-wxWindows 2 Change Log
-----------------------
+----------------------------
+wxWindows 2.5/2.6 Change Log
+----------------------------
+
+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
+- finally the program exit code is OnRun() return value, not OnExit() one
+- 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)
+- wxID_SEPARATOR (id used for the menu separators) value changed from -1 to -2
+- wxGetNumberFromUser() is now in separate wx/numdlg.h, not wx/textdlg.h
+- wxChoice and wxCombobox now handle their size in the same way as in all the
+ other ports under MSW, new code is actually correct but different from weird
+ stuff they were doing before so the behaviour of your programs might change
+- wxTaskBarIcon objects must now be destroyed before the application can exit.
+ Previously, the application terminated if there were no top level windows;
+ now it terminates if there are no top level windows or taskbar icons left.
+- wxZlibInputStream is not by default compatible with the output of the
+ 2.4.x version of wxZlibOutputStream. However, there is a compatibilty mode,
+ switched on by passing wxZLIB_24COMPATIBLE to the constructor.
+
+wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
+ won't exit even though there are no top level windows
+
+
+DEPRECATED METHODS SINCE 2.4.x
+==============================
+
+Deprecated methods may still be used but will disappear in future wxWindows
+versions, please update your code to not use them.
+
+- wxDocManager::GetNoHistoryFiles() renamed to GetHistoryFilesCount()
+- wxSizer::Remove(wxWindow *), use Detach() instead [it is more clear]
+- wxSizer::Set/GetOption(): use Set/GetProportion() instead
+- wxKeyEvent::KeyCode(): use GetKeyCode instead
+- wxList::Number, First, Last, Nth: use GetCount, GetFirst/Last, Item instead
+- wxNode::Next, Previous, Data: use GetNext, GetPrevious, GetData instead
+- wxListBase::operator wxList&(): use typesafe lists instead
+- wxTheFontMapper: use wxFontMapper::Get() instead
+- wxStringHashTable: use wxHashMap instead
+- wxHashTableLong: use wxHashMap instead
+- wxArrayString::GetStringArray: use wxCArrayString or alternative wxWindows
+ methods taking wxArrayString
+- wxArrayString::Remove(index, count): use RemoveAt instead
+- wxTreeItemId conversion to long is deprecated and shouldn't be used
+- wxTreeCtrl::GetFirst/NextChild() 2nd argument now has type wxTreeItemIdValue
+ and not long, please change declarations of "cookie"s in your code
+ accordingly -- otherwise your code won't work on 64 bit platforms
+- [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
+- wxWave class; use wxSound instead
+
+
+OTHER CHANGES
+=============
+
+2.5.2
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Hindi translations added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
+- wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
+ with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
+ of run-time) now
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
+ resulting in much better display of scaled images
+- Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
+- implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
+- support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
+- The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
+ sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
+ will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
+ window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
+ size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
+ windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
+ min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
+ are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
+- added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
+- it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
+- Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
+ XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
+- wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
+- wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
+ even try to do it by default -- now it does
+- wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
+ won't exit even though there are no top level windows
+- wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
+
+wxMotif:
+
+- removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
+
+wxUniv/X11:
+
+- implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
+
+wxHTML:
+
+- improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
+- <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
+
+Unix:
+- fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
+
+
+2.5.1
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
+- 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).
+- added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
+ GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
+- changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
+ on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
+- added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
+ wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
+- intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
+ wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
+- added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
+ for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
+ wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
+- renamed wxWave class to wxSound
+
+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
+- wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
+- added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
+- fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
+ when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
+- dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
+- added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
+- wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
+ added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
+- using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
+- added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
+- added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
+- wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
+- added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- wxWindows now builds under Win64
+- fixed DDE memory leaks
+- 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)
+- added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
+- wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
+ should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
+ wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
+- wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
+- added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
+- experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
+- fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
+- accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
+- background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
+- fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
+- Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
+- Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
+ aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
+- Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
+ than the specified default size
+- Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
+
+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)
+- wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
+- memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
+- don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
+
+wxMac:
+
+- use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
+- implemented handling of mouse wheel
+- fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
+- use unix sockets for Mach-o builds
+
+wxMotif:
+
+- look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
+
+wxHTML:
+
+- wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
+ on Unix (Markus Sinner)
+
+Unix:
+
+- added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
+- implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
+ addition to existing OSS one
+- it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
+
+
+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 wxArray::SetCount()
+- wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
+ by default in Unicode mode
+- bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
+- added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
+- added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
+- added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
+- fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
+- chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
+ and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
+- 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:
+
+- added Watcom makefiles
+- fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
+
+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)
+- improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
+- fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
+- implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
+- support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
+- added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
+- added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
+- fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
+- WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
+- it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
+ by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
+- Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
+- FL: rmoved const from EnableTool parameters
+- FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
+- In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
+ wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
+- Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
+- Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
+ delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
+ a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
+ the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
+ default extension for the template
+- sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
+- Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
+- wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
+- Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
+- Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
+- wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
+- Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
+ to allow better rich text support.
+- implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
+- Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
+- Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
+ custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
+- Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
+- wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
+ user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
+- wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
+ sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
+ DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
+- Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
+ CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
+- Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
+ 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.
+- 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:
+
+- fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
+- fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
+- added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
+- 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)
+- added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
+- fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
+- made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
+- fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
+ window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
+- added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
+- fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
+ 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
+
+wxMac:
+
+- generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
+- generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
+
+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)
+- fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
+- added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
+- libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
+- when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
+- fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
+- Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer neccessary
+ to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
+- wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
+ or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
+- improved border handling under Windows XP
+- partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
+ enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
+ wxWindows to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
+- disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
+- fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
+- added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
+- you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
+
+wxMotif:
+
+- made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
+ does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
+ documentation for a detailed explanation
+- implemented wxWakeUpIdle
+- for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
+ xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
+ with Motif 1.x compatibility
+- implemented wxToggleButton
+- wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
+ instead of a sunken border
+- implemented wxBitmapDataObject
+- finished wxClipboard implementation
+
+wxUniv:
+
+- controls in toolbars now supported
+
+wxHTML:
+
+- added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
+- added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
+- it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
+ <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
+- wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
+
+
+OLD CHANGES
+===========
INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.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_2
+ is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
+ series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
+ your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
+ 2.6 release.
+
+ NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
+ of wxWindows you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
+ (see the documentation) useful.
+
+
wxBase:
-- wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
+! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
code.
-- wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
+! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
arrays containing non-pointers.
by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
+- small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
+
+- unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
+ from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
+ could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
+ a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
+ is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
+
+- another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
+ must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
+ the default assert handling.
+
All (GUI):
-- the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
+! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
- but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your codei
+ but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
instead!
-- wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
+! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
- the occurences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
+ the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
+
+! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
+ generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
+ you want to get OnChar() as well
+
+- in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
+ have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
+ please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
- wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
if ( flags & wxYES )
... do something else ...
+- static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
+ in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
+ the ctor
+
- wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
- wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
if you derived any classes from it
-- wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
+- wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
- wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
+- WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
+ they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
+
+- the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
+ parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
+ from happening
+
+- several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
+ for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
+ and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
+
+- wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
+ to obtain the previous behaviour, add
+ wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
+ (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
+
wxMSW:
-- build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
- but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx/include
+! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
+ but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
- class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
- make/project files.
+ class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
+ make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
+ use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
+ where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
+ is only present for the DLLs builds.
- child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
- style to avoid it, wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT style is now obsolete and has no
- effect
+ style to avoid it
- all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
previously selected one instead of replacing it
return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
+- wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
+ anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
+
+
Unix ports:
-- You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
+! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
`wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
to compile pure C files.
+wxThread and related classes:
+
+- The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
+ as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
+ semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
+ wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
+
+! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
+ documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
+ unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
+ (i.e. absense of race conditions) using the old API.
