Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
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+- Default location of wxFileConfig files has changed under Windows, you will
+ need to update your code if you access these files directly.
+
+- wxWindow::IsEnabled() now returns false if a window parent (and not
+ necessarily the window itself) is disabled, new function IsThisEnabled()
+ with the same behaviour as old IsEnabled() was added.
+
+- Generating wxNavigationKeyEvent events doesn't work any more under wxGTK (and
+ other platforms in the future), use wxWindow::Navigate() or NavigateIn()
+ instead.
+
+- Sizers distribute only the extra space between the stretchable items
+ according to their proportions and not all available space. We believe the
+ new behaviour corresponds better to user expectations but if you did rely
+ on the old behaviour you will have to update your code to set the minimal
+ sizes of the sizer items to be in the same proportion as the items
+ proportions to return to the old behaviour.
+
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
+
+- 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
+ code that depends on the result being wxChar.
+
+- The value returned by wxString::c_str() cannot be casted to non-const char*
+ or wchar_t* anymore. The solution is to use newly added wxString methods
+ char_str() (which returns a buffer convertible to char*) or wchar_str()
+ (which returns a buffer convertible to wchar_t*). These methods are
+ available in wxWidgets 2.8 series beginning with 2.8.4 as well.
+
+- The value returned by wxString::operator[] or wxString::iterator cannot be
+ used in switch statements anymore, because it's a class instance. Code like
+ this won't compile:
+ switch (str[i]) { ... }
+ and has to be replaced with this:
+ switch (str[i].GetValue()) { ... }
+
+- Return type of wxString::c_str() is now wxCStrData struct and not
+ const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to const char* and
+ const wchar_t*, so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot
+ convert the type. In particular, Borland C++ and DigitalMars compilers
+ don't correctly convert operator?: operands to the same type and fail with
+ compilation error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting
+ to const wxChar*:
+ wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "")
+
+- wxCtime() and wxAsctime() return char*; this is incompatible with Unicode
+ build in wxWidgets 2.8 that returned wchar_t*.
+
+- DigitalMars compiler has a bug that prevents it from using
+ wxUniChar::operator bool in conditions and it erroneously reports type
+ conversion ambiguity in expressions such as this:
+ for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); *p; ++p )
+ This can be worked around by explicitly casting to bool:
+ for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); (bool)*p; ++p )
+
+- virtual wxHtmlParser::AddText() takes wxString, not wxChar*, argument now.
+
+- Funtions that took wxChar* arguments that could by NULL in wxWidgets 2.8.
+ are deprecated and passing NULL to them won't compile anymore, wxEmptyString
+ must be used instead.
+
Deprecated methods and their replacements
-----------------------------------------
+- wxCreateGreyedImage() deprecated, use wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale() instead.
+- wxString::GetWriteBuf() and UngetWriteBuf() deprecated, using wxStringBuffer
+ or wxStringBufferLength instead.
+- wxDIRCTRL_SHOW_FILTERS style is deprecated, filters are alwsys shown if
+ specified so this style should simply be removed
+- wxDocManager::MakeDefaultName() replaced by MakeNewDocumentName() and
+ wxDocument::GetPrintableName() with GetUserReadableName() which are simpler
+ to use
+
+
Major new features in this release
----------------------------------
All:
-- Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi)
-- Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi)
-- Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom()
+- Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi)
+- Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov)
+- Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev)
+- Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead()
+- Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz)
+- Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev)
+- Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev)
+- Allow using wxEventLoop in console applications (Lukasz Michalski)
+- Added functions for Base64 en/decoding (Charles Reimers)
+- wxLogInterposer has been added to replace wxLogPassThrough and new
+ wxLogInterposerTemp was added
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty)
+- 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)
+- Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage()
+- 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.
+- Set locale to the default in all ports, not just wxGTK
+- Added wxJoystick::GetButtonState/Position() (Frank C Szczerba)
+- Added wxGridUpdateLocker helper class (Evgeniy Tarassov)
+- Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov)
+- Added wxWindow::NavigateIn() in addition to existing Navigate()
+- Add support for <data> tags to wxrc
+- Support wxAPPLY and wxCLOSE in CreateStdDialogButtonSizer() (Marcin Wojdyr)
+- Show standard options in wxCmdLineParser usage message (Francesco Montorsi)
+- Added wxRect::operator+ (union) and * (intersection) (bdonner)
wxGTK:
-- Implemented support for underlined fonts in wxStaticText
-- wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints size increments now work
-- wxTopLevelWindow::GetSize() returns the size including the WM decorations
-- wxTopLevelWindow::GetClientSize() returns 0x0 when the window is minimized
-- Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse)
+- Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi)
+- Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi)
+- Native keyboard navigation implementation
+- Don't overwrite primary selection with clipboard and vice versa
+- Implemented support for underlined fonts in wxStaticText.
+- wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints size increments now work.
+- wxTopLevelWindow::GetSize() returns the size including the WM decorations.
+- wxTopLevelWindow::GetClientSize() returns 0x0 when the window is minimized.
+- Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse).
+- Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff)
+- Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option
+
+wxMac:
+
+- Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls)
+- Added support for changing button labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson)
+- Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs)
+- Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox)
+- Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz)
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications.
+- Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
+- wxCheckListBox now looks more natively, especially under XP (Marcin Malich)
+
+wxX11:
+
+- Added mouse wheel support (David Hart)
+- Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart)
+
+
+2.8.5
+-----
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Added colour normalization to PNM image handler (Ray Johnston)
+- Fixed selecting part of word from right to left in wxHTML (Michael Hieke)
+- Selecting text in wxHTML with character precision was made easier, it's
+ enough to select half of a character (Michael Hieke)
+- Significantly improved startup times of XRC-based applications using
+ embedded resources on Unix (requires resources recompilation)
+- Fixed freeing of "static" alpha data in wxImage (Axel Gembe)
+- Don't invalidate the font in SetNativeFontInfo[Desc]() if the string is
+ invalid, to conform to the documented behaviour (Langhammer)
wxMSW:
-- Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications
-- Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized
+- Correct problem with page setup dialog when using landscape mode
+- Added msw.font.no-proof-quality system option, see manual for description
+- Fix appearance of notebook with non-top tabs under Windows Vista
+- Fixed bug with symbol resolving in wxStackWalker (Axel Gembe)
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works
+- More work on setting defaults in GNOME print dialogs.
+- Also made landscape printing work as per wxMSW.
+- Add support for clipping in GNOME print backend.
+- Speed up wxBitmap::Rescale()
+- Add right button event for wxToolbar's tools (Tim Kosse)
+- Don't unconditionally add wxCAPTION style to wxMiniFrame
+
+
+2.8.4
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Fix bug in wxFileConfig when recreating a group (Steven Van Ingelgem)
+- Fix wxStringOutputStream::Write() in Unicode build when the argument
+ overlaps UTF-8 characters boundary
+- Account for lines without newline at the end in wxExecute()
+
+All (Unix):
+
+- Handle socket shutdown by the peer correctly in wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Allow status bar children in XRC (Edmunt Pienkowski)
+- Fix memory leak in wxWizard when not using sizers for the page layout
+- Added wxListCtrl::SetItemPtrData()
+- wxHTML: Apply table background colour between the cells too (Michael Hieke)
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Corrected wxStaticBox label appearance when its foreground colour was set:
+ it didn't respect font size nor background colour then (Juan Antonio Ortega)
+- Don't lose combobox text when it's opened and closed (Kolya Kosenko)
+- Corrected GetChecked() for events from checkable menu items (smanders)
+- Fixed popup menus under Windows NT 4
+- Fixed bug in wxThread::Wait() in console applications introduced in 2.8.3
+- Support right-aligned/centered owner drawn items in wxListCtrl (troelsk)
+- Compilation fixed with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6==0
+- Fix wxComboCtrl colours under Windows Vista (Kolya Kosenko)
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Fix infinite loop when adding a wxStaticText control to a toolbar
+- Fix wxNO_BORDER style for wxRadioBox (David Hart)
+- Fix wxTextCtrl::GetLineText() for empty lines (Marcin Wojdyr)
+
+wxMac:
+
+- Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND) (Adrian Secord)
+
+wxUniv:
+
+- Fix wxTextCtrl::SetSelection(-1, -1) to behave as documented (Anders Larsen)
+- Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND)
+- Fix setting background colour for controls with transparent background
+
+
+2.8.3
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Shut down the sockets gracefully (Sergio Aguayo)
+- Fix extra indentation in wxHTML_ALIGN_JUSTIFY display (Chacal)
+
+wxMac:
+
+- Corrected top border size for wxStaticBox with empty label (nusi)
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Fixed wxFileName::GetSize() for large files
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Fixed handling of accelerators using PageUp/Down keys
2.8.2
All:
-- Added wxSizerFlags::Shaped() and FixedMinSize() methods
-- Added wxCSConv::IsOk() (Manuel Martin)
-- Added wxDateTime::GetDateOnly()
-- Made wxTextFile work with unseekable files again (David Hart)
-- Added wxCONFIG_USE_SUBDIR flag to wxFileConfig (Giuseppe Bilotta)
-- Added wxSearchCtrl::[Get|Set]DescriptiveText
+- Added wxSizerFlags::Shaped() and FixedMinSize() methods.
+- Added wxCSConv::IsOk() (Manuel Martin).
+- Added wxDateTime::GetDateOnly().
+- Made wxTextFile work with unseekable files again (David Hart).
+- Added wxCONFIG_USE_SUBDIR flag to wxFileConfig (Giuseppe Bilotta).
+- Added wxSearchCtrl::[Get|Set]DescriptiveText.
+- Fixed detection of number of processors under Linux 2.6
+- Fixed Base64 computation in wxHTTP (p_michalczyk)
+- Fix handling of wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR in wxDatagramSocket (troelsk)
+
+Unix Ports:
+
+- Fixed crash in wxGetUserName() in Unicode build
wxMSW
-- Fix lack of spin control update event when control lost focus
-- Corrected drawing of bitmaps for disabled menu items
+- Fix lack of spin control update event when control lost focus.
+- Corrected drawing of bitmaps for disabled menu items.
+
+wxGTK
+
+- Fix hang on startup when using GTK+ options in Unicode build
wxMac
-- Added support for the wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT style
+- Fix position of the centered windows (didn't take menu bar size into account)
+- Added support for the wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT style.
wxX11:
-- Don't crash in wxWindow dtor if the window hadn't been really Create()d
+- Don't crash in wxWindow dtor if the window hadn't been really Create()d.
wxUniv:
-- Fixed wxComboBox always sorted
+- Fixed wxComboBox always sorted.
2.8.1
All:
-- Fix compilation with wxUSE_STL=1
-- wxGrid::GetBestSize() returns same size the grid would have after AutoSize()
-- Added wxTreeCtrl::CollapseAll[Children]() and IsEmpty() (Francesco Montorsi)
-- Several RTL-related positioning fixes (Diaa Sami)
-- Fix wxConfig::DeleteGroup() for arguments with trailing slash (David Hart)
-- Fix memory leak in wxGrid::ShowCellEditControl() (Christian Sturmlechner)
+- Fix compilation with wxUSE_STL=1.
+- wxGrid::GetBestSize() returns same size the grid would have after AutoSize().
+- Added wxTreeCtrl::CollapseAll[Children]() and IsEmpty() (Francesco Montorsi).
+- Several RTL-related positioning fixes (Diaa Sami).
+- Fix wxConfig::DeleteGroup() for arguments with trailing slash (David Hart).
+- Fix memory leak in wxGrid::ShowCellEditControl() (Christian Sturmlechner).
wxMSW:
-- Fixed compilation with Borland C++ in Unicode mode but without MSLU
-- Show taskbar icon menu on right button release, not press
+- Fixed compilation with Borland C++ in Unicode mode but without MSLU.
+- Show taskbar icon menu on right button release, not press.
wxGTK:
-- Don't crash if command line is not valid UTF-8 (Unicode build only)
+- Don't crash if command line is not valid UTF-8 (Unicode build only).
wxUniv:
-- It is now possible to set background colour of wxStaticText
+- It is now possible to set background colour of wxStaticText.
2.8.0
All:
-- Added wxSearchCtrl (Vince Harron)
-- wxCSConv("UTF-16/32") now behaves correctly, i.e. same as wxMBConvUTF16/32
-- wxArrayString::Alloc() now works as reserve() and doesn't clear array contents
+- Added wxSearchCtrl (Vince Harron).
+- wxCSConv("UTF-16/32") now behaves correctly, i.e. same as wxMBConvUTF16/32.
+- wxArrayString::Alloc() now works as reserve() and doesn't clear array contents.
- Fixed long standing bug in wxFileConfig groups renaming (Antti Koivisto).
- New option wxFS_READ | wxFS_SEEKABLE for wxFileSystem::OpenFile() to return
a stream that is seekable.
-- Fixed bug in wxCalendarCtrl::HitTest() when clicking on month change arrows
-- Added wxWindow::GetWindowBorderSize() and corrected wxTreeCtrl::GetBestSize()
- for a control with borders (Tim Kosse)
+- Fixed bug in wxCalendarCtrl::HitTest() when clicking on month change arrows.
+- Added wxWindow::GetWindowBorderSize() and corrected wxTreeCtrl::GetBestSize().
+ for a control with borders (Tim Kosse).
wxMSW:
- Fixed version script problems when using configure with cygwin/mingw32.
- Use system default paper size for printing instead of A4.
-- Fix (harmless) assert in virtual list control under Vista
+- Fix (harmless) assert in virtual list control under Vista.
- Fix colours when converting wxBitmap with alpha to wxImage (nusi).
wxGTK:
-- Allow dynamically changing most of text control styles
-- Enable use of libgnomeprintui by default in configure
+- Allow dynamically changing most of text control styles.
+- Enable use of libgnomeprintui by default in configure.
2.7.2
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