-------------------------
-wxWidgets 2.5 Change Log
-------------------------
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+wxWidgets 2.5 Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
-INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x
-================================
+2.5.5
+-----
- Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
- paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
- with '!' in the first column.
+All:
- Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4
- is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.4
- series.
-
-! windows are no longer fully repainted when resized, use new style
- wxFULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE to force this (wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE still
- exists but doesn't do anything any more, this behaviour is default now)
-
-! wxWindow::m_font and m_backgroundColour/m_foregroundColour are no longer
- always set, use GetFont(), GetBack/ForegroundColour() to access
- them, and they will be dynamically determined if necessary.
-
-
-! The Sizers have had some fundamental internal changes in the 2.5.2
- and 2.5.3 releases intended to make them do more of the "Right
- Thing" but also be as backwards compatible as possible. First a bit
- about how things used to work:
-
- * The size that a window had when Add()ed to the sizer was assumed
- to be its minimal size, and that size would always be used by
- default when calculating layout size and positions, and the
- sizer itself would keep track of that minimal size.
-
- * If the window item was Add()ed with the wxADJUST_MINSIZE flag
- then when layout was calculated the item's GetBestSize would be
- used to reset the minimal size that the sizer used.
-
- The main thrust of the new Sizer changes was to make behaviour like
- wxADJUST_MINSIZE be the default, and also to push the tracking of
- the minimal size to the window itself (since it knows its own needs)
- instead of having the sizer take care of it. Consequently these
- changes were made:
-
- * The wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag was added to allow for the old
- behaviour. When this flag is used the size a window has when
- Add()ed to the sizer will be treated as its minimal size and it
- will not be readjusted on each layout.
-
- * The min size stored in wxWindow and settable with SetSizeHints or
- SetMinSize will by default be used by the sizer (if it was set)
- as the minimal size of the sizer item. If the minsize was not
- set (or was only partially set) then the window's best size is
- fetched and it is used instead of (or blended with) the minsize.
- wxWindow:GetBestFittingSize was added to facilitate getting the
- size to be used by the sizers.
-
- * The best size of a window is cached so it doesn't need to
- recalculated on every layout. wxWindow::InvalidateBestSize was
- added and should be called (usually just internally in control
- methods) whenever something is done that would make the best
- size change.
-
- * All wxControls were changed to set the minsize to what is passed
- to the constructor or Create method, and also to set the real
- size of the control to the blending of the minsize and bestsize.
- wxWindow::SetBestFittingSize was added to help with this,
- although most controls don't need to call it directly because it
- is called indirectly via the SetInitialSize called in the base
- classes.
-
- At this time, the only situation known not to work the same as
- before is the following:
-
- win = new SomeWidget(parent);
- win->SetSize(SomeNonDefaultSize);
- sizer->Add(win);
-
- In this case the old code would have used the new size as the
- minimum, but now the sizer will use the default size as the minimum
- rather than the size set later. It is an easy fix though, just move
- the specification of the size to the constructor (assuming that
- SomeWidget will set its minsize there like the rest of the controls
- do) or call SetMinSize instead of SetSize.
-
- In order to fit well with this new scheme of things, all wxControls
- or custom controls should do the following things. (Depending on
- how they are used you may also want to do the same thing for
- non-control custom windows.)
-
- * Either override or inherit a meaningful DoGetBestSize method
- that calculates whatever size is "best" for the control. Once
- that size is calculated then there should normally be a call to
- CacheBestSize to save it for later use, unless for some reason
- you want the best size to be recalculated on every layout.
-
- * Any method that changes the attributes of the control such that
- the best size will change should call InvalidateBestSize so it
- will be recalculated the next time it is needed.
-
- * The control's constructor and/or Create method should ensure
- that the minsize is set to the size passed in, and that the
- control is sized to a blending of the min size and best size.
- This can be done by calling SetBestFittingSize.
-
-
-
-- no initialization/cleanup can be done in wxApp/~wxApp because they are
- now called much earlier/later than before; please move any exiting code
- from there to wxApp::OnInit()/OnExit()
-- also, OnExit() is not called if OnInit() fails
-- finally the program exit code is OnRun() return value, not OnExit() one
-- wxTheApp can't be assigned to any longer, use wxApp::SetInstance() instead
-- wxFileType::GetIcon() returns wxIconLocation, not wxIcon
-- wxColourDatabase is not a wxList any more, use AddColour to add new colours
-- wxWindow::Clear() is now called ClearBackground()
-- pointer returned by wxFont::GetNativeFontInfo() must not be deleted now
-- wxMouseEvent::Moving() doesn't return true if mouse is being dragged any more
-- (most) controls now inherit parents colours by default, override
- ShouldInheritColours() to return false if you don't want this to happen
-- wxApp::SendIdleEvent() now takes 2 arguments
-- wxTabView::GetLayers() changed return type from wxList& to wxTabLayerList&
- (when WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 == 0)
-- wxID_SEPARATOR (id used for the menu separators) value changed from -1 to -2
-- wxGetNumberFromUser() is now in separate wx/numdlg.h, not wx/textdlg.h
-- wxChoice and wxCombobox now handle their size in the same way as in all the
- other ports under MSW, new code is actually correct but different from weird
- stuff they were doing before so the behaviour of your programs might change
-- wxTaskBarIcon objects must now be destroyed before the application can exit.
- Previously, the application terminated if there were no top level windows;
- now it terminates if there are no top level windows or taskbar icons left.
-- wxZlibInputStream is not by default compatible with the output of the
- 2.4.x version of wxZlibOutputStream. However, there is a compatibility mode,
- switched on by passing wxZLIB_24COMPATIBLE to the constructor.
-- when WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 == 0 wxHashTable uses a new implementation
- not using wxList keyed interface (the same used when wxUSE_STL == 1),
- the only incompatibility being that Next() returns a wxHashTable::Node*
- instead of a wxNode*.
-- non-const wxDC methods GetBackground(), GetBrush(), GetFont() and GetPen()
- as well as wxWindow methods GetFont() and GetCursor() don't exist any more,
- please fix your code -- it never worked correctly anyhow if you modified the
- objects returned by these methods so you should simply switch to using const
- methods.
-- wxWindow::GetFont() now returns wxFont object instead of reference
-- EVT_XXX macros are now type-safe; code that uses wrong type for event
- handler's argument will no longer compile.
-- Identical functionality of wxFileDialog::ParseWildcard,
- wxGenericDirCtrl::ParseFilter, Motif and MSW parsing native dialogs
- is now accessible in ::wxParseCommonDialogsFilter
-- wxNotebookSizer and wxBookCtrlSizer are now deprecated -- they are no longer
- needed, you can treat wxNotebook as any other control and put it directly
- into the sizer that was wxNotebookSizer's parent sizer in old code.
-- wxFile methods now return either wxFileOffset or wxFileSize_t which may be a
- 64 bit integer type, even on 32 bit platforms, instead of off_t and so the
- return value of wxFile::Length(), for example, shouldn't be assigned to off_t
- variable any more (the compiler might warn you about this)
-- wxListItem::m_data is now of type wxUIntPtr, not long, for compatibility
- with 64 bit systems
-
-
-DEPRECATED METHODS SINCE 2.4.x
-==============================
-
-Deprecated methods may still be used but will disappear in future wxWidgets
-versions, please update your code to not use them.
-
-- wxDocManager::GetNoHistoryFiles() renamed to GetHistoryFilesCount()
-- wxSizer::Remove(wxWindow *), use Detach() instead [it is more clear]
-- wxSizer::Set/GetOption(): use Set/GetProportion() instead
-- wxKeyEvent::KeyCode(): use GetKeyCode instead
-- wxList::Number, First, Last, Nth: use GetCount, GetFirst/Last, Item instead
-- wxNode::Next, Previous, Data: use GetNext, GetPrevious, GetData instead
-- wxListBase::operator wxList&(): use typesafe lists instead
-- wxTheFontMapper: use wxFontMapper::Get() instead
-- wxStringHashTable: use wxHashMap instead
-- wxHashTableLong: use wxHashMap instead
-- wxArrayString::GetStringArray: use wxCArrayString or alternative wxWidgets
- methods taking wxArrayString
-- wxArrayString::Remove(index, count): use RemoveAt instead
-- wxTreeItemId conversion to long is deprecated and shouldn't be used
-- wxTreeCtrl::GetFirst/NextChild() 2nd argument now has type wxTreeItemIdValue
- and not long, please change declarations of "cookie"s in your code
- accordingly -- otherwise your code won't work on 64 bit platforms
-- [MSW only] wxWindow::GetUseCtl3D(), GetTransparentBackground() and
- SetTransparent() as well as wxNO_3D and wxUSER_COLOURS styles
-- wxList keyed interface: use wxHashMap instead
-- wxColourDatabase::FindColour(): use Find() instead (NB: different ret type)
-- wxHashTable::Next: use wxHashTable::Node* or
- wxHashTable::compatibility_iterator to store the return
- value
-- wxWave class; use wxSound instead
-- The wxHIDE_READONLY flag for wxFileDialog was not implemented
- and has now been removed
-- wxTaskBarIcon::OnXXX() virtual methods: use events instead
-- obsolete and not used wxUSE_GENERIC_DIALOGS_IN_MSW has been removed
-- wxDbTable::wxDbTable with wxChar* deprecated, same with wxString& instead
+- wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
+ user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
+- Added wxDebugReport class.
+- Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
+- Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
+- Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
+- Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent)
+All (GUI):
-OTHER CHANGES
-=============
+- Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
+ GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
+- Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
+- Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
+ the whole virtual area.
+- Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
+- Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
+ isn't used to set the window size.
+
+Unix:
+
+- Fixed build on Linux/AMD64
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile()
+- wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11. (Mart Raudsepp)
+- Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
+- Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
+- Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
+- Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
+- Added support for wxTE_LINEWRAP (Mart Raudsepp)
+
+wxMac:
+
+- Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
+
+wxPalmOS:
+
+- Native wxRadioBox implementation.
+
+wxWinCE:
+
+- Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
+- Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
+ You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
+- Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
+- Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
+- wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
+ with correct titlebar style.
+- Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
+ PocketPC guidelines
+- Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
+- Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
+- Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
+- Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
+- Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
+- wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
+ to the dialog's toolbar.
2.5.4
-----
All:
+- wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
+ 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)
- 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 wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
+- changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
+- implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
+- added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
+- Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
+- A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
+ SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
+ behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
+- BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
+- use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
+- wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
+- XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
+- Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
+- Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
+ print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
+ printing stuff in the GTK port.
+- Deprecated print setup dialog.
+- Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
+- The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
+ datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
+- added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
+- wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
+- wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
+ wxSystemSettings::Get*()
+- wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
+ the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
+ client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
+ to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
+- Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
+ due to a rounding error.
+- Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
+ SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
+- Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
+ mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
+- "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
+- wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
+- wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
+- added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
+
All (GUI):
+- added wxMediaCtrl
+- added wxDatePickerCtrl
+- wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
+- 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
+ item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
+- wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
+ book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
+ Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
+- new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
+- wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
+- wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
+ of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
+- wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
+ in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
+- added wxImage::InitAlpha()
Unix:
wxGTK:
+- Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
+ now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
+ if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
+ code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
+- Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
- fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
+- native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
+- implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
+ is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
+ after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
+- Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
+ runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
+ are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
+ errors otherwise.
+- wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
+- Added wxRawBitmap support
+- Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
+ interaction with wxWidgets' events.
+- wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
wxMac:
+- Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
- wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
- wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
+- wxJoystick now works on OSX
wxMSW:
- fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
-- Group of wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive
+- wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
+- fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
+- pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
+- added wxRegKey::Export(file)
+
+wxWinCE:
+- Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
+ but not mentioned anywhere.
+- Added (preliminary) support for sockets
+
+wxUniv:
+
+- wxBU_... button align flags support
+- vertical notebook orientation support
+- 3rd state support for checkboxes
+- wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
+
+wxPalmOS:
+
+- William Osborne has won and new port was born
+ (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
+- polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
+ all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
+- enumeration of available volumes
+- native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
+- native wxProgressDialog implementation
+- native wxColourDialog implementation
+- native wxSystemSettings colours
+- native wxButton implementation
+- native wxCheckBox implementation
+- native wxSlider implementation
+- native wxToggleButton implementation
+- native wxRadioButton implementation
+- native wxStaticText implementation
+- native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
2.5.3
All:
-- support for huge (>2 Gb) files (Tim Kosse)
+- support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
- number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
- fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
- fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
- added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
- wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
supported, instead of zero.
+- IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
Unix:
wxCocoa:
- added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
-- fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
+- fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
- Tooltips now supported
- wxSound now supported
-- wxDisplay now supported
-- Some stock cursors now supported
+- wxDisplay now supported
+- Some stock cursors now supported
wxMac:
-- fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
-- added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
+- fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
+- added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
- added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
- wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
projects / wxWidgets.git / blobdiff