X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/4488a1d33266555c47bd3ca72cca6e20c67ab509..9fcdcfbca2f04083c9bd3f79338c872e2d9d6f37:/docs/changes.txt diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt index 7eabf9bc39..83dc10cde4 100644 --- a/docs/changes.txt +++ b/docs/changes.txt @@ -39,6 +39,14 @@ changes: bit text, the new wxIPC_UTF8TEXT format is used for transferring wxStrings. +wxODBC library removal +---------------------- + +wxODBC library was unmaintained since several years and we couldn't continue +supporting it any longer so it was removed. Please use any of the other open +source ODBC libraries in the future projects. + + Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -66,6 +74,10 @@ Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors - WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 doesn't exist any more, please update your code if you still relied on features deprecated since version 2.4 +- wxDC classes hierarchy has changed, if you derived any classes from wxDC you + need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and + uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours. + - Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break @@ -121,6 +133,11 @@ Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments. +- wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they can't be + implemented correctly any longer because automatically generated ids are not + necessarily allocated consecutively any more. Use GetChildren() to find the + next/previous control sibling instead. + Deprecated methods and their replacements ----------------------------------------- @@ -147,7 +164,9 @@ Major new features in this release All: +- Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen) - Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe) +- Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications - Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen) - Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr). - Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi). @@ -176,11 +195,17 @@ All (Unix): All (GUI): +- Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames() - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty). +- Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications +- Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect() - Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron). - Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse). - Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron). - Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage(). +- Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov) +- Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid) +- Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid) - Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid) - Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II) - New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr) @@ -213,7 +238,8 @@ All (GUI): behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions. - Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance. -- Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren() (Szczepan Holyszewski) +- Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren(). (Szczepan Holyszewski) +- Added parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler. wxGTK: @@ -237,6 +263,7 @@ wxMac: - Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs). - Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox). - Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz). +- Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale wxMSW: @@ -244,6 +271,7 @@ wxMSW: - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized. - wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich). - Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon +- Fix centering wxFileDialog wxX11: @@ -251,6 +279,33 @@ wxX11: - Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart). +2.8.8 +----- + +All (GUI): + +- Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling() + + +2.8.7 +----- + +All: + +- Fixed bug with default proxy destruction in wxURL (Axel Gembe). + +wxMSW: + +- Correct (harmless) warnings given for forward-declared DLL-exported classes + by mingw32 4.2 (Tim Stahlhut). + +wxGTK: + +- Added gtk.window.force-background-colour wxSystemOptions option to work around + a background colour bug in the gtk-qt theme under KDE. +- Implemented wxGetClientDisplayRect() correctly for wxGTK and X11-based ports. + + 2.8.6 -----