INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x
================================
+ Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
+ paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
+ with '!' in the first column.
+
+ Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4
+ is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.4
+ series.
+
+! windows are no longer fully repainted when resized, use new style
+ wxFULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE to force this (wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE stll
+ exists but doesn't do anything any more, this behaviour is default now)
+
+
- no initialization/cleanup can be done in wxApp/~wxApp because they are
now called much earlier/later than before; please move any exiting code
from there to wxApp::OnInit()/OnExit()
+- also, OnExit() is not called if OnInit() fails
+- wxTheApp can't be assigned to any longer, use wxApp::SetInstance() instead
- wxFileType::GetIcon() returns wxIconLocation, not wxIcon
+- wxColourDatabase is not a wxList any more, use AddColour to add new colours
+- wxWindow::Clear() is now called ClearBackground()
+- pointer returned by wxFont::GetNativeFontInfo() must not be deleted now
+- wxMouseEvent::Moving() doesn't return true if mouse is being dragged any more
+- (most) controls now inherit parents colours by default, override
+ ShouldInheritColours() to return false if you don't want this to happen
+- wxApp::SendIdleEvent() now takes 2 arguments
+- wxTabView::GetLayers() changed return type from wxList& to wxTabLayerList&
+ (when WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 == 0)
DEPRECATED METHODS SINCE 2.4.x
- wxHashTableLong: use wxHashMap instead
- wxArrayString::GetStringArray: no replacement
- wxArrayString::Remove(index, count): use RemoveAt instead
+- wxTreeItemId conversion to long is deprecated and shouldn't be used
- [MSW only] wxWindow::GetUseCtl3D(), GetTransparentBackground() and
SetTransparent() as well as wxNO_3D and wxUSER_COLOURS styles
+- wxList keyed interface: use wxHashMap instead
+- wxColourDatabase::FindColour(): use Find() instead (NB: different ret type)
+- wxHashTable::Next: use wxHashTable::Node* or
+ wxHashTable::compatibility_iterator to store the return
+ value
OTHER CHANGES
=============
+2.5.1
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
+- wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
+- wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
+- added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
+- added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
+- added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
+- Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
+- added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
+- wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
+- wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
+- check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
+- when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
+ (as in 2.5.0).
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- added wxListBook control
+- added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
+- added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
+- added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
+- added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
+- wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
+- wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
+- bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
+- status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
+- bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
+- make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
+- wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
+- added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
+- added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
+- wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
+- changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
+- wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
+- several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
+- wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
+- make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
+- MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
+- fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
+- added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
+- fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
+- fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
+- allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
+- use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
+- fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
+
+wxMac:
+
+- use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
+
+wxHTML:
+
+- wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
+ on Unix (Markus Sinner)
+
+
2.5.0
-----
All:
+- It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
+ huge wxWindows library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
+ separately compiled library
- added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
+- added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
- use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
- wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
- added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
- added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
- added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
- added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
+- wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
+- added wxRecursionGuard class
+- added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
+- Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
+ When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
+ std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
+ implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
+- Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
+ it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
+ both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
wxBase:
All GUI ports:
- added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
+- added wxListbook
- added alpha channel support to wxImage
+- added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
- added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
- added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
+- wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
- added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
- added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
- implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
determine whether a window should receive idle events.
- Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
-- wxMSW and wxGTK now send menu update events only when a menu is
- about to be used.
+- send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
+- improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
+- added wxMirrorDC class
+- printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
+ been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
+ report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
+ number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
+ wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
+ correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
+ improved
Unix:
- added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
- wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
+Generic controls:
+
+- implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
+- support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
+- wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
+ to contrib/src/deprecated
+
wxGTK:
- added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
be appended to filenames with no extension
- added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
- fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
+- fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
- don't consume 100% CPU when showing a poup menu
-- implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
wxMac:
wxMSW:
- possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
+- added wxCrashReport
- wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
- support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
- wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
- wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
+- fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
- fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
- fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
- fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
- fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
- modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
(if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
-- memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri)
+- memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
- fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
- added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
after (non standard) STL hash_map
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