X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/43b5058d590c7acf58e5f75ec015e717d03830a2..16d38102e8ad5534d185cc532b9aa8077a75e0a4:/docs/changes.txt?ds=inline diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt index 5e2203e7e6..976dfc06b8 100644 --- a/docs/changes.txt +++ b/docs/changes.txt @@ -1,11 +1,263 @@ wxWindows 2 Change Log ---------------------- -2.1.14 +2.3.2 +----- + +wxBase: + +- wxRegEx class added +- wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber) +- more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with + glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s + capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script. + +All (GUI): + +- support for virtual list control added +- column images in report mode of the list control +- wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither) +- wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK) +- polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda) +- fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output + +wxHTML: + +- new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes + to tags parsing +- added support for animated GIFs + +2.3.1 +----- + +wxBase: + +- Fixes for gcc 3.0 +- Fixed new charset detection code +- ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans) +- Added ODBC date support to wxVariant +- Added wxDir::Traverse +- Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class +- Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams, + so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary + +All (GUI): + +- Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables +- Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the + user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to + push on a custom event handler for example) +- Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and + GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl +- Added wxSingleInstanceChecker +- Improvements to Tex2RTF +- Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls +- Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not + first-time saved +- Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp +- Various wxXML enhancements +- Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow +- Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp +- Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt() + instead of GetId() +- Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid +- Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy + +wxMSW: + +- Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their + accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere +- Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control, + alt or shift) now work +- Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added +- Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added +- Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop() +- Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer + wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones +- Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed +- Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size +- Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug +- We now send iconize events +- 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 + in wxDC +- Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI + child frame styles are honoured + +wxGTK: + +- Fixed slider rounding bug +- Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding() +- We now send iconize events +- Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook + GetSelection() results + +2.3.0 +----- + +wxBase: + +- fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library +- wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories +- wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott) +- wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz) +- wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø) +- wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed +- wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs +- wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and + detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly + cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library. + +All (GUI): + +- new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter) +- wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed +- wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added +- FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values +- new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images +- added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap + (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of + wxImage methods and ctor) +- ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL +- ODBC documentation complete!! +- ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete +- ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested +- ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans) +- ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use + +wxMSW: + +- threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen) +- fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling +- it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers + other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime + +wxGTK: + +- added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix + +wxHTML: + +- mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup +- visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController + +2.2.0 +----- + +wxBase: + +- Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists +- wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=() +- Fixes for wxCmdLineParser +- Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis +- Completed Czech translations +- Some stream corrections +- added missing consts to wxPoint operators +- wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes +- wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist +- small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample + +All (GUI): + +- wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and + flicker-free dragging is now possible +- Added wxPrinter::GetLastError +- Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem +- Paper names now translated +- wxGrid fixes +- Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in + wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox) +- Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show + error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open + File dialog. +- Corrected Baltic font encoding handling +- wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP + writing code +- wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented +- Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample +- wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling + wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug + +wxMSW: + +- wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately. + This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for + backward compatibility, please set + wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h +- wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events +- wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls +- wxColour now accepts both grey and gray +- BC++ DLL compilation fixed +- Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation +- Fixed submenu accelerator bug +- Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have + the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed) +- Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed +- fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame +- wxFrame restores focus better +- Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to + frames anddialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise + (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow) +- wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue +- Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called. +- wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct + sizes can be different on different versions of Windows) +- wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW +- fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again +- fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before + +wxGTK: + +- Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt. + +wxMotif: + +- Small compilation fixes + +Documentation: + +- wxCaret documented + +2.1.16 +------ + +wxBase: + +All (GUI): + +wxMSW: + +- Various bug fixes +- Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help + files. This works under VC++ only +- Modal dialog handling improved +- Printer dialog now modal + +wxGTK: + +- Various bug fixes + +wxMotif: + +- Various bug fixes + +2.1.15 ------ +Documentation: + +- Added docs/tech for technical notes + +File hierarchy: + +- Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors + the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it + wxBase: +- wxSocket support - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still available but strongly deprecated) with many new features - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers @@ -40,13 +292,17 @@ all (GUI): MIME types if available (Unix only) - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader) - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution) -- PCX files can now be written (24 bit only so far) +- PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits) - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD) - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper for dealing with convertions between different encodings, charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML +- wxDragImage class added +- samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help + controllers, as well as native help +- moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib wxMSW: @@ -62,6 +318,8 @@ wxMSW: - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in Unix ports - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing +- VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent +- wxSetCursorEvent added wxGTK: @@ -72,12 +330,14 @@ wxGTK: wxMotif: - wxMenu::Enable works +- wxToolBar bugs fixed +- OGL samples made to work again wxHTML: - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController, including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog - and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster + and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search splitted into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller - added support for charsets and tag