X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/79144b8a47e93d03d136fd39cd730060930dec77..9c112555198f51fcec71106530cddba95a17f3dc:/docs/gtk/changes.txt diff --git a/docs/gtk/changes.txt b/docs/gtk/changes.txt index ec839030b8..cc2b07e78b 100644 --- a/docs/gtk/changes.txt +++ b/docs/gtk/changes.txt @@ -1,667 +1,4 @@ -25th October '99: My birthday, wxWindows 2.1.10 released - -Enlightment has struck the majority of the developers and -they have chosen to use the Linux kernel numbering scheme -for wxWindows from now on. This means that the next stable -release will be called wxWindows 2.2.X, development snapshots -will be called 2.1.X. - -A lot of discussion has been wasted on how to maintain a -once released stable version will be maintained. It was -almost universally agreed that only a commercial entity -will have the motivation ($$$) to do that - so far there -is no wxWindows Inc. - -Support for GTK 1.0 has been dropped. - -Many build fixes for various platforms have been applied, -try again, poor HP-UX and *BSD users, but don't reckon -with immediate success. - -My total rewrite of the wxWindows underlying GTK widget -has turned scrolling including subwindows from barely -functional to pretty and fast. - -wxSocket and Co. have been improved up to the point of -calling it a rewrite. It works on wxMSW now too and -seems pretty stable, but testing is still welcome. - -The ODBC classes contributed by Remstar Inc. have been -overhauled (incl the sample) and have been tested with -all relevant SQL databases (even DBase). For that reason -I have reawakened the iODBC code from wxGTK 2.0 so you -can now use wxODBC from wxMSW and wxGTK. - -Several printing things fixed. - -HTML widget and the wxWindows' help system based upon -it have been reorganized and improved for easier use -from Python and C++. - -wxSpinCtrl added. Like a wxSpinButton and a wxTextCtrl. - -Changed the beaviour of the popular new wxFileDialog to -not forget the once typed file name when changing the -directory. - -Implemented the wxSIMPLE_BORDER flag (simple black line -without shadow affect). - -Michael is writing a complete rewrite of the antiquated -wxGrid. This is still work-in-progress and might not make -it into wxWindows 2.2, we'll see. Help would be welcome -to make that happen. - -Made wxMenu code lose less memory, also added wxMenu::Delete(). - -Added code to send wxActivateEvent to MDI windows. - -Vadim added configure things to compile wxWindows without any -GUI library. This is probably work in progress. He'll also add -a wxFontEnumerator class and has enhanced wxFont to make use -of char-encodings. - -wxSlider, wxWindow, wxScrollBar now emit the correct events -for scrolling (like page up, line up etc) instead of just -"thumb-track" as before. - -Corrected bug in Reparent() code. - -A handler to read PCX file (in most variants) has been added. - -A number of problems with compressed and socket streams have -been solved. - -28th August '99: Ninth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released - -As the old makefile system didn't work, I trashed it and wrote -a new one - mo more GNU. This, of course, caused a lot of people -to start sing their song of complaints - any change is a good -opportunity to complain, but the effect of the change is that -we now have shared library support on Linux and Solaris (and -probably others as well) and that the Linux shared library no -longer depends on libstdc++, so that we can finally create an -RPM that works on different Linux distributions. Also, the -Unix make system is now much simpler and directly mirrors its -Windows counterparts, making it easier to understand and maintain. -As it is independent of the various GNU tools, the requirements -for using CVS versions are also much less (any make, any compiler, -no other tools). - -Split RPMs into two, one for run-time requirements and one -for developement (mostly headers). - -Addition of new layout classes that work like Java's, GTK's -or Qt`s - basically, you pack item in a box and let it tell -you how much space it needs. These class are called wxSizer -and I consider them a great addition as they make true cross- -platform dialogs a child's play and are very quick to write -and easy to read. Do consider using them. - -Rewritten all dialogs to make use of the new sizers. Also -added a new wxFileDialog like Win95 and replaced the generic -wxFontDialog with GTK's native font selection dialog - this -probably isn't perfect though. - -A few more fixes to wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, implemented -more options and modes like the wxMSW version. - -New handler for PNM files. Added CanRead() function to image -handlers, updates to GIF handler for preparing the new wxAnimation -class. We'll also get a PCX and hopefully a TIFF handler so -that we support all common general-purpose file formats I know -about. PhotoShop and PhotoPaint images are not general purpose. -I also tried to correct a wxImage bug in connection with big-endian -vs. little-endian problems, but I have no Sparc to actually test -this. - -Inclusion of wxMultiMedia. Can play most sound formats on GTK -and MSW and (using xanim on Unix and Win95's MM functions) -display a video in a wxWindow. This will probably be moved to -the core library. - -Small updates to socket code. The MSW version is still missing. - -Implemented wxBitmapDataObject class. - -Added wxFFileStream using FILE* instead if file desrcriptor. -Useful for creating a "cerr" like class as in normal C++. -Also added "endl" for use with wxTextStream and fixed a few -minor problems with buffered streams etc. - -Corrected Tabbing code in wxPanel and made it work with wxNotebook. - -Small cursor fixes in connection with text control. - -Added experimental wxWizard class. Work in progress. - -A few more minor fixes. - -6th August '99: Eight wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released - -The new makefile system is not able to produce shared libraries -on Unix with the exception of Linux - libtool is really great. -Therefore, the build system defaults to static libraries on -anything but Linux for now. - -Work in wxPen, wxBrush and wxDC to match wxMSW more exactly and -to implement missing feature etc. - -Reimplemented radio buttons. The first of a group of such buttons -is now marked by having the wxRB_GROUP style. - -Complete redesign of all stream classes, including tests for them -in the samples. - -Controls now send the same messages (or more importantly none if -changed programmatically) as per wxMSW. - -New implementation of wxSocket using an intermediate library called -GSocket. This willl hopefully change in the future. - -Reworked in-place editing of wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl. - -Fixed bug reporting two refreshes when scrolling. - -Corrected bug in wxComboBox client data code. - -Corrected reported but unverified bug in BMP loading code. - -Added a few more methods to wxStaticBitmap. - -Integration of wxHTML code in the main library, including wxZIPStream, -wxFilesystem, wxHTMLHelpController and others. - -Added a wrapper for ffile() etc functions. - -Updates to wxDynamicLibrary. - -New documentation. - -New version of wxPython, of course. - -Fixed in unenclosed number of other bugs... - -25th June '99: Seventh wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released - -Many fixes to th new makefile system. The last version gave -immediate crashes on all Unices except Linux when linked -dynamically against an application. I reordered the object -files in the library as I guess that this was the cause. - -Added icons to message box. This also slightly killed the -layout so this needs to be changed again. - -wxGTK now chooses the best visual available on the display instead -of the default one. - -Fixed wxProgressDialog again. - -Some more corrections I forgot. - -New wxPython (includes new layout system and printing). - -15th June '99: Sixth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released - - -The biggest change is the completely rewritten configure/makefile -system using automake. The main argument for switching to automake -is that the resulting makefiles should be more portable so that -people can use the native make utilities instead of GNU make. The -new makefile sytem also handles dependencies correctly, allows for -shared-only compilation, can be invoked from any directory for -concurrent builds wihtin one source tree, uses libtool for greater -shared-library platform support, has a functinonal "make uninstall", -works with GTK, Motif and WINE, conforms better to GNU standards -as far as configure option names are concerned and is easier to -maintain. - -Applied patches to compile wxGTK on OS/2. - -Configure checks for byte-order and new defines for byte swapping -with respect to the byte-order. Added test for this to typetest sample. -Also made BMP handler bigendian safe so that it should work on -Solaris and such. - -Small changes to basic drawing stuff: made wxColour actually compare -RGB values in the == operator, added new constructor to wxMask, -corrected initial background colour for DCs, it is now possible -to use a wxWindowDC etc before there is any window (this doesn't -make any sense, but it is what wxMSW does.) - -Added support for the PRIMARY SELECTION to the wxClipboard -class. - -Fixed redraw bug when scrolling window-less widgets out -of the visible area (actually a work-around for a GTK bug). - -Regrouped some samples, created new one for various versions -of the wxTextCtrl. - -Added wxWindow::Reparent() and wxFrame::MakeModal(). - -Improved handling of column width in wxListCtrl and made -this more compatible with the wxMSW version. Also removed -a bug from the wxImageList returning an off-by-one id for -added images. - -Fixed keyboard hotkeys and resizing for wxMDIChildFrame -menu bars. - -Added flag to wxSplitterWindow to update its children's -sizes "live" instead of moving a XOR'ed bar around - this -is a resource-draining option. Also corrected cursors -in splitter window. - -New way to show "disabled" or greyed toolbar items. - -Rewrote parts of the tree ctrl to allow multiple selections -and variable size items (Sylvain). These new function do not -exist in the native Win32 tree control. - -Implemented global cursors and wxBusyCursor etc. Also removed -another cursor misbehaviour. - -Updated many parts of the documentation to reflect changes -in wxWindows 2.1, wxPython and more exact description of -cross-platform issues as well as platform differences. - -Many other fixes, mainly by others... - -Further compile fixes for different architectures. - - - -25th May '99: Fifth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released - - - -This is mostly a bug-fix release. We are having funny -times to make wxGTK work well with different micro -versions of GTK 1.2 - which is very close to impossible. -All versions give warnings, although their number might -vary a lot. I use GTK 1.2.3 and only get wanrnings in -one sample (notebook) and that one is due to a bug in -GTK - some people using GTK 1.2.2 reported hundreds of warnings -getting spitted out for what seems like no reason. - -This snapshot contains the beginnings of our merging of -headers, meaning that in the future all ports will -use the same headers and will share a lot more code. -We have taken this moment to reorganize some code and -hope to have eliminated much bad C++ code, as reported -primarily by SGI's compilers (Vadim Zeitlin). - -Rewritten char and key event propagation routines -to reflect documentation and do the same on wxGTK -as on wxMSW. If you are interested in ascii chars -and cursor key etc, intercept EVT_CHAR, if you -are interested in which key actually got pressed, -intercept EVT_KEYDOWN (Norbert Irmer). - -Control that are given -1 as their ID no longer -get arbitrary positive IDs assigned but arbitrary -negative IDs. This had caused some trouble with ID clashes. - -wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow no longer use the -wxScrollEvent, but the newly invented wxScrollWinEvent -so that no mixing up of events sent from wxSliders -or wxScrollbars placed in a wxWindow can occur. - -Added wxProgressDialog for use with long background -work such as printing. - -Added drawing sample and scrolling sample, both of -which show some misbehaviours... - -When drawing with the wxXOR logical mode, wxGTK now uses -GdkXOR (instead of GdkInvert) and when drawing in wxINVERT logical -mode, wxGTK now uses GdkInvert (as before). When you did some -rubberband dragging and you used wxXOR and a black pen, then -you should change wxINVERT. - -Applied more patches for SGI and HP-UX compilation. - -More updates for wxSockets (Guilhem Lavaux). Seems to be nearly -finished. - -You can now use threads within your GUI again. Well, -at least if you know what you are doing and you had a look -at the threads sample. - -wxGLCanvas updated so that it can share display lists -over several windows and to not exhibit any flicker. -(Norber Irmer). - -wxNotebook revamped so that its process of creation matches -wxMSW's more closely, also avoiding problems with wrong page -number. Added InsertPage() and the possibility to prevent -switching pages by intercepting the PAGE_CHANGING event. Also, -wxNotebooks now get shown even if all pages are empty. - -Added Activate() to wxMDIChildFrame (Russel). - -Improved wxSplitterWindow behaviour and visual feed-back when -given a minimal size etc (Bruce DeVisser). - -Minor updates to wxTreeCtrl, wxListBox, printing, wxClipboard, -wxString, wxThreads and many others. - -Also wxMSW got a big face-lift, not to mention the new wxMac release... - - - -11th May '99: Fourth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released - - -This is mostly a bug-fix release. This affects wxSocket, wxThread, -and a few GUI classes. Also more work has been done and window -placement and decorations etc. which we hope to have finished now. - -Applied patches for FreeBSD and SGI compilation (not yet finshed). - -Updated wxPython to beta 9. - -Made wxGLCanvas work again - strangely it flickers now... - -wxStaticText is currently broken with GTK 1.2.2 (which I don't -yet have and thus could not fix). Also, scrolling subwindows -(although much improved including a sample) doesn't work perfectly -due to a bug in GTK 1.2.1 (probably 1.2.2 as well). - -Added wxStaticLine. - -Note that the next release might bring about changes to keyboard -handling and scroll event intercepting from wxScrolledWindow. - -By and large much of the code has stabilized and won't be much -different in the final wxWindows 2.1 release. Please test as -much as you can. - -The next release will have a new build system. - - - -3rd May '99: Third wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released - - -Updated INSTALL.txt and SYMBOLS.txt. - -Support for Unicode is now almost complete. Most samples work in -both Unicode and non-Unicode mode. Thanks to Ove Kaaven and Vadim. - -Internal changes required for wxOLE and addition of a very experimental -wxOLE code section using GNOME's Bonobo library (from GNOME's CVS). - -New version of wxPython that works with the wxGTK 2.1. -This now includes a very comprensive test/demo suite. Thanks to -Robin Dunn, Harm v.d. Heijden and others. Beware of the hang-man... - -More fine tuning of focus handling and GUI widgets. - -Complete rewrite of wxSocket classes (still experimental). -Thanks to Guilhem Lavaux. - -wxMenuBar supports underlined shortcuts like Windows does, -indicated by a leading & character. wxMenus now have hotkeys -such as in wxXt and wxMSW. - -Rewritten MDI subsystem. - -Correcetions and additions to the printing framework including -a paper type database (Julian). - -Several controls now support more style flags for modifying -look (and feel) of the controls and windows. - -New implementation of idle handlers, which now send an idle -event only once after the event queue has been emptied (which -is what happens in the wxMSW port as well), not regularly. -This no longer forces wxGTK applications to sleep (by having -to call usleep()) in idle time - giving more CPU slices to -the application if desired. - -wxGLCanvas (the OpenGl for wxWindows) now accepts keyboard input. - -The usual number of compile and bug fixes from all involved. - - - -21st April '99: Second wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released - - -Added much code for Unicode support. Still experimental, but looks very -cool - thanks to Ove Kaaven and Vadim Zeitlin. If you are very brave, then -you can compile wxGTK with "configure --with-unicode". - -More updates on the dreaded issue of making frames and dialogs impossible -to resize etc. - -Drag and Drop works now under GTK 1.2 - at least basically when dragging -and dropping text. The API is not entirely fixed yet but seems quite -good now. Support for different actions (copy/move/link/..) still missing. -I also removed support for GTK 1.0 Drag and Drop - this is just broken -and unusable in GTK 1.0 and I don't want to fix it. - -I now embed the JPEG library and handlers for JPEG and GIF have been -added to the existing PNG and BMP (and XPM for GTK version only). In -the future, the RPMs will not contain these libraries but depend on -the image libraries to be preinstalled whereas the source *.tgz will -ship with everything that is needed for wxGTK so that no downloading -of ten image libs will be required - also avoiding problems with ten -different kinds of libJPEG-6.0.1.7.IV beta 7. We also updated the -PNG code to the newest PNG version. - -wxImage now makes use of the fast rendering code as provided by -GTK 1.2 whenever possible. This should mean a speed-up for graphics -heavy apps. - -Many fixes all over. Also should compile with GTK 1.2.0 as opposed -to only with GTK 1.2.1 now. - -wxPython still doesn't compile, I think. - - - -12th April '99: First wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released - - -This is the first developers' version of wxWindows 2.1 for GTK. It's main -new feature is that it supports GTK 1.2 (as opposed to GTK 1.0) which -will make development within the GNOME evironment a lot easier. - -Apart from the move to GTK 1.2 and the changes (some major) that were -required as part of that work, enhancement or corrections have been -made to many of the non-GUI classes and functions (such as wxClipboard, -wxThread, wxSocket, wxConfig) -and a few GUI classes (accelerators in menus, listbox always with -scrollbar, wxFrame honours Motif Window Manager hints, corrected tab -traversal for broken GTK 1.0 widgets). - -There have been slight changes to the priting dialogs and their -setup data (which might break apps using this code in previous -versions). Also, a bug concerning printing white has been fixed -(actually not tested). - -Although this is only the first 2.1 snapshot, there is little reason not -to use it as many bugs from version 2.0 have been corrected. There are, -pf course, still a few problem left with GTK 1.2 (some of which relate -to bugs in GTK). - -I think I preserved backward compatility with GTK 1.0 and if not it -should be easy to fix - but mostly I don't care. - -Drag'N'Drop is currently completely broken. Also, wxPython currently -doesn't compile with this release. The OpenGL canvas still seems to -work. - -Major targets for the final release (still a long way): a new configure -system, support JPEG and GIF formats, wxHTML, super-duppah frame layout -stuff, syntax-highlighting editor, possibly Unicode, possibly some GNOME -gooddies, possibly world domination. - - - -5th March '99: wxWindows 2.0 released - - -This is the final version of wxWindows 2.0 for GTK. The versions for -Windows and Motif (and also this version) are available form Julian Smart's -site. The Mac version is still under development. - - - -19th February '99: wxWindows 2.0 beta 5 - - -This is the fifth beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes and -updates for documentation. - -Applied compile fixes for Solaris (different flavours and compilers). - - - -12th February '99: wxWindows 2.0 beta 4 - - -This is the fourth beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes and -updates for documentation. - -Tracked a few more cases, where the bahaviour between wxMSW and wxGTK -differed. This was the case for closing a dialog or frame as well as -for clearing a device context or setting its background colour and some -other minor details. - -Most standard dialogs have been face-liftet a little. - -Implememted default buttons for GTK. - -Fixed many bugs. You guessed it. - - - -29th January '99: wxWindows 2.0 beta 3 - - -This is the third beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes. - -There is one field where we haven't been able to fix the API yet, and that -it Drag'n'Drop. This is mostly due to the fact that DnD in -GTK 1.0 is hardly usable and much different from GTK 1.2 which means that -we have to design a common API for Windows, GTK 1.0 and GTK 1.2. Although -we are trying to prevent that, it is possible that wxWindows 2.0 (being -based on GTK 1.0) will not have proper DnD support. - -The major changes are that tool tips have been added, threads have been completely -rewritten, the ODBC code has been updated and improved, the socket code works -better now. - -Classes for managing MIME-types under Windows and Unix have been added. - -There is now a wxGLCanvas class for OpenGl/Mesa for the Windows, GTK and -Motif ports. Come see the penguins flying... - -Documentation has received a big face lift - it now covers nearly all the -classes, at least. - -The usual amount of bug fixes. Countless. - -A few member functions of wxString have been renamed. - -For those who are using the ever-so-popular wxImage class (which -now available on Motif and Windows as well) in 