wxWidgets Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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+INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.6.x
+================================
+
+- wxFontData::GetColour() now returns a const colour
+- wxDC objects can't be created directly now (this never worked, now it doesn't
+ even compile)
+- For all wxInputStreams, Eof() becomes true after an attempt has been made
+ to read _past_ the end of file.
+
+Deprecated methods since 2.6.x and their replacements
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+- wxGetWorkingDirectory() deprecated in favour of wxGetCwd()
+- wxDC::BeginDrawing() and wxDC::EndDrawing() deprecated, just don't use them
+
+
2.7.0
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+All:
+
+- wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag
+- Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation
+- Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
+ during a search and replace.
+- Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
+ are both used in the same program.
+- Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
+- wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
+- Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
+- Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
+- Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
+- Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
+- wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
+- Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
+- Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
+- Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
+- Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett)
+- Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker)
+- wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
+- Overloaded Connect and SetLocal methods for binding to local address/port.
+- Consistency of count getters (GetCount()) with returning size_t everywhere.
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
+- Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric()
+- Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers()
+- Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
+- wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
+ wxComboBox and wxChoice).
+- wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
+- Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
+ based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
+- Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
+- All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
+ options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
+ wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
+- Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
+ and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
+- wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
+- Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap()
+- Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
+ windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
+- Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler
+- Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown()
+- Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
+- Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
+ by Sandro Sigala)
+- Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
+- Added wxGetMouseState function.
+- Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
+ allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
+- wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
+ best size.
+- wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
+- More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
+- Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
+- Added ability to use templates with static event tables
+ with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros
+- Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl
+- Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
+- Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
+- Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
+ behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
+- Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
+- Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
+- Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
+- UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss)
+- More than one filter allowed in in wxDocTemplate filter.
+- Added wxListBox::HitTest()
+
wxMSW:
-- wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson)
-- Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd)
+- Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
+- wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
+- Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
+- Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
+- Fixed MDI context menu problem.
+- Removed __WIN95__ define
+- Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
+ resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
+ target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
+- Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
+ wxMSW faq for details).
+- New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
+ puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
+ to the link command.
+- wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
+- wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
+- Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
+ columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
+- Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
+ show.
+- Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys.
+- Fixed GDI leak in wxStaticBitmap when setting images after
+ initial construction.
+- Menu codes now stripped before measuring control labels.
+- MFC sample now compiles in Unicode mode.
+- Fixed SetScrollbar thumb size setting bug (set orientation before triggering
+ events).
+- Fixed icon to cursor conversion problem for bitmaps with masks.
+- Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
+- wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
+- Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
+- Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated
+- Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl
+- Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
+ correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
+- Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
+- Fixed out by one error in wxTextCtrl::GetStyle.
+- Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
+- Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
+- Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
+- Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
+- wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
+ changes the system font.
+- wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts)
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated
+- Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support
+- wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK
+- Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
+ implementation
+- Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
+ --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.\
+- Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
+ lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
+- Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
+ is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
+ previously unable to be focused upon before
+- Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
+ wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox
+- Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
+ class was used.
+- Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
+- Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
+- Fixed problems with CJK input method.
+- Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett)
+- Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl
+
+wxMac:
+
+- Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
+- Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
+- Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
+ Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
+- Improved support for help and application menu items.
+- Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
+- Added support for 10.4 context menu.
+- Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
+- Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
+- Corrected idle wake-up.
+- Corrected wxExecute.
+- Now makes use of full printer resolution.
+- Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
+- Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
+- Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
+- Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
+ if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
+- Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
+ were found.
+- Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
+- Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
+ under Mach-O.
+- wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
+ specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
+- Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
+- Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
+ end of file with an error.
+- Xcode wxWidgets and minimal sample project files updated to create Universal
+ binaries.
+- Fix for setting wxMenuBar more than once.
+- wxListBox minimum size bug fixed.
+- Fixed wxNotebook off-by-one bug in HitTest.
+- Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
+- Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
+
+wxCocoa:
+
+- wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura)
+
+wxWinCE:
+
+- Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
+- Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
+- All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
+- ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
+- wxDisplay enumeration support.
+- Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
+- New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
+ guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
+- Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
+- Fixed date formatting and mktime.
+- Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
+- Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
+- Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
+ is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
+ directly, however.
+- Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
+ and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
+- Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
+- Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
+
+wxUniv:
+
+- Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor)
+
+wxX11:
+
+- Invisible text problem fixed.
+- Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
Unix:
-- NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it
+- NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
2.6.2
- utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
- GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).
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