X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/32923e21c78558f646cc1ea417c90cb563db6fb3..c82be69b51b8f8aabb5bd667b063dba399c6d894:/docs/changes.txt diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt index d991952289..a77b61aa77 100644 --- a/docs/changes.txt +++ b/docs/changes.txt @@ -1,21 +1,552 @@ ----------------------------- -wxWindows 2.5/2.6 Change Log ----------------------------- +------------------------ +wxWidgets 2.5 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 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 + 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. +- 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 wxWidgets +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 wxWidgets + 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 +- 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) +- fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters (RN) + +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 + +wxCOCOA: + +- Added UNICODE layer for OSX so that you can build wxWidgets in UNICODE mode in OSX 10.2 (and possibly lower) with wxMAC and wxCOCOA (RN) +- Fixed so that wxCOCOA runs in 10.2 (and possibly lower) (RN) + +wxMac: + +- Fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX (RN) +- Added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock (RN) +- Added UNICODE layer for OSX so that you can build wxWidgets in UNICODE mode in OSX 10.2 (and possibly lower) with wxMAC and wxCOCOA (RN) +- Made wxGetKeyState work with nearly all keys (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 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): + +- 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 +- 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: + +- implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul) + +wxHTML: + +- improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse) +-
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 +----- + +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 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: + +- wxWidgets 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 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) - 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 @@ -27,6 +558,21 @@ All: - 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: @@ -35,9 +581,13 @@ wxBase: All GUI ports: +- added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes +- 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 - 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) @@ -46,29 +596,12 @@ All GUI ports: - 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) -- changed to type-safe wxSizerItemList for wxSizer child items - Deprecated: - wxSizer::Remove( wxWindow* ) - - it does not function as Remove would usually be expected to - and destroy the window, use Detach instead - wxSizer::GetOption(), - wxSizer::SetOption() - - wxSizer 'option' parameter was renamed 'proportion' to better - reflect its action, use Get/SetProportion instead - wxKeyEvent::KeyCode() - - use GetKeyCode instead - wxList:: Number, First, Last, Nth - - use typesafe GetCount, GetFirst, GetLast, Item instead - wxNode:: Next, Previous, Data - - use typesafe Get* instead - wxListBase::operator wxList&() - - use typesafe lists instead -- Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so - far) +- 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 @@ -79,17 +612,55 @@ All GUI ports: 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 -- Speeded up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd) +- sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd) - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff) -- Wizard now validates as well as doing data transfer when - pressing Back or Next +- 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: @@ -102,33 +673,45 @@ wxGTK: - 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 SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2 +- 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 bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not workign with wxTR_MULTIPLE -- fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom compiler +- 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 -- all libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix - (for MinGW and Cygwin) -- When using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported - added - WXEXPORTDLL -- A wxEvtHandler object was not removed from wxPendingEvents on deletion. - wxPendingEventsLocker was being deleted in App before all wxEvtHandler - objects have been destroyed resulting in stale handler/lock - ptrs; fixed +- 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 so it no longer shows a thin and - sunken border under XP +- 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 + 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 +- you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder) wxMotif: @@ -151,9 +734,11 @@ wxUniv: 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
into the markup (Greg Chicares) +- wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker OLD CHANGES @@ -173,7 +758,7 @@ 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. @@ -376,7 +961,7 @@ wxBase: - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix -- memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri) +- memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth) - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled after (non standard) STL hash_map @@ -390,10 +975,10 @@ 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 @@ -405,7 +990,7 @@ 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 @@ -437,8 +1022,7 @@ All (GUI): (Rene Rivera). - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell whether a label edit was cancelled. -- added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor (use of wxTheFontMapper is now - deprecated) +- added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor wxMSW: @@ -447,11 +1031,11 @@ 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 @@ -640,7 +1224,7 @@ 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 @@ -910,7 +1494,7 @@ 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 @@ -1008,7 +1592,7 @@ 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: @@ -1336,7 +1920,7 @@ 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). @@ -1378,7 +1962,7 @@ 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.