X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/986ecc861c52842f25151543587000176cc5244d..7728856b75c201016a30145673bc8a85be96fdfe:/docs/changes.txt diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt index 0fb7f4a0bb..2958c1de90 100644 --- a/docs/changes.txt +++ b/docs/changes.txt @@ -1,5 +1,124 @@ -wxWindows 2 Change Log ----------------------- +---------------------------- +wxWindows 2.5/2.6 Change Log +---------------------------- + +INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x +================================ + +OTHER CHANGES +============= + +2.5.0 +----- + +All: + +- added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski) +- use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE +- wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs +- added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling +- added wxArray::SetCount() +- wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding + by default in Unicode mode +- bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed +- added wx/math.h (John Labenski) +- added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo) +- fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig + +wxBase: + +- added Watcom makefiles + +All GUI ports: + +- added alpha channel support to wxImage +- added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames +- added wxSplitterWindow handler to XRC +- added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski) +- added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski) +- implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber) +- improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke) +- fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem +- implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer +- support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW +- added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski) +- WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds +- it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu + by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth) + +- changed to type-safe wxSizerItemList for wxSizer child items + Deprecated: + wxSizer::Remove( wxWindow* ) + - it does not function as Remove would usually be expected to + and destroy the window, use Detach instead + wxSizer::GetOption(), + wxSizer::SetOption() + - wxSizer 'option' parameter was renamed 'proportion' to better + reflect its action, use Get/SetProportion instead + wxKeyEvent::KeyCode() + - use GetKeyCode instead + wxList:: Number, First, Last, Nth + - use typesafe GetCount, GetFirst, GetLast, Item instead + wxNode:: Next, Previous, Data + - use typesafe Get* instead + wxListBase::operator wxList&() + - use typesafe lists instead + +Unix: + +- fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version +- fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled + +wxGTK: + +- added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss) +- added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build +- fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams) +- made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace +- fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and + window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN +- added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation +- fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to + be appended to filenames with no extension + +wxMSW: + +- possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson) +- wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports) +- support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson) +- wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to +- wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more +- fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not workign with wxTR_MULTIPLE +- fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom compiler +- fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width) +- fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown +- all libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix + (for MinGW and Cygwin) + +wxMotif: + +- made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still + does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog + documentation for a detailed explanation +- implemented wxWakeUpIdle +- for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd + xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled + with Motif 1.x compatibility +- implemented wxToggleButton +- wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style + instead of a sunken border + +wxUniv: + +- controls in toolbars now supported + +wxHTML: + +- added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look) + + +OLD CHANGES +=========== INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x ================================ @@ -14,6 +133,10 @@ INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in 2.6 release. + NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions + of wxWindows you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro + (see the documentation) useful. + wxBase: @@ -45,7 +168,6 @@ wxBase: must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override the default assert handling. - All (GUI): ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically @@ -64,6 +186,10 @@ All (GUI): generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if you want to get OnChar() as well +- in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations + have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms, + please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details + - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following @@ -74,12 +200,16 @@ All (GUI): if ( flags & wxYES ) ... do something else ... +- static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created + in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using + the ctor + - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code if you derived any classes from it -- wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to +- wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but @@ -96,16 +226,23 @@ All (GUI): for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart() and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes +- wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore. + to obtain the previous behaviour, add + wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program + (you will need to #include ) 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 + but is created as part of the build process under lib//wx where is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update 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. + class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your + make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now + use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll) + where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version + is only present for the DLLs builds. - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style to avoid it @@ -152,11 +289,50 @@ wxThread and related classes: OTHER CHANGES ============= +2.4.0 +----- + +wxMSW: + +- fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString() + +2.3.4 +----- + +All: + +- added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.) +- added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin) +- fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek() + +Unix (Base/GUI): + +- minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1 +- don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output +- shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux) + +wxGTK: +- Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support. +- Addition of native frame site grip. + +wxX11: +- Unicode support through Pango library. + +wxMSW: + +- fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP +- added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl + +wxHTML: + +- fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build + 2.3.3 ----- wxBase: +- building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings) - 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 @@ -167,11 +343,11 @@ wxBase: 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) - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini) - added wxEXPLICIT macro +- IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding). + Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed +- debug new/free implementations made thread-safe Unix (Base/GUI): @@ -196,7 +372,8 @@ All (GUI): 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, GIF 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 @@ -210,16 +387,25 @@ All (GUI): - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search +- wxMessageOutput class added - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash table fills up - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4 -- Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do - cleanup. +- Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup. +- generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList + renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW + (Rene Rivera). +- Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell + whether a label edit was cancelled. +- added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor (use of wxTheFontMapper is now + deprecated) wxMSW: - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP +- fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2 +- fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection - 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 @@ -228,6 +414,7 @@ wxMSW: - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText - improvements to wxWindows applications behaviour when the system colours are changed +- choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it) @@ -246,12 +433,17 @@ wxMSW: - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox - default button handling is now closer to expected - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works +- disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK) - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join -- fixed a condition where a thread can hang during - message/event processing +- fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button +- don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register +- wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was + provided in wxFontData +- Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment. +- Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8. wxGTK: @@ -259,7 +451,7 @@ wxGTK: - 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. +- 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 @@ -267,6 +459,30 @@ wxGTK: - implemented wxChoice::Delete() - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott) - made internal GC pool dynamically growable +- added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support + +wxMotif: + +- improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown) +- improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown) +- improved toolbar control alignment +- implemented wxSpinButton +- implemented wxCheckListBox +- fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers +- wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly + +wxX11: + +- added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten) +- first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working) + +wxMac: + +- Many improvements + +wxOS2: + +- First alpha-quality release wxHTML: