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[wxWidgets.git] / docs / changes.txt

diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index fe41bfce2ef66854f87612669b766499e4c925fc..f61638fcbd544be928e9f75ebbacf7f9b9aa2d0a 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ changes:
   to work with "wxChar *" before use "void *" now (some int parameters were
   also changed to size_t). While wxIPC_TEXT can still be used to transfer 7
   bit text, the new wxIPC_UTF8TEXT format is used for transferring wxStrings.
+  Also notice that connection classes should change the parameter types of
+  their overridden OnExecute() or override a more convenient OnExec() instead.
 
 
 wxODBC and contrib libraries removal
@@ -80,6 +82,11 @@ Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
 - wxWindow::Freeze/Thaw() are not virtual any more, if you overrode them in
   your code you need to override DoFreeze/Thaw() instead now.
 
+- wxCalendarCtrl has native implementation in wxGTK, but it has less features
+  than the generic one. The native implementation is used by default, but you
+  can still use wxGenericCalendarCtrl instead of wxCalendarCtrl in your code if
+  you need the extra features.
+
 
 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
 -----------------------------------------------------------
@@ -176,6 +183,11 @@ Deprecated methods and their replacements
   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).
+- 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.
+- wxCalendarCtrl::EnableYearChange() and wxCAL_NO_YEAR_CHANGE are deprecated.
+
 
 
 Major new features in this release
@@ -227,6 +239,10 @@ All:
 - Added wxWeakRef<T>, wxScopedPtr<T>, wxSharedPtr<T> class templates
 - 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
+  wxQueueEvent() replacing wxPostEvent().
+- wxString now uses std::[w]string internally by default, meaning that it is
+  now thread-safe if the standard library provided with your compiler is.
 
 All (Unix):
 
@@ -235,6 +251,7 @@ All (Unix):
 All (GUI):
 
 - Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes
+- Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK
 - Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames()
 - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
 - Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications
@@ -298,6 +315,9 @@ All (GUI):
 - Added wxApp::SetNativeTheme() (Stefan H.).
 - Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
 - Freeze() and Thaw() now recursively freeze/thaw the children too.
+- Generalized wxScrolledWindow into wxScrolled<T> template that can derive
+  from any window class, not just wxPanel.
+- Allow having menu separators with ids != wxID_SEPARATOR (Jeff Tupper)
 
 wxGTK: