X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/2d814c19cc7b8aa54ca452b14e6a99442361d7da..d2b1753d162aa390080a005fcf3e8bbf7bf966a8:/docs/changes.txt diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt index 53124c555c..a1aea07329 100644 --- a/docs/changes.txt +++ b/docs/changes.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ----------------------------- -wxWindows 2.5/2.6 Change Log ----------------------------- +------------------------ +wxWidgets 2.5 Change Log +------------------------ INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x ================================ @@ -14,9 +14,96 @@ INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x 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 + wxFULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE to force this (wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE still exists but doesn't do anything any more, this behaviour is default now) +! wxWindow::m_font and m_backgroundColour/m_foregroundColour are no longer + always set, use GetFont(), GetBack/ForegroundColour() to access + them, and they will be dynamically determined if necessary. + + +! The Sizers have had some fundamental internal changes in the 2.5.2 + and 2.5.3 releases intended to make them do more of the "Right + Thing" but also be as backwards compatible as possible. First a bit + about how things used to work: + + * The size that a window had when Add()ed to the sizer was assumed + to be its minimal size, and that size would always be used by + default when calculating layout size and positions, and the + sizer itself would keep track of that minimal size. + + * If the window item was Add()ed with the wxADJUST_MINSIZE flag + then when layout was calculated the item's GetBestSize would be + used to reset the minimal size that the sizer used. + + The main thrust of the new Sizer changes was to make behaviour like + wxADJUST_MINSIZE be the default, and also to push the tracking of + the minimal size to the window itself (since it knows its own needs) + instead of having the sizer take care of it. Consequently these + changes were made: + + * The wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag was added to allow for the old + behaviour. When this flag is used the size a window has when + Add()ed to the sizer will be treated as its minimal size and it + will not be readjusted on each layout. + + * The min size stored in wxWindow and settable with SetSizeHints or + SetMinSize will by default be used by the sizer (if it was set) + as the minimal size of the sizer item. If the minsize was not + set (or was only partially set) then the window's best size is + fetched and it is used instead of (or blended with) the minsize. + wxWindow:GetBestFittingSize was added to facilitate getting the + size to be used by the sizers. + + * The best size of a window is cached so it doesn't need to + recaculated on every layout. wxWindow::InvalidateBestSize was + added and should be called (usually just internally in control + methods) whenever something is done that would make the best + size change. + + * All wxControls were changed to set the minsize to what is passed + to the constructor or Create method, and also to set the real + size of the control to the blending of the minsize and bestsize. + wxWindow::SetBestFittingSize was added to help with this, + although most controls don't need to call it directly because it + is called indirectly via the SetInitialSize called in the base + classes. + + At this time, the only situation known not to work the same as + before is the following: + + win = new SomeWidget(parent); + win->SetSize(SomeNonDefaultSize); + sizer->Add(win); + + In this case the old code would have used the new size as the + minimum, but now the sizer will use the default size as the minimum + rather than the size set later. It is an easy fix though, just move + the specification of the size to the constructor (assuming that + SomeWidget will set its minsize there like the rest of the controls + do) or call SetMinSize instead of SetSize. + + In order to fit well with this new scheme of things, all wxControls + or custom controls should do the following things. (Depending on + how they are used you may also want to do the same thing for + non-control custom windows.) + + * Either override or inherit a meaningful DoGetBestSize method + that calculates whatever size is "best" for the control. Once + that size is calculated then there should normally be a call to + CacheBestSize to save it for later use, unless for some reason + you want the best size to be recalculated on every layout. + + * Any method that changes the attributes of the control such that + the best size will change should call InvalidateBestSize so it + will be recalculated the next time it is needed. + + * The control's constructor and/or Create method should ensure + that the minsize is set to the size passed in, and that the + control is sized to a blending of the min size and best size. + This can be done by calling SetBestFittingSize. + + - no initialization/cleanup can be done in wxApp/~wxApp because they are now called much earlier/later than before; please move any exiting code @@ -45,15 +132,36 @@ INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x - 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 +- when WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 == 0 wxHashTable uses a new implementation + not using wxList keyed interface (the same used when wxUSE_STL == 1), + the only incompatibility being that Next() returns a wxHashTable::Node* + instead of a wxNode*. +- non-const wxDC methods GetBackground(), GetBrush(), GetFont() and GetPen() + as well as wxWindow methods GetFont() and GetCursor() don't exist any more, + please fix your code -- it never worked correctly anyhow if you modified the + objects returned by these methods so you should simply switch to using const + methods. +- wxWindow::GetFont() now returns wxFont object instead of reference +- EVT_XXX macros are now type-safe; code that uses wrong type for event + handler's argument will no longer compile. +- Identical functionality of wxFileDialog::ParseWildcard, + wxGenericDirCtrl::ParseFilter, Motif and MSW parsing native dialogs + is now accessible in ::wxParseCommonDialogsFilter +- wxNotebookSizer and wxBookCtrlSizer are now deprecated -- they are no longer + needed, you can treat wxNotebook as any other control and put it directly + into the sizer that was wxNotebookSizer's parent sizer in old code. +- wxFile methods now return wxFileOffset which may be a 64 bit integer type, + even on 32 bit platforms, instead of off_t and so the return value of + wxFile::Length(), for example, shouldn't be assigned to off_t variable any + more (the compiler might warn you about this). +- wxListItem::m_data is now of type wxUIntPtr, not long, for compatibility + with 64 bit systems DEPRECATED METHODS SINCE 2.4.x ============================== -Deprecated methods may still be used but will disappear in future wxWindows +Deprecated methods may still be used but will disappear in future wxWidgets versions, please update your code to not use them. - wxDocManager::GetNoHistoryFiles() renamed to GetHistoryFilesCount() @@ -66,7 +174,7 @@ versions, please update your code to not use them. - wxTheFontMapper: use wxFontMapper::Get() instead - wxStringHashTable: use wxHashMap instead - wxHashTableLong: use wxHashMap instead -- wxArrayString::GetStringArray: use wxCArrayString or alternative wxWindows +- wxArrayString::GetStringArray: use wxCArrayString or alternative wxWidgets methods taking wxArrayString - wxArrayString::Remove(index, count): use RemoveAt instead - wxTreeItemId conversion to long is deprecated and shouldn't be used @@ -81,20 +189,155 @@ versions, please update your code to not use them. wxHashTable::compatibility_iterator to store the return value - wxWave class; use wxSound instead +- The wxHIDE_READONLY flag for wxFileDialog was not implemented + and has now been removed +- wxTaskBarIcon::OnXXX() virtual methods: use events instead +- obsolete and not used wxUSE_GENERIC_DIALOGS_IN_MSW has been removed +- wxDbTable::wxDbTable with wxChar* deprecated, same with wxString& instead OTHER CHANGES ============= +2.5.3 +----- + +All: + +- support for huge (>2 Gb) files (Tim Kosse) +- number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten) +- fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem) +- fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect +- fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth) +- support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English + (based on patch by Stefan Kowski) +- added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep() +- basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani) +- fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps) +- deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear() +- active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox) +- sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP +- added wxStringInput/OutputStreams +- added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream) + + +All (GUI): + +- added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order +- added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way + of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly + is discouraged +- added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros +- added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control +- wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set +- added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey() +- added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown() +- implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll) +- added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse) +- added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and + wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants) +- added samples/splash +- added support for stock buttons +- added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() +- support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely) +- recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found +- added wxChoicebook control +- smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner) +- the XRC contrib library was moved to the core +- wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection +- it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter) +- added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive() +- wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not + supported, instead of zero. + +Unix: + +- wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol +- security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker +- wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed + builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only +- wx-config has new --version-full option + +wxMac: + +- Fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX (RN) +- Added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock (RN) +- Added wxDrawerWindow class for drawer windows for OSX >= 10.2 (RN - from Jason Bagley) +- Native font dialog on OSX 10.2 and greater (RN) + +wxGTK: + +- wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to + configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2 +- fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes +- implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog +- implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2) +- implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x +- wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW) +- added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only) +- implemented text underlining under GTK2 +- implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2) +- implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_? + in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp) +- implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement + freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp) +- wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release +- implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap +- added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load + icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art +- fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett) + +wxMotif: + +- added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox) + +wxMSW: + +- fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash) +- set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build +- support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik) +- wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox) +- restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2 +- fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls +- fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style +- fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build +- wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei) +- fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame +- don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more +- implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem) +- fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases +- fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build + +wxUniv/X11: + +- fixed fatal crash when opening a menu + +wxWinCE: + +- added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners +- added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners +- added automatized but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus +- fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox + +wxHTML: + +- added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more + than one page to wxHtmlHelpController + + 2.5.2 ----- All: -- Hindi translations added (Dhananjaya Sharma) +- Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma) +- Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao) - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast internally and so using it with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead of run-time) now +- when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set, + wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible + to forward declare these classes. All (GUI): @@ -125,10 +368,20 @@ wxMSW: - 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 +- wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows +- fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D) +- subdindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse) + +wxGTK: + +- added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp) wxMotif: - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu() +- wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be + and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting + motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions). wxUniv/X11: @@ -140,7 +393,14 @@ wxHTML: -
handling fix (Xavier Nodet) Unix: + - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart) +- added "wx-config --libs=std," syntax (i.e. support for "std") + +wxODBC: + +- Full Unicode support is now available +- BLOB support is working 2.5.1 @@ -177,7 +437,6 @@ All: 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() @@ -207,7 +466,7 @@ All (GUI): wxMSW: -- wxWindows now builds under Win64 +- wxWidgets now builds under Win64 - fixed DDE memory leaks - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding @@ -279,7 +538,7 @@ Unix: 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 + huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then separately compiled library - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski) - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth) @@ -318,7 +577,7 @@ wxBase: All GUI ports: - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes -- added wxListbook +- added wxListbook control - 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 @@ -443,7 +702,7 @@ wxMSW: - 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. + wxWidgets 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 @@ -494,7 +753,7 @@ INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x 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 + of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro (see the documentation) useful. @@ -711,10 +970,10 @@ wxBase: Unix (Base/GUI): -- wxWindows may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make +- wxWidgets 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 +- wxWidgets 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 @@ -726,7 +985,7 @@ All (GUI): - 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 - wxWindows dialogs + wxWidgets dialogs - significantly improved native font support - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe wxHashTable @@ -767,11 +1026,11 @@ wxMSW: - 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 +- changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello) - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX() - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText -- improvements to wxWindows applications behaviour when the system colours +- improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours are changed - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535 @@ -960,7 +1219,7 @@ wxMSW: - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug - Added mousewheel processing - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure - wxWindows at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option + wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option in wxDC - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI child frame styles are honoured @@ -1230,7 +1489,7 @@ wxHTML: fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in -NOTE: for changes after wxWindows 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS +NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS change log. 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999 @@ -1328,7 +1587,7 @@ wxMSW: - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles rationalised. -- Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWindows as DLL. +- Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL. wxMotif: @@ -1656,7 +1915,7 @@ wxMSW: - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo. - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function. - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition - of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWindows + of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets startup/exit. - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples makefile.m95 files, and install.txt). @@ -1698,7 +1957,7 @@ wxMSW: - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar) to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar tray area. -- Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWindows in the same +- Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings. - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++). - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.