Implemented GetTextExtent() for GTK 2.0.

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / changes.txt

diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index aa4c3338fd712472e4c7a10489bcb6e11fea78b0..bd59434497102daf6d920b4d23c980db3b18c745 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
     paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
     with '!' in the first column.
 
+    Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
+    is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
+    series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
+    your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
+    2.6 release.
+
+
 wxBase:
 
 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
@@ -38,6 +45,7 @@ wxBase:
   must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
   the default assert handling.
 
+
 All (GUI):
 
 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
@@ -84,6 +92,14 @@ All (GUI):
   parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
   from happening
 
+- several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
+  for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
+  and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
+
+- wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
+  to obtain the previous behaviour, add
+  wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
+  (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
 
 wxMSW:
 
@@ -159,12 +175,17 @@ wxBase:
 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor (use of wxTheFontMapper is now
   deprecated)
 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
+- added wxEXPLICIT macro
 
 Unix (Base/GUI):
 
 - wxWindows 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
+  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
 
 All (GUI):
 
@@ -193,6 +214,15 @@ All (GUI):
 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
+- wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
+  so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
+  table fills up
+- updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
+- Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do
+  cleanup.
+- generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
+  renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
+  (Rene Rivera).
 
 wxMSW:
 
@@ -222,6 +252,16 @@ wxMSW:
   has the capture before release it.
 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
 - default button handling is now closer to expected
+- setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
+- multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
+- tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
+- fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
+- fixed a condition where a thread can hang during
+  message/event processing
+- increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
+- don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
+- set window proc for non-control windows to avoid problems
+  with multiple wxWindows apps running simultaneously
 
 wxGTK:
 
@@ -236,6 +276,17 @@ wxGTK:
 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
+- made internal GC pool dynamically growable
+
+wxMotif:
+
+- improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
+- improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
+- improved toolbar control alignment
+- implemented wxSpinButton
+- implemented wxCheckListBox
+- fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
+- wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
 
 wxHTML:
 
@@ -274,6 +325,7 @@ All (GUI):
 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
+- improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
 
 wxMSW:
 
@@ -284,6 +336,14 @@ wxMSW:
 wxGTK:
 
 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
+- fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
+- fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
+  correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
+
+wxMac:
+
+- support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
+  Tools
 
 wxHTML: