Some little additions to how wxBufferedDC is wrapped.

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / changes.txt

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@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ wxBase:
   by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
   add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
 
+- wxCondition now must be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
+  documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
+  unfortunately needed as the old class didn't behave correctly in all cases
+
 All (GUI):
 
 - the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
@@ -57,6 +61,9 @@ All (GUI):
 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
   now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
 
+- WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
+  they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
+
 wxMSW:
 
 - build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
@@ -77,6 +84,9 @@ wxMSW:
 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
   return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
   never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
+  
+- wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
+  anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
 
 Unix ports:
 
@@ -94,16 +104,19 @@ OTHER CHANGES
 
 wxBase:
 
+- wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
   (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri)
 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
-  after STL hash_map
+  after (non standard) STL hash_map
 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
+- added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor (use of wxTheFontMapper is now
+  deprecated)
 
 Unix (Base/GUI):
 
@@ -112,6 +125,8 @@ Unix (Base/GUI):
 
 All (GUI):
 
+- it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
+  small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
 - 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
@@ -130,6 +145,8 @@ All (GUI):
 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
   for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
+- added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
+- added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
 
 wxMSW:
 
@@ -151,6 +168,8 @@ wxMSW:
 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
+- Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can
+  be used in FL
 
 wxGTK:
 
@@ -158,6 +177,12 @@ wxGTK:
 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
+- new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh. 
+  Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
+- support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
+- fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
+- implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
+  (unlike thread work)
 
 wxHTML: