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
-----------------------------------------
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)
All (GUI):
+- Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames()
- Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
- 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)
- 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:
- 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:
- 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
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