(See also the MigrationGuide.txt file for details about some of the +
(See also the MigrationGuide file for details about some of the big changes that have happened in this release and how you should adapt your code.)
+The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets. Please +see http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm for more details. This won't +really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the +wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail +list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing. We're going to try +and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to +be aware of this change if you run into any issues.
Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move -to wxWindows 2.5 that I have forgotten about.
+to wxWidgets 2.5 that I have forgotten about.Added wxMirrorDC.
Added wxIconLocation
-Added Python wrappers for the new wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox, and -wxHtmlListBox classes.
+Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow, +wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.
Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook. wxNotebook now derives from wxBookCtrl.
Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the @@ -28,28 +35,65 @@ wx.lib.plot module.
I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.
-The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake in -Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. They are also -installing icons and *.desktop items in the generic KDE and GNOME -locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu items on -non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my RH-9 build -box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas for how to -improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more distros please -send me a patch.
-The RPMs are now built on a RH-9 box, and I have tested installing -them also on my main Mandrake 9.2 box.
+The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in +Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. The RPMs are +also installing icons and *.desktop items in the generic KDE and +GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu +items on non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my +RH-9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas +for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more +distros please send me a patch.
+The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-9 box, and I have tested +installing them also on my main Mandrake 9.2 box.
There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual Installer package now only installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython -extension modules and pacakges, and also the command-line tool +extension modules and Python pacakges, and also the command-line tool scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they want to put them.
The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly different API.
+Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.
+wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!
+wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version 1.58 of Scintilla.
+To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac +I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too) +that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing +it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and +simple one instead. By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac +only.) When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options +menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with +it.
+Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg +"Adi" Sieker.
+Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.
+AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile, +MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.
+Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that +describe the platform and build options of wxPython. See the +MigrationGuide for more details.
+Created a new extension module "activex" from Lindsay Mathieson's +newest wxActiveX class. (The existing iewin module used an older +version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.) This +new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX +controls in a wx.Window, without requiring the use of the win32com +and other PyWin32 modules! This should eliminate the cronic problems +that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the +GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc. The older iewin module +will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards +compatible, but you should migrate your code to the new IEHtmlWindow +in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one can be eventually removed. +Additionally, I've always considered that the wx.lib.activexwrapper +module is an ugly hack that I only included in the lib because I +couldn't figure out anything better. Well now we have something that, +if it isn't already, has the potential to be better. So consider +migrating away from using activexwrapper as well. Please see the +MigrationGuide for more details on using the new module.
+Floats are allowed again as function parameters where ints are expected.
Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.
Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka. Its usage is @@ -58,8 +102,8 @@ demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.
Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.
Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.
Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)
Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will @@ -110,8 +154,8 @@ release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter, and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter
Added wxCursorFromBits.
Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or TRUE/FALSE values.
Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so @@ -141,8 +185,8 @@ think I am testing in the future...
Updated pycolourchooser.
Updated to 0.9b of PyCrust.
Added missing wxRect methods
Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.
@@ -198,25 +242,25 @@ doesn't have a standard place for them.Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.
Updated to the 0.9a version of PyCrust
Several bug fixes.
Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.
No major new features since 2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor enhancements.
Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis. See wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.
Various bug fixes.
Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
Several bug fixes in wxWindows.
@@ -270,8 +314,8 @@ windows when desired. HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built and added a script to launch the doc viewer.Added wxSplashScreen.
Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
@@ -413,15 +457,15 @@ example.Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.
Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.
Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
Added some patches from library contributors.
Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP, EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent, wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow, @@ -503,8 +547,8 @@ SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more details.
Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push on a custom event handler for example.)
@@ -517,8 +561,8 @@ subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.
Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the @@ -614,13 +658,13 @@ please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in wxPython/samples.No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert @@ -1199,9 +1243,5 @@ version segfault shortly after starting up.