X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/2334fef6eaf763bc0b9132a86cc57c395c85c557..bf354396f61a2e1bd5544b67ecde341b6ff9bf35:/docs/changes.txt diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt index 46b34a48ad..5dbc13ed69 100644 --- a/docs/changes.txt +++ b/docs/changes.txt @@ -1,12 +1,314 @@ -------------------------------------------------------------------- -wxWidgets 2.5 Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual -------------------------------------------------------------------- +--------------------------------------------------------------- +wxWidgets Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual +--------------------------------------------------------------- + +2.6.2 +----- + +All: + +- Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it. +- Fixed proxy handling in wxURL. +- Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl. +- Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls). +- Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev). +- Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson). +- Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler. +- wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual. +- Added wxLongLong::ToDouble() +- Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs +- Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett) +- Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout. + +All (GUI): + +- Added wxStaticText::Wrap() +- wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection, + added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour +- Added wxXmlResource::Unload(). +- Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample). +- Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet). +- Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski). +- Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif. +- Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported. +- Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text). +- wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens. + +wxMSW: + +- wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005). +- Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP. +- Fixed multiline tooltips handling. +- Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin). +- Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus. +- Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates. +- Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski). +- Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound. +- Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW(). +- Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small. +- Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd) +- Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd) +- Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff) + +wxGTK: + +- ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso). +- Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp). +- Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif. +- wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now + instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp). +- Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under + GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp). +- Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp). + +wxMac: + +- Automatic menu management improved. +- Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons, + due to dangling cycle pointers. + +wxOS2 + +- Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++. + +wxUniv: + +- Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL. +- Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler). + +wxMotif: + +- Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif. +- wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale. +- Fixed button size in common dialogs. +- Made wxFileDialog translatable. +- All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER + flag has been specified. +- Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to + be created with a "sensible" initial width. + +wxMGL: + +- Fixed crash on exit. +- Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized. + +wxX11: + +- Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp). + + +2.6.1 +----- + +All: + +- Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser. +- Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg) + +All (GUI): + +- Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars. +- Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item. +- Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML. +- wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel. +- Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL. +- Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons. +- Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations. +- Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size. +- PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats. +- wxGrid focus and edit key improvements. + +wxMSW: + +- Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox + (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED). +- Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby + eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing. +- Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls) + by refreshing parent when the radio box moves. +- Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to + allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box. +- Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED. +- Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a + window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by + checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any. +- A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting. +- Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too. +- Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position. +- Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too. +- wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour. +- Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible. +- Compiles again with WIN64. +- Winelib compilation now works. +- When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha + channel and set the bitmap to use it. +- wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel +- Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements. +- wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed. +- Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug. +- Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored. +- wxNotebook refresh problem fixed. +- DDE fixed for Unicode. +- Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons. +- wxCheckListBox item background fixed. +- Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing. +- Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP + +wxWinCE: + +- Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName. + +wxGTK: + +- Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+). +- Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls. +- Fixed scrollbar border colour. +- Added bitmap support in menus. + +wxMac: + +- Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a + .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder). +- Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an + incorrect state. +- Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger. +- Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item. +- Window menu now added automatically. +- Configure fixed for wxBase compilation. +- Modified function key support fixed. +- wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements. + +wxX11: + +- Menu problems fixed. +- wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows. +- Fixed a font memory leak. +- Multiple wxTimers now work correctly. + + +2.6.0 +----- + +All: + +- wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead. +- Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default. + +All (GUI): + +- Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check + non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame. + +wxMSW: + +- Fixed static box border when the label is empty. +- Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box. +- wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController. + +wxWinCE: + +- Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting. + +wxGTK: +- New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version. + --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback + --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback + --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback + --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK +- wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too. +- Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText. + +wxMac: +- Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions + +2.5.5 +----- + +All: + +- wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get + user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added. +- Added wxDebugReport class. +- Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev. +- Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First). +- Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons. +- Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent). +- Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString. +- Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev) + +All (GUI): + +- Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original + GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr. +- Added XPM data constructor to wxImage. +- Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or + the whole virtual area. +- Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize. +- Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size + isn't used to set the window size. +- Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp). +- wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of + splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur). +- Added wxImage::IsTransparent(). + +Unix: + +- Fixed build on Linux/AMD64. + +wxMSW: + +- Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile(). +- wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available. +- fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert). +- wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well. +- Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour + handling (Jamie Gadd). + +wxGTK: + +- Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp). +- Corrected wxListBox selection handling. +- Corrected default button size handling for different themes. +- Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes. +- Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys. +- Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp). +- GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better, + and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp). + +wxMac: + +- Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows. + +wxPalmOS: + +- Native wxRadioBox implementation. + +wxWinCE: + +- Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE. +- Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId. + You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility. +- Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar. +- Panels more naturally white on PocketPC. +- wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes + with correct titlebar style. +- Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the + PocketPC guidelines +- Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic. +- Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware. +- Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event. +- Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE. +- Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls. +- wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons + to the dialog's toolbar. 2.5.4 ----- All: +- wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must + use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp) - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell) - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell) - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski) @@ -17,12 +319,12 @@ All: - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert) -- added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that for embedded null chars +- added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced. - SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent + SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds -- BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey ODonnell) +- BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell) - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize() - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts) - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert) @@ -30,12 +332,35 @@ All: - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME printing stuff in the GTK port. +- Deprecated print setup dialog. - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database -- The samples\db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB +- The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database) +- added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded() +- wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition +- wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with + wxSystemSettings::Get*() +- wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between + the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the + client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers + to compensate for this bug may need to be changed. +- Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits + due to a rounding error. +- Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until + SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that. +- Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right + mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation. +- "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU +- wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter +- wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel) +- added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only) + All (GUI): +- added wxMediaCtrl +- added wxDatePickerCtrl +- wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in tag - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski) - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition @@ -48,6 +373,9 @@ All (GUI): - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style) - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog) +- wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as + in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth) +- added wxImage::InitAlpha() Unix: @@ -69,11 +397,18 @@ wxGTK: runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker errors otherwise. +- wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp) +- Added wxRawBitmap support +- Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its + interaction with wxWidgets' events. +- wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp) wxMac: +- Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock) - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib" - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name +- wxJoystick now works on OSX wxMSW: @@ -81,10 +416,12 @@ wxMSW: - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler +- added wxRegKey::Export(file) wxWinCE: - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4, but not mentioned anywhere. +- Added (preliminary) support for sockets wxUniv: @@ -102,6 +439,15 @@ wxPalmOS: - enumeration of available volumes - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database - native wxProgressDialog implementation +- native wxColourDialog implementation +- native wxSystemSettings colours +- native wxButton implementation +- native wxCheckBox implementation +- native wxSlider implementation +- native wxToggleButton implementation +- native wxRadioButton implementation +- native wxStaticText implementation +- native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation 2.5.3 @@ -154,6 +500,7 @@ All (GUI): - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive() - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not supported, instead of zero. +- IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal) Unix: @@ -166,16 +513,16 @@ Unix: wxCocoa: - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2 -- fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2 +- fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2 - Tooltips now supported - wxSound now supported -- wxDisplay now supported -- Some stock cursors now supported +- wxDisplay now supported +- Some stock cursors now supported wxMac: -- fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX -- added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock +- fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX +- added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes