X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/2dc5505ebcf8412d425028e91297f061e685368f..641cdc233d23344b88a6e24151708f669c429917:/docs/gtk/changes.txt diff --git a/docs/gtk/changes.txt b/docs/gtk/changes.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..cf594f9c0a --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/gtk/changes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1226 @@ + +*** wxWidgets 2.3.3 *** + +Look at the General changes file for more encompassing on +the changes that have taken place in 2.3.3. This file has +not been kept uptodate. RR. + +Beta support for GTK 2.0. Use "configure --enable-gtk2 --enable-unicode". + +Lots of work locale/encoding conversion classes. + +Large changes in wxThread/wxCondition code. + +wxLocale detects the system language on all ports. + +Corrected wxFrame::ShowFullScreen(). + +Added wxArtProvider for changing default icons and more. + +Corrected wxScrolledWindow in some rare cases. + +Added wxIconBundle for mini- and normal icons. + +Made wxWindow::SetFocus() work before a wxDialog +is created. Until now always the first item +was focussed. + +Corrected wxComboBox's semantics of pressing . + +Corrected SeekI() return values and other related functions +in wxFilterStream and wxBufferedStream. + +Implemented new ref-counting for GDI classes. + +New implementation of wxCondition. + +Implemented actual comparisons between GDI classes instead of +comparing just the ref-count. + +Fixed wxMiniFrame again. + +Added wxCursor creation from wxImage. + +Added inlined wxHashMap class. + +Redone thread wake-up code for immediate wake-up instead +of 50 ms pause. This gives apps 100% CPU time for background +tasks. + +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) and +corrections to wxImage code for special SGI visuals. + +Changed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates. + +Implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background +tasks (unlike thread work). + +Various updates to wxHTML. + +Some wxFont changes for better mixing of native fonts and +wxFont's accessors. + +Added IFF image handler. + +Added ICO, CUR and ANI image handler. Added image handler +for several image per file (GIF, TIFF). + +wxFrame::SetMenuBar() corrected (for NULL etc.) + +wxButton honours wxBU_EXACTFIT. + +wxStaticBox honours wxALIGN_XXX styles + +Reworked wxConfig class interface. + +Reworked wxDynamicLibary class for loading classes (particularly +wxWidgets classes) from dynamic libraries. + +Removed wxObjectStream class. + +Further improvements to wxFileName class. + +*** wxWidgets 2.3.2 *** + +Addition of wxFileName class to handler DOS, Unix, Mac and VMS filenames +and paths in a platform independent way. + +Addition of a wxPopupWindow class to imitate temporary windows such +as those used combo boxes or in tool tips. + +Addition of wxToggleButton which was missing in wxWidgets 2.2. + +Support for virtual lists in wxListCtrl. + +Addition wxSingleInstanceChecker which does just that. + +Addition of wxRegEx for regular expression parsing either +using the built-in Unix function or a freeware add-on library. + +wxScrolledWindow completely reimplemented as a native GTK widget. + +Reimplemented event cloning used for inter-thread communication. + +Big improvements to the HTML display engine. Handles many more tags +correctly now. + +Partial rewrite and enhancements to the XML based resource system wxXRC. +It is now based on the Expat parser. + +Wider image type support including read/write support for XPM and +reading support for ICO files. BMP can be saved in various bit depths now. + +Fixed some incompatibilities with GTK 1.2.10. + +Partially reworked build system for installation of multiple builds and +cross compilations. + +Improved wxSizer-based layout system for better support for dynamic +layout. + +*** wxWidgets 2.3.0 *** + +scaling for map modes other than wxMM_TEXT works correctly (Derry Bryson) + +*** wxWidgets 2.2.6 *** + +wxGauge now supports wxGA_VERTICAL (Shane Forsythe) + +*** 29th January 2001: wxWidgets 2.2.5 released *** + +Synchronized with wxMSW 2.2.5, include macros +for upwards 2.4.0 compatibility. + +Added missing wxEntry prototype to wx/gtk/app.h. + +Fixed compilation with --enable-no_rtti/no_exceptions +with older egcs. + +*** 15th January 2001: wxWidgets 2.2.4 released *** + +Corrected wxYield() to handle recursive calls +more gracefully (and with a warning in debug mode). +This fixes a problem with crashing wxTreeCtrl's +built-in drag'n'drop and probably some other as +well. + +Corrected wxMenuItem::GetLabel() to handle deliberate '_' +characters correctly. + +Patch for better 8-bit-display support. + +Corrected log error message box. + +Implemented wxCommandEvent::IsSelection() for wxListBox. + +Corrected wxListBox::Set() for sorted mode. + +Added EVT_TEXT_UPDATED for spin ctrl. + +Corrected wrongly rounded value in slider and scrollbar +for negative values. + +Small fix for wxTextFile type guessing. + +Translation updates. + +Various other fixes. + +Synchronized release with wxMSW again. + +*** 3rd November: wxWidgets 2.2.3 released *** + +Fixed bugs in HTTP code. + +Implemented wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE whenever possible +and reduced flicker a little (no longer disables GTK's own +anti-flicker code). + +Always have a clipping region equivalent to the update +region in OnPaint events (such as under wxMSW and wxMac). + +Implemented wxListBox::SetFirstItem(). + +Fixed some minor problems in HTML code, wxListCtrl, +wxListBox. + +Fixed compilation on RedHat 7.0. + +Updated many translations, added Swedish. + +Changed default screenpixels-per-inch from 100 to 75 in +printing code. + +Updated AFM font metrics for Ghostscript fonts and let +Linux and FreeBSD default to using GS fonts (and not +Adobe fonts). + +*** 20th September: wxWidgets 2.2.2 released *** + +Fixed wxSizer bug that made items with option +flags greater than 1 report a wrong size. + +Fixed many incompatibilities with GTK themes - +essentially a backport from the 2.3 branch. + +Added missing wxImage::Paste() for transparent +images. + +Fixed a drawing error for ellipses and arc in both +the DC code and the PostScript code. + +Fixed wxListCtrl::HitTest() for report mode. + +Other minor fixes. + +*** 20th August 2000: wxWidgets 2.2.1 released *** + +Minor build fixes. + +Use the wxCommmandEvent::IsChecked() function for checkable +menu items. This mean that the m_int parameter no longer +contains the ID of the menu! + +Fixed major problems in ODBC logging code. This change is +binary backward incompatible. + +Fixed reentry problems in DnD code. + +Changed PostScript code so that it can handle a higher +resolution (720dpi). + +Minor improvements to wxGrid code. + +Corrected guffow-scrolling so that no surplus expose +events are generated. + +Corrected bug in wxMask creation on 16-bit displays. + +Minor correction to wxDC::DrawRoundedRectangle. + +Added support for and menu accelerators. + +Made wxComboBox case-sensitive. + +Minor correction to doc-view architecture. + +Minor wxCommandLineParser changes. + +*** 10th July 2000: wxWidgets 2.2.0 released *** + +Added code for writing BMP images. + +Added code for writing TIFF images. + +Fixed problem with best visuals (on SGI) + +Applied a number of compile fixes for various Unix variants. + +Fixed wrong background colours appearing sometimes and fix +for resetting the default font in controls. + +Speed-up to wxListCtrl. + +Fixed bug wxTextStream::ReadLine() + +Various improvements commandline parser. + +Changed wxColour unequal operator to compare colours. + +Fixed wxMenuBar::Replace bug. + +Added new position to slider update event. + +Minor fix to idle handling (now wxGTK events come after all GTK events). + +Various fixes to the new wxGrid class. + +Bug-fixes. + +*** 4th June 2000: wxWidgets pre-2.2 release *** + +Complete freeze now. Only vital bug-fixes allowed. + +Various enhancements to wxSizer. + +Added wxGridSizer and wxFlexGridSizer. + +Reworked wxURL. + +MANY bugfixes. + +*** 22th March 2000: wxWidgets 2.1.15 released *** + +Build fix. RPMs no longer require GTK's include files. + +An extra library for the OpenGl class now gets built +*** 19th March 2000: wxWidgets 2.1.14 released *** + +An extra library for the OpenGl class now gets built +and installed. There is also an extra RPM for this +small class now. + +Added possibility to compile wxGTK with already installed +image libraries (TIFF, JPEG, PNG, ZLIB) if you really +know what you are doing. + +Added support for pipes and a stream class to get data +out of them. + +Added memory file system (so you can save html pages with +images in memory). + +Added wxDragImage class for dragging easily images. + +The DEB and RPM packages now conform better to various +standards. + +Renamed wx-config to wxgtk-config so that motif can be co-installed +on the same machine (with wxmotif-config). + +Speed up for drawing by reusing once created DCs instead of +creating and destroying them all the time. + +Corrections to clipping region code (among others related to +simultaneous bitmap clipping). + +A few more improvements to tab traversal. + +A number of changes to socket code. + +Added code for rotating images. + +Much work on the new grid class has been done. Very cool now. + +wxPlotWindow is now useful and works. Added on-off lines useful for +displaying trigger signals. + +Corrected one more bug in the TIFF handler. + +It is now possible to run wxGTK apps in the best visual +instead of only the default on system that support this +(typically IRIX). + +Added default keyboard handling to wxScrolledWindow. + +Fixed slightly overoptimized window colour and style handling. +This will expose a bug in the GtkPixmap theme, or more exactly +in ImLib's image cashing so that wxGTK currently doesn't work +well with pixmap themes. As a result, wxGTK will disable all +widget settings when using this theme. + +Fixed bug in drawing code that made GTK pick the wrong pen +style when using the default. + +The L-GPL iODBC library must now be enables explicitly so as +to not mislead people into reading the license wrong. + +*** 24th January '2000: wxWidgets 2.1.13 released *** + +Corrections to TAB handling in notebooks. + +Added scroll event to indicate when the thumb has +been released (as opposed to only changed). + +Fixed crashes with GTK Pixmap theme. + +Fixed endianness problems in image code. + +Minor fixes for sockets related to GUI reentrance. Also +improved the IPV address class and added more error +checking and related things. + +Many enhancements to wxHTML, more tags supported, better support +for non-western texts etc. + +Corrected code handling mono-bitmaps and their conversion to +wxImage etc. Added experimental ConvertToMonoBitmap() to +wxImage class. + +Fixed a few minor problems in wxListCtrl. + +The MIME-type code in now reads KDE and GNOME mime-type bindings +including icon information. This is used in the file dialog. + +Small fix for problems with code that didn't changed the size of a +window, but its client size and thus sent no wxSizeEvent. + +Fixed problem with shared contexts in OpenGl canvas. + +Fixed keyboard handling in wxCheckListBox. + +Corrected the completely nonfunctional TIFF code. + +Various minor corrections to wxWizard, wxCalendarCtrl and other +complex controls. + +Revamped code for TCP based connections between programs. + +Updates to the ODBC classes (George Tasker). + +Build-fixes for various platforms and compilers. + +*** 6th January '2000: wxWidgets 2.1.12 released *** + +Who has a BigEndian computer (e.g. Sparc or PowerPC) that runs a 15 +and/or 16 bit colour mode? I need this for testing purposes, i.e. this +person could help me by running a small test program and sending +me the output. + +Improved support for GTK's themes, changes in font sizes (and +the dialogs' ability to react to that) and related things. + +Added Calendar control. + +Added classes for recoding text (e.g. from Windows encoding to ISO encoding +and for converting to and from Unicode). + +Updated the 64-bit long class (a class that substitutes a 64-bit int +type on platforms which don't provide a native one). + +Added wxImage::Replace() (for replacing colours) and wxImage::GetSubImage(). +Also corrected conversion from mono bitmaps to wxImage. + +Added wxBitmap::GetSubBitmap(). + +Removed some flicker from tree ctrl. Minor optical changes. + +Added support for multiple font and colour support for items in +list ctrls and tree ctrls. + +Added support for multiple-selection file dialog. + +Implemented wxMenuBar::Insert() and wxMenu::Insert(). There is +also a Remove() method now, but the GTK doesn't really like that. + +Enhanced wxMimeTypesManager to read GNOME and KDE file ending +bindings to MIME types and icons. + +Corrected wxExecute to longer eat up all memory and crash under +certain circumstances (Karsten Ballueder). + +wxGTK no longer gives warnings if the application shows a dialog +before entering the main loop. + +Added string to long/ulong/float conversion routines and some +more string related things. + +Updated documentation for wxFile, wxFFile and their respective +stream classes. Documented some more stream classes. + +Improved wxHTML and its help system. Options dialog, better printing, +history index. Also implemented more (cite, definition lists, etc). + +Corrected wxRegion::GetBox(). + +Added wxNotebookSizer for combining notebooks and sizers. + +Added wxDir class. Useful as a replacement for wxFileGetFirst() +and wxFileGetNext(). + +Fixed Y2000 bug in file dialog (sic.) + +Added wxStopWatch class. + +wxBitmap now derives from wxGDIObject. + +Added inlined classes for 2D geometry calculations. + +wxSpinCtrl now has its own event, intercepted using EVT_SPINCTRL. + +The ODBC classes can now be configured at run-time if they +are to use forward-only cursors or not. + +Added wxDateTime class. The existing classes wxTime and wxDate +have been reimplemented and corrected using wxDateTime. + +Rewritten wxThread to have a flag controlling if the +thread will delete its C++ class itself ("delete this") or +if the main thread must delete the C++ class. + +Added TIFF reading code, PCX writing code. + +Minor compile and build fixes for different architectures. + +Added more flags to wxSizer for proportional sizing and +centering and alignment combination and a wxNotebookSizer. + +Added controls to wxToolBars (e.g. combobox) and DeleteTool. + +Fixed several problems with buffered streams. Added support for +setting the end-of-line mode (Mac,DOS,Unix) in wxTextOutputStream. + +Added code to send events from one thread to another and added +function to wake up idle system (needed for sending inter-thread +events). + +Corrected wrongly set flag in dialogs which broke its tab code. +Also corrected navigation on wxRadioBox. + +Corrected segfaults in wxGLCanvas and stupid race when using +several such canvasses. + +Some minor updates to wxSockets. Fixed timeout problem. + +Speed-up for new encoding related font code. Minor fixes. + +Changed wxListBox to send deferred events, i.e. events emitted by +the listbox won't get processed before the next idle message. + +More minor changes and fixes. + +Began work on a new dialog and resource editor (wxDesigner). + +*** 7st November '99: wxWidgets 2.1.11 released *** + +There is still an unresolved problem with bitmap to image +conversion on big-endian architectures (such as Solaris), +where color values get exchanged. I'd need help on this +one as I have no BE computer. + +Enlightenment has struck the majority of the developers and +they have chosen to use the Linux kernel numbering scheme +for wxWidgets from now on. This means that the next stable +release will be called wxWidgets 2.2.X, development snapshots +will be called 2.1.X. + +A lot of discussion has been wasted on how to maintain a +once released stable version. It was almost universally +agreed that only a commercial entity will have the motivation +($$$) to do that - so far there is no wxWidgets Inc. + +Support for GTK 1.0 has been dropped. This version has +been tested with GTK 1.2.3 and GTK 1.2.6 - it might +not work with some other versions. + +Rewritten the support for multiple-format Drag'n'Drop and +clipboard under both GTK and MSW. There are probably some +problems here and there left. + +wxListBox and wxChoice can now handle only either void +client data (which it will not delete on destruction) or +client data of the wxClientData type (which it will delete), +instead of both at the same time. The same will happen +to wxComboBox some time. Also, wxListBox can now sort its +items. + +Many build fixes for various platforms have been applied, +try again, poor AIX, HP-UX and *BSD users, but don't reckon +with immediate success. Actually, when using GNU compilers, +your chances are quite good. + +My rewrite of the wxWidgets underlying GTK widget +has turned scrolling including subwindows from barely +functional to pretty and fast. I also added scrolling +of foreign windows to wxScrolledWindow. + +Setting size hints for the window manager might work now. + +wxSocket and Co. have been improved up to the point of +calling it a rewrite. It works on wxMSW now too and +seems pretty stable, but testing is still welcome. + +The ODBC classes contributed by Remstar Inc. have been +overhauled (incl the sample) and have been tested with +all relevant SQL databases (even DBase). For that reason +I have reawakened the iODBC code from wxGTK 2.0 so you +can now use wxODBC from wxMSW and wxGTK. + +Several printing things fixed. More work needs to be done +here.. + +HTML widget and the wxWidgets' help system based upon +it have been reorganized and improved for easier use +from Python and C++. Also HTML printing has been added. + +wxSpinCtrl added. Like a wxSpinButton and a wxTextCtrl. + +Changed the behaviour of the popular new wxFileDialog to +not forget the once typed file name when changing the +directory. + +Implemented the wxSIMPLE_BORDER flag (simple black line +without shadow affect). + +Michael is writing a complete rewrite of the antiquated +wxGrid. This is still work-in-progress and might not make +it into wxWidgets 2.2, we'll see. Help would be welcome +to make that happen. + +Made wxMenu code lose less memory, also added wxMenu::Delete(). + +Added code to send wxActivateEvent to MDI windows. + +Vadim added configure things to compile wxWidgets without any +GUI library. This is probably work in progress. He'll also add +a wxFontEnumerator class and has enhanced wxFont to make use +of char-encodings. + +wxSlider, wxWindow, wxScrollBar now emit the correct events +for scrolling (like page up, line up etc) instead of just +"thumb-track" as before. + +Corrected Reparent() code, including the special case for +wxToolBar (as the toolbar sits in a different window than +normal windows). + +Corrected key accelerator code for toplevel child windows +and added support for more key combinations - pretty much +all, actually. + +Corrected cursor handling in a number of special cases. + +wxGLCanvas now waits until all expose events have been sent +and then emits its own redraw event. Also removed flicker +for wxGLCanvas and in some other places. + +A handler to read PCX file (in most variants) has been added. + +A number of problems with compressed and socket streams have +been solved. + +Changed behaviour of wxTextStream to make use of delimiters +and default to space as the standard C++ stream do. + +Changes to tab traversal code to better reflect MSW code. + +Corrected problems with wxGenericValidator and certain controls. + +Made default button action work in more cases. + +28th August '99: Ninth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released + +As the old makefile system didn't work, I trashed it and wrote +a new one - no more GNU. This, of course, caused a lot of people +to start sing their song of complaints - any change is a good +opportunity to complain, but the effect of the change is that +we now have shared library support on Linux and Solaris (and +probably others as well) and that the Linux shared library no +longer depends on libstdc++, so that we can finally create an +RPM that works on different Linux distributions. Also, the +Unix make system is now much simpler and directly mirrors its +Windows counterparts, making it easier to understand and maintain. +As it is independent of the various GNU tools, the requirements +for using CVS versions are also much less (any make, any compiler, +no other tools). + +Split RPMs into two, one for run-time requirements and one +for development (mostly headers). + +Addition of new layout classes that work like Java's, GTK's +or Qt`s - basically, you pack item in a box and let it tell +you how much space it needs. These class are called wxSizer +and I consider them a great addition as they make true cross- +platform dialogs a child's play and are very quick to write +and easy to read. Do consider using them. + +Rewritten all dialogs to make use of the new sizers. Also +added a new wxFileDialog like Win95 and replaced the generic +wxFontDialog with GTK's native font selection dialog - this +probably isn't perfect though. + +A few more fixes to wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, implemented +more options and modes like the wxMSW version. + +New handler for PNM files. Added CanRead() function to image +handlers, updates to GIF handler for preparing the new wxAnimation +class. We'll also get a PCX and hopefully a TIFF handler so +that we support all common general-purpose file formats I know +about. PhotoShop and PhotoPaint images are not general purpose. +I also tried to correct a wxImage bug in connection with big-endian +vs. little-endian problems, but I have no Sparc to actually test +this. + +Inclusion of wxMultiMedia. Can play most sound formats on GTK +and MSW and (using xanim on Unix and Win95's MM functions) +display a video in a wxWindow. This will probably be moved to +the core library. + +Small updates to socket code. The MSW version is still missing. + +Implemented wxBitmapDataObject class. + +Added wxFFileStream using FILE* instead if file descriptor. +Useful for creating a "cerr" like class as in normal C++. +Also added "endl" for use with wxTextStream and fixed a few +minor problems with buffered streams etc. + +Corrected Tabbing code in wxPanel and made it work with wxNotebook. + +Small cursor fixes in connection with text control. + +Added experimental wxWizard class. Work in progress. + +A few more minor fixes. + +6th August '99: Eight wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released + +The new makefile system is not able to produce shared libraries +on Unix with the exception of Linux - libtool is really great. +Therefore, the build system defaults to static libraries on +anything but Linux for now. + +Work in wxPen, wxBrush and wxDC to match wxMSW more exactly and +to implement missing feature etc. + +Reimplemented radio buttons. The first of a group of such buttons +is now marked by having the wxRB_GROUP style. + +Complete redesign of all stream classes, including tests for them +in the samples. + +Controls now send the same messages (or more importantly none if +changed programmatically) as per wxMSW. + +New implementation of wxSocket using an intermediate library called +GSocket. This will hopefully change in the future. + +Reworked in-place editing of wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl. + +Fixed bug reporting two refreshes when scrolling. + +Corrected bug in wxComboBox client data code. + +Corrected reported but unverified bug in BMP loading code. + +Added a few more methods to wxStaticBitmap. + +Integration of wxHTML code in the main library, including wxZIPStream, +wxFilesystem, wxHTMLHelpController and others. + +Added a wrapper for ffile() etc functions. + +Updates to wxDynamicLibrary. + +New documentation. + +New version of wxPython, of course. + +Fixed an undisclosed number of other bugs... + +25th June '99: Seventh wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released + +Many fixes to the new makefile system. The last version gave +immediate crashes on all Unices except Linux when linked +dynamically against an application. I reordered the object +files in the library as I guess that this was the cause. + +Added icons to message box. This also slightly killed the +layout so this needs to be changed again. + +wxGTK now chooses the best visual available on the display instead +of the default one. + +Fixed wxProgressDialog again. + +Some more corrections I forgot. + +New wxPython (includes new layout system and printing). + +15th June '99: Sixth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released + + +The biggest change is the completely rewritten configure/makefile +system using automake. The main argument for switching to automake +is that the resulting makefiles should be more portable so that +people can use the native make utilities instead of GNU make. The +new makefile system also handles dependencies correctly, allows for +shared-only compilation, can be invoked from any directory for +concurrent builds within one source tree, uses libtool for greater +shared-library platform support, has a functional "make uninstall", +works with GTK, Motif and WINE, conforms better to GNU standards +as far as configure option names are concerned and is easier to +maintain. + +Applied patches to compile wxGTK on OS/2. + +Configure checks for byte-order and new defines for byte swapping +with respect to the byte-order. Added test for this to typetest sample. +Also made BMP handler bigendian safe so that it should work on +Solaris and such. + +Small changes to basic drawing stuff: made wxColour actually compare +RGB values in the == operator, added new constructor to wxMask, +corrected initial background colour for DCs, it is now possible +to use a wxWindowDC etc before there is any window (this doesn't +make any sense, but it is what wxMSW does.) + +Added support for the PRIMARY SELECTION to the wxClipboard +class. + +Fixed redraw bug when scrolling window-less widgets out +of the visible area (actually a work-around for a GTK bug). + +Regrouped some samples, created new one for various versions +of the wxTextCtrl. + +Added wxWindow::Reparent() and wxFrame::MakeModal(). + +Improved handling of column width in wxListCtrl and made +this more compatible with the wxMSW version. Also removed +a bug from the wxImageList returning an off-by-one id for +added images. + +Fixed keyboard hotkeys and resizing for wxMDIChildFrame +menu bars. + +Added flag to wxSplitterWindow to update its children's +sizes "live" instead of moving a XOR'ed bar around - this +is a resource-draining option. Also corrected cursors +in splitter window. + +New way to show "disabled" or greyed toolbar items. + +Rewrote parts of the tree ctrl to allow multiple selections +and variable size items (Sylvain). These new function do not +exist in the native Win32 tree control. + +Implemented global cursors and wxBusyCursor etc. Also removed +another cursor misbehaviour. + +Updated many parts of the documentation to reflect changes +in wxWidgets 2.1, wxPython and more exact description of +cross-platform issues as well as platform differences. + +Many other fixes, mainly by others... + +Further compile fixes for different architectures. + + + +25th May '99: Fifth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released + + + +This is mostly a bug-fix release. We are having funny +times to make wxGTK work well with different micro +versions of GTK 1.2 - which is very close to impossible. +All versions give warnings, although their number might +vary a lot. I use GTK 1.2.3 and only get warnings in +one sample (notebook) and that one is due to a bug in +GTK - some people using GTK 1.2.2 reported hundreds of warnings +getting spat out for what seems like no reason. + +This snapshot contains the beginnings of our merging of +headers, meaning that in the future all ports will +use the same headers and will share a lot more code. +We have taken this moment to reorganize some code and +hope to have eliminated much bad C++ code, as reported +primarily by SGI's compilers (Vadim Zeitlin). + +Rewritten char and key event propagation routines +to reflect documentation and do the same on wxGTK +as on wxMSW. If you are interested in ascii chars +and cursor key etc, intercept EVT_CHAR, if you +are interested in which key actually got pressed, +intercept EVT_KEYDOWN (Norbert Irmer). + +Control that are given -1 as their ID no longer +get arbitrary positive IDs assigned but arbitrary +negative IDs. This had caused some trouble with ID clashes. + +wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow no longer use the +wxScrollEvent, but the newly invented wxScrollWinEvent +so that no mixing up of events sent from wxSliders +or wxScrollbars placed in a wxWindow can occur. + +Added wxProgressDialog for use with long background +work such as printing. + +Added drawing sample and scrolling sample, both of +which show some misbehaviours... + +When drawing with the wxXOR logical mode, wxGTK now uses +GdkXOR (instead of GdkInvert) and when drawing in wxINVERT logical +mode, wxGTK now uses GdkInvert (as before). When you did some +rubberband dragging and you used wxXOR and a black pen, then +you should change wxINVERT. + +Applied more patches for SGI and HP-UX compilation. + +More updates for wxSockets (Guilhem Lavaux). Seems to be nearly +finished. + +You can now use threads within your GUI again. Well, +at least if you know what you are doing and you had a look +at the threads sample. + +wxGLCanvas updated so that it can share display lists +over several windows and to not exhibit any flicker. +(Norber Irmer). + +wxNotebook revamped so that its process of creation matches +wxMSW's more closely, also avoiding problems with wrong page +number. Added InsertPage() and the possibility to prevent +switching pages by intercepting the PAGE_CHANGING event. Also, +wxNotebooks now get shown even if all pages are empty. + +Added Activate() to wxMDIChildFrame (Russel). + +Improved wxSplitterWindow behaviour and visual feed-back when +given a minimal size etc (Bruce DeVisser). + +Minor updates to wxTreeCtrl, wxListBox, printing, wxClipboard, +wxString, wxThreads and many others. + +Also wxMSW got a big face-lift, not to mention the new wxMac release... + + + +11th May '99: Fourth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released + + +This is mostly a bug-fix release. This affects wxSocket, wxThread, +and a few GUI classes. Also more work has been done and window +placement and decorations etc. which we hope to have finished now. + +Applied patches for FreeBSD and SGI compilation (not yet finished). + +Updated wxPython to beta 9. + +Made wxGLCanvas work again - strangely it flickers now... + +wxStaticText is currently broken with GTK 1.2.2 (which I don't +yet have and thus could not fix). Also, scrolling subwindows +(although much improved including a sample) doesn't work perfectly +due to a bug in GTK 1.2.1 (probably 1.2.2 as well). + +Added wxStaticLine. + +Note that the next release might bring about changes to keyboard +handling and scroll event intercepting from wxScrolledWindow. + +By and large much of the code has stabilized and won't be much +*** different in the final wxWidgets 2.1 release. Please test as *** +much as you can. + +The next release will have a new build system. + + + +3rd May '99: Third wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released + + +Updated INSTALL.txt and SYMBOLS.txt. + +Support for Unicode is now almost complete. Most samples work in +both Unicode and non-Unicode mode. Thanks to Ove Kaaven and Vadim. + +Internal changes required for wxOLE and addition of a very experimental +wxOLE code section using GNOME's Bonobo library (from GNOME's CVS). + +New version of wxPython that works with the wxGTK 2.1. +This now includes a very comprehensive test/demo suite. Thanks to +Robin Dunn, Harm v.d. Heijden and others. Beware of the hang-man... + +More fine tuning of focus handling and GUI widgets. + +Complete rewrite of wxSocket classes (still experimental). +Thanks to Guilhem Lavaux. + +wxMenuBar supports underlined shortcuts like Windows does, +indicated by a leading & character. wxMenus now have hotkeys +such as in wxXt and wxMSW. + +Rewritten MDI subsystem. + +Corrections and additions to the printing framework including +a paper type database (Julian). + +Several controls now support more style flags for modifying +look (and feel) of the controls and windows. + +New implementation of idle handlers, which now send an idle +event only once after the event queue has been emptied (which +is what happens in the wxMSW port as well), not regularly. +This no longer forces wxGTK applications to sleep (by having +to call usleep()) in idle time - giving more CPU slices to +the application if desired. + +wxGLCanvas (the OpenGl for wxWidgets) now accepts keyboard input. + +The usual number of compile and bug fixes from all involved. + + + +21st April '99: Second wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released + + +Added much code for Unicode support. Still experimental, but looks very +cool - thanks to Ove Kaaven and Vadim Zeitlin. If you are very brave, then +you can compile wxGTK with "configure --with-unicode". + +More updates on the dreaded issue of making frames and dialogs impossible +to resize etc. + +Drag and Drop works now under GTK 1.2 - at least basically when dragging +and dropping text. The API is not entirely fixed yet but seems quite +good now. Support for different actions (copy/move/link/..) still missing. +I also removed support for GTK 1.0 Drag and Drop - this is just broken +and unusable in GTK 1.0 and I don't want to fix it. + +I now embed the JPEG library and handlers for JPEG and GIF have been +added to the existing PNG and BMP (and XPM for GTK version only). In +the future, the RPMs will not contain these libraries but depend on +the image libraries to be preinstalled whereas the source *.tgz will +ship with everything that is needed for wxGTK so that no downloading +of ten image libs will be required - also avoiding problems with ten +different kinds of libJPEG-6.0.1.7.IV beta 7. We also updated the +PNG code to the newest PNG version. + +wxImage now makes use of the fast rendering code as provided by +GTK 1.2 whenever possible. This should mean a speed-up for graphics +heavy apps. + +Many fixes all over. Also should compile with GTK 1.2.0 as opposed +to only with GTK 1.2.1 now. + +wxPython still doesn't compile, I think. + + + +12th April '99: First wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released + + +This is the first developers' version of wxWidgets 2.1 for GTK. It's main +new feature is that it supports GTK 1.2 (as opposed to GTK 1.0) which +will make development within the GNOME environment a lot easier. + +Apart from the move to GTK 1.2 and the changes (some major) that were +required as part of that work, enhancement or corrections have been +made to many of the non-GUI classes and functions (such as wxClipboard, +wxThread, wxSocket, wxConfig) +and a few GUI classes (accelerators in menus, listbox always with +scrollbar, wxFrame honours Motif Window Manager hints, corrected tab +traversal for broken GTK 1.0 widgets). + +There have been slight changes to the printing dialogs and their +setup data (which might break apps using this code in previous +versions). Also, a bug concerning printing white has been fixed +(actually not tested). + +Although this is only the first 2.1 snapshot, there is little reason not +to use it as many bugs from version 2.0 have been corrected. There are, +of course, still a few problem left with GTK 1.2 (some of which relate +to bugs in GTK). + +I think I preserved backward compatibility with GTK 1.0 and if not it +should be easy to fix - but mostly I don't care. + +Drag'N'Drop is currently completely broken. Also, wxPython currently +doesn't compile with this release. The OpenGL canvas still seems to +work. + +Major targets for the final release (still a long way): a new configure +system, support JPEG and GIF formats, wxHTML, super-duper frame layout +stuff, syntax-highlighting editor, possibly Unicode, possibly some GNOME +goodies, possibly world domination. + + + +*** 5th March '99: wxWidgets 2.0 released *** + + +This is the final version of wxWidgets 2.0 for GTK. The versions for +Windows and Motif (and also this version) are available form Julian Smart's +site. The Mac version is still under development. + + + +*** 19th February '99: wxWidgets 2.0 beta 5 *** + + +This is the fifth beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes and +updates for documentation. + +Applied compile fixes for Solaris (different flavours and compilers). + + + +*** 12th February '99: wxWidgets 2.0 beta 4 *** + + +This is the fourth beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes and +updates for documentation. + +Tracked a few more cases, where the behaviour between wxMSW and wxGTK +differed. This was the case for closing a dialog or frame as well as +for clearing a device context or setting its background colour and some +other minor details. + +Most standard dialogs have been face-lifted a little. + +Implemented default buttons for GTK. + +Fixed many bugs. You guessed it. + + + +*** 29th January '99: wxWidgets 2.0 beta 3 *** + + +This is the third beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes. + +There is one field where we haven't been able to fix the API yet, and that +it Drag'n'Drop. This is mostly due to the fact that DnD in +GTK 1.0 is hardly usable and much different from GTK 1.2 which means that +we have to design a common API for Windows, GTK 1.0 and GTK 1.2. Although +we are trying to prevent that, it is possible that wxWidgets 2.0 (being +based on GTK 1.0) will not have proper DnD support. + +The major changes are that tool tips have been added, threads have been completely +rewritten, the ODBC code has been updated and improved, the socket code works +better now. + +Classes for managing MIME-types under Windows and Unix have been added. + +There is now a wxGLCanvas class for OpenGl/Mesa for the Windows, GTK and +Motif ports. Come see the penguins flying... + +Documentation has received a big face lift - it now covers nearly all the +classes, at least. + +The usual amount of bug fixes. Countless. + +A few member functions of wxString have been renamed. + +For those who are using the ever-so-popular wxImage class (which +now available on Motif and Windows as well) in 8-bit mode: wxGTK +now creates a color cube upon start-up in 8-bit mode and thus the +generation of bitmaps from images has been speeded up 20 times. + +It is now possible to develop with wxGTK without having the GTK 1.0 header +files installed so that having the GTK 1.2 header files installed no longer +is any problem. We also provide RPMs for RedHat glibc 2 based systems, compiled +with egcs 1.1.1 on SuSE 6.0. Note that the RPM will not work in +SuSE 6.0 as SuSE decided to ship 6.0 with a broken GTK+ package. + + + +*** 6th January '99: wxWidgets 2.0 beta 2 *** + + +This is the second beta release and contains it mostly build and +bug fixes. Threads work well now on (up-to-date) glibc 2 systems, +commercial Unices and Windows. + + + +*** 20th December '98: wxWidgets 2.0 beta 1 *** + + +This is the first beta release and we have used the time before +this release to tidy up some parts of the API. All releases from +now on will be source code compatible but we reserve binary compatibility +for the final release. Because of this, the actual library name of +the beta version will not be 2.0 but 1.99, so that we prevent +conflicts with the final library later on. After the final release +we'll only fix bugs so that there will be no reason to link any +program statically with wxGTK. + +We changed the name of the shared library to include the version of +the GTK used so that no conflicts emerge with simultaneous +versions of wxWidgets for GTK 1.0 and for GTK 1.2 and so on. + +As you can see, we have not moved to GTK 1.1.X as the different +development versions are too different and buggy to be useful. We'll +wait for a stable GTK 1.2 release (hardly 1.2.0) and start porting +then. + +wxGTK now compiles without problems on anything between gcc 2.7.2 on +Linux-x86 and egcs 1.1 on Linux-Alpha and egcs 1.0 on Sparc. This isn't +as easy as it sounds... + +Available form this site are the Python bindings of wxWidgets. +Thanks to Robin Dunn for this tremendous contribution. +Tkinter is dead, Java is dead, wxPython rules! That's all there is to say. + +Although only a few new classes have been added, many have been polished +up substantially, the most visible are wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl and +all classes related to printing. Also the DialogEd now functions +much better than before. Drag'n'Drop is functional but probably won't +be perfect until we use GTK 1.2 and its much improved DnD features. + +wxClipboard has arrived and works for text. Other formats have not been +tested carefully yet. + +wxMiniFrame has been added which might be useful for docking toolbars +etc. Someone has already done that for the MSW port and we hope to +include his very nice work later. + +wxDirDialog has been added (thanks to Harm von der Heijden). + +The entire "tab traversal" system for moving from item to item in +a dialog has been rewritten. It now completely overrides the +not-so-well-done GTK native tab system. + +Quite much has been done to improve the wxImage class, which is now +available in the Windows port as well. Very useful for anything related +to image processing. wxGTK also uses this class internally e.g. to scale +bitmaps when the scale factor (e.g. zooming) of a drawing context +has changed. + +Some of the small and handy classes (wxDate, wxTime, wxVariant) have +received a face-lift. wxList has been rewritten to make it possible +to write type-safe lists. The collection of utility functions (wxFileFind etc) +has been revamped and cleaned-up (thanks to Vadim Zeitlin, who has also +greatly enhanced many basic classes, ranging wxString to the debug and +log system). + +We removed some constructors of GDI classes (such as wxPen, wxColour) +which took a pointer as a parameter. This lead to many errors among users +resulting in unexpected behaviour so it was decided to remove these +constructors. + +As the number of users and the number of test programs and samples +is steadily rising the core classes of wxWidgets for MSW and GTK 1.0 +can be considered to be very stable if not outright bug-free. I haven't +seen a crash for weeks now and wxWidgets' internal debug features also +have improved every week, making stepping-through with a debugger almost +completely unnecessary as the library reports possible errors itself +(when in debug mode). +