X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/750cefbca2741b1be65adcd5480dd85a2d049a6c..a2f10a176876b90966043da3523b6025b233cb9b:/docs/changes.txt diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt index b499a9ace9..ddea112cbf 100644 --- a/docs/changes.txt +++ b/docs/changes.txt @@ -1,5 +1,122 @@ -wxWindows 2 Change Log ----------------------- +---------------------------- +wxWindows 2.5/2.6 Change Log +---------------------------- + +INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x +================================ + +OTHER CHANGES +============= + +2.5.0 +----- + +All: + +- added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski) +- 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 +- added wxArray::SetCount() +- wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding + by default in Unicode mode +- bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed +- added wx/math.h (John Labenski) + +wxBase: + +- added Watcom makefiles + +All GUI ports: + +- added alpha channel support to wxImage +- added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames +- added wxSplitterWindow handler to XRC +- added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski) +- added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski) +- implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber) +- improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke) +- fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem +- 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) +- 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 + +Unix: + +- fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version +- fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled + +wxGTK: + +- added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss) +- added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build +- fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams) +- made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace +- fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and + window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN +- added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation +- fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to + be appended to filenames with no extension + +wxMSW: + +- possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson) +- 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 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) + +wxMotif: + +- made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still + does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog + documentation for a detailed explanation +- implemented wxWakeUpIdle +- for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd + xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled + with Motif 1.x compatibility +- implemented wxToggleButton +- wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style + instead of a sunken border + +wxUniv: + +- controls in toolbars now supported + +wxHTML: + +- added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look) + + +OLD CHANGES +=========== INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x ================================ @@ -14,6 +131,10 @@ INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in 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 + (see the documentation) useful. + wxBase: @@ -45,7 +166,6 @@ wxBase: must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override the default assert handling. - All (GUI): ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically @@ -87,7 +207,7 @@ All (GUI): - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code if you derived any classes from it -- wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to +- wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but @@ -112,12 +232,15 @@ All (GUI): wxMSW: ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more - but is created as part of the build process under lib//wx/include + but is created as part of the build process under lib//wx where is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore, xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder - class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your - make/project files. + class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your + make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now + use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll) + where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version + is only present for the DLLs builds. - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style to avoid it @@ -164,11 +287,50 @@ wxThread and related classes: OTHER CHANGES ============= +2.4.0 +----- + +wxMSW: + +- fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString() + +2.3.4 +----- + +All: + +- added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.) +- added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin) +- fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek() + +Unix (Base/GUI): + +- minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1 +- don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output +- shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux) + +wxGTK: +- Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support. +- Addition of native frame site grip. + +wxX11: +- Unicode support through Pango library. + +wxMSW: + +- fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP +- added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl + +wxHTML: + +- fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build + 2.3.3 ----- wxBase: +- building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings) - 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 @@ -179,11 +341,11 @@ wxBase: 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) - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini) - added wxEXPLICIT macro +- IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding). + Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed +- debug new/free implementations made thread-safe Unix (Base/GUI): @@ -208,7 +370,8 @@ All (GUI): 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, GIF 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 @@ -222,19 +385,24 @@ All (GUI): - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search +- wxMessageOutput class added - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash table fills up - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4 -- Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do - cleanup. +- Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup. - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW (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) wxMSW: - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP +- fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2 - 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() @@ -244,6 +412,7 @@ wxMSW: - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText - improvements to wxWindows applications behaviour when the system colours are changed +- choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it) @@ -262,12 +431,17 @@ wxMSW: - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox - default button handling is now closer to expected - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works +- disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK) - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register +- wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was + provided in wxFontData +- Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment. +- Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8. wxGTK: @@ -275,7 +449,7 @@ 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. +- 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 @@ -283,6 +457,7 @@ wxGTK: - implemented wxChoice::Delete() - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott) - made internal GC pool dynamically growable +- added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support wxMotif: @@ -294,6 +469,19 @@ wxMotif: - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly +wxX11: + +- added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten) +- first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working) + +wxMac: + +- Many improvements + +wxOS2: + +- First alpha-quality release + wxHTML: - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines