wxString, in many cases code using it won't compile any more and NULL
should be replaced with an empty string.
+- Functions returning "const wxChar *" were changed as well. Mostly they now
+ return wxString which is then transparently convertible to either "const char
+ *" or "const wchar_t *" but in some cases, notably wxDateTime::ParseXXX(),
+ the returned string could be NULL and so a separate helper class is used. If
+ you obtain compilation errors because of this, you can always correct them by
+ explicitly assigning the function return value to a variable of wanted type.
+ A slightly more intrusive but better solution is to use ParseXXX() version
+ with wxString::const_iterator output parameter which simply returns bool to
+ indicate the parsing success.
- Some structure fields which used to be of type "const wxChar *" (such as
wxCmdLineEntryDesc::shortName, longName and description fields) are now of
GetSizeAvailableForScrollTarget() method, please see its documentation for
more details.
+- Processing of pending events now requires a running event loop.
+ Thus initialization code (e.g. showing a dialog) previously done in wxApp::OnRun()
+ or equivalent function should now be done into wxApp::OnEventLoopEnter().
+ See wxApp::OnEventLoopEnter() and wxApp::OnEventLoopExit() docs for more info.
+
Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
-----------------------------------------------------------
need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and
uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours.
+- wxWindow::ProcessEvent() (and other wxEvtHandler methods inherited by wxWindow)
+ has been made protected to prevent wrongly using it instead of correct
+ GetEventHandler()->ProcessEvent().
+ New ProcessWindowEvent() was added for convenience.
+
- 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
derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you
can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments.
-- wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they can't be
+- wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they couldn't be
implemented correctly any longer because automatically generated ids are not
- necessarily allocated consecutively any more. Use GetChildren() to find the
+ necessarily allocated consecutively now. Use GetChildren() to find the
next/previous control sibling instead.
- Calling wxConfig::Write() with an enum value will fail to compile because
have been changed to accept "wxBitmapType bitmaptype", please use enum
wxBitmapType in your code.
+- wxGridCellEditor::EndEdit() signature has changed and it was split in two
+ functions, one still called EndEdit() and ApplyEdit(). See the documentation
+ of the new functions for more details about how grid editors should be
+ written now.
+
+- wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGE event renamed to wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED and shouldn't
+ be vetoed any more, use the new wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING event to do it.
+
+- wxListCtrlCompare function used with wxListCtrl::SortItems() must now declare
+ its third parameter as wxIntPtr and not long (this allows passing pointers
+ to it under 64 bit platforms too).
+
+- Global wxPendingEvents and wxPendingEventsLocker objects were removed.
+ You may use wxEventLoopBase::SuspendProcessingOfPendingEvents instead of
+ locking wxPendingEventsLocker now.
+
+
Deprecated methods and their replacements
-----------------------------------------
"Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names.
- wxConnection::OnExecute() is not formally deprecated yet but new code should
use simpler OnExec() version which is called with wxString argument
-- wxMenuItem::GetLabel has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabelText
-- wxMenuItem::GetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabel
-- wxMenuItem::GetLabelFromText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetLabelText
-- wxMenuItem::SetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::SetItemLabel
-- wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen ctor now take
- respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a plain "int style";
- use the new wxBrush/wxPen style names (wxBRUSHSTYLE_XXX and wxPENSTYLE_XXX) instead
- of the old deprecated wxXXX styles (which however are still available).
+- Various wxMenuItem methods were deprecated in favour of more consisently
+ named new versions:
+ . GetLabel() is now GetItemLabelText()
+ . GetText() is not GetItemLabel()
+ . GetLabelFromText() is now GetLabelText()
+ . SetText() is now SetItemLabel()
+- wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen
+ ctor now take respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a
+ plain "int style"; use the new wxBrush/wxPen style names (wxBRUSHSTYLE_XXX
+ and wxPENSTYLE_XXX) instead of the old deprecated wxXXX styles.
+- EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGE was deprecated, use EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED instead if you
+ don't veto the event in its handler and EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING if you do.
- EVT_CALENDAR_DAY event has been deprecated, use EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED.
- EVT_CALENDAR_MONTH and EVT_CALENDAR_YEAR events are deprecated,
use EVT_CALENDAR_PAGE_CHANGED which replaces both of them.
it with SetDeviceClippingRegion() if this was the correct thing to do in your
code.
- wxTE_AUTO_SCROLL style is deprecated as it's always on by default anyhow.
+- wxThreadHelper::Create() has been renamed to CreateThread which has a better
+ name for a mix-in class, and allows setting the thread type.
+- wxDos2UnixFilename, wxUnix2DosFilename, wxStripExtension, wxGetTempFileName,
+ wxExpandPath, wxContractPath, wxRealPath, wxCopyAbsolutePath, wxSplitPath
+ were deprecated in favour of wxFileName methods. See docs for more info.
+- wxEvtHandler::TryValidator/Parent() are deprecated, override the new and
+ documented TryBefore/After() methods if you used to override these ones.
+- wxGetMultipleChoices() is deprecated, use wxGetSelectedChoices() which has
+ the same signature but returns -1 and not 0 if the dialog was cancelled.
+- building the windows which are placed inside wxStaticBoxes as siblings of the
+ wxStaticBox is still allowed but it's deprecated as it gives some problems
+ on some ports (e.g. wxGTK).
+ You should now create windows placed inside a wxStaticBox as children of
+ the static box itself.
+- wxMouseState::{Left,Middle,Right}Down() were renamed to XXXIsDown() for
+ consistency with wxMouseEvent and the old names were deprecated.
Major new features in this release
- wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally,
depending on what is optimal for the target platform.
-- New propgrid library containing wxPropertyGrid and related classes, many
- enhancements to wxDataViewCtrl.
+- New propgrid library containing wxPropertyGrid and related classes.
+
+- Many enhancements to wxDataViewCtrl.
- Event loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
+- Events can now be connected to any functor, not necessarily a method of
+ wxEvtHandler-derived class. The compile-time safety was also improved.
+
- 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
welcome (and due to using the simple Doxygen syntax it is now easier than
ever to submit patches correcting them! :-)
+- Support for persistent objects automatically saving and restoring their state
+ was added.
+
+
+2.9.1:
+------
+
+All:
+
+- Added wxStd{Input,Output}Stream classes (Jonathan Liu).
+- Include port number in host header in wxHTTP (Marcin 'Malcom' Malich).
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Support loading wxListCtrl items and image lists from XRC (Kinaou Hervé).
+- wxGrid: add possibility to prevent resizing of individual rows/columns.
+- wxHTML: add support for table borders width (Laurent Humbertclaude).
+- Added wxMouseEventsManager.
+
+MSW:
+
+- Allow changing the height of wxChoice and wxComboBox.
+
+i18n:
+
+- Korean translations added (Sungkee Jung).
+- Romanian translations added (Manuel Ciosici).
+
2.9.0
-----
- Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen).
- Cleaned up wxURI and made it Unicode-friendly.
-- Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski)
+- Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski).
- Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it.
-- Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe)
+- Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe).
- Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
- Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)
- Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr).
- Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
- Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
- Implemented wxMemoryFSHandler::FindFirst/Next().
+- Added wxEventLoop::DispatchTimeout().
+- Added wxZlibStream::SetDictionary() (Axel Gembe).
- Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz).
- Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev).
- Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev).
Linnakangas).
- wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared,
if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented.
-- Added wxWeakRef<T>, wxScopedPtr<T>, wxSharedPtr<T> class templates
+- Added wxWeakRef<T>, wxScopedPtr<T>, wxScopedArray<T>, wxSharedPtr<T> templates
+ and renamed old wx/ptr_{scpd,shrd}.h headers to wx/scoped{ptr,array}.h and
+ wx/sharedptr.h (but old headers are still provided for compatibility).
- Added wxVector<T> class templates
- Added wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_SET() and wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_NULL() to wx/scopeguard.h.
- Added wxEvtHandler::QueueEvent() replacing AddPendingEvent() and
- Added wxString::Capitalize() and MakeCapitalized().
- Added wxArray::swap().
- Added wxSHUTDOWN_LOGOFF and wxSHUTDOWN_FORCE wxShutdown() flags (troelsk).
-- Added wxArtProvider::GetNativeSizeHint(); GetSizeHint() as well as
- GetNativeSizeHint() now return more sensible values in wxMSW and wxMac and
- no longer return bogus values.
+- Added wxSocket::ShutdownOutput().
+- Handle exceptions thrown from overridden wxView::OnCreate() gracefully.
+- Added wxPATH_RMDIR_FULL/RECURSIVE wxFileName::Rmdir() flags (Marcin Malich).
+- Added wxStandardPaths::GetAppDocumentsDir().
+- Added wx-prefixed versions of DECLARE_NO_{COPY,ASSIGN}_CLASS macros.
+- Added wxFileName::ReplaceEnvVariable and wxFileName::ReplaceHomeDir.
+- Added wxProtocol::SetDefaultTimeout(); the default timeout for both wxHTTP and wxFTP
+ protocols is 60 seconds.
+- Added wxStrnlen() for safe computation of string length.
+- Added wxImage::Clear() (troelsk).
+- Added wxLog::Log().
+- Added wxProtocolLog and use it in wxFTP.
+- Added wxXmlResource::GetResourceNode().
+- Optimize wxString::Replace() to use an O(N) algorithm (Kuang-che Wu).
+- Added support of %l format specifier to wxDateTime::ParseFormat().
+- wxImage handlers can now support multiple extensions (Ivan Krestinin).
+- Added wxFileName::StripExtension() (troelsk).
+- Added wxLOCALE_DATE/TIME_FMT support to wxLocale::GetInfo().
All (Unix):
- Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski).
- Noticeably (by a factor of ~150) improve wxIPC classes performance.
+- Configure options --with-opengl and --enable-mediactrl now default to "auto":
+ if OpenGL and GStreamer libraries are available the "gl" and "media" wx libraries
+ are automatically built.
All (GUI):
- Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes.
- Integrated wxPropertyGrid in wxWidgets itself (Jaakko Salli).
- Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK.
+- Added wxHeaderCtrl and allow using it in wxGrid.
+- Added wxRearrangeList, wxRearrangeCtrl and wxRearrangeDialog.
- Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames().
- Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
- Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications.
- Added wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson).
- Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski).
- Support custom labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson for wxMac version).
+- Added wxScrolledWindow::ShowScrollbars().
- Also added wxCANCEL_DEFAULT to wxMessageDialog.
- Allow copying text in the log dialogs.
- Added multisample (anti-aliasing) support to wxGLCanvas (Olivier Playez).
+- Added wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_DROPDOWN/CLOSEUP events (Igor Korot).
+- Added wxCAL_SHOW_WEEK_NUMBERS wxCalendarCtrl style (Sören Meyer-Eppler).
- Initialize wx{Client,Paint,Window}DC with fonts/colours of its window.
- Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows.
- Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr).
- Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron).
- Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage().
- Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov).
+- Added wxTextEntry::SetHint().
- Made wxLogWindow thread-safe (Barbara Maren Winkler).
- Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid).
- Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid).
- Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid).
+- Added support for drop-down toolbar buttons to XRC.
- Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II).
- New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr).
- Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
-- Slovak translation added.
- Fixed tab-related drawing and hit-testing bugs in wxRichTextCtrl.
- Implemented background colour in wxRichTextCtrl.
- Fixed crashes in helpview when opening a file.
- 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.
-- Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window
+- Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window.
- Add support for wxDatePickerCtrl in wxGenericValidator (Herry Ayen Yang)
- Added wxWindow::HasFocus().
- Added wxGLCanvas::IsDisplaySupported().
marked for destruction but also if any of its parent windows are.
- Improved drawing of the hint during column move in wxGrid (Santo Pfingsten).
- Add wxGridSelectRowsOrColumns selection mode to wxGrid.
+- Add wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING event matching wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED.
- Get/HasModifiers() of wxKeyEvent are now also available in wxMouseEvent.
+- Provide new/old cell value in wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING/CHANGED events.
+- Added wxArtProvider::GetNativeSizeHint(); GetSizeHint() as well as
+ GetNativeSizeHint() now return more sensible values in wxMSW and wxMac and
+ no longer return bogus values.
+- Added wxControl::SetLabelText() and EscapeMnemonics().
+- Added support for wxFILTER_EMPTY and wxFILTER_DIGITS styles to wxTextValidator;
+ added also the SetCharIncludes() and SetCharExcludes() utilities.
+- Added wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_FILTER and many wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_COMPRESSION_* options
+ to wxImage and wxPNGHandler to allow for custom compression levels when saving PNGs
+ (Perdana Panduwana)
+- Added GetValue(), GetRange(), GetMessage() functions to wxProgressDialog
+- Moved yield functions to wxEventLoopBase and implemented for wxMSW and wxGTK
+ a selective wxEventLoopBase::YieldFor() function.
+ Added also wxEventLoopBase::IsYielding to help cure re-entrancy problems with Yield().
+- Render <th> element contents in bold in wxHTML.
+- Added wxGrid::{Set,Get}{Row,Col}Sizes() methods (Andrey Putrin).
+- Add support for wxSP_WRAP in the generic version of wxSpinCtrlDouble.
+- Add alignment flags support to wxSpinCtrl[Double] (Andrew Radke).
+- Added wxGetSelectedChoices() replacing wxGetMultipleChoices() (Kolya Kosenko).
+- Check whether document fits into page horizontally in wxHtmlPrintout, see the
+ new CheckFit() method for more information.
+- Allow reading GIFs with incorrectly specified animation size.
+- Return number of frames in animated GIF from wxGIFHandler::GetImageCount().
wxGTK:
- Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi).
+- Ellipsize long strings in wxStatusBar (Francesco Montorsi)
- Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
- Native keyboard navigation implementation.
- Added wxCB_SORT support to wxComboBox (Evgeniy Tarassov).
wxMSW:
+- Fix many problems with selection in multi-selection wxTreeCtrl (Jonathan Liu).
- Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications.
- Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
- wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
+- wxCheckListBox now also supports use of client data (Marcin Malich).
- Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
- Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it.
- Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk).
accurately represents what will be printed. This fixes wxHtmlEasyPrinting
preview inaccuracies on Windows; on other platforms, native preview
should be used.
+- Implement wxFileName::SetTimes() for directories (Steve Lamerton).
+- Added wxToolTip::SetMaxWidth() and improved default wrapping (Joachim Hönig).
+- Changed default toolbar bitmaps size from obsolete 16x15 to 24x24 used
+ by modern apps.
+- Ellipsize long strings in wxStatusBar (Francesco Montorsi)
+- Fix spurious repaint when changing tooltip text (Jonathan Liu).
+- Fix wxSP_WRAP and wxSP_ARROW_KEYS in wxSpinCtrlDouble (Andrew Radke).
wxX11:
- Implement wxBitmap ctor from XBM data.
+i18n:
+-----
+
+- Slovak translations added (Ivan Masár).
+
+
+2.8.10:
+-------
+
+All:
+
+- wxHashMap::insert() doesn't update the value if it didn't insert the element
+ any more (Marcin Malich).
+- Correct bug in wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative spans.
+- Correct several bugs in wxList using end() iterators (Suzumizaki-Kimitaka).
+- Added Vietnamese translation (Tran Ngoc Quan).
+- Updated Slovenian translation (Martin Srebotnjak).
