INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.8.x
================================
+
+ Notice that these changes are described in more details in
+ the "Changes Since wxWidgets 2.8" section of the manual,
+ please read it if the explanation here is too cryptic.
+
+
Unicode-related changes
-----------------------
changes:
- Many wxWidgets functions taking "const wxChar *" have been changed to take
- either "const wxString&" so that they accept both Unicode and ANSI strings.
- and the argument can't be NULL or "const char *" if the strings are always
- ANSI but may be NULL. This change is normally backwards compatible except:
+ either "const wxString&" (so that they accept both Unicode and ANSI strings;
+ the argument can't be NULL anymore in this case) or "const char *" (if the
+ strings are always ANSI; may still be NULL). This change is normally
+ backwards compatible except:
a) Virtual functions: derived classes versions must be modified to take
"const wxString&" as well to make sure that they continue to override the
can still use wxGenericCalendarCtrl instead of wxCalendarCtrl in your code if
you need the extra features.
+- wxDocument::FileHistoryLoad() and wxFileHistory::Load() now take const
+ reference to wxConfigBase argument and not just a reference, please update
+ your code if you overrode these functions and change the functions in the
+ derived classes to use const reference as well.
+
+- Under MSW wxExecute() arguments are now always properly quoted, as under
+ Unix, and so shouldn't contain quotes unless they are part of the argument.
+
+- wxDocument::OnNewDocument() doesn't call OnCloseDocument() any more.
+
+- If you use wxScrolledWindow::SetTargetWindow() you must implement its
+ GetSizeAvailableForScrollTarget() method, please see its documentation for
+ more details.
+
+- Processing of pending events now requires a running event loop.
+ Thus initialization code (e.g. showing a dialog) previously done in wxApp::OnRun()
+ or equivalent function should now be done into wxApp::OnEventLoopEnter().
+ See wxApp::OnEventLoopEnter() and wxApp::OnEventLoopExit() docs for more info.
+
Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
-----------------------------------------------------------
need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and
uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours.
+- wxWindow::ProcessEvent() (and other wxEvtHandler methods inherited by wxWindow)
+ has been made protected to prevent wrongly using it instead of correct
+ GetEventHandler()->ProcessEvent().
+ New ProcessWindowEvent() was added for convenience.
+
- 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
and has to be replaced with this:
switch (str[i].GetValue()) { ... }
-- Return type of wxString::c_str() is now wxCStrData struct and not
- const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to const char* and
- const wchar_t*, so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot
- convert the type. In particular, Borland C++ and DigitalMars compilers
- don't correctly convert operator?: operands to the same type and fail with
- compilation error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting
- to const wxChar*:
- wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "")
+- Return type of wxString::c_str() is now a helper wxCStrData struct and not
+ const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to both "const char *"
+ and "const wchar_t *", so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot
+ apply the conversion. This can happen in 2 cases:
+
+ + There is an ambiguity because the function being called is overloaded to
+ take both "const char *" and "const wchar_t *" as the compiler can't choose
+ between them. In this case you may use s.wx_str() to call the function
+ matching the current build (Unicode or not) or s.mb_str() or s.wc_str() to
+ explicitly select narrow or wide version of it.
+
+ Notice that such functions are normally not very common but unfortunately
+ Microsoft decided to extend their STL with standard-incompatible overloads
+ of some functions accepting "const wchar_t *" so you may need to replace
+ some occurrences of c_str() with wx_str() when using MSVC 8 or later.
+
+ + Some compilers, notably Borland C++ and DigitalMars, don't correctly
+ convert operator?: operands to the same type and fail with compilation
+ error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting to const
+ wxChar*: wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "")
- wxCtime() and wxAsctime() return char*; this is incompatible with Unicode
build in wxWidgets 2.8 that returned wchar_t*.
- Virtual wxHtmlParser::AddText() takes wxString, not wxChar*, argument now.
-- Functions that took wxChar* arguments that could by NULL in wxWidgets 2.8.
+- Functions 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.
derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you
can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments.
-- wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they can't be
+- wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they couldn't be
implemented correctly any longer because automatically generated ids are not
- necessarily allocated consecutively any more. Use GetChildren() to find the
+ necessarily allocated consecutively now. Use GetChildren() to find the
next/previous control sibling instead.
+- Calling wxConfig::Write() with an enum value will fail to compile because
+ wxConfig now tries to convert all unknown types to wxString automatically.
+ The simplest solution is to cast the enum value to int.
+
+- Several wxImage methods which previously had "long bitmaptype" parameters
+ have been changed to accept "wxBitmapType bitmaptype", please use enum
+ wxBitmapType in your code.
+
+- wxGridCellEditor::EndEdit() signature has changed and it was split in two
+ functions, one still called EndEdit() and ApplyEdit(). See the documentation
+ of the new functions for more details about how grid editors should be
+ written now.
+
+- wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGE event renamed to wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED and shouldn't
+ be vetoed any more, use the new wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING event to do it.
+
+- Now wxWidgets at startup in debug builds checks if all wxEvent-derived classes
+ correctly implement the Clone() function, logging a warning if they don't.
+ A correct implementation for MyCustomEventClass::Clone() is simply:
+ virtual wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyCustomEventClass(*this); }
+
+- Global wxPendingEvents and wxPendingEventsLocker objects were removed.
+ You may use wxEventLoopBase::SuspendProcessingOfPendingEvents instead of
+ locking wxPendingEventsLocker now.
+
Deprecated methods and their replacements
-----------------------------------------
"Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names.
- wxConnection::OnExecute() is not formally deprecated yet but new code should
use simpler OnExec() version which is called with wxString argument
-- wxMenuItem::GetLabel has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabelText
-- wxMenuItem::GetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabel
-- wxMenuItem::GetLabelFromText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetLabelText
-- wxMenuItem::SetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::SetItemLabel
-- wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen ctor now take
- respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a plain "int style";
- use the new wxBrush/wxPen style names (wxBRUSHSTYLE_XXX and wxPENSTYLE_XXX) instead
- of the old deprecated wxXXX styles (which however are still available).
+- Various wxMenuItem methods were deprecated in favour of more consisently
+ named new versions:
+ . GetLabel() is now GetItemLabelText()
+ . GetText() is not GetItemLabel()
+ . GetLabelFromText() is now GetLabelText()
+ . SetText() is now SetItemLabel()
+- wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen
+ ctor now take respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a
+ plain "int style"; use the new wxBrush/wxPen style names (wxBRUSHSTYLE_XXX
+ and wxPENSTYLE_XXX) instead of the old deprecated wxXXX styles.
+- EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGE was deprecated, use EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED instead if you
+ don't veto the event in its handler and EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING if you do.
- EVT_CALENDAR_DAY event has been deprecated, use EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED.
- EVT_CALENDAR_MONTH and EVT_CALENDAR_YEAR events are deprecated,
use EVT_CALENDAR_PAGE_CHANGED which replaces both of them.
- wxCalendarCtrl::EnableYearChange() and wxCAL_NO_YEAR_CHANGE are deprecated.
-
+ There is no replacement for this functionality, it is being dropped as it is
+ not available in native wxCalendarCtrl implementations.
+- wxDC::SetClippingRegion(const wxRegion&) overload is deprecated as it used
+ different convention from the other SetClippingRegion() overloads: wxRegion
+ passed to it was interpreted in physical, not logical, coordinates. Replace
+ it with SetDeviceClippingRegion() if this was the correct thing to do in your
+ code.
+- wxTE_AUTO_SCROLL style is deprecated as it's always on by default anyhow.
+- wxThreadHelper::Create() has been renamed to CreateThread which has a better
+ name for a mix-in class, and allows setting the thread type.
+- wxDos2UnixFilename, wxUnix2DosFilename, wxStripExtension, wxGetTempFileName,
+ wxExpandPath, wxContractPath, wxRealPath, wxCopyAbsolutePath, wxSplitPath
+ were deprecated in favour of wxFileName methods. See docs for more info.
+- wxEvtHandler::TryValidator/Parent() are deprecated, override the new and
+ documented TryBefore/After() methods if you used to override these ones.
Major new features in this release
- 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.
+- New propgrid library containing wxPropertyGrid and related classes.
+
+- Many enhancements to wxDataViewCtrl.
+
+- Event loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
+
+- Events can now be connected to any functor, not necessarily a method of
+ wxEvtHandler-derived class. The compile-time safety was also improved.
+
+- Documentation for wxWidgets has been converted from LaTex to C++ headers
+ with Doxygen comments and significantly improved in the process (screenshots
+ of various controls were added, more identifiers are now linked to their
+ definition &c). Any reports about inaccuracies in the documentation are
+ welcome (and due to using the simple Doxygen syntax it is now easier than
+ ever to submit patches correcting them! :-)
+
+- Support for persistent objects automatically saving and restoring their state
+ was added.
2.9.0
All:
-- Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen)
+- Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen).
+- Cleaned up wxURI and made it Unicode-friendly.
- Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski)
-- Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it
+- Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it.
- Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe)
- Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
- Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)
- Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
- Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
- Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
+- Implemented wxMemoryFSHandler::FindFirst/Next().
+- Added wxEventLoop::DispatchTimeout().
- Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz).
- Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev).
- Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev).
Linnakangas).
- wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared,
if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented.
-- Added wxWeakRef<T>, wxScopedPtr<T>, wxSharedPtr<T> class templates
+- Added wxWeakRef<T>, wxScopedPtr<T>, wxScopedArray<T>, wxSharedPtr<T> templates
+ and renamed old wx/ptr_{scpd,shrd}.h headers to wx/scoped{ptr,array}.h and
+ wx/sharedptr.h (but old headers are still provided for compatibility).
- Added wxVector<T> class templates
- Added wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_SET() and wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_NULL() to wx/scopeguard.h.
- Added wxEvtHandler::QueueEvent() replacing AddPendingEvent() and
wxQueueEvent() replacing wxPostEvent().
+- wxString now uses std::[w]string internally by default, meaning that it is
+ now thread-safe if the standard library provided with your compiler is.
+- Added wxCmdLineParser::AddUsageText() (Marcin 'Malcom' Malich).
+- Fix reading/writing UTF-7-encoded text streams.
+- Corrected bug in wxTimeSpan::IsShorterThan() for equal time spans.
+- Use std::unordered_{map,set} for wxHashMap/Set if available (Jan van Dijk).
+- Added wxString::Capitalize() and MakeCapitalized().
+- Added wxArray::swap().
+- Added wxSHUTDOWN_LOGOFF and wxSHUTDOWN_FORCE wxShutdown() flags (troelsk).
+- Added wxSocket::ShutdownOutput().
+- Handle exceptions thrown from overridden wxView::OnCreate() gracefully.
+- Added wxPATH_RMDIR_FULL/RECURSIVE wxFileName::Rmdir() flags (Marcin Malich).
+- Added wxStandardPaths::GetAppDocumentsDir().
+- Added wx-prefixed versions of DECLARE_NO_{COPY,ASSIGN}_CLASS macros.
+- Added wxFileName::ReplaceEnvVariable and wxFileName::ReplaceHomeDir.
+- Added wxProtocol::SetDefaultTimeout(); the default timeout for both wxHTTP and wxFTP
+ protocols is 60 seconds.
+- Added wxStrnlen() for safe computation of string length.
+- Added wxImage::Clear() (troelsk).
+- Added wxLog::Log().
+- Added wxXmlResource::GetResourceNode().
All (Unix):
- Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski).
+- Noticeably (by a factor of ~150) improve wxIPC classes performance.
+- Configure options --with-opengl and --enable-mediactrl now default to "auto":
+ if OpenGL and GStreamer libraries are available the "gl" and "media" wx libraries
+ are automatically built.
All (GUI):
-- Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes
-- Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK
-- Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames()
+- Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes.
+- Integrated wxPropertyGrid in wxWidgets itself (Jaakko Salli).
+- Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK.
+- Added wxHeaderCtrl and allow using it in wxGrid.
+- Added wxRearrangeList, wxRearrangeCtrl and wxRearrangeDialog.
+- 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 wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson)
-- Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski)
-- Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows
-- Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)
+- Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications.
+- Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect().
+- Added wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson).
+- Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski).
+- Support custom labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson for wxMac version).
+- Added wxScrolledWindow::ShowScrollbars().
+- Also added wxCANCEL_DEFAULT to wxMessageDialog.
+- Allow copying text in the log dialogs.
+- Added multisample (anti-aliasing) support to wxGLCanvas (Olivier Playez).
+- Added wxCAL_SHOW_WEEK_NUMBERS wxCalendarCtrl style (Sören Meyer-Eppler).
+- Initialize wx{Client,Paint,Window}DC with fonts/colours of its window.
+- Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows.
+- Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr).
- 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).
- Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage().
-- Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov)
-- Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid)
-- Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid)
-- Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid)
-- Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II)
-- New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)
+- Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov).
+- Made wxLogWindow thread-safe (Barbara Maren Winkler).
+- Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid).
+- Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid).
+- Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid).
+- Added support for drop-down toolbar buttons to XRC.
+- Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II).
+- New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr).
- Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
- 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.
-- Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window
+- Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window.
- Add support for wxDatePickerCtrl in wxGenericValidator (Herry Ayen Yang)
- Added wxWindow::HasFocus().
- Added wxGLCanvas::IsDisplaySupported().
- Generalized wxScrolledWindow into wxScrolled<T> template that can derive
from any window class, not just wxPanel.
- Allow having menu separators with ids != wxID_SEPARATOR (Jeff Tupper)
+- Fix appending items to sorted wxComboCtrl after creation (Jaakko Salli)
+- Don't blit area larger than necessary in wxBufferedDC::UnMask (Liang Jian)
+- Fixed wxPixelData<wxImage> compilation (Leonardo Fernandes).
+- Added wxImage::GetType() (troelsk).
+- Added wxGenericStaticBitmap suitable for display of large bitmaps.
+- Support wxListCtrl::GetViewRect() in report view too.
+- Implement wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() in generic version (David Barnard).
+- Added wxVListBox::GetItemRect() (Javier Urien).
+- Show busy cursor in wxLaunchDefaultBrowser and add wxBROWSER_NOBUSYCURSOR.
+- Added wxFlexGridSizer::Is{Row,Col}Growable() (Marcin Wojdyr).
+- Added "enabled" and "hidden" attributes to radio box items in XRC.
+- wxWindow::IsBeingDeleted() now returns true not only if the window itself is
+ marked for destruction but also if any of its parent windows are.
+- Improved drawing of the hint during column move in wxGrid (Santo Pfingsten).
+- Add wxGridSelectRowsOrColumns selection mode to wxGrid.
+- Add wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING event matching wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED.
+- Get/HasModifiers() of wxKeyEvent are now also available in wxMouseEvent.
+- Provide new/old cell value in wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING/CHANGED events.
+- Added wxArtProvider::GetNativeSizeHint(); GetSizeHint() as well as
+ GetNativeSizeHint() now return more sensible values in wxMSW and wxMac and
+ no longer return bogus values.
+- Added wxControl::SetLabelText() and EscapeMnemonics().
+- Added support for wxFILTER_EMPTY and wxFILTER_DIGITS styles to wxTextValidator;
+ added also the SetCharIncludes() and SetCharExcludes() utilities.
+- Added wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_FILTER and many wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_COMPRESSION_* options
+ to wxImage and wxPNGHandler to allow for custom compression levels when saving PNGs
+ (Perdana Panduwana)
+- Added GetValue(), GetRange(), GetMessage() functions to wxProgressDialog
+- Moved yield functions to wxEventLoopBase and implemented for wxMSW and wxGTK
+ a selective wxEventLoopBase::YieldFor() function.
+ Added also wxEventLoopBase::IsYielding to help cure re-entrancy problems with Yield().
+- Render <th> element contents in bold in wxHTML.
+- Added wxGrid::{Set,Get}{Row,Col}Sizes() methods (Andrey Putrin).
wxGTK:
- Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi).
+- Ellipsize long strings in wxStatusBar (Francesco Montorsi)
- Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
- Native keyboard navigation implementation.
- Added wxCB_SORT support to wxComboBox (Evgeniy Tarassov).
- Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff).
- Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option.
- Added support for GTK+ print backend
+- Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).
+- Fix wxDC::Blit() support for user scale and source offset (Marcin Wojdyr).
wxMac:
- Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls).
-- Added support for changing button labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson).
- Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs).
- Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox).
- Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz).
-- Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale
-- Added native wxCollapsiblePane
+- Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale.
+- Native wxCollapsiblePane implementation.
wxMSW:
- Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications.
- Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
- wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
+- wxCheckListBox now also supports use of client data (Marcin Malich).
- Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
-- Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it
-- Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk)
-- Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron)
+- Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it.
+- Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk).
+- Use vertical scrollbar in wxMessageDialog if it's too big to fit on screen.
+- Show resize gripper on resizeable dialogs (Kolya Kosenko).
+- Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron).
+- Use different Win32 class names in different wx instances (Thomas Hauk).
+- Support multiline labels for wxCheckBox and wxToggleButton.
+- Print preview is now rendered in the resolution used by printer and
+ accurately represents what will be printed. This fixes wxHtmlEasyPrinting
+ preview inaccuracies on Windows; on other platforms, native preview
+ should be used.
+- Implement wxFileName::SetTimes() for directories (Steve Lamerton).
+- Added wxToolTip::SetMaxWidth() and improved default wrapping (Joachim Hönig).
+- Changed default toolbar bitmaps size from obsolete 16x15 to 24x24 used
+ by modern apps.
+- Ellipsize long strings in wxStatusBar (Francesco Montorsi)
+- Fix spurious repaint when changing tooltip text (Jonathan Liu).
wxX11:
- Added mouse wheel support (David Hart).
- Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
+wxDFB:
+
+- Implement wxBitmap ctor from XBM data.
+
+
+2.8.9
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Optimize wxString::Replace() for single character arguments.
+- Updated Hindi translation (Priyank Bolia).
+- Use tr1::unordered_{map,set} for wxHash{Map,Set} implementation if available
+ in STL build; in particular do not use deprecated hash_{map,set} which
+ results in a lot of warnings from newer g++ (Jan Van Dijk and Pete Stieber).
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Added support for reading alpha channel in BMP format (Kevin Wright).
+- Fixed help viewer bug whereby the splitter sash in wxHtmlHelpWindow could
+ go underneath the left-hand pane, permanently, after resizing the
+ help window.
+- Fixed wxHTML default font size for printing to be 12pt regardless of the
+ platform, instead of depending on GUI toolkit's screen configuration.
+- Support wxDP_ALLOWNONE style in generic wxDatePickerCtrl version.
+- Set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar correctly in the events generated by generic
+ wxListCtrl (Mikkel S).
+- Fix changing size of merged cells in wxGrid (Laurent Humbertclaude).
+- Fixed wrapping bug in wxRichTextCtrl when there were images present;
+ now sets the cursor to the next line after pressing Shift+Enter.
+- Fixed Cmd+Back, Cmd+Del word deletion behaviour in wxRichTextCtrl.
+- Fix crash when reading malformed PCX images.
+- Fix bug with wrong transparency in GIF animations (troelsk).
+- Store palette information for XPM images in wxImage (troelsk).
+- Fixed selection bugs and auto list numbering in wxRichTextCtrl.
+- Significantly optimize wxGrid::BlockToDeviceRect() for large grids (kjones).
+- Introduced new wxAuiToolBar class for better integration and look-and-feel.
+- Fix a crash in wxAuiFrameManager when Update() was called in between mouse-up
+ and mouse-down events
+- wxAUI: added various NULL-ptr asserts.
+- Fixed problem with Floatable(false) not working in wxAuiFrameManager.
+- Fixed maximize bug in wxAUI.
+- Allow period in link anchors in wxHTML.
+- Fixed memory corruption in wxHTML when parsing "&;" in the markup.
