X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/7d6d3bf31edc02abde8b32a8725f69f396f3dfff..2d956b58023a4955313a1c1531bc70a0deb0b831:/docs/changes.txt diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt index b55c0a54ba..3fa95a23e6 100644 --- a/docs/changes.txt +++ b/docs/changes.txt @@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ wxBase: under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your code. +- wxArray macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit + architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be + used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the + arrays containing non-pointers. + - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they simply don't make sense for all objects @@ -17,6 +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 @@ -46,17 +63,45 @@ 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 + unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const + +- 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 but is created as part of the build process under lib//wx/include where is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update - the include path in your make/project files appropriately. + 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. - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style to avoid it, wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT style is now obsolete and has no effect +- 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 @@ -64,31 +109,69 @@ Unix ports: and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used to compile pure C files. + +OTHER CHANGES +============= + 2.3.3 ----- 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 (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: - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP -- huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create() (=> much faster toolbar creation) +- 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 @@ -99,18 +182,35 @@ wxMSW: - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite 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: - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way - 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: - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL() +- fixed alignment handling in tables +- fixed handling to be case insensitive 2.3.2 -----