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().
+- wxHtmlCell::AdjustPagebreak() signature has changed, update your code if you
+ override it
+- wxFontEnumerator::GetFacenames() and GetEncodings() now return arrays and
+ not pointers to arrays
+- wxStaticBoxSizer now deletes the associated wxStaticBox when it is deleted
+
Deprecated methods since 2.6.x and their replacements
-----------------------------------------------------
All:
-- wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag
-- Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation
+- Added positional parameters support to wxVsnprintf() (Francesco Montorsi)
+- 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 wxStandardPaths::GetDocumentsDir() (Ken Thomases)
+- 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)
+- 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.
+- 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()
+- Added wxString::EndsWith()
+- wxSocket::_Read continues reading from socket after exhausting pushback buffer.
+ Previously, only the buffer would be returned, even if more data was requested.
+- Added wxPowerEvent (currently MSW-only)
All (GUI):
+- Added wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox (Jaakko Salli)
- Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
+- Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric()
+- Added wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi)
+- Added clipboard events (wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY/CUT/PASTE)
+- Added wxRadioBox::SetItemToolTip()
+- Added support for CMYK JPEG images loading (Robert Wruck)
+- Added wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() and subitem hit testing (Agron Selimaj)
- Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers()
- Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
- wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
- 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,
- wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
best size.
- wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
+- wxImage::Mirror() and GetSubBitmap() now support alpha (Mickey Rose)
- 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
behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
-- 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
+- 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).
+- More than one filter allowed in in wxDocTemplate filter.
+- 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.
+- Added an easier to use wxMenu::AppendSubMenu()
+- wxString <-> wxColour conversions in wxColour class (Francesco Montorsi).
+- Fixed bug with ignoring blank lines in multiline wxGrid cell labels
+- Added wxTextAttr::Merge() (Marcin Simonides)
+- Added wxTB_NO_TOOLTIPS style (Igor Korot)
+- Added wxGenericDirCtrl::CollapsePath() (Christian Buhtz)
+- Fixed 64-bit issue in wxNotebook causing segfaults on Tru64 Unix.
wxMSW:
-- Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller)
+- Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
- wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
- Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
- Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
- 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.
- Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
- Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
- Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
+- 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).
+- 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
+- Warning fixes for VC++ 5.0 (Igor Korot)
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 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)
+- Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
+- Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
+- Support all border styles; wxListBox honours the borders now
+- wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow now generate line, page and thumb-release scroll events.
wxMac:
- Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
- Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
+wxCocoa:
+
+- wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
+
wxWinCE:
- Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
- Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
- Fixed date formatting and mktime.
- Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
-- Support for backspace key on smartphone.
+- Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
- Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
- is reccommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
+ is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
directly, however.
+- 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.
+- Fixed wxDatePickerCtrl usage.
wxUniv:
-- Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor)
+- Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
+- Implemented wxToggleButton (David Bjorkevik).
wxX11:
- Invisible text problem fixed.
- Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
+- Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
+- Implemented child process termination notifications (David Björkevik)
Unix:
- NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
+wxMGL:
+
+- Fixed NUM_LOCK having no effect.
+- Fixed wxFileExists (affecting wxImage::LoadFile).
+
2.6.2
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