X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/7509fa8caa43a1327175dd5fa8b7caf6b647e81b..93c4157c6cf8603eaba7ebbbc3b1e7bd303d8241:/docs/changes.txt diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt index 6a1be269f6..3fa95a23e6 100644 --- a/docs/changes.txt +++ b/docs/changes.txt @@ -22,6 +22,18 @@ wxBase: by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them +- wxCondition now must be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class + documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was + unfortunately needed as the old class didn't behave correctly in all cases + +- small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation + +- unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed + from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which + could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from + a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change + is not supposed to have any effects on valid code) + All (GUI): - the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically @@ -57,6 +69,14 @@ All (GUI): - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes +- WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events, + they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones + +- the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the + parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this + from happening + + wxMSW: - build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more @@ -74,6 +94,14 @@ wxMSW: - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the previously selected one instead of replacing it +- wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not + return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has + never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow) + +- wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file + anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW + + Unix ports: - You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of @@ -90,34 +118,52 @@ OTHER CHANGES wxBase: +- wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram) - 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) - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled - after STL hash_map + after (non standard) STL hash_map - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding +- fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2 +- added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor (use of wxTheFontMapper is now + deprecated) Unix (Base/GUI): - wxWindows 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 All (GUI): +- it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a + small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class +- 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 - significantly improved native font support - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe wxHashTable - added IFF image handler - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2 -- support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage (TIFF and ICO formats) +- support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats) - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott) - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh) +- added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott) +- added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method + for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott) +- added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney) +- added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() +- Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent +- Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator wxMSW: @@ -125,6 +171,7 @@ wxMSW: - 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 +- 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 @@ -136,7 +183,12 @@ wxMSW: recursion any more - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more +- wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now +- Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL +- Multiline labels in buttons are now supoprted (simply use "\n" in the label) +- Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it + has the capture before release it. wxGTK: @@ -144,6 +196,13 @@ wxGTK: - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=') +- 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) +- fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates +- implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks + (unlike thread work) +- implemented wxChoice::Delete() wxHTML: