X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/518cef04707760634dd3937c3a928bbc2db24836..77c8efc8c37da6d6a5e2e8022d21d1cd7d76371d:/docs/changes.txt diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt index d0ddc372b8..ed1b5ad72b 100644 --- a/docs/changes.txt +++ b/docs/changes.txt @@ -10,6 +10,14 @@ INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.8.x the "Changes Since wxWidgets 2.8" section of the manual, please read it if the explanation here is too cryptic. +Table of contents of this section: + + - Unicode-related changes + - wxODBC and contrib libraries removal + - Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors + - Build system changes + - Major new features in this release + Unicode-related changes ----------------------- @@ -470,6 +478,20 @@ Changes in behaviour visible to end users now the control scrolls if too much text is added. +Build system changes +-------------------- + +- In wxMSW makefile builds, "_x64" is used instead of "_amd64" when compiling + for this architecture in the architecture-specific paths and library names. + TARGET_CPU can still be specified as "amd64" for compatibility but "x64" + should be used now. + +- Official wxMSW binaries, i.e. those built with OFFICIAL_BUILD=1, built with + MSVC now include the version of the compiler used and the architecture if + it's not the default "x86". E.g. a library built with MSVC 10 for amd64 is + called "wxbase294ud_vc110_amd64.dll" now. + + Major new features in this release ---------------------------------- @@ -502,7 +524,104 @@ Major new features in this release was added. -2.9.4: +2.9.5: (released ????-??-??) +---------------------------- + +INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.9.4: + +- The locale is not set automatically on startup any more, unlike in the + previous 2.9 versions (but like in 2.8). Use wxLocale (preferred) or call + wxApp::SetCLocale() from your overridden wxApp::Initialize() to restore the + old behaviour. + +All: + +- Add wxEvtHandler::CallAfter() method for asynchronous method calls. +- Add support for symlinks to wxFileName (David Hart). +- Add wxDIR_NO_FOLLOW flag for wxDir traversal (David Hart). +- Allow testing for symlink/FIFO/socket existence in wxFileName (David Hart). +- Many important bug fixes in wxFileSystemWatcher (David Hart). +- Add new wxFSW_EVENT_ATTRIB and wxFSW_EVENT_UNMOUNT flags (David Hart). +- Add separate read/written bytes counters and per-direction NOWAIT and WAITALL + flags to wxSocket (Rob Bresalier). +- Add wxDir::Close() method (Silverstorm82). +- Fix compilation of wxHash{Map,Set} with g++ 4.7 (Nathan Ridge). +- Fix posting large amounts of data in wxHTTP (Platonides). +- Add wxFile::ReadAll() for consistency with wxFFile. +- Add wxDateTime::DiffAsDateSpan() and wxDateSpan::GetTotalMonths() (jonasr). +- Add wxVector::assign() (Jonas Rydberg). +- Added Nepali translation (Him Prasad Gautam). + +All (GUI): + +- Add support for wxAuiNotebook to XRC (Steven Lamerton). +- Add support for wxRibbonBar and related controls to XRC (Armel Asselin). +- Add wxBITMAP_PNG() macro similar to wxBITMAP() but for PNG files. +- Add new wxSimplebook class. +- Support hexadecimal numbers in wxSpinCtrl. +- Respect window max size in wxBoxSizer (Nathan Ridge). +- Add support for searching in wxWebView for MSW and GTK (Allonii). +- Add generic wxFileSystem support to wxWebView with + wxWebViewFSHandler (Nick Matthews). +- Add possibility to hide and show again wxRibbonBar pages (wxBen). +- Add wxRibbonBar pages highlighting (wxBen). +- Add expand/collapse button to wxRibbonBar (rakeshthp). +- Fix item data access in wxDataViewListCtrl (Kry). +- Fix problem with floating maximized AUI panes (Laurent Poujoulat). +- Add owned client data support to wxRibbonButtonBar. Notice that the client + data now must be set using the SetItemClient{Data,Object}() methods and not + when inserting the button (Laurent Poujoulat). +- Add wxBitmapButton::NewCloseButton(). +- Add wxTextEntry::SelectNone() (troelsk). +- Restore the original wxGrid col/row size when unhiding it (Michael Richards). +- Fix text origin and extent computations in wxSVGFileDC (Neil Chittenden). +- Show tooltips for the too long items in generic wxTreeCtrl (Steven Houchins). +- Add wxStyledTextCtrl::AnnotationClearLine() (sentieshar). +- Add support for background-color style to span element in wxHTML (gevorg). +- Add limited support for CSS styles for tags too in wxHTML (gevorg). +- Add "inherit" to XRC tag (Steffen Olszewski, Gero Meßsysteme GmbH). +- Add support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style to wxScrolled<> (Catalin Raceanu). +- Add wxTreeCtrl::EnableBellOnNoMatch() (Jonathan Dagresta). +- Implement incremental search in wxGenericListCtrl (Jonathan Dagresta). +- Make TAB