fixed outdated filenames

[wxWidgets.git] / wxPython / CHANGES.txt

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@@ -18,6 +18,71 @@ Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
 be loaded from any Python "file-like" object.
 
 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
 be loaded from any Python "file-like" object.
 

+Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
+data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
+convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
+
+Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
+This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
+row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
+spanning.  Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
+Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
+wxFlexGridSizer.
+
+Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
+
+Added wxBufferedDC.
+
+Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla 1.40 to Scintilla 1.45
+
+UNICODE!
+
+    wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
+    disabled.  Previous to wxPython 2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
+    used.  Starting with 2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
+    it is also available in wxWindows on the platform.  Currently
+    wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
+    the recent release of GTK+ 2.0 it is only a matter of time until
+    it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
+
+    Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
+    family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
+    same unicode binaries on win95/98/ME platforms as well!  This is
+    done by using a special library and DLL with the application
+    called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode).  It simply gets out of
+    the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
+    win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
+    versions of the windows API.  So far I have not been able to get
+    this to work perfectly on win9x.  Most things work fine but
+    wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
+    unicode build on win95.
+
+    So how do you use it?  It's very simple.  When unicode is enabled,
+    then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
+    from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
+    parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
+    accept either a Python string or unicode object.  If a string
+    object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
+    converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
+    system encoding.  If you need to use a string in some other
+    encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
+    codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
+    method.
+
+Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
+
+Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
+
+Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
+
+A little black magic...  When the C++ object (for a window or
+whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
+to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it.  This leads to
+crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
+pointer.  The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
+Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
+a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted.  This works
+for any class that is OOR aware.