
+- Fix crash in wxTreeCtrl when calling GetSelection() from selection changed
+ event handler under Vista and later (sbrowne).
+- Fix text extent computation in wxGraphicsContext (juria90).
OSX:
- Provide native implementations of wxDatePickerCtrl and wxTimePickerCtrl.
- Fix handling of positional parameters in wxPrintf() &c (David Connet).
+- Implement wxStackWalker.
Univ:
projects / wxWidgets.git / blobdiff