- wxDocument::OnNewDocument() doesn't call OnCloseDocument() any more.
+- If you use wxScrolledWindow::SetTargetWindow() you must implement its
+ GetSizeAvailableForScrollTarget() method, please see its documentation for
+ more details.
+
+- Processing of pending events now requires a running event loop.
+ Thus initialization code (e.g. showing a dialog) previously done in wxApp::OnRun()
+ or equivalent function should now be done into wxApp::OnEventLoopEnter().
+ See wxApp::OnEventLoopEnter() and wxApp::OnEventLoopExit() docs for more info.
+
+
Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
-----------------------------------------------------------
need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and
uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours.
+- wxWindow::ProcessEvent() (and other wxEvtHandler methods inherited by wxWindow)
+ has been made protected to prevent wrongly using it instead of correct
+ GetEventHandler()->ProcessEvent().
+ New ProcessWindowEvent() was added for convenience.
+
- 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
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
+- wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they couldn't be
implemented correctly any longer because automatically generated ids are not
- necessarily allocated consecutively any more. Use GetChildren() to find the
+ necessarily allocated consecutively now. Use GetChildren() to find the
next/previous control sibling instead.
- Calling wxConfig::Write() with an enum value will fail to compile because
have been changed to accept "wxBitmapType bitmaptype", please use enum
wxBitmapType in your code.
+- wxGridCellEditor::EndEdit() signature has changed and it was split in two
+ functions, one still called EndEdit() and ApplyEdit(). See the documentation
+ of the new functions for more details about how grid editors should be
+ written now.
+
+- wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGE event renamed to wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED and shouldn't
+ be vetoed any more, use the new wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING event to do it.
+
+- Now wxWidgets at startup in debug builds checks if all wxEvent-derived classes
+ correctly implement the Clone() function, logging a warning if they don't.
+ A correct implementation for MyCustomEventClass::Clone() is simply:
+ virtual wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyCustomEventClass(*this); }
+
+- Global wxPendingEvents and wxPendingEventsLocker objects were removed.
+ You may use wxEventLoopBase::SuspendProcessingOfPendingEvents instead of
+ locking wxPendingEventsLocker now.
+
+
Deprecated methods and their replacements
-----------------------------------------
"Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names.
- wxConnection::OnExecute() is not formally deprecated yet but new code should
use simpler OnExec() version which is called with wxString argument
-- wxMenuItem::GetLabel has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabelText
-- wxMenuItem::GetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabel
-- wxMenuItem::GetLabelFromText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetLabelText
-- wxMenuItem::SetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::SetItemLabel
-- wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen ctor now take
- respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a plain "int style";
- use the new wxBrush/wxPen style names (wxBRUSHSTYLE_XXX and wxPENSTYLE_XXX) instead
- of the old deprecated wxXXX styles (which however are still available).
+- Various wxMenuItem methods were deprecated in favour of more consisently
+ named new versions:
+ . GetLabel() is now GetItemLabelText()
+ . GetText() is not GetItemLabel()
+ . GetLabelFromText() is now GetLabelText()
+ . SetText() is now SetItemLabel()
+- wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen
+ ctor now take respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a
+ plain "int style"; use the new wxBrush/wxPen style names (wxBRUSHSTYLE_XXX
+ and wxPENSTYLE_XXX) instead of the old deprecated wxXXX styles.
+- EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGE was deprecated, use EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED instead if you
+ don't veto the event in its handler and EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING if you do.
- EVT_CALENDAR_DAY event has been deprecated, use EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED.
- EVT_CALENDAR_MONTH and EVT_CALENDAR_YEAR events are deprecated,
use EVT_CALENDAR_PAGE_CHANGED which replaces both of them.
it with SetDeviceClippingRegion() if this was the correct thing to do in your
code.
- wxTE_AUTO_SCROLL style is deprecated as it's always on by default anyhow.
+- wxThreadHelper::Create() has been renamed to CreateThread which has a better
+ name for a mix-in class, and allows setting the thread type.
+- wxDos2UnixFilename, wxUnix2DosFilename, wxStripExtension, wxGetTempFileName,
+ wxExpandPath, wxContractPath, wxRealPath, wxCopyAbsolutePath, wxSplitPath
+ were deprecated in favour of wxFileName methods. See docs for more info.
+- wxEvtHandler::TryValidator/Parent() are deprecated, override the new and
+ documented TryBefore/After() methods if you used to override these ones.
Major new features in this release
- wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally,
depending on what is optimal for the target platform.
-- Events loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
+- New propgrid library containing wxPropertyGrid and related classes.
+
+- Many enhancements to wxDataViewCtrl.
+
+- Event loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
+
+- Events can now be connected to any functor, not necessarily a method of
+ wxEvtHandler-derived class. The compile-time safety was also improved.
+
+- Documentation for wxWidgets has been converted from LaTex to C++ headers
+ with Doxygen comments and significantly improved in the process (screenshots
+ of various controls were added, more identifiers are now linked to their
+ definition &c). Any reports about inaccuracies in the documentation are
+ welcome (and due to using the simple Doxygen syntax it is now easier than
+ ever to submit patches correcting them! :-)
+
+- Support for persistent objects automatically saving and restoring their state
+ was added.
2.9.0
All:
-- Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen)
+- Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen).
- Cleaned up wxURI and made it Unicode-friendly.
-- Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski)
-- Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it
-- Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe)
+- Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski).
+- Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it.
+- 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 wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
- Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
- Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
+- Implemented wxMemoryFSHandler::FindFirst/Next().
+- Added wxEventLoop::DispatchTimeout().
+- Added wxZlibStream::SetDictionary() (Axel Gembe).
- Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz).
- Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev).
- Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev).
Linnakangas).
- wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared,
if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented.
-- Added wxWeakRef<T>, wxScopedPtr<T>, wxSharedPtr<T> class templates
+- Added wxWeakRef<T>, wxScopedPtr<T>, wxScopedArray<T>, wxSharedPtr<T> templates
+ and renamed old wx/ptr_{scpd,shrd}.h headers to wx/scoped{ptr,array}.h and
+ wx/sharedptr.h (but old headers are still provided for compatibility).
- Added wxVector<T> class templates
- Added wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_SET() and wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_NULL() to wx/scopeguard.h.
- Added wxEvtHandler::QueueEvent() replacing AddPendingEvent() and
- Corrected bug in wxTimeSpan::IsShorterThan() for equal time spans.
- Use std::unordered_{map,set} for wxHashMap/Set if available (Jan van Dijk).
- Added wxString::Capitalize() and MakeCapitalized().
+- Added wxArray::swap().
- Added wxSHUTDOWN_LOGOFF and wxSHUTDOWN_FORCE wxShutdown() flags (troelsk).
+- Added wxSocket::ShutdownOutput().
+- Handle exceptions thrown from overridden wxView::OnCreate() gracefully.
+- Added wxPATH_RMDIR_FULL/RECURSIVE wxFileName::Rmdir() flags (Marcin Malich).
+- Added wxStandardPaths::GetAppDocumentsDir().
+- Added wx-prefixed versions of DECLARE_NO_{COPY,ASSIGN}_CLASS macros.
+- Added wxFileName::ReplaceEnvVariable and wxFileName::ReplaceHomeDir.
+- Added wxProtocol::SetDefaultTimeout(); the default timeout for both wxHTTP and wxFTP
+ protocols is 60 seconds.
+- Added wxStrnlen() for safe computation of string length.
+- Added wxImage::Clear() (troelsk).
+- Added wxLog::Log().
+- Added wxXmlResource::GetResourceNode().
All (Unix):
- Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski).
+- Noticeably (by a factor of ~150) improve wxIPC classes performance.
+- Configure options --with-opengl and --enable-mediactrl now default to "auto":
+ if OpenGL and GStreamer libraries are available the "gl" and "media" wx libraries
+ are automatically built.
All (GUI):
-- Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes
-- Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK
-- Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames()
+- Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes.
+- Integrated wxPropertyGrid in wxWidgets itself (Jaakko Salli).
+- Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK.
+- Added wxHeaderCtrl and allow using it in wxGrid.
+- Added wxRearrangeList, wxRearrangeCtrl and wxRearrangeDialog.
+- 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 wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson)
-- Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski)
+- Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications.
+- Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect().
+- Added wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson).
+- Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski).
+- Support custom labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson for wxMac version).
+- Added wxScrolledWindow::ShowScrollbars().
+- Also added wxCANCEL_DEFAULT to wxMessageDialog.
+- Allow copying text in the log dialogs.
- Added multisample (anti-aliasing) support to wxGLCanvas (Olivier Playez).
+- Added wxCAL_SHOW_WEEK_NUMBERS wxCalendarCtrl style (Sören Meyer-Eppler).
- Initialize wx{Client,Paint,Window}DC with fonts/colours of its window.
-- Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows
-- Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)
+- Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows.
+- Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr).
- 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 wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov).
+- Added wxTextEntry::SetHint().
- Made wxLogWindow thread-safe (Barbara Maren Winkler).
-- 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 wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid).
+- Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid).
+- Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid).
+- Added support for drop-down toolbar buttons to XRC.
+- 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).
- Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
- Added support for resizing wxWizard bitmaps to the current page height,
via SetBitmapPlacement, SetBitmapBackgroundColour and SetMinimumBitmapWidth.
Also made it easier to derive from wxWizard and override behaviour.
-- Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window
+- Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window.
- Add support for wxDatePickerCtrl in wxGenericValidator (Herry Ayen Yang)
- Added wxWindow::HasFocus().
- Added wxGLCanvas::IsDisplaySupported().
- Show busy cursor in wxLaunchDefaultBrowser and add wxBROWSER_NOBUSYCURSOR.
- Added wxFlexGridSizer::Is{Row,Col}Growable() (Marcin Wojdyr).
- Added "enabled" and "hidden" attributes to radio box items in XRC.
+- wxWindow::IsBeingDeleted() now returns true not only if the window itself is
+ marked for destruction but also if any of its parent windows are.
+- Improved drawing of the hint during column move in wxGrid (Santo Pfingsten).
+- Add wxGridSelectRowsOrColumns selection mode to wxGrid.
+- Add wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING event matching wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED.
+- Get/HasModifiers() of wxKeyEvent are now also available in wxMouseEvent.
+- Provide new/old cell value in wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING/CHANGED events.
+- Added wxArtProvider::GetNativeSizeHint(); GetSizeHint() as well as
+ GetNativeSizeHint() now return more sensible values in wxMSW and wxMac and
+ no longer return bogus values.
+- Added wxControl::SetLabelText() and EscapeMnemonics().
+- Added support for wxFILTER_EMPTY and wxFILTER_DIGITS styles to wxTextValidator;
+ added also the SetCharIncludes() and SetCharExcludes() utilities.
+- Added wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_FILTER and many wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_COMPRESSION_* options
+ to wxImage and wxPNGHandler to allow for custom compression levels when saving PNGs
+ (Perdana Panduwana)
+- Added GetValue(), GetRange(), GetMessage() functions to wxProgressDialog
+- Moved yield functions to wxEventLoopBase and implemented for wxMSW and wxGTK
+ a selective wxEventLoopBase::YieldFor() function.
+ Added also wxEventLoopBase::IsYielding to help cure re-entrancy problems with Yield().
+- Render <th> element contents in bold in wxHTML.
+- Added wxGrid::{Set,Get}{Row,Col}Sizes() methods (Andrey Putrin).
wxGTK:
- Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi).
+- Ellipsize long strings in wxStatusBar (Francesco Montorsi)
- Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
- Native keyboard navigation implementation.
- Added wxCB_SORT support to wxComboBox (Evgeniy Tarassov).
- Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option.
- Added support for GTK+ print backend
- Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).
+- Fix wxDC::Blit() support for user scale and source offset (Marcin Wojdyr).
wxMac:
- Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls).
-- Added support for changing button labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson).
- 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
-- Added native wxCollapsiblePane
+- Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale.
+- Native wxCollapsiblePane implementation.
wxMSW:
+- Fix many problems with selection in multi-selection wxTreeCtrl (Jonathan Liu).
- Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications.
- Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
- wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
+- wxCheckListBox now also supports use of client data (Marcin Malich).
- Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
-- Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it
-- Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk)
-- Show resize gripper on resizeable dialogs (Kolya Kosenko)
-- Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron)
-- Use different Win32 class names in different wx instances (Thomas Hauk)
+- Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it.
+- Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk).
+- Use vertical scrollbar in wxMessageDialog if it's too big to fit on screen.
+- Show resize gripper on resizeable dialogs (Kolya Kosenko).
+- Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron).
+- Use different Win32 class names in different wx instances (Thomas Hauk).
- Support multiline labels for wxCheckBox and wxToggleButton.
- Print preview is now rendered in the resolution used by printer and
accurately represents what will be printed. This fixes wxHtmlEasyPrinting
preview inaccuracies on Windows; on other platforms, native preview
should be used.
+- Implement wxFileName::SetTimes() for directories (Steve Lamerton).
+- Added wxToolTip::SetMaxWidth() and improved default wrapping (Joachim Hönig).
+- Changed default toolbar bitmaps size from obsolete 16x15 to 24x24 used
+ by modern apps.
+- Ellipsize long strings in wxStatusBar (Francesco Montorsi)
+- Fix spurious repaint when changing tooltip text (Jonathan Liu).
wxX11:
- Implement wxBitmap ctor from XBM data.
+2.8.9
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Optimize wxString::Replace() for single character arguments.
+- Updated Hindi translation (Priyank Bolia).
+- Use tr1::unordered_{map,set} for wxHash{Map,Set} implementation if available
+ in STL build; in particular do not use deprecated hash_{map,set} which
+ results in a lot of warnings from newer g++ (Jan Van Dijk and Pete Stieber).
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Added support for reading alpha channel in BMP format (Kevin Wright).
+- Fixed help viewer bug whereby the splitter sash in wxHtmlHelpWindow could
+ go underneath the left-hand pane, permanently, after resizing the
+ help window.
+- Fixed wxHTML default font size for printing to be 12pt regardless of the
+ platform, instead of depending on GUI toolkit's screen configuration.
+- Support wxDP_ALLOWNONE style in generic wxDatePickerCtrl version.
+- Set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar correctly in the events generated by generic
+ wxListCtrl (Mikkel S).
+- Fix changing size of merged cells in wxGrid (Laurent Humbertclaude).
+- Fixed wrapping bug in wxRichTextCtrl when there were images present;
+ now sets the cursor to the next line after pressing Shift+Enter.
+- Fixed Cmd+Back, Cmd+Del word deletion behaviour in wxRichTextCtrl.
+- Fix crash when reading malformed PCX images.
+- Fix bug with wrong transparency in GIF animations (troelsk).
+- Store palette information for XPM images in wxImage (troelsk).
+- Fixed selection bugs and auto list numbering in wxRichTextCtrl.
+- Significantly optimize wxGrid::BlockToDeviceRect() for large grids (kjones).
+- Introduced new wxAuiToolBar class for better integration and look-and-feel.
+- Fix a crash in wxAuiFrameManager when Update() was called in between mouse-up
+ and mouse-down events
+- wxAUI: added various NULL-ptr asserts.
+- Fixed problem with Floatable(false) not working in wxAuiFrameManager.
+- Fixed maximize bug in wxAUI.
+- Allow period in link anchors in wxHTML.
+- Fixed memory corruption in wxHTML when parsing "&;" in the markup.
+- Fixed event type in EVT_GRID_CMD_COL_MOVE and EVT_GRID_COL_MOVE.
+- wxGrid doesn't steal focus when hiding editor any more (Tom Eckert).
+
+All (Unix):
+
+- MIME types reading fixed when running under GNOME, reading .desktop
+ files and also the default application list.
+- Added filesys.no-mimetypesmanager system option so that applications that
+ must load an XRC file at program startup don't have to incur the
+ mime types manager initialization penalty.
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Potentially incompatible change: wxExecute() arguments are now quoted if they
+ contain spaces and existing quotes are escaped with a backslash. However, to
+ preserve compatibility, the argument is unchanged if it is already quoted.
+ Notice that this behaviour will change in wxWidgets 3.0 where all arguments
+ will be quoted, please update your code now if you are affected and use only
+ wxWidgets 2.8.9 or later.
+- Fix keyboard support in wxSpinCtrl broken in 2.8.8.
+- Compile fix for WinCE in window.cpp (no VkKeyScan in Windows CE).
+- Support disabling items before adding them to the menu (Christian Walther).
+- Allow to call SetFont(wxNullFont) to reset the font to default.
+- Implement UUID::operator==() and !=() (SQLAware Corporation).
+- Fixed long standing (introduced in 2.6.3) bug which resulted in always
+ creating a DIB and not DDB in wxBitmap(const wxImage&) ctor.
+- Fix the bug with wxFileDialog not being shown at all if the default file name
+ was invalid.
+- Fix hang in keyboard navigation code with radio buttons under Windows 2000.
+- Implement wxWinINetInputStream::GetSize() (spicerno).
+- Always copy "has alpha" flag when copying bitmaps (SQLAware Corporation).
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Fixed masking of disabled bitmaps in wxMenuItem and wxStaticBitmap.
+- Fixed generation of events for an initially empty wxDirPickerCtrl.
+- Fixed detection of Meta key state so that NumLock isn't misdetected
+ as Meta (requires GTK+ 2.10).
+- Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).
+
+wxMac:
+
+- Fixed a glitch where clicking on a scrollbar (but not moving the scrollbar)
+ would cause the window to scroll.
+
+
2.8.8
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