Allow wxPreferencesEditor::Dismiss() to work when using modal dialogs too.

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / changes.txt

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@@ -87,6 +87,19 @@ The "stc" and "svg" contribs instead have been moved respectively into a new
 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 

+- Don't pass wxString::c_str() to vararg functions any more! Due to Unicode
+  changes, c_str() now returns an object and not a simple char pointer, so
+  using it with vararg functions does not work any more. The preferred
+  solution is to use wx-provided equivalents, e.g. wxPrintf() instead of
+  printf() which has the added benefit that you don't need to call c_str()
+  any more and can pass wxString objects directly. If this is impossible,
+  add explicit casts to "const char*" or "const wchar_t*". See wxString
+  documentation for more details.
+
+  Notice that using wxString::c_str() with vararg functions does result in
+  compilation errors with g++ and most other compilers but not MSVC. Try to
+  build your code with g++ to detect all such problems at compile-time.
+

 - Default location of wxFileConfig files has changed under Windows, you will
   need to update your code if you access these files directly.
 
 - Default location of wxFileConfig files has changed under Windows, you will
   need to update your code if you access these files directly.
 


@@ -491,6 +504,16 @@ Build system changes
   it's not the default "x86". E.g. a library built with MSVC 10 for amd64 is
   called "wxbase294ud_vc110_amd64.dll" now.
 
   it's not the default "x86". E.g. a library built with MSVC 10 for amd64 is
   called "wxbase294ud_vc110_amd64.dll" now.
 

+- MSVC projects don't include neither wxUniversal nor ANSI (non-Unicode)
+  configurations any more. The simplest way to build wxWidgets in these
+  configurations if you need them is to use nmake from the command line with
+  WXUNIV=1 or UNICODE=0 command line parameter respectively.
+
+- The manifest is not included by wx/msw/wx.rc any longer for MSVC compiler.
+  If you're using MSVC 6 or 7 which require it, you must explicitly define
+  wxUSE_RC_MANIFEST=1 and also predefine WX_CPU_X86 in the resource compiler
+  options in your project file.
+

 
 Major new features in this release
 ----------------------------------
 
 Major new features in this release
 ----------------------------------


@@ -525,10 +548,155 @@ Major new features in this release
 
 
 2.9.5: (released ????-??-??)
 
 
 2.9.5: (released ????-??-??)

+----------------------------
+
+INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.9.4:
+
+- The locale is not set automatically on startup any more, unlike in the
+  previous 2.9 versions (but like in 2.8). Use wxLocale (preferred) or call
+  wxApp::SetCLocale() from your overridden wxApp::Initialize() to restore the
+  old behaviour.
+- wxWebView::New now takes a string identifier for the backend to be used
+  rather than a wxWebViewBackend enum value.
+- wxWebView identifiers of the form WEB_VIEW_* have been renamed to WEBVIEW_*
+  for consistency with the rest of wxWidgets.
+- wxFont(int size, wxFontFamily family, int flags) ctor added in 2.9.4 was
+  removed to avoid ambiguities with the other existing ctors and replaced with
+  the new wxFont(wxFontInfo) ctor.
+
+
+All:
+
+- Provide short synonyms using the same name as event table macros for the
+  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).
+- 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 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 wxProcess::SetPriority() (Marian Meravy).
+- Add wxDir::Close() method (Silverstorm82).
+- Fix wxDateTime::GetWeekOfYear() for the last week of year (aimo).
+- Fix compilation of wxHash{Map,Set} with g++ 4.7 (Nathan Ridge).
+- Fix posting large amounts of data in wxHTTP (Platonides).
+- Add wxFile::ReadAll() for consistency with wxFFile.
+- Add wxDateTime::DiffAsDateSpan() and wxDateSpan::GetTotalMonths() (jonasr).
+- Add wxVector::assign() (Jonas Rydberg).
+- Add wx[F]File{Input,Output}Stream::GetFile() (troelsk).
+- Add wxSocketBase::GetSocket() (Laurent Poujoulat).
+- Add IEEE 754 single/double precision support to wxDataStream classes (net147).
+- Add wxVector<>::const_reverse_iterator (troelsk).
+- Add Nepali translation (Him Prasad Gautam).

 
 All (GUI):
 
 
 All (GUI):
 

+- Add support for wxAuiNotebook to XRC (Steven Lamerton).
+- 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.
+- Support hexadecimal numbers in wxSpinCtrl.
+- Respect window max size in wxBoxSizer (Nathan Ridge).
+- Add support for searching in wxWebView for MSW and GTK (Allonii).
+- Add generic wxFileSystem support to wxWebView with 
+  wxWebViewFSHandler (Nick Matthews).
+- Add possibility to disable context menu in wxWebView.
+- Add ability to register custom wxWebView backends using 
+  wxWebView::RegisterFactory and a wxWebViewFactory derived class.
+- Add possibility to hide and show again wxRibbonBar pages (wxBen).
+- Add wxRibbonBar pages highlighting (wxBen).
+- Add expand/collapse button to wxRibbonBar (rakeshthp).

 - Fix item data access in wxDataViewListCtrl (Kry).
 - Fix item data access in wxDataViewListCtrl (Kry).

+- Fix problem with floating maximized AUI panes (Laurent Poujoulat).
+- Add owned client data support to wxRibbonButtonBar. Notice that the client
+  data now must be set using the SetItemClient{Data,Object}() methods and not
+  when inserting the button (Laurent Poujoulat).
+- Add wxBitmapButton::NewCloseButton().
+- Add wxTextEntry::SelectNone() (troelsk).
+- Restore the original wxGrid col/row size when unhiding it (Michael Richards).
+- Don't show hidden wxGrid columns/rows when resizing them (Michael Richards).
+- Fix text origin and extent computations in wxSVGFileDC (Neil Chittenden).
+- Show tooltips for the too long items in generic wxTreeCtrl (Steven Houchins).
+- Add wxStyledTextCtrl::AnnotationClearLine() (sentieshar).
+- Add support for background-color style to span element in wxHTML (gevorg).
+- Add limited support for CSS styles for <a> tags too in wxHTML (gevorg).
+- Add "inherit" to <font> XRC tag (Steffen Olszewski, Gero Meßsysteme GmbH).
+- Add support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style to wxScrolled<> (Catalin Raceanu).
+- Add wxTreeCtrl::EnableBellOnNoMatch() (Jonathan Dagresta).
+- Implement incremental search in wxGenericListCtrl (Jonathan Dagresta).
+- Make TAB behaviour in wxGrid more flexible (Fulvio Senore).
+- Add missing styles support to wxWindow XRC hanlder (Steffen Olszewski).
+- Allow specifying all wxFlexGridSizer parameters in XRC (Steffen Olszewski).
+- Close wxLogWindow automatically if it's the last remaining top level window.
+- Implement clipping for wxSVGFileDC (Steve Benbow).
+- Add wxDirCtrl::GetPath() (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).
+- Add wxTL_NO_HEADER style to wxTreeListCtrl (robboto).
+- Add possibility to delay showing wxRichToolTip (John Roberts).
+- Add "rect" paramerer to wxRichToolTip::ShowFor() (John Roberts).
+- Add wxListCtrl::EnableAlternateRowColours() (troelsk).
+- Fix wrong tab order in wxAuiNotebook after dragging (Mark Barber).
+- Fix bug in generic wxDataViewCtrl column dragging (jobuz).
+- Add wxMask::GetBitmap() for wxMSW, wxGTK and wxOSX
+- Add wxCheckListBox::GetCheckedItems() (hartwigw).
+- Add wxAUI_TB_PLAIN_BACKGROUND wxAuiToolBar style (Allann Jones).
+- Make wxGenericDataViewCtrl::SetFont() really work (Laurent Poujoulat).
+- Remove wxLogWindow::OnFrameCreate(), it was never called anyhow.
+- Add wxBookCtrlBase::FindPage() (troelsk).
+- Add wxDocument::Activate() (troelsk).
+- Add wxDocManager::FindDocumentByPath() (troelsk).
+- Add wxEVT_GRID_COL_AUTO_SIZE event (Igor Korot).
+- Add chainable wxWizardPageSimple::Chain() overload.
+- Add wxTextEntryDialog::SetMaxLength() (derEine).
+- Fix maximum width support in wxGridCellTextEditor (derEine).
+- Allow associating a validator with wxGridCellTextEditor (derEine).
+- Add more convenient wxFont(wxFontInfo) ctor.
+- Pass menu events to the handler in the associated wxMenuBar.
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Allow building wxGTK3 with Broadway backend (Kolya Kosenko).
+- Provide native implementation of wxNotificationMessage using libnotify.
+- Generate clipboard events for wxComboBox and not only wxTextCtrl.
+- Improve drag-and-drop of URLs.
+- Make key event handling consistent with wxMSW (John Rails).
+- Fix printing in landscape mode (Marcin Wojdyr).
+- Fix path selection in wx{File,Dir}Dialog with GTK+ > 2.24.10 (obfuscated).
+- Make "More windows..." menu item in MDI "Window" menu actually work.
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Fix pulsing of bitmaps in focused buttons under Windows 7 (Catalin Raceanu).
+- Fix setting colours for the text part of wxComboBox (Igor Korot).
+- Add support for CURRENCY and SCODE types to OLE Automation helpers (PB).
+- Allow setting LCID used by wxAutomationObject (PB).
+- Better support for SAFEARRAY in OLE Automation code (PB).
+- Fix calling Iconize(false) on hidden top level windows (Christian Walther).
+- Don't send any events from wxSpinCtrl::SetRange() even if the value changed.
+- Display system drag images during drag and drop if available (PeterO).
+- Fix setting initial wxSpinCtrl value outside 0..100 range (joim).
+- Fix changing labels of menu items with bitmaps (Daniel Hyams).
+- Fix appearance of multiline coloured wxCheckBox (Catalin Raceanu).
+- Allow creating wxCursor from ANI files (Catalin Raceanu).
+- Add wxIcon::CreateFromHICON() (troelsk).
+- Improve wxCURSOR_RIGHT_ARROW appearance (DoltAlya).
+- Generate menu highlight events for popup menus in wxDialog (Sam Partington).
+- 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).
+
+wxOSX/Cocoa:
+
+- Implement image support in wxNotebook (Malcolm MacLeod).
+- Add support for button mnemonics (joostn).
+- Implemented wxTextCtrl::SetDefaultStyle().

 
 
 2.9.4: (released 2012-07-09)
 
 
 2.9.4: (released 2012-07-09)


@@ -552,7 +720,8 @@ All:
 - Fix deadlock due to too many events in Unix console apps (Lukasz Michalski).
 - Added wxDir::GetNameWithSep().
 - Allow unloading wxPluginLibrary objects in any order (manyleaves).
 - Fix deadlock due to too many events in Unix console apps (Lukasz Michalski).
 - Added wxDir::GetNameWithSep().
 - Allow unloading wxPluginLibrary objects in any order (manyleaves).

-- Fix passing strings with embedded NULs in wxThreadEvents (sodev).
+- Fix passing strings with embedded NULs in wxThreadEvents (Steffen Olszewski).
+- Add wxList::AsVector<>() helper (troelsk).

 
 All (GUI):
 
 
 All (GUI):
 


@@ -595,6 +764,7 @@ All (GUI):
 - Added support for Korean Johab and Vietnamese encodings (jank9201).
 - Fix off by 1 bug with setting font size in points in wxHTML (gevorg).
 - Fix return value of wxGenericListCtrl::InsertColumn() (Sebastian Walderich).
 - Added support for Korean Johab and Vietnamese encodings (jank9201).
 - Fix off by 1 bug with setting font size in points in wxHTML (gevorg).
 - Fix return value of wxGenericListCtrl::InsertColumn() (Sebastian Walderich).

+- Add wxDocManager::Get{Views,Documents,Templates}Vector() (troelsk).

 
 GTK:
 
 
 GTK: