Blind fix for typo in 50972.

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / changes.txt

diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index eaac74c1cf1c6cc18615fe369a3656303b6b2ecb..14a1c96cc5abdf2c69d37e33e72da775cc1d96f3 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
 - WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 doesn't exist any more, please update your code if
   you still relied on features deprecated since version 2.4
 
+- wxDC classes hierarchy has changed, if you derived any classes from wxDC you
+  need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and
+  uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours.
+
 - Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no
   longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem
   in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break
@@ -154,6 +158,15 @@ Deprecated methods and their replacements
 Major new features in this release
 ----------------------------------
 
+- wxWidgets is now always built with Unicode support but provides the same
+  simple (i.e. "char *"-tolerant) API as was available in ANSI build in the
+  past.
+
+- wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally,
+  depending on what is optimal for the target platform.
+
+- Events loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
+
 
 2.9.0
 -----
@@ -193,6 +206,8 @@ All (GUI):
 
 - Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames()
 - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
+- Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications
+- Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect()
 - 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).
@@ -232,7 +247,14 @@ All (GUI):
   behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions.
 - Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table
   to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance.
-- Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
+- Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren(). (Szczepan Holyszewski)
+- Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
+- Added support for automatic dialog scrolling, via the new wxDialogLayoutAdapter
+  class and various new wxDialog functions. See the topic "Automatic Scrolling
+  Dialogs" in the manual for further details.
+- Added support for resizing wxWizard bitmaps to the current page height,
+  via SetBitmapPlacement, SetBitmapBackgroundColour and SetMinimumBitmapWidth.
+  Also made it easier to derive from wxWizard and override behaviour.
 
 wxGTK:
 
@@ -264,7 +286,8 @@ 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
-- Fix centering wxFileDialog
+- Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it
+- Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk)
 
 wxX11:
 
@@ -272,6 +295,25 @@ wxX11:
 - Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
 
 
+2.8.8
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner)
+- Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date()
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling()
+- Improve wximage::ResampleBox() (Mihai Ciocarlie)
+- Implemented ScrollList() in generic wxListCtrl (Tim Kosse)
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Fix rare bug with messages delivered to wrong wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
+
+
 2.8.7
 -----