+
+- wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
+ recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
+ documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
+
+- wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
+ this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
+
+
OTHER CHANGES
=============
+2.4.0
+-----
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
+
+2.3.4
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
+- added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
+- fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
+
+Unix (Base/GUI):
+
+- minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
+- don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
+- shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
+
+wxGTK:
+- Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
+- Addition of native frame site grip.
+
+wxX11:
+- Unicode support through Pango library.
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
+- added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
+
+wxHTML:
+
+- fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
+
2.3.3
-----
wxBase:
+- building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
+- wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
- 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 STL hash_map
+ after (non standard) STL hash_map
- wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
- wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
-- fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
+- added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
+- added wxEXPLICIT macro
+- IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
+ Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
+- debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
Unix (Base/GUI):
- wxWindows may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
programs and not only GNU make
+- wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
+- wxWindows may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
+ lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
+ the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
+- fixed thread priority setting under Linux
All (GUI):
+- it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
+ small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
- implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
- added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
- added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
wxHashTable
- added IFF image handler
- fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
-- support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
+- support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
+ (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
- support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
- wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
- added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
- added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
- added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
- added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
+- added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
+ for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
+- added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
+- added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
+- Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
+- Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
+- wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
+- wxMessageOutput class added
+- wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
+ so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
+ table fills up
+- updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
+- Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
+- generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
+ renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
+ (Rene Rivera).
+- Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
+ whether a label edit was cancelled.
+- added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
wxMSW:
- small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
+- fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
+- fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
- refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
- huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
- changing wxWindows styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
- fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
- improvements to wxWindows applications behaviour when the system colours
are changed
+- choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
- fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
+- wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
+ of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
- wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
- bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
- showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
- the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
- wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
- wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
+- Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
+- Multiline labels in buttons are now supoprted (simply use "\n" in the label)
+- Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
+ has the capture before release it.
+- fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
+- default button handling is now closer to expected
+- setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
+- disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
+- multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
+- tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
+- fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
+- fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
+- increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
+- don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
+- wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
+ provided in wxFontData
+- Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
+- Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
wxGTK:
- wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
- wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
- added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
+- new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
+ Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
+- support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
+- fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
+- implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
+- implemented wxChoice::Delete()
+- fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
+- made internal GC pool dynamically growable
+- added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
+
+wxMotif:
+
+- improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
+- improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
+- improved toolbar control alignment
+- implemented wxSpinButton
+- implemented wxCheckListBox
+- fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
+- wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
+
+wxX11:
+
+- added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
+- first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
+
+wxMac:
+
+- Many improvements
+
+wxOS2:
+
+- First alpha-quality release
wxHTML:
- wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
- wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
- support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
+- improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
wxMSW:
wxGTK:
- fixed popup menu positioning bug
+- fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
+- fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
+ correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
+
+wxMac:
+
+- support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
+ Tools
wxHTML:
- fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
- wxFrame restores focus better
- Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
- frames anddialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
+ frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
(sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
- wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
- Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
- Added wxImage::Rotate.
- new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
-- wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu menagament
+- wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
- wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
- vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
- wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
- wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
- added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
- for dealing with convertions between different encodings,
+ for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
- wxDragImage class added
- samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
- splitted into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
+ split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
- added support for charsets and <meta> tag
- added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
-- added dynamic pushing/poping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
+- added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
- improved HTML printing
- added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
- fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
- Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
-- Added a parent-existance check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
+- Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
- Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
- wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
- Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
- wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
- so event can travel up the window hierachy.
+ so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
------------------------
- Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
- Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
-- Cured some lemory leaks (thanks Vadim).
+- Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
- Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
MoreRequested.
implementation updated to use these base classes.
- wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
- WinHelp), wxXLPHelPController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
+ WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
- Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
- PrologIO revised.
- wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
- MDI is now achived using separate classes, not window styles.
+ MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
- wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
Windows settings.
- SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
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