unifying CFTypes

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / changes.txt

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@@ -32,6 +32,19 @@ changes:
   type "const char *", you need to remove wxT() or _T() around the values used
   to initialize them (which should normally always be ASCII).
 
+- wxIPC classes didn't work correctly in Unicode build before, this was fixed
+  but at a price of breaking backwards compatibility: many methods which used
+  to work with "wxChar *" before use "void *" now (some int parameters were
+  also changed to size_t). While wxIPC_TEXT can still be used to transfer 7
+  bit text, the new wxIPC_UTF8TEXT format is used for transferring wxStrings.
+
+
+wxODBC library removal
+----------------------
+
+wxODBC library was unmaintained since several years and we couldn't continue
+supporting it any longer so it was removed. Please use any of the other open
+source ODBC libraries in the future projects.
 
 
 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
@@ -61,6 +74,10 @@ 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
 
+- wxDC classes hierarchy has changed, if you derived any classes from wxDC you
+  need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and
+  uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours.
+
 - 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
@@ -116,6 +133,11 @@ Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
   derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you
   can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments.
 
+- wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they can't be
+  implemented correctly any longer because automatically generated ids are not
+  necessarily allocated consecutively any more. Use GetChildren() to find the
+  next/previous control sibling instead.
+
 
 Deprecated methods and their replacements
 -----------------------------------------
@@ -142,7 +164,10 @@ Major new features in this release
 
 All:
 
+- Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen)
 - Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe)
+- Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
+- Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)
 - Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr).
 - Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi).
 - Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
@@ -170,11 +195,18 @@ All (Unix):
 
 All (GUI):
 
+- Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames()
 - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
+- Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications
+- Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect()
 - 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 wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov)
+- Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid)
+- Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid)
+- Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid)
 - Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II)
 - New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)
 - Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
@@ -206,7 +238,8 @@ All (GUI):
   behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions.
 - Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table
   to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance.
-- Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
+- Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren(). (Szczepan Holyszewski)
+- Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
 
 wxGTK:
 
@@ -230,6 +263,7 @@ wxMac:
 - 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).
+- Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale
 
 wxMSW:
 
@@ -237,6 +271,7 @@ wxMSW:
 - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
 - wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
 - Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
+- Fix centering wxFileDialog
 
 wxX11:
 
@@ -244,6 +279,33 @@ wxX11:
 - Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
 
 
+2.8.8
+-----
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling()
+
+
+2.8.7
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Fixed bug with default proxy destruction in wxURL (Axel Gembe).
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Correct (harmless) warnings given for forward-declared DLL-exported classes
+  by mingw32 4.2 (Tim Stahlhut).
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Added gtk.window.force-background-colour wxSystemOptions option to work around
+  a background colour bug in the gtk-qt theme under KDE.
+- Implemented wxGetClientDisplayRect() correctly for wxGTK and X11-based ports.
+
+
 2.8.6
 -----