compilation fix (remove default ctor already implemented by DEFINE_STD_WXCOLOUR_CONST...

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / changes.txt

diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index a5756ae3f3ea9ce37da37e041792c2eaaa8b9784..107f4c271d01ed54999059a7221f47744e1ca460 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -158,6 +158,15 @@ Deprecated methods and their replacements
 Major new features in this release
 ----------------------------------
 
+- wxWidgets is now always built with Unicode support but provides the same
+  simple (i.e. "char *"-tolerant) API as was available in ANSI build in the
+  past.
+
+- wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally,
+  depending on what is optimal for the target platform.
+
+- Events loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
+
 
 2.9.0
 -----
@@ -238,7 +247,14 @@ All (GUI):
   behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions.
 - Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table
   to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance.
-- Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
+- Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren(). (Szczepan Holyszewski)
+- Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
+- Added support for automatic dialog scrolling, via the new wxDialogLayoutAdapter
+  class and various new wxDialog functions. See the topic "Automatic Scrolling
+  Dialogs" in the manual for further details.
+- Added support for resizing wxWizard bitmaps to the current page height,
+  via SetBitmapPlacement, SetBitmapBackgroundColour and SetMinimumBitmapWidth.
+  Also made it easier to derive from wxWizard and override behaviour.
 
 wxGTK:
 
@@ -270,7 +286,8 @@ wxMSW:
 - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
 - wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
 - Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
-- Fix centering wxFileDialog
+- Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it
+- Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk)
 
 wxX11:
 
@@ -281,9 +298,21 @@ wxX11:
 2.8.8
 -----
 
+All:
+
+- Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner)
+- Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date()
+
 All (GUI):
 
 - Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling()
+- Improve wximage::ResampleBox() (Mihai Ciocarlie)
+- Implemented ScrollList() in generic wxListCtrl (Tim Kosse)
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Fix rare bug with messages delivered to wrong wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
+- Fix setting icons when they have non-default (16*16 and 32*32) sizes
 
 
 2.8.7