even compile)
- For all wxInputStreams, Eof() becomes true after an attempt has been made
to read _past_ the end of file.
+- wxCHECK family of macros now must be followed by a semicolon
+- wxMBConv::cMB2WC() and cWC2MB() take size of the input buffer and return
+ length of the converted string in all cases now.
+- wxHtmlWindow::OnCellClicked() now returns bool.
+- wxHtmlCell::OnMouseClick() was deprecated and replaced with
+ wxHtmlCell::ProcessMouseClick(); old code overriding OnMouseClick() will
+ continue to work with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6, but should be rewritten to
+ use ProcessMouseClick().
+- wxHtmlCell::GetCursor() was deprecated and replaced with
+ wxHtmlCell::GetMouseCursor(); old code overriding GetCursor() will
+ continue to work with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6, but should be rewritten to
+ use GetMouseCursor().
+
Deprecated methods since 2.6.x and their replacements
-----------------------------------------------------
All:
-- wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag
-- Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation
+- wx(F)File, wxTextFile and wxInputStreams recognize Unicode BOM now
+- Many fixes for UTF-16/32 handling in Unicode builds
+- wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
+- Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
+- Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
+- Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build
- Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
during a search and replace.
- Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
- Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
- Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
- Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
-- Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett)
-- Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker)
+- Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
+- Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
- wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
-- Overloaded Connect and SetLocal methods for binding to local address/port.
-- Consistency of count getters (GetCount()) with returning size_t everywhere.
+- Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
+- Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta)
+- Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed
+- wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert()
+- Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate()
+- The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
+ and WXK*PAGEDOWN. If you have switch statements that use both
+ constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
+ versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
+- Fixed bug where wxDateTime::Now() would sometimes return an incorrect value
+ the first time it was called.
+- Added wxString::rbegin() and rend()
+
All (GUI):
- Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
- wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
-- Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap()
+- Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
- Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
-- Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler
+- Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
- Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown()
- Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
- Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
- by Sandro Sigala)
+ by Sandro Sigala).
- Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
- Added wxGetMouseState function.
- Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
- More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
- Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
- Added ability to use templates with static event tables
- with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros
-- Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl
+ with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
+- Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
- Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
- Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
- Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
- Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
- Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
- Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
-- UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss)
+- UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
- More than one filter allowed in in wxDocTemplate filter.
-- Added wxListBox::HitTest()
+- Added wxListBox::HitTest().
+- Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
+- Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
+- Added support for links to wxHtmlListBox; use code has to override
+ wxHtmlListBox::OnLinkClicked() to take advantage of it.
wxMSW:
- Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
- wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
- Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
-- Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated
-- Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl
+- Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated.
+- Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl.
- Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
- Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
- Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
- wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
changes the system font.
-- wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts)
+- wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts).
+- Fixed wxChoice/wxComboBox slow appending and infinite recursion
+ if its size is set within a paint handler (for example when embedded in a
+ wxHtmlWindow). [Now reverted due to problems in W2K and below.]
+- wxDC::GetTextExtent() width calculation is more precise for italics fonts now
wxGTK:
-- wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated
-- Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support
-- wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK
+- Fixed handling of font encoding in non-Unicode build
+- wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated.
+- Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support.
+- wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK.
- Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
- implementation
+ implementation.
- Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
- --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.\
+ --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.
- Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
- Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
- previously unable to be focused upon before
-- Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
- wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox
+ previously unable to be focused before.
+- Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
+ wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox.
- Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
class was used.
- Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
- Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
- Fixed problems with CJK input method.
-- Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett)
-- Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl
+- Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
+- Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
wxMac:
wxCocoa:
-- wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura)
+- wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
wxWinCE:
- Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
- Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
+- Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
wxUniv:
-- Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor)
+- Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
wxX11:
- Invisible text problem fixed.
- Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
+- Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
Unix: