- WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 doesn't exist any more, please update your code if
you still relied on features deprecated since version 2.4
+- wxDC classes hierarchy has changed, if you derived any classes from wxDC you
+ need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and
+ uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours.
+
- Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no
longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem
in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break
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
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- Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames()
- Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
- Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications
+- Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect()
- Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron).
- Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse).
- Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron).
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:
- 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:
2.8.8
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+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)
2.8.7