sizes of the sizer items to be in the same proportion as the items
proportions to return to the old behaviour.
+- Interpretation of font height in pixels parameter has changed in wxFont
+ ctor and SetPixelSize() in wxMSW: it is now used as character height and not
+ the total cell height. If you previously used negative height to explicitly
+ request character height matching, you may now change your code to use
+ positive value (passing negative height still works but is undocumented and
+ deprecated). If you used positive height before you should retest your code
+ to check if the changes correspond to your expectations. And if you do need
+ the old behaviour please contact us at wx-dev to let us know about it!
+
- wxWindow::Freeze/Thaw() are not virtual any more, if you overrode them in
your code you need to override DoFreeze/DoThaw() instead now.
new constructors taking wxSize for the gap argument is preferred. The same
applies to wxFlexGridSizer as well.
+- wxBoxSizer::AddSpacer(x) now adds space in the direction of the sizer only
+ and not in both this and the orthogonal directions. This behaviour is what
+ most of the people expect but if you really relied on this overload adding
+ space in both directions you should change your code to use AddSpacer(x, x).
+
+- wxTextCtrl::LoadFile no longer sends a text update event.
+
+- wxXmlDocument::Save()'s indentstep argument's interpretation was fixed
+ to match the documentation: it now really is the number of spaces in
+ indentation instead of being its double. Its default value was changed
+ accordingly, to 2.
+
+- wxLOCALE_CONV_ENCODING flag has no effect now, catalogs are converted
+ regardless of whether the flag was specified or not. This only affects
+ legacy ANSI builds.
+
Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
-----------------------------------------------------------
without enclosing parentheses results in warnings from g++ with -Wparentheses,
add parentheses around the if statement body to work around it.
+- wxList::Member() now returns book and not a pointer/iterator. This shouldn't
+ require any changes as it was always meant to be used for checking for the
+ presence of an element in the list only. If you used it as Find(), simple do
+ use Find() instead.
+
+- wxLongLongFmtSpec is now a normal and not wide string so you will need to
+ change expressions of the form wxT("%") wxLongLongFmtSpec wxT("x") to
+ just "%" wxLongLongFmtSpec "x", i.e. simply remove wxT() from the strings you
+ concatenate with it.
+
Deprecated methods and their replacements
-----------------------------------------
the static box itself.
- wxMouseState::{Left,Middle,Right}Down() were renamed to XXXIsDown() for
consistency with wxMouseEvent and the old names were deprecated.
+- wxFont::SetNoAntiAliasing() was deprecated, it never really worked in most
+ ports and was always marked as "experimental" API. It will be replaced with
+ wxDC-level anti-aliasing control in the future.
+- wxValidator::SetBellOnError() incorrectly interpreted its argument (it
+ disabled the bell when it was true) and was replaced by SuppressBellOnError()
+ with more expected semantics.
+- wxPORTRAIT and wxLANDSCAPE are now elements of wxPrintOrientation enum and
+ wxPrintData::SetOrientation(int) takes wxPrintOrientation and not int.
Major new features in this release
- New propgrid library containing wxPropertyGrid and related classes.
+- new ribbon library for advanced toolbars.
+
- Many enhancements to wxDataViewCtrl.
- Event loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
was added.
+2.9.2:
+------
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Added wxRichMessageDialog (Rickard Westerlund, GSoC 2010 project).
+- Added wxCommandLinkButton (Rickard Westerlund, GSoC 2010 project).
+- Added wxUIActionSimulator (Steven Lamerton, GSoC 2010 project).
+- wxAUI: support auto-orientable toolbars (wsu).
+- Added wxDataViewCtrl::Set/GetCurrentItem().
+- wxHTML: render in RTL order inside RTL window (Richard Bullington-McGuire).
+- wxRibbon: added EVT_RIBBONGALLERY_CLICKED event (John Roberts).
+- Add support for CP-866 encoding to wxEncodingConverter (madnut).
+- Consistency fixes for keyboard events across all major ports.
+- Added EVT_RIBBONBAR_TAB_LEFT_DCLICK event (snowleopard).
+
+MSW:
+
+- Native implementation of wxHyperlinkCtrl and wxProgressDialog under modern
+ Windows versions (Rickard Westerlund, GSoC 2010 project).
+- Fix Cygwin 1.7 build (David Gangola).
+- Allow using wxDC::DrawText() with multiline texts.
+- Fix wxBitmapButton best size determination broken in 2.9.1.
+
+
+
2.9.1:
------
+INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE SINCE 2.9.0
+
+- wxStandardPaths doesn't use vendor name by default under MSW and OSX to
+ remain compatible with 2.8 behaviour but this makes it incompatible with
+ 2.9.0. Please use UseAppInfo(AppInfo_AppName | AppInfo_VendorName) explicitly
+ to use the vendor name in the paths returned by wxStandardPaths.
+
+- wxDataViewModel::GetAttr() is now const, as it should have been from the very
+ beginning. You will need to change it to be const in your derived model
+ class too if you override it.
+
+
All:
+- Added wxFileSystemWatcher (Bartosz Bekier, Google Summer of Code project).
- Added wxStd{Input,Output}Stream classes (Jonathan Liu).
- Include port number in host header in wxHTTP (Marcin 'Malcom' Malich).
- Added wxTempFile::Flush().
(file, line and function name) and id of the thread which generated it.
* SetThreadActiveTarget() allows to set up thread-specific log targets.
- Fix output buffer overflow in wxBase64Decode() (Eric W. Savage).
+- Added bilinear image resizing algorithm to wxImage (bishop).
+- Fix bug with position argument in wxImage::Size() (Byron Sorgdrager).
+- Added wxImage::ClearAlpha() (Javier Torres).
+- Fix bug with parsing concatenated switches in wxCmdLineParser (Mike Funduc).
+- Added wxMBConv::cMB2WC(wxCharBuffer) and cWC2MB(wxWCharBuffer) overloads.
+- Added wxAny class; a modern, backwards-incompatible replacement for
+ wxVariant.
+- wxDateTime timezone functions now dynamic (no caching).
+- Added wxHttp::GetCookie and wxHttp::HasCookies (dodge).
+- Added support for unique volume names to wxFileName (Neno Ganchev).
+- Correct bugs when using wxTextInputStream with wxConvAuto (Leon Buikstra).
+- Don't crash when input is empty in wxFileConfig ctor (Lukasz Michalski).
+- Correct wxSocket::Peek() to not block (Anders Larsen).
+- Added IEC and SI units support to GetHumanReadableSize() (Julien Weinzorn).
+- Add convenient wxString::ToStd{String,Wstring}() helpers.
+- Added wxTranslations class to allow localization without changing locale.
+ It provides more flexible languages enumeration API as well.
+- Added wxResourceTranslationsLoader for loading translations from Windows
+ resources.
+- Added wxMessageQueue::Clear().
+- Added wxConfig::Read(float *) overload (Terry Farnham).
+- Always use decimal point (and not the current locale separator) in wxConfig.
+- Fix posting of binary data using wxHTTP (Catalin Raceanu).
+
+Unix:
+
+- Return signed return code from wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC).
+- Allow to use WX_APPNAME_DATA_DIR environment var to override the return value
+ of wxStandardPaths::GetDataDir().
All (GUI):
- Added support for showing bitmaps in wxButton.
+- Added wxInfoBar.
+- Added stretchable spaces support to wxToolBar.
+- Added support for corner, row and column headers renderers to wxGrid.
- wxWindow::SetAutoLayout() now works for all windows, not just panels.
-- Support wxListCtrl columns, items and image lists in XRC (Kinaou Hervé).
-- Added support for wxFileCtrl to XRC (Kinaou Hervé).
+- Support wxListCtrl columns, items and image lists in XRC (Kinaou Hervé).
+- Added support for wxFileCtrl to XRC (Kinaou Hervé).
- Added ownfg, ownbg and ownfont tags to XRC.
- Added wxEditableListBox XRC handler.
- Added multiple selection support to wxDirCtrl (Steve Lamerton).
- wxGrid: add possibility to prevent resizing of individual rows/columns.
+- wxGrid: allow changing the horizontal alignment of numeric cells.
- wxHTML: add support for table borders width (Laurent Humbertclaude).
+- wxHTML: add limited support for span elements styles (Nigel Paton).
- Added wxMouseEventsManager.
- Building OpenGL library is now enabled by default.
+- Fixed wxDataViewCtrl::Set{Foreground,Background}Colour().
+- Added wxDataViewRenderer::EnableEllipsize().
- Improve wxTreeCtrl::ScrollTo() in generic version (Raanan Barzel).
- Added wxFont::[Make]{Bold,Italic,Smaller,Larger} and Scale[d]() methods.
- Added wxDC::CopyAttributes() and use it in wxBufferedDC.
HasScrollbar() really check for the scrollbar existence.
- Added wxKeyEvent::IsKeyInCategory() (Jeff Tupper).
- Add A0 and A1 paper formats support (Martin Perktold).
+- Fixed wxComboCtrl popup size on Mac (scrollbars were always shown).
+- Fixed wxComboCtrl focus problem on Mac (first-time popup
+ dismissed immediately as text control grabbed the focus).
+- wxPropertyGrid: added wxPG_EX_MULTIPLE_SELECTION.
+- wxPropertyGrid: added functions for editing property labels.
+- wxPropertyGrid: many fixes to property validation failure behavior. Added
+ new flags: wxPG_VFB_SHOW_MESSAGEBOX and wxPG_VFB_SHOW_MESSAGE_ON_STATUSBAR.
+- wxPropertyGrid: Added wxPropertyGrid::DedicateKey().
+- wxPropertyGrid: wxArrayStringProperty now uses wxEditableListBox.
+- wxPropertyGrid: Added "Delimiter" attribute for wxArrayStringProperty.
+- wxPropertyGridManager: added wxPG_NO_INTERNAL_BORDER,
+ wxPG_EX_NO_TOOLBAR_DIVIDER and wxPG_EX_TOOLBAR_SEPARATOR styles for finer
+ control over borders. Borders around property grid are now native for
+ consistency.
+- Added wxPropertyGridManager::ShowHeader().
+- Added wxXmlResource::LoadObjectRecursively().
+- Added wxColour::Set/GetRGB() and Set/GetRGBA() methods (Marcel Haß).
+- wxRTC: added wxRICHTEXT_HANDLER_USE_CSS flag for HTML handler to use CSS
+ where possible.
+- wxRTC: corrected centring and right-justification spacing.
+- wxRTC: fixed style selection reset after editing a style.
+- wxRTC: can now edit line spacing in .1 increments from 1 to 2.
+- wxRTC: added PaintAboveContent function for drawing on top of text.
+- Added wxBORDER_THEME to XRC.
+- wxGraphicsContext is now enabled by default if supported by the platform.
+- Fix building with using system libpng 1.4 (Volker Grabsch).
+- Add wxComboBox::Popup() and Dismiss() methods (Igor Korot).
+- Added wxTreeCtrl::SelectChildren() (Nikolay Tiushkov).
+- Show pages icons in window list menu in wxAuiNotebook (Ronny Krüger).
+- Add "initial selection" parameter to wxGetSingleChoice() (Nikolay Tiushkov).
+- Implement wxDocument::Revert() (troelsk).
+- Allow overriding print preview frame creation in docview (troelsk).
+- Added support for gradient stops in wxGraphicsContext (Kit Bishop).
+- Added wxTransparentColour.
+- Added wxToolBar::GetToolByPos().
+- Added wxProgressDialog::Was{Cancelled,Skipped}() (Julien Weinzorn).
+- Added wxTreeCtrl::{Clear,Set}FocusedItem() (Nikolay Tiushkov).
+- Added "filter changed" event to wxFileCtrl (Bill Jones).
+- wxAUI: update floating window position and not only size on resize (MacGyver).
+- Added wxComboCtrl::SetTextCtrlStyle().
+- Also update client data in wxRearrangeList control (John Roberts).
+- Generate more click events in wxGrid when using native header (John Roberts).
GTK:
- wxRadioBox constructor uses default consistent with other ports now.
+- Implement wxMask copy ctor.
+- Partially implemented wxTextCtrl::GetStyle() (Igor Romanov).
+- Corrected themed border display.
+- Fix wxClipboard::GetData() for asymmetric wxDataObjects (Timothy Lee).
+
+Mac:
+
+- Implement wxWindow::ShowWithEffect() in wxOSX/Cocoa.
+- Correct min/max pages display in the print dialog (Auria).
