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-wxWindows 2.5/2.6 Change Log
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+------------------------
+wxWidgets 2.5 Change Log
+------------------------
INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x
================================
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
+ wxFULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE to force this (wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE still
exists but doesn't do anything any more, this behaviour is default now)
+! wxWindow::m_font and m_backgroundColour/m_foregroundColour are no longer
+ always set, use GetFont(), GetBack/ForegroundColour() to access
+ them, and they will be dynamically determined if necessary.
+
+
+! The Sizers have had some fundamental internal changes in the 2.5.2
+ and 2.5.3 releases intended to make them do more of the "Right
+ Thing" but also be as backwards compatible as possible. First a bit
+ about how things used to work:
+
+ * The size that a window had when Add()ed to the sizer was assumed
+ to be its minimal size, and that size would always be used by
+ default when calculating layout size and positions, and the
+ sizer itself would keep track of that minimal size.
+
+ * If the window item was Add()ed with the wxADJUST_MINSIZE flag
+ then when layout was calculated the item's GetBestSize would be
+ used to reset the minimal size that the sizer used.
+
+ The main thrust of the new Sizer changes was to make behaviour like
+ wxADJUST_MINSIZE be the default, and also to push the tracking of
+ the minimal size to the window itself (since it knows its own needs)
+ instead of having the sizer take care of it. Consequently these
+ changes were made:
+
+ * The wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag was added to allow for the old
+ behaviour. When this flag is used the size a window has when
+ Add()ed to the sizer will be treated as its minimal size and it
+ will not be readjusted on each layout.
+
+ * The min size stored in wxWindow and settable with SetSizeHints or
+ SetMinSize will by default be used by the sizer (if it was set)
+ as the minimal size of the sizer item. If the minsize was not
+ set (or was only partially set) then the window's best size is
+ fetched and it is used instead of (or blended with) the minsize.
+ wxWindow:GetBestFittingSize was added to facilitate getting the
+ size to be used by the sizers.
+
+ * The best size of a window is cached so it doesn't need to
+ recaculated on every layout. wxWindow::InvalidateBestSize was
+ added and should be called (usually just internally in control
+ methods) whenever something is done that would make the best
+ size change.
+
+ * All wxControls were changed to set the minsize to what is passed
+ to the constructor or Create method, and also to set the real
+ size of the control to the blending of the minsize and bestsize.
+ wxWindow::SetBestFittingSize was added to help with this,
+ although most controls don't need to call it directly because it
+ is called indirectly via the SetInitialSize called in the base
+ classes.
+
+ At this time, the only situation known not to work the same as
+ before is the following:
+
+ win = new SomeWidget(parent);
+ win->SetSize(SomeNonDefaultSize);
+ sizer->Add(win);
+
+ In this case the old code would have used the new size as the
+ minimum, but now the sizer will use the default size as the minimum
+ rather than the size set later. It is an easy fix though, just move
+ the specification of the size to the constructor (assuming that
+ SomeWidget will set its minsize there like the rest of the controls
+ do) or call SetMinSize instead of SetSize.
+
+ In order to fit well with this new scheme of things, all wxControls
+ or custom controls should do the following things. (Depending on
+ how they are used you may also want to do the same thing for
+ non-control custom windows.)
+
+ * Either override or inherit a meaningful DoGetBestSize method
+ that calculates whatever size is "best" for the control. Once
+ that size is calculated then there should normally be a call to
+ CacheBestSize to save it for later use, unless for some reason
+ you want the best size to be recalculated on every layout.
+
+ * Any method that changes the attributes of the control such that
+ the best size will change should call InvalidateBestSize so it
+ will be recalculated the next time it is needed.
+
+ * The control's constructor and/or Create method should ensure
+ that the minsize is set to the size passed in, and that the
+ control is sized to a blending of the min size and best size.
+ This can be done by calling SetBestFittingSize.
+
+
- no initialization/cleanup can be done in wxApp/~wxApp because they are
now called much earlier/later than before; please move any exiting code
- wxZlibInputStream is not by default compatible with the output of the
2.4.x version of wxZlibOutputStream. However, there is a compatibilty mode,
switched on by passing wxZLIB_24COMPATIBLE to the constructor.
-
-wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
- won't exit even though there are no top level windows
+- when WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 == 0 wxHashTable uses a new implementation
+ not using wxList keyed interface (the same used when wxUSE_STL == 1),
+ the only incompatibility being that Next() returns a wxHashTable::Node*
+ instead of a wxNode*.
+- non-const wxDC methods GetBackground(), GetBrush(), GetFont() and GetPen()
+ as well as wxWindow methods GetFont() and GetCursor() don't exist any more,
+ please fix your code -- it never worked correctly anyhow if you modified the
+ objects returned by these methods so you should simply switch to using const
+ methods.
+- wxWindow::GetFont() now returns wxFont object instead of reference
+- EVT_XXX macros are now type-safe; code that uses wrong type for event
+ handler's argument will no longer compile.
+- Identical functionality of wxFileDialog::ParseWildcard,
+ wxGenericDirCtrl::ParseFilter, Motif and MSW parsing native dialogs
+ is now accessible in ::wxParseCommonDialogsFilter
+- wxNotebookSizer and wxBookCtrlSizer are now deprecated -- they are no longer
+ needed, you can treat wxNotebook as any other control and put it directly
+ into the sizer that was wxNotebookSizer's parent sizer in old code.
+- wxFile methods now return wxFileOffset which may be a 64 bit integer type,
+ even on 32 bit platforms, instead of off_t and so the return value of
+ wxFile::Length(), for example, shouldn't be assigned to off_t variable any
+ more (the compiler might warn you about this).
+- wxListItem::m_data is now of type wxUIntPtr, not long, for compatibility
+ with 64 bit systems
DEPRECATED METHODS SINCE 2.4.x
==============================
-Deprecated methods may still be used but will disappear in future wxWindows
+Deprecated methods may still be used but will disappear in future wxWidgets
versions, please update your code to not use them.
- wxDocManager::GetNoHistoryFiles() renamed to GetHistoryFilesCount()
- wxTheFontMapper: use wxFontMapper::Get() instead
- wxStringHashTable: use wxHashMap instead
- wxHashTableLong: use wxHashMap instead
-- wxArrayString::GetStringArray: use wxCArrayString or alternative wxWindows
+- wxArrayString::GetStringArray: use wxCArrayString or alternative wxWidgets
methods taking wxArrayString
- wxArrayString::Remove(index, count): use RemoveAt instead
- wxTreeItemId conversion to long is deprecated and shouldn't be used
wxHashTable::compatibility_iterator to store the return
value
- wxWave class; use wxSound instead
+- The wxHIDE_READONLY flag for wxFileDialog was not implemented
+ and has now been removed
+- wxTaskBarIcon::OnXXX() virtual methods: use events instead
+- obsolete and not used wxUSE_GENERIC_DIALOGS_IN_MSW has been removed
+- wxDbTable::wxDbTable with wxChar* deprecated, same with wxString& instead
OTHER CHANGES
=============
+2.5.3
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- support for huge (>2 Gb) files (Tim Kosse)
+- number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
+- fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
+- fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
+- fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
+- support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
+ (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
+- added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
+- basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
+- fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
+- deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
+- active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
+- sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
+- added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
+- added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
+
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
+- added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
+ of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
+ is discouraged
+- added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
+- added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
+- wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
+- added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
+- added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
+- implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
+- added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
+- added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
+ wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
+- added samples/splash
+- added support for stock buttons
+- added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
+- support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
+- recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
+- added wxChoicebook control
+- smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
+- the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
+- wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
+- it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
+- added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
+- wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
+ supported, instead of zero.
+
+Unix:
+
+- wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
+- security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
+- wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
+ builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
+- wx-config has new --version-full option
+
+wxMac:
+
+- Fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX (RN)
+- Added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock (RN)
+- Added wxDrawerWindow class for drawer windows for OSX >= 10.2 (RN - from Jason Bagley)
+- Native font dialog on OSX 10.2 and greater (RN)
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
+ configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
+- fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
+- implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
+- implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
+- implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
+- wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
+- added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
+- implemented text underlining under GTK2
+- implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
+- implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
+ in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
+- implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
+ freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
+- wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
+- implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
+- added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
+ icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
+- fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
+
+wxMotif:
+
+- added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
+- set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
+- support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
+- wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
+- restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
+- fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
+- fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
+- fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
+- wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
+- fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
+- don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
+- implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
+- fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
+- fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
+
+wxUniv/X11:
+
+- fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
+
+wxWinCE:
+
+- added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
+- added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
+- added automatized but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
+- fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
+
+wxHTML:
+
+- added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
+ than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
+
+
2.5.2
-----
All:
-- Hindi translations added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
+- Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
+- Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
- wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
of run-time) now
+- when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
+ wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
+ to forward declare these classes.
All (GUI):
min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
- added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
+- it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
wxMSW:
even try to do it by default -- now it does
- wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
won't exit even though there are no top level windows
+- wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
+- wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
+- fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
+- subdindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
wxMotif:
- removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
+- wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
+ and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
+ motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
wxUniv/X11:
- <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
Unix:
+
- fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
+- added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
+
+wxODBC:
+
+- Full Unicode support is now available
+- BLOB support is working
2.5.1
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()
wxMSW:
-- wxWindows now builds under Win64
+- wxWidgets now builds under Win64
- fixed DDE memory leaks
- fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
- wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
All:
- It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
- huge wxWindows library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
+ huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
separately compiled library
- added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
- added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
All GUI ports:
- added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
-- added wxListbook
+- added wxListbook control
- added alpha channel support to wxImage
- added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
- added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
- improved border handling under Windows XP
- partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
- wxWindows to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
+ wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
- disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
- fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
- added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
2.6 release.
NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
- of wxWindows you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
+ of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
(see the documentation) useful.
Unix (Base/GUI):
-- wxWindows may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
+- wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
programs and not only GNU make
- wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
-- wxWindows may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
+- wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
- fixed thread priority setting under Linux
- implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
- added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
- added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
- wxWindows dialogs
+ wxWidgets dialogs
- significantly improved native font support
- wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
wxHashTable
- fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
- refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
- huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
-- changing wxWindows styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
+- changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
- wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
- fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
- fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
-- improvements to wxWindows applications behaviour when the system colours
+- improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
are changed
- choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
- fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
- Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
- Added mousewheel processing
- Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
- wxWindows at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
+ wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
in wxDC
- Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
child frame styles are honoured
fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
-NOTE: for changes after wxWindows 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
+NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
change log.
2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
- Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
rationalised.
-- Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWindows as DLL.
+- Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
wxMotif:
- Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
- Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
- Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
- of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWindows
+ of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
startup/exit.
- Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
- Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
tray area.
-- Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWindows in the same
+- Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
- Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
- Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
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