+- Corrected Serbian locale name (Cody Precord).
+- Fix wxURL::GetInputStream() for URLs with special characters in credentials
+ (Robert Wruck).
+- Fix wxURI::GetUser() for URIs without password.
+- Correct wxDateTime DST computation for 2006 and later (Christopher Barker).
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- wxRTC: fixed input that uses Alt on Mac OS X, for example Polish Pro input.
+ Also fixed a bug whereby e.g. Croatian keys didn't work, by moving more code
+ to key down handler.
+- wxRTC: fixed a problem with HTML list generation.
+- wxRTC: no longer deletes a character when content is selected before
+ pressing Delete.
+- wxRTC: fixed inability to select no superscript and no subscript in
+ formatting dialog.
+- wxRTC: fixed centering and right-justification when combined with left
+ indentation.
+- wxRTC: fixed lack of right margin when centering or right-justifying.
+- wxRTC: fixed wrong descent when wrapping lines with different font sizes.
+- wxRTC: fixed wrapping problem for long lines.
+- wxRTC: all buffer margins now respected.
+- wxRTC: Added wxRE_CENTRE_CARET to centre the caret line vertically.
+- Fixed wxHTML's pagebreaks computation in tables (D.J.Stauffer).
+- Fixed wxHtmlWindow::SelectionToText() to correctly insert newlines after
+ single-cell paragraphs.
+- Fixed wxHTML's line breaks handling in <pre> blocks broken in 2.8.8 (#10120).
+- wxHTML: don't include extra whitespace in table cells.
+- Implemented wxWindow::DragAcceptFiles() on all platforms.
+- Added wxAUI_MGR_LIVE_RESIZE flag to wxAuiManager and made it the default on
+ wxMac with CoreGraphics where sash drawing isn't implemented.
+- Use bitmap mask in wxSplashScreen.
+- Translate "(c)" and "(C)" to the real copyright sign in wxAboutBox.
+- Fix painting of highlight border for merged cells in wxGrid (K. Jones).
+- Fix handling of long lines in wxGridCellAutoWrapStringRenderer.
+
+All (Unix):
+
+- Return false from wxSingleInstanceChecker::IsAnotherRunning() if an error
+ occurred while opening or reading the lock file (Lauri Nurmi).
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Fixed bug with using non default encoding in wxTextCtrl in ANSI build.
+- Restored generation of events for accelerators when there is no menu bar.
+- Fixed wxArtProvider::GetSizeHint() to return 16x16 for wxART_FRAME_ICON.
+- Fixed toolbar buttons so that they don't disappear temporarily when clicked
+ if the event handler causes window update.
+- Fix display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron).
+- Fix best size calculation for wxNotebook with multiple rows (Alex McCarthy).
+- Correct coordinates of wxDropFilesEvent (Dmitriy Maksimov).
+- Fix handling of abandoned mutexes in wxMutex (David Heffernan).
+- Avoid warnings about deprecated localtime with MSVC8/9 (Chris Stankevitz).
+- Fixed invisible CHM tooltip text bug when window text colour is black.
+- Automatically adjust toolbar's tool size if the provided bitmaps
+ don't fit into the default size.
+- Don't generate EVT_LISTBOX_DCLICK events with incorrect indices.
+- Don't reuse the double click handled by activation event handler for toggling
+ the item in wxTreeCtrl.
+
+
+wxMSW/CE:
+
+- Don't hardcode the menu bar height (Michele Spighi).
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Fixed printing to use fonts sizes adjustment consistent with wxMSW.
+- Make colours used by list, tree and status bar controls more consistent with
+ the system theme settings (Tim Kosse).
+- Worked around bug in GTK+ < 2.14 where enabling some controls such
+ as wxButton didn't re-enable sensitivity until the mouse was moved.
+
+wxOS2:
+
+- Added implementation for wxSingleInstanceChecker contributed by Lauri Nurmi
+
2.8.9
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