+- Fixed event type in EVT_GRID_CMD_COL_MOVE and EVT_GRID_COL_MOVE.
+- wxGrid doesn't steal focus when hiding editor any more (Tom Eckert).
+
+All (Unix):
+
+- MIME types reading fixed when running under GNOME, reading .desktop
+ files and also the default application list.
+- Added filesys.no-mimetypesmanager system option so that applications that
+ must load an XRC file at program startup don't have to incur the
+ mime types manager initialization penalty.
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Potentially incompatible change: wxExecute() arguments are now quoted if they
+ contain spaces and existing quotes are escaped with a backslash. However, to
+ preserve compatibility, the argument is unchanged if it is already quoted.
+ Notice that this behaviour will change in wxWidgets 3.0 where all arguments
+ will be quoted, please update your code now if you are affected and use only
+ wxWidgets 2.8.9 or later.
+- Fix keyboard support in wxSpinCtrl broken in 2.8.8.
+- Compile fix for WinCE in window.cpp (no VkKeyScan in Windows CE).
+- Support disabling items before adding them to the menu (Christian Walther).
+- Allow to call SetFont(wxNullFont) to reset the font to default.
+- Implement UUID::operator==() and !=() (SQLAware Corporation).
+- Fixed long standing (introduced in 2.6.3) bug which resulted in always
+ creating a DIB and not DDB in wxBitmap(const wxImage&) ctor.
+- Fix the bug with wxFileDialog not being shown at all if the default file name
+ was invalid.
+- Fix hang in keyboard navigation code with radio buttons under Windows 2000.
+- Implement wxWinINetInputStream::GetSize() (spicerno).
+- Always copy "has alpha" flag when copying bitmaps (SQLAware Corporation).
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Fixed masking of disabled bitmaps in wxMenuItem and wxStaticBitmap.
+- Fixed generation of events for an initially empty wxDirPickerCtrl.
+- Fixed detection of Meta key state so that NumLock isn't misdetected
+ as Meta (requires GTK+ 2.10).
+- Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).
+
+wxMac:
+
+- Fixed a glitch where clicking on a scrollbar (but not moving the scrollbar)
+ would cause the window to scroll.
+
2.8.8
-----
All:
-- Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner)
-- Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date()
+- Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner).
+- Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date().
+- Initialize current line in wxTextBuffer ctor (Suzuki Masahiro).
+- Improved performance of XML parsing (Francesco Montorsi).
+- Fix wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date() to handle missing seconds (Joe Nader).
All (GUI):
-- Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling()
-- Improve wximage::ResampleBox() (Mihai Ciocarlie)
-- Implemented ScrollList() in generic wxListCtrl (Tim Kosse)
+- Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling().
+- Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
+- Ensure that wxGrid::AutoSizeColumn/Row() never sets column/row size
+ smaller than the minimal size.
+- Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
+- wxRichTextCtrl performance has been improved considerably.
+- Several wxRichTextCtrl style, paste and undo bugs fixed.
+- Added wxRichTextCtrl superscript and subscript support (Knut Petter Lehre).
+- wxNotebook RTTI corrected, so now wxDynamicCast(notebook, wxBookCtrlBase)
+ works.
+- When focus is set to wxScrolledWindow child, scroll it into view.
+- Improve wximage::ResampleBox() (Mihai Ciocarlie).
+- Implemented ScrollList() in generic wxListCtrl (Tim Kosse).
+- SaveAs in docview takes into account path now.
- Fixed wxXmlResource::GetText() to convert data to current locale's
charset in ANSI build.
+- wxGrid now indicates focus by using different colour for selection
+ and hiding cell cursor when it doesn't have focus.
+- Added alpha support to wxImage::Paste() (Steven Van Ingelgem)
+- Use current date when opening popup in generic wxDatePickerCtrl.
+- Remove associated help text from wxHelpProvider when a window is destroyed.
+- Added wxSizerFlags::ReserveSpaceEvenIfHidden() and
+ wxRESERVE_SPACE_EVEN_IF_HIDDEN sizer flag.
+- Added wxWindow::ClientToWindowSize() and WindowToClientSize() helpers.
+- Added wxSizer::ComputeFittingClientSize() and ComputeFittingWindowSize().
+- Fixed wxSizer::SetSizeHints() to work when the best size decreases.
+- Fixed crash in wxHtmlHelpController if the help window is still open.
+- Fixed generic art provider to scale bitmaps down to client-specific
+ best size if needed.
+- Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
+- Fixed timing of malformed animated GIFs in wxHTML (Gennady Feller).
+- Fixed incorrect layout width caching in wxHTML (Jeff Tupper).
+- wxHTML: preserve TAB characters when copying <pre> content to clipboard.
+- Set focus to wxCalendarCtrl when it is clicked.
+- Don't clear the list control when wxLC_[HV]RULES style is toggled.
+- Don't crash when Ctrl-Shift-T is pressed in empty wxStyledTextControl.
+
+All (Unix):
+
+- Fixed shared libraries to not depend on GStreamer when built with
+ --enable-media; only wxMedia library depends on it now.
+- wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now uses xdg-open if available.
+- Don't close UDP socket if an empty datagram is received (Mikkel S)
+- Honour locale modifiers such a "@valencia" in system locale (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
+- 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.
- Fixed wxLocale::GetInfo to use the C locale.
- Don't enable disabled windows when showing them (Harry McKame).
-- Fix assert when using owner-drawn menu items with the newest (Vista) SDK
+- Fix assert when using owner-drawn menu items with the newest (Vista) SDK.
+- Fixed wxTextCtrl to not process clipboard events twice if there's
+ a custom wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_* event handler.
+- Fix wxComboBox to not lose the current value if it was programmatically set
+ to a value not in a list of choices on popup close (Kolya Kosenko)
+- Switching wxListCtrl to report mode from another one now uses full row
+ highlight, just as if the control were created in report mode initially.
+- Use correct index of the right-clicked column in wxListCtrl in the
+ corresponding event even when the control is scrolled horizontally.
+- Implement wxRadioBox::Reparent() correctly (Vince Harron).
+- Make context sensitive help work for the text part of wxSpinCtrl.
+- wxFileType::GetCommand() now looks at Explorer associations and CurVer
+ for increased reliability and conformance to user expectations.
+- Fixed double Init() call in wxTopLevelWindow causing a memory leak on
+ SmartPhone.
+- Fixed rendering of borders for wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH(2) style when
+ using Windows XP's Classic UI theme.
+- Text controls with wxTE_RICH style now also generate wxClipboardTextEvents.
+- Fixed wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_ENTER generation in wxSpinCtrl.
+- Fixed wxSpinCtrl::GetClientSize() to return sensible value and not just
+ spin button's client size.
+- Fixed IMPLEMENT_APP() to be compatible with the -WU flag of Borland C++
+ compiler (Matthias Bohm).
+- Correct size calculation for toolbars containing controls under pre-XP
+ systems (Gerald Giese)
wxGTK:
- Return false from wxEventLoop::Dispatch() if gtk_main_quit() was called and
- so the loop should exit (Rodolfo Schulz de Lima)
+ so the loop should exit (Rodolfo Schulz de Lima).
+- Implement wxListBox::EnsureVisible() (Andreas Kling)
+- Fixed wxCURSOR_HAND to map to GDK_HAND2 and not GDK_HAND1, for consistency
+ with other applications.
+- Fix wxNotebook::GetPage{Text,Image}() when they were called from the page
+ change event handler for the first added page (Mikkel S).
+- Fixed wxBitmapButton to use focus and hover bitmaps correctly.
+- Fixed race condition which could cause idle processing to stop without
+ processing all pending events.
+- wxAcceleratorTable now works with buttons too.
+
+wxMac:
+
+- Fixed cursor for wxBusyCursor and wxContextHelp.
+- Fixed wxListCtrl to respect items' non-default fonts.
+- wxListCtrl::SetColumnWidth() now supports wxLIST_AUTOSIZE.
+- Fixed handling of transparent background in borderless wxBitmapButton.
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