+- Fix wxDataViewColumn::GetWidth() in Cocoa (Neno Ganchev).
MSW:
- Fix wxMDIChildFrame::SetSize() (Lars Rosenboom).
- Fix wxTreeCtrl::UnselectItem() in single selection controls.
- Allow customizing wxStandardPaths logic for program directory determination.
+- Use time in wxDateTime <-> SYSTEMTIME conversion (troelsk).
+- Setting colours for wxSpinCtrl now works.
+- Worked around child window and caret positioning bug (in Windows) when using
+ wxBORDER_THEME in a container window.
+- Suppressed spurious character event for decimal key in numeric keypad.
+- Allow to not create wxPaintDC in EVT_PAINT handler.
+- Fix sending of wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_COL_DRAGGING events in wxListCtrl.
+- Allow putting the UAC symbol on buttons (Chris Spencer).
+- Fix wxTaskBarIcon for older Windows systems (Daniel Wyatt).
+- Fixed wxOwnerDrawnComboBox keyboard handling: drop-down is no longer
+ displayed when arrow key is pressed (without Alt).
+- In some rare cases wxOwnerDrawnComboBox drop-down animation could display
+ as garbage. This has now been greatly reduced (mcben).
+- Fixed wxComboCtrl::SetButtonPosition() on Vista/Win7.
i18n:
- 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).
- 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).
- wxImage handlers can now support multiple extensions (Ivan Krestinin).
- Added wxFileName::StripExtension() (troelsk).
- Added wxLOCALE_DATE/TIME_FMT support to wxLocale::GetInfo().
+- Store page setup data directly in wxDocManager (troelsk).
All (Unix):
- Allow copying text in the log dialogs.
- Added multisample (anti-aliasing) support to wxGLCanvas (Olivier Playez).
- Added wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_DROPDOWN/CLOSEUP events (Igor Korot).
-- Added wxCAL_SHOW_WEEK_NUMBERS wxCalendarCtrl style (Sören Meyer-Eppler).
+- 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 wxGenericStaticBitmap suitable for display of large bitmaps.
- Support wxListCtrl::GetViewRect() in report view too.
- Implement wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() in generic version (David Barnard).
+- Add column parameter to wxListCtrl::GetItemText() (Allann Jones).
- Added wxVListBox::GetItemRect() (Javier Urien).
- Show busy cursor in wxLaunchDefaultBrowser and add wxBROWSER_NOBUSYCURSOR.
- Added wxFlexGridSizer::Is{Row,Col}Growable() (Marcin Wojdyr).
new CheckFit() method for more information.
- Allow reading GIFs with incorrectly specified animation size.
- Return number of frames in animated GIF from wxGIFHandler::GetImageCount().
+- Improved anchors handling in wxHTML.
wxGTK:
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).
+- 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)
i18n:
-----
-- Slovak translations added (Ivan Masár).
+- Slovak translations added (Ivan Masár).
2.8.10:
- wxNB_HITTEST_* flags renamed to wxBK_HITTEST_* to serve all book controls.
- Added wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent and CanSetTransparent, with
implementations (so far) for wxMSW and wxMac.
-- Allow customizing individual grid lines appearance (Søren Lassen).
+- Allow customizing individual grid lines appearance (Søren Lassen).
- Fixed middle click events generation in generic wxTreeCtrl (Olly Betts).
- Added wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event that must be handled by all windows
that CaptureMouse() is called on.
- 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)
+- Implemented child process termination notifications (David Björkevik)
Unix:
- Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
- Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
- Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
-- Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
+- Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
- Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
- Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
- Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
- Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
- Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
- Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
-- Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
+- Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
- Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
- Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
- Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
- new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
- large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
-- classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
-- Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
+- classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
+- Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
- wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
- added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
- added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
- added wxMediaCtrl
- added wxDatePickerCtrl
- wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
-- wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
+- wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
- recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
- wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
- wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
All:
-- event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
+- event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
- added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
- wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
- wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
- added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
- added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
- added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
-- wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
+- wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
- wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
- bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
- status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
wxBase:
- added Watcom makefiles
-- fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
+- fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
All GUI ports:
- polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
- wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
- fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
-- new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
+- new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
- wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
- wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
- wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
- wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
- wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
- wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
-- wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
+- wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
- wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
- wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
- wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and