- virtual wxHtmlParser::AddText() takes wxString, not wxChar*, argument now.
+- Funtions that took wxChar* arguments that could by NULL in wxWidgets 2.8.
+ are deprecated and passing NULL to them won't compile anymore, wxEmptyString
+ must be used instead.
+
Deprecated methods and their replacements
-----------------------------------------
- Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev)
- Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev)
- Allow using wxEventLoop in console applications (Lukasz Michalski)
+- Added functions for Base64 en/decoding (Charles Reimers)
+- wxLogInterposer has been added to replace wxLogPassThrough and new
+ wxLogInterposerTemp was added
All (GUI):
- wxTopLevelWindow::GetSize() returns the size including the WM decorations.
- wxTopLevelWindow::GetClientSize() returns 0x0 when the window is minimized.
- Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse).
-- Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works
- Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff)
- Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option
All (GUI):
- Added colour normalization to PNM image handler (Ray Johnston)
+- Fixed selecting part of word from right to left in wxHTML (Michael Hieke)
+- Selecting text in wxHTML with character precision was made easier, it's
+ enough to select half of a character (Michael Hieke)
+- Significantly improved startup times of XRC-based applications using
+ embedded resources on Unix (requires resources recompilation)
- Fixed freeing of "static" alpha data in wxImage (Axel Gembe)
+- Don't invalidate the font in SetNativeFontInfo[Desc]() if the string is
+ invalid, to conform to the documented behaviour (Langhammer)
wxMSW:
wxGTK:
+- Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works
- More work on setting defaults in GNOME print dialogs.
- Also made landscape printing work as per wxMSW.
- Add support for clipping in GNOME print backend.
- Speed up wxBitmap::Rescale()
- Add right button event for wxToolbar's tools (Tim Kosse)
+- Don't unconditionally add wxCAPTION style to wxMiniFrame
2.8.4