X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/9016f3ad7338e0e61ee30de5618302404bfca1ef..89c73d546a8344b658ec11cb20f4b6d266391e86:/docs/changes.txt diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt index 3dca38bc52..04bce2249d 100644 --- a/docs/changes.txt +++ b/docs/changes.txt @@ -102,6 +102,13 @@ Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this! - Under MSW wxExecute() arguments are now always properly quoted, as under Unix, and so shouldn't contain quotes unless they are part of the argument. +- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------- @@ -240,7 +247,17 @@ Major new features in this release - wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally, depending on what is optimal for the target platform. -- Events loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI. +- New propgrid library containing wxPropertyGrid and related classes, many + enhancements to wxDataViewCtrl. + +- 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 @@ -248,10 +265,10 @@ Major new features in this release All: -- Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen) +- Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen). - Cleaned up wxURI and made it Unicode-friendly. - Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski) -- Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it +- Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it. - Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe) - Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications - Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen) @@ -262,6 +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). @@ -289,37 +307,47 @@ All: - Corrected bug in wxTimeSpan::IsShorterThan() for equal time spans. - Use std::unordered_{map,set} for wxHashMap/Set if available (Jan van Dijk). - 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): -- Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes -- Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK -- Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames() +- Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes. +- Integrated wxPropertyGrid in wxWidgets itself (Jaakko Salli). +- Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK. +- Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames(). - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty). -- Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications -- Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect() -- Added wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson) -- Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski) +- Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications. +- Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect(). +- Added wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson). +- Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski). +- Support custom labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson for wxMac version). +- Also added wxCANCEL_DEFAULT to wxMessageDialog. +- Allow copying text in the log dialogs. - Added multisample (anti-aliasing) support to wxGLCanvas (Olivier Playez). - Initialize wx{Client,Paint,Window}DC with fonts/colours of its window. -- Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows -- Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr) +- Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows. +- Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr). - Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron). - Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse). - Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron). - Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage(). -- Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov) +- Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov). - Made wxLogWindow thread-safe (Barbara Maren Winkler). -- Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid) -- Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid) -- Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid) -- Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II) -- New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr) +- 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). - Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi). - Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom(). @@ -379,6 +407,11 @@ All (GUI): - Show busy cursor in wxLaunchDefaultBrowser and add wxBROWSER_NOBUSYCURSOR. - Added wxFlexGridSizer::Is{Row,Col}Growable() (Marcin Wojdyr). - 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 (Santo Pfingsten). +- Add wxGridSelectRowsOrColumns selection mode to wxGrid. +- Get/HasModifiers() of wxKeyEvent are now also available in wxMouseEvent. wxGTK: @@ -396,16 +429,16 @@ wxGTK: - Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option. - Added support for GTK+ print backend - Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr). +- Fix wxDC::Blit() support for user scale and source offset (Marcin Wojdyr). wxMac: - Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls). -- Added support for changing button labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson). - Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs). - Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox). - Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz). -- Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale -- Added native wxCollapsiblePane +- Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale. +- Native wxCollapsiblePane implementation. wxMSW: @@ -413,11 +446,12 @@ wxMSW: - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized. - wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich). - Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon -- Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it -- Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk) -- Show resize gripper on resizeable dialogs (Kolya Kosenko) -- Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron) -- Use different Win32 class names in different wx instances (Thomas Hauk) +- Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it. +- Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk). +- Use vertical scrollbar in wxMessageDialog if it's too big to fit on screen. +- Show resize gripper on resizeable dialogs (Kolya Kosenko). +- Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron). +- Use different Win32 class names in different wx instances (Thomas Hauk). - Support multiline labels for wxCheckBox and wxToggleButton. - Print preview is now rendered in the resolution used by printer and accurately represents what will be printed. This fixes wxHtmlEasyPrinting @@ -434,6 +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 -----