+<h1><a name="id1">2.6.1.0</a></h1>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>4-June-2005</li>
+</ul>
+<p>wx.ListCtrl: patch #1210352, fixes editing in generic wx.ListCtrl with
+wx.LC_EDIT_LABELS.</p>
+<p>Applied patch #208286, MediaCtrl DirectShow rewrite.</p>
+<p>DocView patches from Morgan Hua: bug fixes, and additional SVN
+commands, also added a default template that uses the text editor for
+any unknown file type.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: Use the system IDC_HAND cursor for wx.CURSOR_HAND and only fallback
+to the strange wxWidgets version if the system one is not available.</p>
+<p>wx.grid.Grid: Merge the cell size attribute the same way that other
+attributes are merged, e.g., if it is already set to a non-default
+value in the current GridCellAttr object then don't merge from the
+other.</p>
+<p>wx.lib.evtmgr: Fixed to use wx._core._wxPyDeadObject</p>
+<p>wx.lib.gridmovers: Don't scroll when the mouse is dragged outside of
+the grid, unless the mouse is kept in motion.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: Applied patch #1213290 incorrect logic in
+wx.TopLevelWindow.ShowFullScreen.</p>
+<p>Applied patch #1213066 correct device names for Joystick in Linux.</p>
+<p>wxGTK: Applied patch #1207162 wx.TextCtrl.SetStyle fix for overlapping
+calls.</p>
+<p>wx.FileConfig: fixed DeleteEntry to set the dirty flag properly so the
+change will get written at the next flush.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id2">
+<h1><a name="id2">2.6.0.1</a></h1>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>30-May-2005</li>
+</ul>
+<p>Added wx.BrushFromBitmap to create a stippled brush in a single step.
+Also added missing brysh style flags: wx.STIPPLE_MASK
+wx.STIPPLE_MASK_OPAQUE.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: Fix for default control colours when the system text fg colour
+is not black.</p>
+<p>wxGTK: Patch #1171754, It is now possible to have a menu item that
+both has an icon and is a submenu.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: Patch #1197009, better refreshes when windows are moved and
+resized.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: Patch #1197468. Keeps track of pending size/position changes
+in case there is more than one adjustment for a window in a single
+DeferWindowPos set, then the pending values can be used for defaults
+instead of current values.</p>
+<p>Fixed the typemap that converts a Python list of strings to a
+wxArrayString so it uses the wxPython default encoding.</p>
+<p>Several docstrings added and updated. Lots more to go.</p>
+<p>wxMac: Strings added to the clipboard or used in DnD no longer have an
+extra null character at the end.</p>
+<p>Added wx.GetXDisplay that returns a raw swigified pointer for the X11
+Display, or None for the non-X11 platforms.</p>
+<p>wxMenu: Don't send an event when selecting an already selected radio
+item.</p>
+<p>Added wx.LaunchDefaultBrowser.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: Fixed erroneous selection of content in wx.ComboBox when within
+a wx.StaticBox.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.</p>
+<p>Ensure that Python is still in an initialized state before doing any
+locking or unlocking in wxPyBeginBlockThreads and wxPyEndBlockThreads
+as these can be triggered after Python has been finalized in embedding
+situations.</p>
+<p>Added alternate constructors for wx.Font: wx.FontFromPixelSize,
+wx.FFont, wx.FFontFromPixelSize. See the docstrings or new api docs
+for details.</p>
+<p>Added wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea Gavana. It is a control like
+static text that acts like a hyper-link, launching the system's
+default browser in response to the clicks.</p>
+<p>Added an optional parameter to wxversion.select that allows you to
+specify that the extra components specified in the version string are
+required. For example, if you ask for "2.6-unicode" but only the ansi
+version is installed then by default the ansi version will be selected
+as it considered close enough since the version numbers match. If you
+want to force the options to be required then you can just add a True
+parameter, like this:</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+import wxversion
+wxversion.select("2.6-unicode", True)
+import wx
+</pre>
+<p>Tweaked wx.lib.buttons such that flat buttons (e.g. have no bevel and
+a wx.BORDER_NONE style flag) paint themed backgrounds if there are
+transparent areas and the parent is displaying a theme.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: Fix for wrong sash colour of wx.SplitterWindow in the silver
+theme on XP.</p>
+<p>Added a wx.xrc.XmlResourceHandler for the Ticker class. See
+wx/lib/ticker_xrc.py</p>
+<p>wxSTC: Fixed CmdKeyAssign key bindings for Ctrl-Backspace.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: Fixed a bug in wx.TextCtrl where all the lines were being used
+to calculate the best size, instead of using a reasonable limit.</p>
+<p>XRCed: Use wx.GetDefaultPyEncoding/wx.SetDefaultPyEncoding for
+changing active encoding. Fixed pasting siblings (Ctrl key pressed
+while pasting).</p>
+<p>wx.lib.filebrowsebutton: Bug fix from Chad Netzer for when
+self.history is None.</p>
+<p>wx.ogl: Patch from Davide Salomoni that adds an optional point
+parameter to LineShape.InsertLineControlPoint allowing one to
+optionally specify where the new control point has to be drawn.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: setting foreground colour for wx.CheckBox now works when using
+XP themes.</p>
+<p>More updates to the docview library modules and sample apps from the
+ActiveGrid folks. Their sample IDE is now able to integrate with
+Subversion.</p>
+<p>wx.grid.Grid: Ensure that the grid gets the focus when it is
+left-clicked. Note that if you have custom widgets that handle the
+EVT_LEFT_DOWN event but do not call event.Skip() then you will
+probably want to add a call to self.SetFocus in the event handler.</p>
+<p>wxGTK: Add wxSTAY_ON_TOP support [Patch 1206023]</p>
+<p>wx.TreeCtrl: wx.EVT_TREE_ITEM_MENU event made consistent on all
+platforms. The location of the click or the item is included in the
+event as well.</p>
+<p>wxGTK: Setting background colour of a window now only affects the
+window itself, not the borders, scrollbars, etc. (Bug #1204069)</p>
+<p>Print framework: Add more paper sizes and code to fallback to an
+explicit paper size if a known paper size is not found for the
+printer.</p>
+<p>wxMac: Applied patch for bug #1206181 Option-key decodes are wrong,
+also applied patch for bug #1205691 Modified Fn keys don't work.</p>
+<p>wx.Image: Fixed to preserve alpha channel in Rotate90 method.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: Fixed incorrect background colour on wx.CheckListBox.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: Fixed drawing of owner drawn buttons with multiline labels</p>
+<p>Removed a bunch of unnecessary files, and removed or replaced images
+that we're not sure of their origin or license.</p>
+<p>The default DoGetBestSize is updated to not always return the current
+size if the window has no sizer, children, or minsize set. Instead
+the current size is set as the minsize. This solves the occasional
+problem where a sizer may cause a childless panel to grow but never
+shrink.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: When converting a wx.Icon to a bitmap check if the icon has an
+alpha channel and set the bitmap to use it.</p>
+<p>Fixed the wrong class name used in wx.PyScrolledWindow's call to
+_setCallbackInfo.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: patch #1207202, Fixes GDI leak when using stock cursors.</p>
+<p>wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl: Patch #1207531, Keeps the CalendarCtrl wide
+enough even when the weekday names for the locale are shorter than
+usual.</p>
+<p>Made GridCellNumberEditor.StartingKey also insert the typed char when
+there is a range of allowed values (so a wx.SpinCtrl is used instead
+of a wx.TextCtrl.)</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id3">
+<h1><a name="id3">2.6.0.0</a></h1>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>26-Apr-2005</li>
+</ul>
+<p>wxMSW: Fixed wx.TransientPopupWindow (and therefore wx.TipWindow) to
+auto-dismiss when the mouse is clicked outside of the popup like it is
+supposed to.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: Fixed bug #1167891 wx.Notebook display problem with wx.NB_MULTILINE.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: Fixed bad cliping of hidden windows inside of wx.StaticBox.</p>
+<p>wxGTK: The configure flags for selecting GTK+ 1.2.x or 2.x has
+changed slightly. It is now --with-gtk[=VERSION] where VERSION is
+either '1', '2' or 'any'. The default is '2'.</p>
+<p>wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the following methods for alternate ways
+to set and fetch text from the document buffer. They work similarly
+to the existing methods of the same name, except that they don't go
+through the same string/unicode <--> wxString conversions. The "Raw"
+methods will do no conversions at all and in a unicode build of
+wxPython the strings will be in the utf-8 encoding and in an ansi
+build no assumption is made about the encoding. The "UTF8" functions
+will attempt to always get/set utf-8 text, which it will always be
+able to do in a unicode build, and in an ansi build it will depend on
+the content of the utf-8 used being compatible with the current
+encoding, (you'll get an exception otherwise.)</p>
+<blockquote>
+<table border="1" class="docutils">
+<colgroup>
+<col width="49%" />
+<col width="51%" />
+</colgroup>
+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr><td>AddTextRaw</td>
+<td>AddTextUTF8</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>InsertTextRaw</td>
+<td>InsertTextUTF8</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>GetCurLineRaw</td>
+<td>GetCurLineUTF8</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>GetLineRaw</td>
+<td>GetLineUTF8</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>GetSelectedTextRaw</td>
+<td>GetSelectedTextUTF8</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>GetTextRangeRaw</td>
+<td>GetTextRangeUTF8</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>SetTextRaw</td>
+<td>SetTextUTF8</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>GetTextRaw</td>
+<td>GetTextUTF8</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>AppendTextRaw</td>
+<td>AppendTextUTF8</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</blockquote>
+<p>wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the StyleSetFontEncoding(style, enc)
+method that allows you to set the encoding to be used by the font for
+a particular style.</p>
+<p>wxMac: Fixed wx.ComboBox to forward the EVT_CHAR, EVT_KEY_DOWN,
+EVT_KEY_UP and EVT_TEXT events from its embedded text control.</p>
+<p>wxMac: Corrected refresh bugs in wxGrid.</p>
+<dl class="docutils">
+<dt>XRCed: Updated to version 0.1.5.</dt>
+<dd><ul class="first last simple">
+<li>Added wxWizard, wxWizardPageSimple (only from pull-down menu).</li>
+<li>Hide command for test window.</li>
+<li>Replacing classes works better.</li>
+<li>Added Locate tool.</li>
+</ul>
+</dd>
+</dl>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id4">
+<h1><a name="id4">2.5.5.1</a></h1>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>8-Apr-2005</li>
+</ul>
+<p>wxMSW: Fixed bug #1022383, 'several ComboBoxes appear selected'</p>
+<p>wx.grid.Grid: Fixed bug #1163384. Moved the code that handles
+activating the cell editors to a EVT_CHAR event handler. This is done
+so the character inserted into the editor will be the "cooked" char
+value (including accented or composed keys) rather than the raw code
+provided by the EVT_KEY_DOWN event.</p>
+<p>Added orient parameter to wx.MDIParentFrame.Tile()</p>
+<p>wxMSW: wxTextCtrl with wx.TE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if
+available.</p>
+<p>Added GetCount, GetCountRGB, and GetCountColour methods to
+wx.ImageHistogram.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: wx.Window.Refresh changed to explicitly refresh all children as
+well as the parent. Previously it was implicitly done because parents
+did not clip their children by default. Now that they always clip
+children then Refresh needed to be fixed to do a recursive refresh.
+This also fixes the Freeze/Thaw problems that some people had with
+2.5.4.1.</p>
+<p>wx.SplitterWindow: Send EVT_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED only once after
+end of dragging and not after each CHANGING event (modified patch
+#1076226)</p>
+<p>wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas: applied patch fixing problems with X server
+crash when using nVidia cards (patch 1155132)</p>
+<dl class="docutils">
+<dt>wx.lib.mixins.listctrl: Patches from Toni Brkic:</dt>
+<dd><ul class="first last simple">
+<li>Bugfix for TextEditMixin when the view can't be scrolled</li>
+<li>Enhancement for ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin, allowing it to manage
+the width of any column.</li>
+</ul>
+</dd>
+</dl>
+<p>wxMac: removal and reusing toolbar tools like the other platforms is
+now possible.</p>
+<p>wxMac: Correct radio tool selection after calling Realize a 2nd time.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: Applied patch #1166587, removes all flicker from wx.StaticBox</p>
+<p>Added wx.lib.foldpanelbar, Andrea Gavana's port of Jorgen Bodde's C++
+wxFoldPanelBar classes to Python.</p>
+<p>wxGTK: Applied patch #1173802, reimplementation of GtkFileChooser
+wxFileDialog by Mart Raudsepp. Note that this new file dialog is only
+used on GTK2 >= 2.4. For earlier GTK2 versions and GTK1 then the
+older generic file dialog is used.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: fixes to static box borders calculations (finalizes patch
+#1166587)</p>
+<p>wx.Image: Use Python's buffer interface API for all image data and
+alpha Set/Get methods and the ImageFromData* constructors. They all
+still copy the buffer except for SetDataBuffer and SetAlphaBuffer, but
+this gives more flexibility on where the data can come from.</p>
+<p>Added MDI support to XRC</p>
+<p>Added wx.animate module and a demo. The wx.animate module provides a
+control that is able to display an animated GIF file.</p>
+<p>wx.lib.plot.py: Applied patch from Werner F. Bruhin that allows either
+vertical and/or horizontal gridlines.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: Extra space given for top border of wx.StaticBoxSizer so the
+upper line is not cliped when there is no label.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: Restored old behaviour of wx.StaticBox.SetBackgroundColour only
+affecting the label.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: Fixed missing EVT_RIGHT_DOWN and EVT_TREE_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK
+events in a wx.TreeCtrl.</p>
+<p>Added wx.GetTopLevelWindows() function which returns a copy of the
+list of top-level windows that currently exist in the application.</p>
+<p>Updated docview library modules and sample apps from the ActiveGrid
+folks.</p>
+<p>Added the ActiveGrid IDE as a sample application.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id5">
+<h1><a name="id5">2.5.4.1</a></h1>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>16-Mar-2005</li>
+</ul>
+<p>wx.Sizer Add, Insert, and Prepend functions now return a reference to the
+wx.SizerItem that was added to the sizer, and the wx.SizerItem has a
+GetRect accessor to give the position of the item on the parent window.</p>
+<p>Added wx.Sizer.GetItem method which returns the wx.SizerItem for the given
+wx.Window, wx.Sizer or position index.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: wx.RadioButtons in the same group no longer have to be
+consecutive (there may be intervening controls). Without this fix, an
+out-of-sync assert is generated when clicking on a radio button and
+then calling GetValue().</p>
+<dl class="docutils">
+<dt>Some XRC changes:</dt>
+<dd><ul class="first last simple">
+<li>Added 'icon' property to wxFrame and wxDialog</li>
+<li>No longer ignores menu bitmaps on non-MSW platforms</li>
+<li>Notebook page bitmaps are now supported</li>
+<li>added system colours and fonts support (based on patch #1038207)</li>
+</ul>
+</dd>
+</dl>
+<p>wxMSW: fix for [ 1052989 ] TextCtrl.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NullColour)
+bug.</p>
+<p>Added wx.PasswordEntryDialog analagous to wx.TextEntryDialog, allows
+detecting entering an empty string vs. cancel unlike the
+wx.GetPasswordFromUser dialog function.</p>
+<p>OGL patch from Shane Holloway:</p>
+<blockquote>
+<p>Two simple problems found in the new python ogl code. First is
+the patch for _canvas.py. Essentially:</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+dx = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceX(x - self._firstDragX))
+dy = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceY(y - self._firstDragY))
+</pre>
+<p>was incorrect because (x,y) and (self._firstDragX,
+self._firstDragY) are both already in Logical coordinates.
+Therefore the difference between the two is also in logical
+coordinates, and the conversion call is an error. This bug
+surfaces when you have OGL on a scrollwin, and you are far from
+the origin of the canvas.</p>
+<p>The second change in _composit.py basically removes the assumption
+that the child is in both self._children and self._divisions.
+Causes many problems when it's not. ;)</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Fixed GetSaveData and SetSaveData in wx.lib.multisash to not depend on
+the default way that class objectss are converted to strings.</p>
+<p>Fixed problem in StyledTextCtrl.Set[HV]ScrollBar that could leave the
+internal scrollbar visible.</p>
+<p>Added wx.StandardPaths which provides methods for determining standard
+system paths for each platform.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: The window background is now only erased by default if the
+background colour or background mode has been changed. This better
+allows the default system themed behaviour to show through for
+uncustomized windows. Explicit support added for using the correct
+theme texture for wx.Notebook pages and their children.</p>
+<p>wx.Image: Added support for alpha channels in interpolated and
+non-interpolated image rotation. Added ConvertAlphaToMask helper
+method for turning shades of grey into shades of alpha and a colour.</p>
+<p>wxGTK2: Reimplemented DoDrawRotatedText() by way of a rotation of an
+alpha blended text bitmap. It would be better if Pango could draw
+directly into an wxImage (as FreeType can,) but that is for later...</p>
+<p>Added wrappers and a demo for the wx.MediaCtrl class, which can play
+various forms of audio/video media using native codecs install on the
+system. So far it is only implemented for Windows and OSX.</p>
+<p>wxGTK: Patch applied for Freeze()/Thaw() for wxTextCtrtl.</p>
+<p>Added "gravity" for splitter window (patch 1046105). Gravity is a
+floating-point factor between 0.0 and 1.0 which controls position of
+sash while resizing the wx.SplitterWindow. The gravity specifies
+how much the left/top window will grow while resizing.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: wx.Slider's C++ implementation rewritten to be more
+maintainable and hopefully less buggy. The position of the labels has
+also been changed in order to better comply with Microsoft's examples
+of how to use the control.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: Fix wx.TreeCtrl to end label editing if the control loses
+focus (a slightly modified patch 1084592.)</p>
+<p>Added wx.EXEC_NODISABLE flag for wx.Execute, which will prevent all
+the app's windows being disabled while a synchronous child process is
+running.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: Much work to correct painting (or leaving transparent) of
+control backgrounds, properly using background themes on XP, etc.</p>
+<p>Fixed a circular reference problem with wx.Timer. It will now
+completely cleanup after itself when the last reference to the timer
+is removed. If you were previously using timer.Destroy() to cleanup
+your timers it will no longer work. Instead you should hold a
+reference to the timer and then del the reference when you are
+finished with the timer.</p>
+<p>Updated to 1.3.24 of SWIG. All of my big patches have been applied to
+the main SWIG source tree, but unfortunatly there were also some bugs
+added that affected the wxPython build and a few details in my
+original patch were changed/removed, so we are still not free of
+patches. A new patch for SWIG is located in the wxPython/SWIG
+directory of the wxPython source tree. SWIG 1.3.24 plus this patch
+should be used by anyone who is making custom modifications to
+wxPython's .i files, or building their own extension modules or
+etc. that need to interact with the wxPython swigged types. For the
+morbidly curious, here are a few more details:</p>
+<blockquote>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Since it is now possible easily and simply share the SWIG type
+tables across modules I reverted to always using the stock SWIG
+runtime instead of my slightly hacked up version of it exported
+via the wxPython C API.</li>
+<li>The %name directive is now deprecated so I replaced most uses of
+it with a custom %Rename macro that uses %rename internally.
+These will evetually need to be replaced with a DocDecl macro
+when docstrings are added for those items.</li>
+<li>The "this" attribute of all SWIGged classes is no longer a
+string containing a "swigified pointer", but rather a custom
+built-in type that holds the real C pointer to the object and
+the type info. It can be converted to a string like the old
+value using str() or to the long integer value of the pointer
+using long().</li>
+</ul>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Added SetDefaultPyEncoding and GetDefaultPyEncoding functions which
+will set/get the encoding used by wxPython to convert string or
+unicode objects to/from wxString objects. Previously the default
+Python encoding was always used, but unless the user had tweaked their
+sitecustomize.py file it is always "ascii", which would result in
+errors if the strings contained character codes >= 128.
+SetDefaultPyEncoding will now allow you to control which encoding will
+be used to do those conversions. The default encoding is set to the
+value of <cite>locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]</cite> when wxPython is first
+imported. Please see <a class="reference" href="http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html">http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html</a>
+for information on the differences between the common latin/roman
+encodings.</p>
+<p>Added wxStdDialogButtonSizer, which is a a special sizer that knows
+how to order and position standard buttons in order to conform to the
+current platform's standards. You simply need to add each <cite>wx.Button</cite>
+to the sizer, and be sure to create the buttons using the standard
+ID's. Then call <cite>Realize</cite> and the sizer will take care of the rest.</p>
+<p>wxMSW Toolbar: pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to the
+EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED handler</p>
+<p>wxGTK: Applied patch for combo box SELECTED events (no longer get
+lots of surplus events)</p>
+<p>wxGTK: Applied patch for proper menu highlight colour detection in
+wx.SystemSettings.</p>
+<p>wxGTK: Commited scrollbar patch #1093339 which sends lineup, linedown
+events based on intercepting the mouse down events.</p>
+<p>wxGTK: Applied patch #1102789 which solved conflicts between wxWidgets
+and GTK+'s context menu code.</p>
+<p>wxGTK: Applied patch #1100327 for correct feedback from DND actions
+(not all actions are allowed).</p>
+<p>Fixed memory leak in wxGrid::UpdateAttr[Rows][Or][Cols] (patch 1104355)</p>
+<p>For efficiency reasons, text controls no longer set the string for
+each text updated event, but rather query for the string value only
+when GetString is called from an event handler.</p>
+<p>Added wx.SL_INVERSE style which will cause wx.Slider to invert the min
+and max ends of the slider.</p>
+<p>Several patches applied, such as #1111174, #1110252 and others, that
+make the generic wx.TreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac) be more
+conistent with the wxMSW native wx.TreeCtrl.</p>
+<dl class="docutils">
+<dt>XRCed:</dt>
+<dd><ul class="first last simple">
+<li>Edit->Locate command (Ctrl-L) for quick selection of items.
+Works with event-handling controls (buttons, text fields) but
+not with labels/sizers.</li>
+<li>Some improvements: relative paths for files supplied as command-
+line argument work correctly, notebook panels are highlighted
+better.</li>
+</ul>
+</dd>
+</dl>
+<p>wxMac: Fixed a long-standing issue where wxSlider controls with a
+hardcoded size would misplace their labels behind the slider control.</p>
+<p>wx.HtmlListBox fixed so calling RefreshLine(s) will cause the data for
+that line to be refetched from the overridden methods in the derived
+class.</p>
+<p>The default DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
+the client size and total size of the window, (such as the size of
+borders.) Code that sets the client size using the best size, or that
+added extra space to sizers to compensate for this bug may need to be
+changed.</p>
+<p>Can suppress themed notebook pages with the wxNB_NOPAGETHEME style or
+setting system option msw.notebook.themed-background to 0.</p>
+<p>wxSyledTextCtrl updated to use Scintilla 1.62.</p>
+<p>Can now set the msw.window.no-clip-children system option to 1 to
+eliminate weird refresh behaviour (delays between a window being
+erased and repainted, giving a ghostly gradual-redraw effect). May be
+a temporary 'fix' until properly fixed before 2.6.</p>
+<p>wxMac: Toolbar is now more native looking with borderless toolbar
+buttons.</p>
+<p>wxMac: Switched wx.Bitmap to use newer Quartz object types and APIs
+internally. This results in faster display and better alpha support.</p>
+<p>Added wx.DatePickerCtrl.</p>
+<p>wx.html.HtmlWindow now supports background images.</p>
+<p>Added wx.lib.gestures module from Daniel Pozmanter which supports
+using Mouse Gestures in an application.</p>
+<p>wxGTK2: ENTER and LEAVE mouse events are now sent for multi-line text
+controls.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not
+WXK_MENU</p>
+<p>Added modules from Peter Yared and Morgan Hua that implement the wx
+Doc/View framework in pure Python code. See wx.lib.docview for the
+base implementation and wx.lib.pydocview for Python-specific
+extensions. There are also a couple sample applications located in
+samples/docview.</p>
+<p>Added GetBitmap, GetIcon to wx.ImageList.</p>
+<p>wxGTK wx.Button.SetLabel no longer invalidates/resets the font.</p>
+<p>wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer and etc. have now been
+undeprecated at the request of Riaan Booysen, the Boa Constructor team
+lead. Boa needs them to help keep track of what kind of item is being
+managed by the sizer. They are now just simple compatibility aliases
+for Add, and etc.</p>
+<p>The old C++ version of the OGL lib is no longer built by default. Use
+the Python version in the wx.lib.ogl package instead.</p>
+<p>The wx.iewin module is no longer built by default. You can use the
+wx.lib.iewin version instead.</p>
+<p>Fixed wx.BufferedPaintDC for scrolled windows to work whether the
+buffer is covering only the client area or the full virtual area of
+the scrolled window. By default it will assume that only the client
+area is covered. This is different than the old behavior so to
+indicate that the entire virtual area is covered simply add a
+style=wx.BUFFER_VIRTUAL_AREA parameter.</p>
