wxWindows 2 Change Log
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-2.1.0, b?, June 2nd 1999
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+2.3.2
+-----
+
+wxBase:
+
+- wxRegEx class added
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- support for virtual list control added
+
+2.3.1
+-----
+
+wxBase:
+
+- Fixes for gcc 3.0
+- Fixed new charset detection code
+- ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
+- Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
+- Added wxDir::Traverse
+- Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
+- Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
+ so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
+- Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
+ user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
+ push on a custom event handler for example)
+- Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
+ GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
+- Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
+- Improvements to Tex2RTF
+- Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
+- Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
+ first-time saved
+- Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
+- Various wxXML enhancements
+- Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
+- Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
+- Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
+ instead of GetId()
+- Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
+- Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
+ accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
+- Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
+ alt or shift) now work
+- Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
+- Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
+- Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
+- Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
+ wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
+- Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
+- Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
+- Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
+- We now send iconize events
+- Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
+- Added mousewheel processing
+- Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
+ wxWindows at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
+ in wxDC
+- Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
+ child frame styles are honoured
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Fixed slider rounding bug
+- Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
+- We now send iconize events
+- Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
+ GetSelection() results
+
+2.3.0
+-----
+
+wxBase:
+
+- fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
+- 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)
+- wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
+- wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
+- wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
+ detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
+ cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
+- wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
+- wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
+- FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
+- new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
+- added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
+ (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
+ wxImage methods and ctor)
+- ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
+- ODBC documentation complete!!
+- ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
+- ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
+- ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
+- ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
+- fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
+- it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
+ other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
wxGTK:
+- added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
+
+wxHTML:
+
+- mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
+- visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
+
+2.2.0
+-----
+
+wxBase:
+
+- Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
+- wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
+- Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
+- Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
+- Completed Czech translations
+- Some stream corrections
+- added missing consts to wxPoint operators
+- wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
+- wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
+- small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
+ flicker-free dragging is now possible
+- Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
+- Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
+- Paper names now translated
+- wxGrid fixes
+- Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
+ wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
+- Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
+ error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
+ File dialog.
+- Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
+- wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
+ writing code
+- wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
+- Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
+- wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
+ wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
wxMSW:
+- wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
+ This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
+ backward compatibility, please set
+ wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
+- wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
+- wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
+- wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
+- BC++ DLL compilation fixed
+- Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
+- Fixed submenu accelerator bug
+- Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
+ the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
+- Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
+- fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
+- wxFrame restores focus better
+- Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
+ frames anddialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
+ (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
+- wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
+- Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
+- wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
+ sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
+- wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
+- fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
+- fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
wxMotif:
+- Small compilation fixes
-General:
+Documentation:
+
+- wxCaret documented
+
+2.1.16
+------
+
+wxBase:
+
+All (GUI):
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Various bug fixes
+- Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
+ files. This works under VC++ only
+- Modal dialog handling improved
+- Printer dialog now modal
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Various bug fixes
+
+wxMotif:
+
+- Various bug fixes
+
+2.1.15
+------
+
+Documentation:
+
+- Added docs/tech for technical notes
+
+File hierarchy:
+
+- Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
+ the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
+
+wxBase:
+
+- wxSocket support
+- wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
+ available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
+- wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
+- wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
+ long options, switches and parameters of different types)
+- it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
+ and BeOS (without thread support yet)
+- wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
+ added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
+ only so far)
+- wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
+- wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
+- wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
+ results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
+- wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
+- buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
+ is available)
+- wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
+
+all (GUI):
+
+- Added wxImage::Rotate.
+- new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
+- wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu menagament
+- wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
+ dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
+- vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
+- wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
+- "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
+ John Norris)
+- wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
+ MIME types if available (Unix only)
+- wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
+- TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
+- PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
+- validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
+- wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
+- wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
+- added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
+ for dealing with convertions between different encodings,
+ charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
+- wxDragImage class added
+- samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
+ controllers, as well as native help
+- moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
+- support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
+ (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
+- implemented setting colours for push buttons
+- wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
+ positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
+- wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
+- loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
+- tooltips work with wxRadioBox
+- wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
+ Unix ports
+- returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
+- VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
+- wxSetCursorEvent added
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
+- wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
+- UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
+
+wxMotif:
-- Fixed day_of_week bug (Peter Stadel).
-- Added Inside(), SetLeft/Right/Top/Bottom, +, += to wxRect.
+- wxMenu::Enable works
+- wxToolBar bugs fixed
+- OGL samples made to work again
+
+wxHTML:
+
+- almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
+ including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
+ and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
+ loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
+ splitted into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
+- added support for charsets and <meta> tag
+- added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
+ taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
+- added dynamic pushing/poping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
+- improved HTML printing
+- added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
+- fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
+- added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
+ fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
+
+
+NOTE: for changes after wxWindows 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
+change log.
2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
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