X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/87c819f9c9bcf84fd300c0dab95845eb535a4cdd..4de60a27a74af7a3e9f8e428da7dfc7a0f728735:/docs/changes.txt diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt index 707702b92a..04bce2249d 100644 --- a/docs/changes.txt +++ b/docs/changes.txt @@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this! - wxDocument::OnNewDocument() doesn't call OnCloseDocument() any more. +- If you use wxScrolledWindow::SetTargetWindow() you must implement its + GetSizeAvailableForScrollTarget() method, please see its documentation for + more details. + + Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors ----------------------------------------------------------- @@ -245,7 +250,14 @@ Major new features in this release - New propgrid library containing wxPropertyGrid and related classes, many enhancements to wxDataViewCtrl. -- Events loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI. +- Event loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI. + +- Documentation for wxWidgets has been converted from LaTex to C++ headers + with Doxygen comments and significantly improved in the process (screenshots + of various controls were added, more identifiers are now linked to their + definition &c). Any reports about inaccuracies in the documentation are + welcome (and due to using the simple Doxygen syntax it is now easier than + ever to submit patches correcting them! :-) 2.9.0 @@ -267,6 +279,7 @@ All: - Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov). - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev). - Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead(). +- Implemented wxMemoryFSHandler::FindFirst/Next(). - Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz). - Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev). - Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev). @@ -296,10 +309,14 @@ All: - Added wxString::Capitalize() and MakeCapitalized(). - Added wxArray::swap(). - Added wxSHUTDOWN_LOGOFF and wxSHUTDOWN_FORCE wxShutdown() flags (troelsk). +- Added wxArtProvider::GetNativeSizeHint(); GetSizeHint() as well as + GetNativeSizeHint() now return more sensible values in wxMSW and wxMac and + no longer return bogus values. All (Unix): - Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski). +- Noticeably (by a factor of ~150) improve wxIPC classes performance. All (GUI): @@ -328,6 +345,7 @@ All (GUI): - Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid). - Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid). - Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid). +- Added support for drop-down toolbar buttons to XRC. - Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II). - New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr). - Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi). @@ -391,7 +409,9 @@ All (GUI): - Added "enabled" and "hidden" attributes to radio box items in XRC. - wxWindow::IsBeingDeleted() now returns true not only if the window itself is marked for destruction but also if any of its parent windows are. -- Improved drawing of the hint during column move in wxGrid. +- Improved drawing of the hint during column move in wxGrid (Santo Pfingsten). +- Add wxGridSelectRowsOrColumns selection mode to wxGrid. +- Get/HasModifiers() of wxKeyEvent are now also available in wxMouseEvent. wxGTK: @@ -448,6 +468,91 @@ wxDFB: - Implement wxBitmap ctor from XBM data. +2.8.9 +----- + +All: + +- Optimize wxString::Replace() for single character arguments. +- Updated Hindi translation (Priyank Bolia). +- Use tr1::unordered_{map,set} for wxHash{Map,Set} implementation if available + in STL build; in particular do not use deprecated hash_{map,set} which + results in a lot of warnings from newer g++ (Jan Van Dijk and Pete Stieber). + +All (GUI): + +- Added support for reading alpha channel in BMP format (Kevin Wright). +- Fixed help viewer bug whereby the splitter sash in wxHtmlHelpWindow could + go underneath the left-hand pane, permanently, after resizing the + help window. +- Fixed wxHTML default font size for printing to be 12pt regardless of the + platform, instead of depending on GUI toolkit's screen configuration. +- Support wxDP_ALLOWNONE style in generic wxDatePickerCtrl version. +- Set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar correctly in the events generated by generic + wxListCtrl (Mikkel S). +- Fix changing size of merged cells in wxGrid (Laurent Humbertclaude). +- Fixed wrapping bug in wxRichTextCtrl when there were images present; + now sets the cursor to the next line after pressing Shift+Enter. +- Fixed Cmd+Back, Cmd+Del word deletion behaviour in wxRichTextCtrl. +- Fix crash when reading malformed PCX images. +- Fix bug with wrong transparency in GIF animations (troelsk). +- Store palette information for XPM images in wxImage (troelsk). +- Fixed selection bugs and auto list numbering in wxRichTextCtrl. +- Significantly optimize wxGrid::BlockToDeviceRect() for large grids (kjones). +- Introduced new wxAuiToolBar class for better integration and look-and-feel. +- Fix a crash in wxAuiFrameManager when Update() was called in between mouse-up + and mouse-down events +- wxAUI: added various NULL-ptr asserts. +- Fixed problem with Floatable(false) not working in wxAuiFrameManager. +- Fixed maximize bug in wxAUI. +- Allow period in link anchors in wxHTML. +- Fixed memory corruption in wxHTML when parsing "&;" in the markup. +- Fixed event type in EVT_GRID_CMD_COL_MOVE and EVT_GRID_COL_MOVE. +- wxGrid doesn't steal focus when hiding editor any more (Tom Eckert). + +All (Unix): + +- MIME types reading fixed when running under GNOME, reading .desktop + files and also the default application list. +- Added filesys.no-mimetypesmanager system option so that applications that + must load an XRC file at program startup don't have to incur the + mime types manager initialization penalty. + +wxMSW: + +- Potentially incompatible change: wxExecute() arguments are now quoted if they + contain spaces and existing quotes are escaped with a backslash. However, to + preserve compatibility, the argument is unchanged if it is already quoted. + Notice that this behaviour will change in wxWidgets 3.0 where all arguments + will be quoted, please update your code now if you are affected and use only + wxWidgets 2.8.9 or later. +- Fix keyboard support in wxSpinCtrl broken in 2.8.8. +- Compile fix for WinCE in window.cpp (no VkKeyScan in Windows CE). +- Support disabling items before adding them to the menu (Christian Walther). +- Allow to call SetFont(wxNullFont) to reset the font to default. +- Implement UUID::operator==() and !=() (SQLAware Corporation). +- Fixed long standing (introduced in 2.6.3) bug which resulted in always + creating a DIB and not DDB in wxBitmap(const wxImage&) ctor. +- Fix the bug with wxFileDialog not being shown at all if the default file name + was invalid. +- Fix hang in keyboard navigation code with radio buttons under Windows 2000. +- Implement wxWinINetInputStream::GetSize() (spicerno). +- Always copy "has alpha" flag when copying bitmaps (SQLAware Corporation). + +wxGTK: + +- Fixed masking of disabled bitmaps in wxMenuItem and wxStaticBitmap. +- Fixed generation of events for an initially empty wxDirPickerCtrl. +- Fixed detection of Meta key state so that NumLock isn't misdetected + as Meta (requires GTK+ 2.10). +- Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr). + +wxMac: + +- Fixed a glitch where clicking on a scrollbar (but not moving the scrollbar) + would cause the window to scroll. + + 2.8.8 -----