+<p>wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl: Add support for the EVT_TREE_ITEM_GETTOOLTIP
+event.</p>
+<p>Added Resize, SetRGBRect, Size, and GetOrFindMaskColour methods to
+wx.Image.</p>
+<p>Added wx.Rect.IsEmpty</p>
+<dl class="docutils">
+<dt>wxGTK:</dt>
+<dd><ul class="first last simple">
+<li>Corrected wx.ListBox selection handling</li>
+<li>Corrected default button size handling for different themes</li>
+<li>Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes</li>
+<li>Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys</li>
+</ul>
+</dd>
+</dl>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id6">
+<h1><a name="id6">2.5.3.1</a></h1>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>9-Nov-2004</li>
+</ul>
+<p>wxMac focus and border refreshes corrected.</p>
+<p>Updated internal PNG library.</p>
+<p>wxMac fix for metal appearance on wx.ToolBar.</p>
+<p>wx.grid.Grid fix allowing DoGetBestSize to be called before CreateGrid
+(which means that a min size doesn't need to be specified.)</p>
+<p>wxMac fix for not sending a native click to a control if it is not
+enabled (does an enable itself)</p>
+<p>Added wx.lib.ogl.DrawnShape, and fixed various little bugs in the new
+OGL.</p>
+<p>Added support to XRC and XRCed for the 3-state checkbox flags and also
+for wx.ToggleButton. Updated the generic window styles supported by
+XRCed.</p>
+<p>It is now possible to create "stock" buttons. Basically this means
+that you only have to provide one of the stock IDs (and either an
+empty label or a label that matches the stock label) when creating the
+button and wxWidgets will choose the stock label to go with it
+automatically. Additionally on the platforms that have a native
+concept of a stock button (currently only GTK2) then the native stock
+button will be used. For example, the following will result in a
+button with "Cancel" as the label and if run on wxGTK2 then there will
+also be an image of a red X:</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+b = wx.Button(parent, wx.ID_CANCEL)
+</pre>
+<p>Added wx.lib.ticker.Ticker class from Chris Mellon.</p>
+<p>Fix some incorrect clipping regions in wxSTC on wxGTK.</p>
+<p>Added wrapper for wx.grid.Grid.GetOrCreateCellAttr.</p>
+<p>Removed my copy of distutils from the wxPython source tree. Now that
+I am no longer doing builds on Python 2.1 the newest distutils is no
+longer needed. (There is still one small bug in Python 2.2 distutils
+on win32, but it is easily worked around.) This sovles the problem of
+incorrect builds on some systems where the system installed distutils
+has been patched to behave slightly differently, for example SuSE on
+x86_64 or Chandler's build.</p>
+<p>Updated to SWIG 1.3.22 (plus my patch.) See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
+in the source tree if you need to use SWIG when building your own copy
+of wxPython, or other extension modules that need to integrate with
+the wxPython modules.</p>
+<p>Added wx.Frame.RequestUserAttention which, if the platform suports it,
+will do something (such as flash the task bar item) to suggest to the
+user that they should look at that window.</p>
+<p>"Fixed" wx.grid.Grid.SetDefaultEditor and SetDefaultRenderer by making
+them register the editor or renderer for the "string" data type.</p>
+<p>Added depth param to wx.Image.ConvertToBitmap.</p>
+<p>Extended the wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl class with methods that get/set
+a Python datetime or date object. (These will only work with Python
+2.3+) The methods are PySetDate, PyGetDate, PySetLowerDateLimit,
+PySetUpperDateLimit, PySetDateRange, PyGetLowerDateLimit, and
+PyGetUpperDateLimit. Also, CalendarEvent was extended with PySetDate
+and PyGetDate methods.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: SetBackgroundColour on a wx.Choice or a wx.ComboBox will now
+also set the colour of the dropdown.</p>
+<p>wxMac: MessageDialog now supports wx.NO_DEFAULT style</p>
+<p>wxMSW: added AssociateHandle and DissociateHandle to wx.Window</p>
+<p>wxMac: fix for toolbar tooltips</p>
+<p>wx.Sizer.Show (and Hide) now take an optional parameter specifying if
+the item to be shown should be searched for recursivly in subsizers,
+and return a boolean value indicating if the item was found.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: fixed MaximizeEvent generation in wx.Frame</p>
+<p>wxMSW: fixed sending duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events</p>
+<p>Smoother time estimation updates in wx.ProgressDialog (patch 992813)</p>
+<p>Made wx.Listbook events more consistent with wx.Notebook ones (patch
+1001271)</p>
+<p>Fixed rounding errors in variable status bar panes widths computation
+(patch 1030021)</p>
+<p>Added possibility to specify printer bin (patch 910272)</p>
+<p>wxMSW: fixed wx.ListCtrl's SetWindowStyleFlag() to not remove
+WS_VISIBLE; also refresh the control automatically (closes bug
+1019440)</p>
+<p>Added wx.Choicebook, yet another notebook-like control.</p>
+<p>wxMSW: Make radiobutton tab behaviour the same on MSW as in standard
+MSW app, i.e. tab into the activated, not necessarily the first radio
+button.</p>
+<p>Added limited support for wxEventLoop (you can't derive from a
+wx.PyEventLoop version yet...) Updated and moved the sample showing
+how to replace the MainLoop to samples/mainloop/mainloop.py.</p>
+<p>The C++ xrc lib has been moved out of contrib and into the core, so it
+is always built by default. wxPython's build has also changed
+accordingly and will build the xrc module as part of the core set of
+modules built by default. If you were axplicitly using BUILD_XRC then
+it will no longer be recognized as a build option, otherwise you
+should notice no difference.</p>
+<p>wxMac: Fixed radio toolbar buttons to correctly untoggle the others
+when a new one is selected.</p>
+<p>wxMac: Fixed GetLineLength and GetLineText for MLTE text controls</p>
+<p>wxMac: wx.TaskBarIcon is implemented by allowing you to change the
+app's icon on the Dock and also specifying a menu that should be
+merged with the normal dock popup menu. See the MigrationGuide for
+more details and a warning.</p>
+<p>Added wx.TopLevelWindow.IsActive() which tells you if the frame or
+dialog is or containts the active window with the keyboard focus.</p>
+<p>Added ability to create a font based on pixel size rather than point
+size via the FontFromPixelSize constructor.</p>
+<p>Updated the Scintilla used by StyledTextCtrl to version 1.61</p>
+<p>Improved image HitTest for TreeListCtrl.</p>
+<p>Added wx.App.IsMainLoopRunning.</p>
+<p>wxGTK: Make wxComboBox spit out a bit fewer surplus events when
+holding down the mouse button.</p>
+<p>wxGTK: Enable key based navigation through notebook tabs as in the
+native control with Left and right keys. Support for vetoing.</p>
+<p>FloatCanvas updates from Chris Barker</p>
+<dl class="docutils">
+<dt>PyPlot updates from Gordon Williams:</dt>
+<dd><ul class="first last simple">
+<li>Added bar graph demo</li>
+<li>Modified line end shape from round to square.</li>
+<li>Removed FloatDCWrapper for conversion to ints and ints in
+arguments</li>
+<li>Imported modules given leading underscore to name.</li>
+<li>Added Cursor Line Tracking and User Point Labels.</li>
+<li>Demo for Cursor Line Tracking and Point Labels.</li>
+<li>Size of plot preview frame adjusted to show page better.</li>
+<li>Added helper functions PositionUserToScreen and
+PositionScreenToUser in PlotCanvas.</li>
+<li>Added functions GetClosestPoints (all curves) and GetClosestPoint
+(only closest curve) can be in either user coords or screen
+coords.</li>
+</ul>
+</dd>
+<dt>MaskedEdit updates from Will Sadkin:</dt>
+<dd><ul class="first last simple">
+<li>Added '*' mask char that means "all ansii chars" (ords 32-255)</li>
+<li>Added proper unicode support to masked controls and wx.tools.dbg</li>
+<li>Fixed two reported missing import bugs introduced by package
+creation</li>
+<li>Converted masked package doc strings to reST format for better
+epydoc support</li>
+<li>lots of doc string improvements and function hiding to better
+reflect package's public contents.</li>
+</ul>
+</dd>
+</dl>
+<p>Restructured the installer packages slightly to help facilitate having
+multiple versions of wxPython installed at the same time. See the
+Migrarion Guide for more information.</p>
+<dl class="docutils">
+<dt>Applied patch from Pim Van Heuven that modifies 4 files:</dt>
+<dd><ul class="first last simple">
+<li>wxPython/demo/ListCtrl_edit.py (new demo)</li>
+<li>wxPython/demo/Main.py (include new demo in demo app)</li>
+<li>wxPython/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py (several improvements to
+TextEditMixin)</li>
+<li>wxPython/wx/lib/wxpTag.py (some small fixes)</li>
+</ul>
+</dd>
+</dl>
+<p>Added (thanks to Kevin Ollivier!) wrappers for wx.WebKitCtrl for the
+OSX build. Other platforms will raise an exception if you try to use
+it.</p>
+<p>wxPython on OSX can now be built in Unicode mode, can support multiple
+version installs, and comes with an uninstaller script.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id7">
+<h1><a name="id7">2.5.2.8</a></h1>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>27-Aug-2004</li>
+</ul>
+<p>Predominantly a bug-fix release.</p>
+<blockquote>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Fixed fatal error due to improper wrapping of wx.FSFile.</li>
+<li>Fixed return type of EditableListBox.GetListCtrl</li>
+<li>Give generic tree and list controls a DoGetBestSize so they play
+nicer with sizers when there is no minimal size.</li>
+<li>Some tweaks in the demo and samples to correct layout, some
+flicker problems, and namespace use.</li>
+<li>Add wx.Image.ConvertAlphaToMask</li>
+<li>Minor corrections in wx.lib.dialogs</li>
+<li>wx.FileHistory constructor now accepts the documented 2nd
+parameter.</li>
+<li>Corrections for exceptions in the new ogl</li>
+<li>Fixed XRCed to not use reparenting of windows to implement caching
+of property panels, since Reparent on wxMac is not implemented.</li>
+<li>Add support for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL to the XRC handler for
+wxScrolledWindow.</li>
+<li>Add support for all wxListBox styles to the XRC handler for
+wxCheckListBox.</li>
+<li>Fix for wx.Listbook.DeleteAllPages to really delete everything.</li>
+<li>wxGTK2 now supports alpha blended bitmap drawing</li>
+<li>Made wx.grid.Grid play nicer with sizers.</li>
+<li>etc.</li>
+</ul>
+</blockquote>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id8">
+<h1><a name="id8">2.5.2.7</a></h1>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>14-Aug-2004</li>
+</ul>
+<p>wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
+sizers. This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
+be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will
+be used for the minimum size used by the sizer. The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE
+flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
+that it will <em>not</em> call the window's methods to determine the new best
+size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
+(or the size the window was created with) will always be used. Please
+see the Sizers section in the Migration Guide for more details.</p>
+<p>Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin. The modules are
+now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked. Demos updated.</p>
+<p>The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in 2.5.1.5
+have been reverted. The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the 2.4
+implemetation. In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
+that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
+parameters.</p>
+<p>Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
+all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.</p>
+<p>Deprecated the wx.iewin module.</p>
+<p>Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well
+as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.</p>
+<p>Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same
+reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on
+all platforms like normal windows. Also updated stattext.py and
+buttons.py to handle attribute (font & colour) defaults and
+inheritance the new way. If you have custom controls of your own you
+should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be
+done.</p>
+<p>wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but
+exist for backwards compatibility. The C++ version is now called
+automatically when wxPython is initialized. Since all the handlers
+are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only
+a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary
+problems.</p>
+<p>Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to
+track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions. Thanks go to
+Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.</p>
+<p>wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if
+there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.</p>
+<p>wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to
+detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.</p>
+<p>The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to "C" (compatibility) when
+running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale
+to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC
+remaining compatible with "C".</p>
+<p>Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the
+wxCode project.</p>
+<p>OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL! (Oops, sorry. A bit of my dramatic side
+leaked out there...) The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor
+of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl
+contributed by Pierre Hjälm. This will hopefully greatly extend the
+life of OGL within wxPython by making it more easily maintainable and
+less prone to getting rusty as there seems to be less and less
+interest in maintaining the C++ version. At this point there are just
+a couple minor known compatibility differences, please see the
+<a class="reference" href="MigrationGuide.html">MigrationGuide</a> file for details.</p>
+<p>EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
+Scintilla for several releases now.</p>
+<p>All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) class constructors and also
+many toplevel functions and static methods will now check that a
+wx.App object has already been created and will raise a
+wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.</p>
+<p>Added more default args as needed to allow most window types to be
+constructed with only the parent window arg. In some cases other args
+may be required for normal operation, but they can usually be set
+after construction.</p>
+<p>Removed the deprecated ErrorDialogs and PythonBitmaps modules. If you
+were using these in your apps then please join wxPython-dev and assist
+with a more modern reimplementation.</p>
+<p>Added a new version (0.8.3) of FloatCanvas from Chris Barker. It's now
+in a subpackage of wx.lib.</p>
+<p>It is now possible to change the tab traversal order of controls on a
+panel or dialog. For details see the new MoveAfterInTabOrder and
+MoveBeforeInTabOrder methods of wx.Window.</p>
+<p>Applied (and heavily modified) a patch from Eugene
+<<a class="reference" href="mailto:svip123@fastmail.fm">svip123@fastmail.fm</a>> that allows the sample modules in the demo to be
+edited and reloaded, all from within the demo. You can switch back
+and forth between the default and your edited version, and any errors
+ocurring upon the reload are reported on the Demo tab.</p>
+<p>Added a menu item in the demo that will open a PyShell window that has
+the app and demo frame preloaded in the namespace. This is another
+good way to explore and play with the objects in the currently running
+sample. For example, load the Button sample and then do the following
+in the PyShell:</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+>>> b = frame.demoPage.GetChildren()[0]
+>>> for x in range(0, 500, 10):
+... b.Move((x, 50))
+... app.Yield(True)
+... wx.MilliSleep(10)
+</pre>
+<p>wxGTK: Applied wxNO_BORDER patch (#1098374) for text control and combo
+box.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="the-this-is-not-a-joke-release">
+<h1><a name="the-this-is-not-a-joke-release">2.5.1.5 (the 'this is <em>not</em> a joke' release)</a></h1>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>2-Apr-2004</li>
+</ul>
+<p>(See also the <a class="reference" href="MigrationGuide.html">MigrationGuide</a> file for details about some of the
projects / wxWidgets.git / blobdiff