the #ifdef around BROWSEINFO.lpszTitle assignment is bogus; should be c_str() everywhere

[wxWidgets.git] / wxPython / docs / CHANGES.txt

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@@ -1,7 +1,201 @@
 Recent Changes for wxPython
 =====================================================================
 
 Recent Changes for wxPython
 =====================================================================
 

-2.5.2.0
+2.5.3.0
+-------
+
+wxMac focus and border refreshes corrected.
+
+Updated internal PNG library.
+
+wxMac fix for metal appearance on wx.ToolBar.
+
+wx.grid.Grid fix allowing DoGetBestSize to be called before CreateGrid
+(which means that a min size doesn't need to be specified.)
+
+wxMac fix for not sending a native click to a control if it is not
+enabled (does an enable itself)
+
+Added wx.lib.ogl.DrawnShape, and fixed various little bugs in the new
+OGL. 
+
+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. 
+
+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 an accelerator on the "C", and
+if run on wxGTK2 then there will also be an image of a red X::
+
+       b = wx.Button(parent, wx.ID_CANCEL) 
+
+
+Added wx.lib.ticker.Ticker class from Chris Mellon.
+
+Fix some incorrect clipping regions in wxSTC on wxGTK.
+
+Added wrapper for wx.grid.Grid.GetOrCreateCellAttr.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+"Fixed" wx.grid.Grid.SetDefaultEditor and SetDefaultRenderer by making
+them register the editor or renderer for the "string" data type.
+
+Added depth param to wx.Image.ConvertToBitmap.
+
+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.
+
+wxMSW: SetBackgroundColour on a wx.Choice or a wx.ComboBox will now
+also set the colour of the dropdown.
+
+wxMac: MessageDialog now supports wx.NO_DEFAULT style
+
+wxMSW: added AssociateHandle and DissociateHandle to wx.Window
+
+wxMac: fix for toolbar tooltips
+
+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.
+
+wxMSW: fixed MaximizeEvent generation in wx.Frame
+
+wxMSW: fixed sending duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events
+
+Smoother time estimation updates in wx.ProgressDialog (patch 992813)
+
+Made wx.Listbook events more consistent with wx.Notebook ones (patch
+1001271)
+
+Fixed rounding errors in variable status bar panes widths computation
+(patch 1030021)
+
+Added possibility to specify printer bin (patch 910272)
+
+wxMSW: fixed wx.ListCtrl's SetWindowStyleFlag() to not remove
+WS_VISIBLE; also refresh the control automatically (closes bug
+1019440)
+
+Added wx.Choicebook, yet another notebook-like control.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+wxMac: Fixed radio toolbar buttons to correctly untoggle the others
+when a new one is selected.
+
+wxMac: Fixed GetLineLength and GetLineText for MLTE text controls
+
+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.
+
+Added wx.TopLevelWindow.IsActive() which tells you if the frame or
+dialog is or containts the active window with the keyboard focus.
+
+Added ability to create a font based on pixel size rather than point
+size via the FontFromPixelSize constructor.
+
+Updated the Scintilla used by StyledTextCtrl to version 1.61
+
+Improved image HitTest for TreeListCtrl.
+
+Added wx.App.IsMainLoopRunning.
+
+wxGTK: Make wxComboBox spit out a bit fewer surplus events when
+holding down the mouse button.
+
+wxGTK: Enable key based navigation through notebook tabs as in the
+native control with Left and right keys. Support for vetoing.
+
+
+
+
+
+2.5.2.8
+-------
+
+Predominantly a bug-fix release.
+
+  * Fixed fatal error due to improper wrapping of wx.FSFile.
+
+  * Fixed return type of EditableListBox.GetListCtrl
+
+  * Give generic tree and list controls a DoGetBestSize so they play
+    nicer with sizers when there is no minimal size.
+
+  * Some tweaks in the demo and samples to correct layout, some
+    flicker problems, and namespace use.
+
+  * Add wx.Image.ConvertAlphaToMask
+
+  * Minor corrections in wx.lib.dialogs
+
+  * wx.FileHistory constructor now accepts the documented 2nd
+    parameter.
+
+  * Corrections for exceptions in the new ogl
+
+  * Fixed XRCed to not use reparenting of windows to implement caching
+    of property panels, since Reparent on wxMac is not implemented.
+
+  * Add support for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL to the XRC handler for
+    wxScrolledWindow. 
+
+  * Add support for all wxListBox styles to the XRC handler for
+    wxCheckListBox. 
+
+  * Fix for wx.Listbook.DeleteAllPages to really delete everything.
+
+  * wxGTK2 now supports alpha blended bitmap drawing
+
+  * Made wx.grid.Grid play nicer with sizers.
+
+  * etc.
+
+
+
+
+2.5.2.7

 -------
 
 wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
 -------
 
 wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in


@@ -11,24 +205,8 @@ 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 *not* call the window's methods to determine the new best
 size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
 flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
 that it will *not* 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.  
-
-Related to the above, when controls and some other window types are
-created either the size passed to the constructor, or their "best
-size" if an explicit size was not passed in, is set as the window's
-minimal size.  For non top-level windows that hasn't meant much in the
-past, but now the sizers are sensitive to the window's minimal size.
-The key point to understand here is that it is no longer the window's
-size it has when added to the sizer that matters, but its minimal
-size.  So you might have some issues to iron out if you create a
-control without a size and then set its size to something before
-adding it to the sizer.  Since it's minimal size is probably not the
-size you set then the sizer will appear to be misbehaving.  The fix is
-to either set the size when calling the window's constructor, or to
-reset the min size by calling SetSizeHints.  You can call SetSizeHints
-at anytime to change the minsize of a window, just call the sizer's
-Layout method to redistribute the controls as needed.
-
+(or the size the window was created with) will always be used.  Please
+see the Sizers section in the Migration Guide for more details.

 
 Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin.  The modules are
 now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked.  Demos updated.
 
 Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin.  The modules are
 now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked.  Demos updated.


@@ -95,9 +273,44 @@ MigrationGuide_ file for details.
 EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
 Scintilla for several releases now.
 
 EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
 Scintilla for several releases now.
 

-All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) classes and also many
-toplevel functions will now check that a wx.App object has already
-been created and will raise a wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+Added a new version (0.8.3) of FloatCanvas from Chris Barker.  It's now
+in a subpackage of wx.lib.
+
+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.
+
+Applied (and heavily modified) a patch from Eugene
+<svip123@fastmail.fm> 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.
+
+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::
+
+       >>> b = frame.demoPage.GetChildren()[0]
+       >>> for x in range(0, 500, 10):
+       ...     b.Move((x, 50))
+       ...     app.Yield(True)
+       ...     wx.MilliSleep(10)