behaviour in wxGrid more flexible (Fulvio Senore). +- Add missing styles support to wxWindow XRC hanlder (Steffen Olszewski). +- Allow specifying all wxFlexGridSizer parameters in XRC (Steffen Olszewski). +- Close wxLogWindow automatically if it's the last remaining top level window. +- Implement clipping for wxSVGFileDC (Steve Benbow). +- Added wxDirCtrl::GetPath() (troelsk). +- Added wxEVT_COMMAND_DIRCTRL_CHANGED event (troelsk). +- Added wxControl::GetSizeFromTextSize() (Manuel Martin). +- Optionally allow showing tooltips for disabled ribbon buttons (wxBen). +- Add wxTL_NO_HEADER style to wxTreeListCtrl (robboto). + +wxGTK: + +- Allow building wxGTK3 with Broadway backend (Kolya Kosenko). +- Provide native implementation of wxNotificationMessage using libnotify. +- Generate clipboard events for wxComboBox and not only wxTextCtrl. +- Improve drag-and-drop of URLs. +- Make key event handling consistent with wxMSW (John Rails). +- Fix printing in landscape mode (Marcin Wojdyr). +- Fix path selection in wx{File,Dir}Dialog with GTK+ > 2.24.10 (obfuscated). + +wxMSW: + +- Fix setting colours for the text part of wxComboBox (Igor Korot). +- Add support for CURRENCY and SCODE types to OLE Automation helpers (PB). +- Allow setting LCID used by wxAutomationObject (PB). +- Better support for SAFEARRAY in OLE Automation code (PB). +- Fix calling Iconize(false) on hidden top level windows (Christian Walther). +- Don't send any events from wxSpinCtrl::SetRange() even if the value changed. +- Display system drag images during drag and drop if available (PeterO). + +wxOSX/Cocoa: + +- Implement image support in wxNotebook (Malcolm MacLeod). +- Add support for button mnemonics (joostn). +- Implemented wxTextCtrl::SetDefaultStyle(). + + +2.9.4: (released 2012-07-09) ------ INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.9.3 @@ -522,9 +641,12 @@ All: - Implement wxThread::SetConcurrency() for POSIX systems (Igor Korot). - Fix deadlock due to too many events in Unix console apps (Lukasz Michalski). - Added wxDir::GetNameWithSep(). +- Allow unloading wxPluginLibrary objects in any order (manyleaves). +- Fix passing strings with embedded NULs in wxThreadEvents (Steffen Olszewski). All (GUI): +- Add wxGrid::Render() for printing wxGrid (John Roberts). - Added strike-through support to wxFont (Igor Korot). - Add support for horizontal mouse wheel events to MSW and GTK (Lauri Nurmi). - Fix infinite loop in wxHtmlEasyPrinting when trying to page break images @@ -539,6 +661,8 @@ All (GUI): - Send wxEVT_UPDATE_UI for wxRibbonButtonBar and wxRibbonToolBar (Emilien Kia). - Add InsertXXXButton() to wxRibbonButtonBar and wxRibbonToolBar (Emilien Kia). - Allow enabling/disabling and toggling tools in wxRibbonToolBar (Emilien Kia). +- Add wxRibbonBar::DeletePage() and ClearPages() methods (Emilien Kia). +- Implement support for extension button to wxRibbonPanel (Emilien Kia). - Fix multiple item selection in generic wxTreeCtrl (Igor Korot). - Implement wxMenuBar::IsEnabledTop() for all major ports (Igor Korot). - Implement best size calculation for report mode wxListCtrl. @@ -557,15 +681,23 @@ All (GUI): - Added pixel font size capability to wxTextAttr and wxRichTextCtrl. - Fully implement wxStyledTextCtrl::PositionToXY() (troelsk). - Added wxDataViewListCtrl::{Set,Get}ItemData(). +- Added wxDataViewListCtrl::GetItemCount() (Kry). +- Added support for Korean Johab and Vietnamese encodings (jank9201). +- Fix off by 1 bug with setting font size in points in wxHTML (gevorg). +- Fix return value of wxGenericListCtrl::InsertColumn() (Sebastian Walderich). GTK: +- Added support for GTK+ 3 (John Chain and Paul Cornett) - Implement support for wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT (Armel Asselin). +- Implement stippled/hatched pens/brushes in wxGraphicsContext (Kit Bishop). - Fix wxNotebook best size calculation. - Implement wxDirDialog::Create() and wxFileDialog::Create() (vinayakgarg). - Fix const methods display in assert dialog (vinayakgarg). - Implement native tab art for wxAUI (Jens Lody and Teodor Petrov). - Fix pasting large amounts of text (Bradley Hawkins). +- Show gstreamer errors if wxMediaCtrl fails to play file. +- Fix wxGridCellEnumEditor mouse handling (Fulvio Senore). MSW: @@ -583,7 +715,10 @@ MSW: - Fix handling of composite windows in wxToolTip (Armel Asselin). - Add VT_I8 support to wxAutomationObject (PB). - Fix wxListbook size calculations to avoid spurious scrollbars. -- Fix non-GUI code compilation with wxUSE_UNICODE_UTF8 (Kolya Kosenko). +- Fix code compilation with wxUSE_UNICODE_UTF8 (Kolya Kosenko). +- Fix crash in wxTreeCtrl when calling GetSelection() from selection changed + event handler under Vista and later (sbrowne). +- Fix text extent computation in wxGraphicsContext (juria90). OSX: