GetEventObject() in all ports but the frame the menu was attached to in wxMSW.
Now all ports return the menu that was opened or closed as the event object.
+- wxAny now uses C locale format for the floating point numbers and not the
+ current locale one, i.e. decimal point is always used.
+
Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
-----------------------------------------------------------
any more. Use wxBookCtrlEvent in your code if you need to forward-declare
it or just include the appropriate header instead of forward declaration.
+- wxStandardPaths class can't be created now. This was never the right thing
+ to do, wxStandardPaths::Get() always had to be used to access the global
+ object of the correct type but now doing it results in a compilation error.
+
Deprecated methods and their replacements
-----------------------------------------
Build system changes
--------------------
+- Cocoa is now used by default under OS X instead of Carbon. Pass --with-carbon
+ option to configure to use wxCarbon.
+
- In wxMSW makefile builds, "_x64" is used instead of "_amd64" when compiling
for this architecture in the architecture-specific paths and library names.
TARGET_CPU can still be specified as "amd64" for compatibility but "x64"
was added.
-2.9.5: (released ????-??-??)
+2.9.5: (released 2013-07-15)
----------------------------
INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.9.4:
event type constants to make using Bind() less verbose. E.g.
wxEVT_COMMAND_MENU_SELECTED is now wxEVT_MENU (but the old name remains
available for compatibility) (Catalin Raceanu).
+- Fix wxExecute() implementation under Unix (Rob Bresalier).
+- Also fix reading output from children exiting with -1 () (Jonathan Dagresta).
- Add wxEvtHandler::CallAfter() method for asynchronous method calls.
- Add support for symlinks to wxFileName (David Hart).
- Add wxDIR_NO_FOLLOW flag for wxDir traversal (David Hart).
- Allow testing for symlink/FIFO/socket existence in wxFileName (David Hart).
- Many important bug fixes in wxFileSystemWatcher (David Hart).
+- Add wxInputStream::ReadAll() and wxOutputStream::WriteAll() (Catalin Raceanu).
+- Fix wxCountingOutputStream::LastWrite() return value (Catalin Raceanu).
- Add new wxFSW_EVENT_ATTRIB and wxFSW_EVENT_UNMOUNT flags (David Hart).
- Add separate read/written bytes counters and per-direction NOWAIT and WAITALL
flags to wxSocket (Rob Bresalier).
+- Add wxEventLoop::ScheduleExit() (Rob Bresalier).
- Add wxProcess::SetPriority() (Marian Meravy).
- Add wxDir::Close() method (Silverstorm82).
- Fix wxDateTime::GetWeekOfYear() for the last week of year (aimo).
- Add wxSocketBase::GetSocket() (Laurent Poujoulat).
- Add IEEE 754 single/double precision support to wxDataStream classes (net147).
- Add wxVector<>::const_reverse_iterator (troelsk).
+- Fix thread-safety issue in wxSharedPtr<> (plorkyeran).
+- Add wxTimer::StartOnce().
- Add Nepali translation (Him Prasad Gautam).
All (GUI):
- Add support for wxRibbonBar and related controls to XRC (Armel Asselin).
- Add wxBITMAP_PNG() macro similar to wxBITMAP() but for PNG files.
- Add new wxSimplebook class.
+- Implement possibility to hook all modal dialog calls.
- Support hexadecimal numbers in wxSpinCtrl.
- Respect window max size in wxBoxSizer (Nathan Ridge).
- Add support for searching in wxWebView for MSW and GTK (Allonii).
- Close wxLogWindow automatically if it's the last remaining top level window.
- Implement clipping for wxSVGFileDC (Steve Benbow).
- Add wxDirCtrl::GetPath() (troelsk).
-- Add wxEVT_COMMAND_DIRCTRL_CHANGED event (troelsk).
+- Add wxEVT_DIRCTRL_SELECTIONCHANGED event (troelsk).
+- Add wxEVT_DIRCTRL_FILEACTIVATED event (troelsk).
- Add wxControl::GetSizeFromTextSize() (Manuel Martin).
- Optionally allow showing tooltips for disabled ribbon buttons (wxBen).
+- Improve horizontal scrolling in wxRibbonControl (wxBen).
- Add wxTL_NO_HEADER style to wxTreeListCtrl (robboto).
- Add possibility to delay showing wxRichToolTip (John Roberts).
- Add "rect" paramerer to wxRichToolTip::ShowFor() (John Roberts).
- Allow associating a validator with wxGridCellTextEditor (derEine).
- Add more convenient wxFont(wxFontInfo) ctor.
- Pass menu events to the handler in the associated wxMenuBar.
+- Add wxWindow::BeginRepositioningChildren() and EndRepositioningChildren().
+- Fix wxStyledTextCtrl::SetInsertionPointEnd() (troelsk).
+- Add wxFileDialog::GetCurrentlySelectedFilename() (Carl Godkin).
+- Add wxMouseEvent::GetColumnsPerAction() (toiffel).
+- Add support for horizontal mouse wheel scrolling in wxSTC (toiffel).
+- Improve wrapping of cell contents in wxGrid (nmset).
+- Big speed up in wxImage::Scale(wxIMAGE_QUALITY_HIGH) (Hsilgos).
wxGTK:
-- Allow building wxGTK3 with Broadway backend (Kolya Kosenko).
+- Allow building wxGTK3 with Broadway and Wayland backends (Kolya Kosenko).
+- Further improvements to wxGTK/Win32 port (Kolya Kosenko).
- Provide native implementation of wxNotificationMessage using libnotify.
- Generate clipboard events for wxComboBox and not only wxTextCtrl.
- Improve drag-and-drop of URLs.
- Return more native shell icons from wxArtProvider (Markus Juergens).
- Fix filter checks in wxDir::FindFirst/Next() (Catalin Raceanu).
- Add support for wxICON_AUTH_NEEDED to wxMessageDialog (Chris Spencer).
+- Fix printing too many copies of the document in some cases (John Roberts).
+- Fix DST confusion in wxFileName::{Set,Get}Times().
wxOSX/Cocoa:
- Implement image support in wxNotebook (Malcolm MacLeod).
- Add support for button mnemonics (joostn).
- Implemented wxTextCtrl::SetDefaultStyle().
+- Fix insertion and removal of radio items in wxMenu.
2.9.4: (released 2012-07-09)