8-bit mode: wxGTK -now creates a color cube upon start-up in 8-bit mode and thus the -generation of bitmaps from images has been speeded up 20 times. - -It is now possible to develop with wxGTK without having the GTK 1.0 header -files installed so that having the GTK 1.2 header files installed no longer -is any problem. We also provide RPMs for RedHat glibc 2 based systems, compiled -with egcs 1.1.1 on SuSE 6.0. Note that the RPM will not work in -SuSE 6.0 as SuSE decided to ship 6.0 with a broken GTK+ package. - - - -6th January '99: wxWindows 2.0 beta 2 - - -This is the second beta release and contains it mostly build and -bug fixes. Threads work well now on (up-to-date) glibc 2 systems, -commercial Unices and Windows. - - - -20th December '98: wxWindows 2.0 beta 1 - - -This is the first beta release and we have used the time before -this release to tidy up some parts of the API. All releases from -now on will be source code compatible but we reserve binary compatibility -for the final release. Because of this, the actual library name of -the beta version will not be 2.0 but 1.99, so that we prevent -conflicts with the final library later on. After the final release -we'll only fix bugs so that there will be no reason to link any -program statically with wxGTK. - -We changed the name of the shared library to include the version of -the GTK used so that no conflicts emerge with simultaneous -versions of wxWindows for GTK 1.0 and for GTK 1.2 and so on. - -As you can see, we have not moved to GTK 1.1.X as the different -development versions are too different and buggy to be useful. We'll -wait for a stable GTK 1.2 release (hardly 1.2.0) and start porting -then. - -wxGTK now compiles without problems on anything between gcc 2.7.2 on -Linux-x86 and egcs 1.1 on Linux-Alpha and egcs 1.0 on Sparc. This isn't -as easy as it sounds... - -Available form this site are the Python bindings of wxWindows. -Thanks to Robin Dunn for this tremendous contribution. -Tkinter is dead, Java is dead, wxPython rules! That's all there is to say. - -Although only a few new classes have been added, many have been polished -up substantially, the most visible are wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl and -all classes related to printing. Also the DialogEd now functions -much better than before. Drag'n'Drop is fucntional but probably won't -be perfect until we use GTK 1.2 and its much improved DnD features. - -wxClipboard has arrived and works for text. Other formats have not been -tested carefully yet. - -wxMiniFrame has been added which might be useful for docking toolbars -etc. Someone has already done that for the MSW port and we hope to -include his very nice work later. - -wxDirDialog has been added (thanks to Harm von der Heijden). - -The entite "tab traveral" system for moving from item to item in -a dialog has been rewritten. It now completely overrides the -not-so-well-done GTK native tab system. - -Quite much has been done to improve the wxImage class, which is now -available in the Windows port as well. Very useful for anything related -to image processing. wxGTK also uses this class internally e.g. to scale -bitmaps when the scale factor (e.g. zooming) of a drawing context -has changed. - -Some of the small and handy classes (wxDate, wxTime, wxVariant) have -received a face-lift. wxList has been rewritten to make it possible -to write type-safe lists. The collection of utility functions (wxFileFind etc) -has been revamped and cleaned-up (thanks to Vadim Zeitlin, who has also -greatly enhanced many basic classes, ranging wxString to the debug and -log system). - -We removed some constructors of GDI classes (such as wxPen, wxColour) -which took a pointer as a parameter. This lead to many errors among users -resulting in unexpected behaviour so it was decided to remove these -constructors. - -As the number of users and the number of test programs and samples -is steadialy rising the core classes of wxWindows for MSW and GTK 1.0 -can be considered to be very stable if not outright bug-free. I haven't -seen a crash for weeks now and wxWindows' internal debug features also -have improved every week, making stepping-through with a debugger almost -completely unnecessary as the library reports possible errors itself -(when in debug mode). +There is now a common file changes.txt for +the entire wxWidgets library.