CHANGES.txt for wxPython

2.5.1.x

(See also the MigrationGuide.txt file for details about some of the +

Recent Changes for wxPython

2.8.1.0

8-Jan-2006

Added EVT_TASKBAR_CLICK and use it to show taskbar icon menu on right +button release, not press, under MSW (bug 1623761)

Added wxTreeCtrl::CollapseAll[Children]() and IsEmpty() methods; +documented wxTreeItemId (patch 1622125)

Fix wxMDIChidFrame::GetPosition() (patch 1626610)

Fix attribute memory leak in wxGrid::ShowCellEditControl() (patch +1629949)

wxGTK: Fix for controls on a toolbar being the full height of the +toolbar instead of their natural height.

wx.lib.customtreectrl patches from Andrea Gavana.

wxMac: Applied patch #1622389, fixing two memory leaks in +GetPartialTextExtents.

More fixes for the native wx.ListCtrl on Mac.

Added wx.aui.AuiNotebook.GetAuiManager().

Added wx.aui.AuiMDIParentFrame and wx.aui.AuiMDIChildFrame, which +essentially implement the MDI interface using a normal wx.Frame and a +wx.aui.AuiNotebook.

2.8.0.1

11-Dec-2006

Lots of fixes and updates to the AUI classes.

Added wx.CollapsiblePane. On wxGTK it uses a native expander widget, +on the other platforms a regular button is used to control the +collapsed/expanded state.

Added the wx.combo module, which contains the ComboCtrl and ComboPopup +classes. These classes allow you to implement a wx.ComboBox-like +widget where the popup can be nearly any kind of widget, and where you +have a lot of control over other aspects of the combo widget as well. +It works very well on GTK and MSW, using native renderers for drawing +the combo button, but is unfortunatly still a bit klunky on OSX...

Use system default paper size for printing instead of A4 by default.

Added wx.combo.OwnerDrawnComboBox, which is a ComboCtrl that delegates +the drawing of the items in the popup and in the control itself to +overridden methods of a derived class, similarly to how wx.VListBox +works.

Added wx.combo.BitmapComboBox which is a combobox that displays a +bitmap in front of the list items.

Added the wx.lib.mixins.inspect module. It contains the InspectMixin +class which can be mixed with a wx.App class and provides a PyCrust +window that can be activated with a Ctrl-Alt-I keystroke (or Cmd-Alt-I +on the Mac.)

Added some modules from Riaan Booysen:

+
+
wx.lib.flagart: contains icons of the flags of many countries.
+
wx.lib.art.img2pyartprov: makes images embedded in a python file +with img2py available via the wx.ArtProvider.
+
wx.lib.langlistctrl: A wx.ListCtrl for selecting a language, +which uses the country flag icons.
+
An I18N sample for the demo.
+
+

wx.lib.masked: Patch from Will Sadkin. Includes Unicode fixes, plus +more helpful exceptions and ability to designate fields in mask +without intervening fixed characters.

Added wx.SearchCtrl, which is a composite of a wx.TextCtrl with optional +bitmap buttons and a drop-down menu. Controls like this can typically +be found on a toolbar of applications that support some form of search +functionality. On the Mac this control is implemented using the +native HISearchField control, on the other platforms a generic control +is used, although that may change in the future as more platforms +introduce native search widgets.

Added a set of button classes to wx.lib.buttons from David Hughes that +uses the native renderer to draw the button.

2.7.2.0

7-Nov-2006

Patch [ 1583183 ] Fixes printing/print preview inconsistencies

Add events API to wxHtmlWindow (patch #1504493 by Francesco Montorsi)

Added wxTB_RIGHT style for right-aligned toolbars (Igor Korot)

Added New Zealand NZST and NZDT timezone support to wx.DateTime.

wx.Window.GetAdjustedBestSize is deprecated. In every conceivable +scenario GetEffectiveMinSize is probably what you want to use instead.

wx.Image: Gained support for TGA image file format.

wx.aui: The classes in the wx.aui module have been renamed to be more +consistent with each other, and make it easier to recognize in the +docs and etc. that they belong together.

+FrameManager --> AuiManager +FrameManagerEvent --> AuiManagerEvent +PaneInfo --> AuiPaneInfo +FloatingPane --> AuiFloatingPane +DockArt --> AuiDockArt +TabArt --> AuiTabArt +AuiMultiNotebook --> AuiNotebook +AuiNotebookEvent --> AuiNotebookEvent

wx.lib.customtreectrl: A patch from Frank Niessink which adds an +additional style (TR_AUTO_CHECK_PARENT) that (un)checks a parent when +all children are (un)checked.

wx.animate.AnimationCtrl fixed to display inactive bitmap at start +(patch 1590192)

Patch from Dj Gilcrease adding the FNB_HIDE_ON_SINGLE_TAB style flag +for wx.lib.flatnotebook.

wx.Window.GetBestFittingSize has been renamed to GetEffectiveMinSize. +SetBestFittingSize has been renamed to SetInitialSize, since it is +most often used only to set the initial (and minimal) size of a +widget.

The QuickTime backend for wx.media.MediaCtrl on MS Windows works +again. Just pass szBackend=wx.media.MEDIABACKEND_QUICKTIME to the +constructor to use it instead of the default ActiveMovie backend, +(assuming the quicktime DLLs are available on the system.)

2.7.1.3

26-Oct-2006

wxGTK: The wx.ALWAYS_SHOW_SB style is now supported.

Fixed name errors in the old wxPython package namespace. As a +reminder, use of this package is deprecated and you are encouraged to +switch your programs over to the wx package.

Fixed wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas.SetCurrent to be compatible with prevoius +versons.

Added wx.StandardPaths.GetTmpDir.

Bug fixes in the wx.ListCtrl on Mac from Kevin Olivier, allowing it to +send events properly again. There is also a new native implementation +of wx.ListCtrl available, which will be used for wx.LC_REPORT style +list controls if you set the "mac.listctrl.always_use_generic" +SystemOption to zero. In a future release this will be the default.

Added a sample to the demo that shows some of what can be done with +the new wx.GraphicsContext and wx.GraphicsPath classes.

2.7.1.2

21-Oct-2006

Fixed a bug in the MaskedEdit controls caused by conflicting IsEmpty +methods.

Patch #1579280: Some mimetype optimizations on unix-like systems.

wxMac: Several wx.webkit.WebKitCtrl enhancements/fixes, including:

+
+
new methods for increasing/decreasing text size, getting +selection, getting/setting scroll position, printing, enabling +editing, and running JavaScripts on the page.
+
added new event (wx.webkit.WebKitBeforeLoadEvent) for catching, and +possibly vetoing, load events before they occur.
+
wx.webkit.WebKitCtrl now fires mouse events for certain events +that it was eating before. This improves wxSplitterWindow +resizing behavior.
+
refactoring of the sizing logic to move the Cocoa view. Tested +with splitter windows, panels, notebooks and all position +correctly with this.
+
+

Some improvements to the drawing code in CustomTreeCtrl.

Fixed refcount leak in wx.Window.GetChildren.

2.7.1.1

18-Oct-2006

The following deprecated items have been removed:

+
+
wx.Bitmap SetQuality and GetQuality methods
+
The wx.GetNumberFromUser function
+
wx.EVT_LIST_GET_INFO and wx.EVT_LIST_SET_INFO
+
wx.BookCtrlSizer and wx.NotebookSizer
+
The PostScript-specific methods of wx.PrintData
+
wx.PrintDialogData SetSetupDialog and GetSetupDialog methods
+
wx.FontMapper SetConfig method
+
wx.html.HtmlSearchStatus.GetContentsItem method
+
wx.html.HtmlHelpData.GetContents, GetContentsCnt, GetIndex, and +GetIndexCnt methods
+
+

wx.EventLoop is now implemented for wxMac.

Added wxPython wrappers for the new wx.Treebook and wx.Toolbook +classes.

wx.DC.BeginDrawing and EndDrawing have been deprecated in the C++ +code, so since they never really did anything before they are now just +empty stubs in wxPython.

Solved a problem that has been around for a very long time in how C++ +methods are virtualized for overriding in derived Python classes. +Previously we couldn't do it for methods that needed to also exist in +the base class wrappers such that they could be called normally. (The +reasons are long and complex, but suffice it to say that it was due to +mixing C++'s dynamic dispatch, and Python's runtime lookup of the +method attributes resulting in endless recursion of function calls.) +Because of this problem I used a hack that I have always hated, and +that is renaming the base class methods with a "base_*" prefix, for +example wx.Printout.base_OnBeginDocument. Now that the problem has +finally been solved I have replaced all the base_Whatever() methods +with the real Whatever() method as well as a simple wrapper named +base_Whatever that is marked as deprecated. So now instead of writing +your overridden methods like this:

+def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
+    # do something here
+    return self.base_OnBeginDocument(start, end)
+

You can now call the base class method the normal way, like this:

+def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
+    # do something here
+    return Printout.OnBeginDocument(self, start, end)
+

Or like this with super():

+def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
+    # do something here
+    return super(MyPrintout, self).OnBeginDocument(start, end)
+

Note that the old way with the "base_*" function still works, but you +will get a DeprecationWarning from calling base_OnBeginDocument. The +classes affected by this are:

+
+
wx.DropSource
+
wx.DropTarget
+
wx.TextDropTarget
+
wx.FileDropTarget
+
wx.PyLog (also added the ability to override Flush)
+
wx.PyApp (also added the ability to override ExitMainLoop)
+
wx.Printout
+
wx.PyPrintPreview
+
wx.PyPreviewFrame
+
wx.PreviewControlBar
+
wx.Process
+
wx.PyControl
+
wx.PyPanel
+
wx.PyScrolledWindow
+
wx.PyWindow
+
wx.Timer
+
wx.grid.PyGridCellRenderer
+
wx.grid.PyGridCellEditor
+
wx.grid.PyGridCellAttrProvider
+
wx.grid.PyGridTableBase
+
wx.html.HtmlWindow
+
wx.wizard.PyWizardPage
+
+

Added the wx.DC.GradientFillConcentric and wx.DC.GradientFillLinear +methods.

wxGTK: wx.ListBox and wx.CheckListBox are now using native GTK2 +widgets.

Added wx.ListBox.HitTest() from patch 1446207

Bumped up to SWIG 1.3.29. This provides some more runtime performance +boosts, gets rid of the dreaded Ptr classes, and some other nice new +things.

Added wx.Window.GetScreenPosition and GetScreenRect which returns the +position of the window in screen coordinates, even if the window is +not a top-level window.

Added GetResourcesDir and GetLocalizedResourcesDir to +wx.StandardPaths.

Added a GetReceivedFormat method to wx.DataObjectComposite. You can +use this to find out what format of data object was recieved from the +source of the clipboard or DnD operation, and then you'll know which +of the component data objects to use to access the data.

Changed how the stock objects (wx.RED, wx.RED_PEN, wx.RED_BRUSH, etc.) +are initialized. They are now created as uninitialized instances +using __new__. Then after the wx.App has been created, but before +OnInit is called, the .this attribute of each object is initialized. +This was needed because of some delayed initialization functionality +that was implemented in wxWidgets, but the end result is cleaner for +wxPython as well, and allowed me to remove some ugly code previously +hidden under the covers.

Added wx.StandardPaths.GetDocumentsDir.

Added wx.RendererNative.DrawCheckButton.

wx.ProgressDialog.Update now returns a tuple of two values. The first +is a continue flag (what was returned before) and the second is a skip +flag. If the dialog has the wx.PD_CAN_SKIP flag and if the Skip +button is clicked, then the skip flag is set to True the next time +Update is called.

A DeprecationWarning is now issued when the old wxPython package is +imported. If you are still using the old namespace please convert +your code to use the new wx package instead.

Added wrappers for Julian's new wxRichTextCtrl class, visible in +wxPython as wx.richtext.RichTextCtrl window. It still needs some more +work, but it is a great start.

wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin: Fixed the double END_LABEL_EDIT +event problem in TextEditMixin by checking if the editor was already +hidden before continuing with the CloseEditor method. Also added code +to OpenEditor to send the BEGIN_LABEL_EDIT event and to not allow the +opening of the editor to continue if the event handler doesn't allow +it.

wx.StaticBoxSizer now keeps better track of the wx.StaticBox, and it +will destroy it if the sizer is destroyed before the parent window is.

Added wx.HyperlinkCtrl.

Added battery and power related functions and events (wxMSW only so +far.) See wx.PowerEvent, wx.GetPowerType and wx.GetBatteryState.

Added wx.ListCtrl.HitTestSubItem which returns the sub-item (i.e. the +column in report mode) that was hit (if any) in addition to the item +and flags.

Added wrappers for wx.ColourPickerCtrl, wx.DirPickerCtrl, +wx.FilePickerCtrl, and wx.FontPickerCtrl.

Patch #1502016 wx.Image.ConvertToGreyscale now retains the alpha +channel.

Added wrappers for the wxAUI classes, in the wx.aui module.

Added the PseudoDC class from Paul Lanier. It provides a way to +record operations on a DC and then play them back later.

Upgraded to Scintilla 1.70 for wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl.

Added CanSetTransparent and SetTransparent methods to the +wx.TopLevelWindow class, with implementations (so far) for wxMSW and +wxMac.

SetDefaultItem() and GetDefaultItem() are now members of +wx.TopLevelWindow, not wx.Panel.

wxGTK: Stock items (icons) will be used for menu items with stock +IDs.

Added wx.lib.combotreebox from Frank Niessink

Added wx.ImageFromBuffer, wx.BitmapFromBuffer and +wx.BitmapFromBufferRGBA factory functions. They enable loading of an +image or bitmap directly from a Python object that implements the +buffer interface, such as strings, arrays, etc.

Added wx.App.IsDisplayAvailable() which can be used to determine if a +GUI can be created in the current environment. (Still need an +implementation for wxMSW...)

The wx.html.HTML_FONT_SIZE_x constants are no longer available as the +default sizes are now calculated at runtime based on the size of the +normal GUI font.

wx.Colour now includes an alpha component, which defaults to +wx.ALPHA_OPAQUE. This is in preparation for allowing various new +alpha blening functionality using wx.Colour objects, such as drawing +with pens and brushes on a wx.DC.

Added wx.NativePixelBuffer, wx.AlphPixelBuffer and related iterator +and accessor classes. They allow platform independent direct access +to the platform specific pixel buffer inside of a wx.Bitmap object.

The beginnings of support for RTL languages has been added, thanks to +a Google SoC project.

Added wx.lib.dragscroller from Riaan Booysen. It provides a helper +class that can used to scroll a wx.ScrolledWindow in response to a +mouse drag.

Applied patch 1551409: Adds support for indeterminate mode gauges.

wxMac: I've turned on the compile option for using the native toolbar +on the Mac now that it supports hosting of controls. If the toolbar +is managed by the frame via either CreateToolBar() or SetToolBar() +then the native toolbar will be used. Additional toolbars, or +toolbars that are not children of the frame, are managed by sizers or +what-not will still use the emulated toolbar because of platform +restrictions in how/where the native toolbar can be used.

Added Python properties for many of the getter/setter methods of wx +classes. In order for the names to be predicatble for somebody +already familiar with wxPython the property names are simply the name +of the getter with the "Get" dropped. For example, wx.Window has a +property named "Size" that maps to GetSize and SetSize. So far there +is only one known name conflict using this naming convention, and that +is wx.KeyEvent.KeyCode, however since KeyCode was formerly a +compatibility alias for GetKeyCode (and has been for a long time) it +was decided to just switch it to a property. If you want to use the +method then change your calls to event.KeyCode() to +event.GetKeyCode(), otherwise you can use it as a property just by +dropping the parentheses.

Updated the C++ code for wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl from the wxCode +project. This has resulted in some minor API changes, most of which +were worked around in the wrapper code.

Added wx.lib.delayedresult from Oliver Schoenborn.

Added wx.lib.expando, a multi-line textctrl that expands as more lines +are needed.

wx.Image.Scale and Rescale methods now take an extra parameter +specifying type of method to use for resampling the image. It +defaults to the current behavior of just replicating pixels, if +wx.IMAGE_QUALITY_HIGH is passed then it uses bicubic and box averaging +resampling methods for upsampling and downsampling respectively.

Added the wx.lib.buttonpanel module, which is a tweaked version of +Andrea Gavana's FancyButtonPanel module.

Added the wx.lib.flatnotebook module, from Andrea Gavana.

Renamed wx.FutureCall to wx.CallLater so it is named more like +wx.CallAfter. wx.FutureCall is now an empty subclass of wx.CallLater +for compatibility of older code.

Added the wx.lib.customtreectrl module from Andrea Gavana.

Added ChangeSelection to wx.BookCtrl (the base class for wx.Notebook +and other book controls) that is the same as SetSelection but doesn't +send the change events.

Added wx.TextCtrl.ChangeValue() which is the same as SetValue() but +doesn't send the text changed event.

For consistency, all classes having an Ok() method now also have +IsOk(), use of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't +been deprecated yet

Added the wx.AboutBox() function and wx.AboutDialogInfo class. They +provide a way to show a standard About box for the application, which +will either be a native dialog or a generic one depending on what info +is provided and if it can all be shown with the native dialog.

The code in the animate contrib has been moved into the core wxWidgets +library, and refactored a bit along the way. For wxPython it still +exists in the wx.animate module, but has basically been reduced to two +classes, wx.animate.Animation, and wx.animate.AnimationCtrl. You load +the animated GIF (and hopefully there will be other supported formats +in the near future) in the Animation object, and then give that to the +AnimatedCtrl for display. See the demo for an example. There is also +still a GIFAnimationCtrl class that provides some level of backwards +compatibility with the old implementation.

wxMac: The compile option that turns on the use of CoreGraphics (a.k.a +Quartz) for wxDC is now turned on by default. This means that all +drawing via wxDC is done using the new APIs from apple, instead of the +old Quick Draw API. There are, however, a few places where Quartz and +wxDC don't fit together very well, mainly the lack of support for +logical drawing operations such as XOR, but there is work in progress +to provide other ways to do the same sort of thing that will work with +Quartz and also on the other platforms.

The first parts of a new 2D drawing API has been added with the +wx.GraphicsPath and wx.GraphicsContext classes. They wrap GDI+ on +Windows, Cairo on wxGTK and CoreGraphics on OS X. They allow path-based +drawing with alpha-blending and anti-aliasing, and use a floating +point cooridnate system. Currently they can only target drawing to +windows, but other wx.DC backends are forthcoming. The APIs may +evolve a bit more before they are finalaized with the 2.8 release, but +there is enough there now to get a good feel for how things will work. +There is also a transitional wx.GCDC class that provides the wx.DC API +on top of wx.GraphicsContext. Docs and a demo are still MIA.

Added a wx.AutoBufferedPaintDC that is a subclass of wx.PaintDC on +platforms that do double buffering by default, and a subclass of +wx.BufferedPaintDC on the platforms that don't. You can use this +class to help avoid the overhead of buffering when it is not +needed. There is also a wx.AutoBufferedPaintDCFactory function that +does a little more and actually tests if the window has +double-buffering enabled and then decides whether to return a +wx.PaintDC or wx.BufferedPaintDC. This uses the new +wx.Window.IsDoubleBuffered method.

2.6.3.3

15-July-2006

wx.lib.pubsub updates from Oliver Schoenborn:

fixed the hash problem with non-hashable objects
now supports listeners that use *args as an argument +(listener(*args) was not passing the validity test)
corrected some mistakes in documentation
added some clarifications (hopefully useful for first time +users)
changed the way singleton is implemented since old way prevented +pydoc etc from extracting docs for Publisher

DocView and ActiveGrid IDE updates from Morgan Hua:

New Features: In Tab-View mode, Ctrl-number will take the user to +the numbered tab view. Modified files now show an '*' astrisk in +the view title. Debugger framework can now support PHP debugging. +Not important for python development, but at least that means the +debugger framework is more generalized.

Undeprecated wx.GetNumberFromUser and added wx.NumberEntryDialog.

Made necessaary changes for building wxPython for Python 2.5. There +may still be some issues related to the new Py_ssize_t type and 64-bit +machines, but at least all compile errors and warnings related to it +have been resolved.

2.6.3.2

3-April-2006

Fixed reference leak in wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl.GetSelections.

wxMSW: Fixed sizing issue with wx.Choice and wx.ComboBox. This change +was implemented by reverting a prior fix for a different problem +(contiuous painting/resizing when a combobox is used as a widget in a +wx.html.HtmlWindow) so a method to fix both problems is still being +investigated.

wxGTK: Fixed potential buffer overrun when pasting from the +clipboard.

Fixed problem in wx.lib.splitter when used on 64-bit platforms. Used +the current length of the list for specifying an append instead of +sys.maxint.

wxMSW: Support added for XP themed owner drawn buttons and bitmap +buttons. For example, if you change the foreground color of a button +it will now be drawn with the XP themed style rather than an ugly +generic button style.

XRCed: Fix for Copy/Paste objects with international characters.

Fixed the equality and inequality operators for some of the basic +data types (wx.Point, wx.Size, wx.Colour, etc.) to no longer raise a +TypeError if the compared object is not compatible, but to just return +a boolean as expected. For example:

+wx.Colour(64,0,64) == 123      ==> False
+

wxMSW: Fixed (again) sizing/positioning issues of calling Realize on +a wx.ToolBar that is not manaaged directly by a frame and that is +already shown.

wxMSW: Fixed wx.Choice/wx.ComboBox so they send events when a new item +is selected only with the keyboard.

2.6.3.0

27-March-2006

Change the wx.ListCtrl InsertStringItem wrapper to use the form that +takes an imageIndex, and set the default to -1. This ensures that on +wxMSW that if there is an image list but they don't specify an image, +the native control doesn't use one anyway.

wxMSW: wx.ListCtrl in report mode is now able to support images in +other columns besides the first one. Simply pass an image index to +SetStringItem. For virtual list controls you can specify the image to +use on the extra columns by overriding OnGetItemColumnImage in your +derived class. It is passed the item number and the column number as +parameters, and the default version simply calls OnGetItemImage for +column zero, or returns -1 for other columns.

Switched to using SWIG 1.3.27 for generating the wrapper code. There +are some small changes needed to SWIG to work around some bugs that +wxPython exposes, and to be able to generate code that matches that +which wxPython is using. If you are building wxPython yourself and +need to modify any of the *.i files or to add your own, then you will +want to be sure to use a matching SWIG. See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt +in the source tarball for details.

wx.Image.Copy, Mirror, and GetSubImage now also do the right thing +with the alpha channel.

wxMSW: Fixed problem in wx.TextCtrl where using SetValue and +wx.TE_RICH2 would cause the control to be shown if it was hidden.

wxMSW: Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys in +key events.

wxMSW: Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control +correctly if an extra row is removed or added.

wxMSW: On XP fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation +not available in the themed version.

Added wx.Toolbar.GetToolsCount.

Added wx.GridSizer.CalcRowsCols.

Added wx.OutputStream.LastWrite.

wxGTK: EVT_SET_CURSOR is now sent.

wxGTK: Fix RequestMore for idle events.

wxGTK: Implement user dashes for PS and GNOME printing.

wxGTK: Correct update region code. Don't always invalidate the whole +window upon resize. Reenable support for thewx.NO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE +flag. Also disable refreshing custom controls when focusing in and out.

wx.lib.pubsub: Publisher is now able to parse a dotted notation string +into a topic tuple. For example: subscribing to "timer.clock.seconds" +is the same as subscribing to ("timer", "clock", "seconds").

Applied patch #1441370: lib.plot - allow passing in wx.Colour()

Added wx.CommandEvent.GetClientData.

Updated wxStyledTextCtrl to use version 1.67 of Scintilla. +NOTE: The STC_LEX_ASP and STC_LEX_PHP lexers have been deprecated, +you should use STC_LEX_HTML instead.

wxSTC: Implemented Fix for SF Bug #1436503. Delay the start of the +DnD operation in case the user just intended to click, not drag.

Updated the analogclock.py module to the new analogclock package from +E. A. Tacao.

Added the wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.CheckListCtrlMixin class from Bruce +Who, which makes it easy to put checkboxes on list control items.

Applied a patch from Christian Kristukat to wx.lib.plot that adds +scrollbars when the plot is zoomed in, and also the ability to grab a +zoomed plot and move it around with a mouse drag.

XRCed updated to allow wxMenuBar to be created inside a wxFrame.

Added wx.StandardPaths.GetDocumentsDir() (patch 1214360)

2.6.2.1

10-Jan-2006

wxMSW: Fix for bug #1211907, popup menu indenting inconsistent with +bitmaps.

wxMac: Don't send an event for wx.RadioButton deselections, just the +selections. This was done to make it consistent with the other +platforms.

wxMSW: Always set flat toolbar style, even under XP with themes: this +is necessary or separators aren't shown at all.

Fixes for bug #1217872, pydocview.DocService not correctly initialized.

Fix for bug #1217874, Error in parameter name in DocManager.CreateView.

Added wrappers for the wx.RendererNative class.

Added the wx.lib.splitter module, which contains the +MultiSplitterWindow class. This class is much like the standard +wx.SplitterWindow class, except it allows more than one split, so it +can manage more than two child windows.

Docview and IDE patch from Morgan Hua with fix for bug #1217890 +"Closing view crashes Python" plus some new features:

+New feature added to the IDE is 'Extensions'. Under +Tools|Options|Extensions, you can add calls to external programs. +For example you can add a "Notepad" extension (under windows) that +will exec Notepad on the currently open file. A new "Notepad" +menu item will appear under the Tools menu.

Some fixes to XRCed to make encoding errors a bit more user friendly.

XRCed changes from Roman Rolinsky:

+
+
Added new controls (Choicebook, Listbook, StatusBar, +DatePicker), and completed style flags. Test window is opened +for an available parent control if no specific view +defined. Better handling of exceptions (highlighting does not +'stick' anymore).
+
Use system clipboard for Copy/Paste.
+
Improved some dialogs (window styles, growable cols). Changed +the range for wxSpinCtrl min/max to all integers (default 0/100 +is not always good).
+
+

Updates for wx.lib.foldpanelbar and wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea +Gavana.

Fix for Bug #1283496: wxPython TheClipboard class causes problems for +pychecker. Ensure the app has been created before initializing +wx.TheClipboard.

Fix for Bug #1352602: FileBrowseButtonWithHistory can't type in Value.

wxHTML: Added space after list item number.

wx.lib.printout: Applied patch #1384440.

wxMSW: Fix for Bug #1293225 Window_FromHWND crashes if parent is +None.

Fix for Bug #1261669, use a wx.TE_RICH2 style for the Process demo so +it doesn't fill up too soon.

Applied Patch #1354389: wxPython MenuItem SetBitmaps fix.

Applied Patch #1239456: wxPython wx.DataObject.GetAllFormats fix.

Applied Patch # #1230107 which allows image handlers to be written in +Python by deriving from wx.PyImageHandler.

Applied patch #1072210: generalize printout.py to allow text printing.

Applied patch #1243907: Give Throbber much more flexibility by +allowing the user to set the rest image, the direction, the current +index, custom sequence. Allows user to manually step through the +sequence with Next(), Previous(), Increment(), Decrement() & +SetCurrent(). Very handy if you have multiple throbbers that you want +to synchronize with a single timer.

Fix for bug #1336711: wx.lib.calendar.CalenDlg can yield incorrect +result.

Applied patch from Morgan Hua for updates to ActiveGrid code +(pydocview, ActiveGrid IDE, etc.)

Applied patch #1326241: Supporting "setup.py install --install-headers=path"

Applied patch from Morgan Hua to fix bug #1219423: CommandManager +should not repeat old commands after a branch.

Applied patch #1238825 adding search backward capabilities to the +demo. Modified to use the up/down options in the wx.FindReplaceDialog +instead of a separate menu item.

Fix for bug #1266745 and #1387725 in the wx.FindReplaceDialog on MSW. +Actually check we are using MSLU before doing the hack designed to +workaround a bug in MSLU!

wxMSW: wx.lib.iewin.IEHtmlWindow now properly handles tabbing, return +and other special keys properly.

Lots of PyCrust enhancments started by Franz Steinaeusler, Adi Sieker, +and Sebastian Haase, and which in turn were further enhanced, fixed +tweaked and finished up by me. The changes include the following:

+
+
The Autocomplete and Calltip windows can now be opened manually +with Ctrl-Space and Ctrl-Shift-Space.
+
In the stand alone PyCrust app the various option settings, +window size and position, and etc. are saved and restored at the +next run.
+
Added a help dialog bound to the F1 key that shows the key +bindings.
+
Added a new text completion function that suggests words from +the history. Bound to Shift-Return.
+
F11 will toggle the maximized state of the frame.
+
switched to Bind() from wx.EVT_*().
+
Display of line numbers can be toggled.
+
F12 toggles a "free edit" mode of the shell buffer. This mode +is useful, for example, if you would like to remove some output +or errors or etc. from the buffer before doing a copy/paste. +The free edit mode is designated by the use of a red, +non-flashing caret.
+
Ctrl-Shift-F will fold/unfold (hide/show) the selected lines.
+
General code cleanup and fixes.
+
Use wx.StandardPaths to determine the location of the config +files.
+
Use wx.SP_LIVE_UPDATE on crust and filling windows.
+
Extended the saving of the config info and other new features to +the PyShell app too. Additionally, other apps that embed a +PyCrust or a PyShell can pass their own wx.Config object and +have the Py code save/restore its settings to/from there.
+
All of the classes with config info get an opportunity to +save/load their own settings instead of putting all the +save/load code in one place that then has to reach all over the +place to do anything.
+
Enable editing of the startup python code, which will either be +the file pointed to by PYTHONSTARTUP or a file in the config dir +if PYTHONSTARTUP is not set in the environment.
+
Added an option to skip the running of the startup code when +PyShell or PyCrust starts.
+
PyCrust adds a pp(item) function to the shell's namespace that +pretty prints the item in the Display tab of the notebook. +Added code to raise that tab when pp() is called.
+
Added an option for whether to insert text for function +parameters when popping up the call tip.
+
Added Find and Find-Next functions that use the +wx.FindReplaceDialog.
+
+

Applied patches from Will Sadkin for wx.lib.masked modules:

+
+
Now ignores kill focus events when being destroyed.
+
Added missing call to set insertion point on changing fields.
+
Modified SetKeyHandler() to accept None as means of removing +one.
+
Fixed keyhandler processing for group and decimal character +changes.
+
Fixed a problem that prevented input into the integer digit of a +integerwidth=1 numctrl, if the current value was 0.
+
Fixed logic involving processing of "_signOk" flag, to remove +default sign key handlers if false, so that +SetAllowNegative(False) in the NumCtrl works properly.
+
Fixed selection logic for numeric controls so that if +selectOnFieldEntry is true, and the integer portion of an +integer format control is selected and the sign position is +selected, the sign keys will always result in a negative value, +rather than toggling the previous sign.
+
+

wx.FontMapper.SetConfig is deprecated. You should instead just set an +application-wide config object with wx.Config.Set, which wx.FontMapper +will use by default.

Added wx.GetMouseState which returns the current state of the mouse. +It returns an instance of a wx.MouseState object that contains the +current position of the mouse pointer in screen coordinants, as well +as boolean values indicating the up/down status of the mouse buttons +and the modifier keys.

Added wx.SizerItem.SetUserData

A variety of updates to wx.lib.floatcanvas, including Added +DrawObjects, including a ScaledTextBox, with auto-wrapping, etc, and +Scaled and Unscaled Bitmap Objects.

+WARNING: Changed all DrawObjects to take an (x,y) pair rather +than individual x,y parameters. Also changed rectangles and +ellipses to take (w,h) pair. This is an API change, but should +be easy to accommodate, all you need to do is add a parenthesis +pair: (...x, y, ...) ---> (...(x,y), ...)

2.6.1.0

4-June-2005

wx.ListCtrl: patch #1210352, fixes editing in generic wx.ListCtrl with +wx.LC_EDIT_LABELS.

Applied patch #208286, MediaCtrl DirectShow rewrite.

DocView patches from Morgan Hua: bug fixes, and additional SVN +commands, also added a default template that uses the text editor for +any unknown file type.

wxMSW: Use the system IDC_HAND cursor for wx.CURSOR_HAND and only fallback +to the strange wxWidgets version if the system one is not available.

wx.grid.Grid: Merge the cell size attribute the same way that other +attributes are merged, e.g., if it is already set to a non-default +value in the current GridCellAttr object then don't merge from the +other.

wx.lib.evtmgr: Fixed to use wx._core._wxPyDeadObject

wx.lib.gridmovers: Don't scroll when the mouse is dragged outside of +the grid, unless the mouse is kept in motion.

wxMSW: Applied patch #1213290 incorrect logic in +wx.TopLevelWindow.ShowFullScreen.

Applied patch #1213066 correct device names for Joystick in Linux.

wxGTK: Applied patch #1207162 wx.TextCtrl.SetStyle fix for overlapping +calls.

wx.FileConfig: fixed DeleteEntry to set the dirty flag properly so the +change will get written at the next flush.

2.6.0.1

30-May-2005

Added wx.BrushFromBitmap to create a stippled brush in a single step. +Also added missing brysh style flags: wx.STIPPLE_MASK +wx.STIPPLE_MASK_OPAQUE.

wxMSW: Fix for default control colours when the system text fg colour +is not black.

wxGTK: Patch #1171754, It is now possible to have a menu item that +both has an icon and is a submenu.

wxMSW: Patch #1197009, better refreshes when windows are moved and +resized.

wxMSW: Patch #1197468. Keeps track of pending size/position changes +in case there is more than one adjustment for a window in a single +DeferWindowPos set, then the pending values can be used for defaults +instead of current values.

Fixed the typemap that converts a Python list of strings to a +wxArrayString so it uses the wxPython default encoding.

Several docstrings added and updated. Lots more to go.

wxMac: Strings added to the clipboard or used in DnD no longer have an +extra null character at the end.

Added wx.GetXDisplay that returns a raw swigified pointer for the X11 +Display, or None for the non-X11 platforms.

wxMenu: Don't send an event when selecting an already selected radio +item.

Added wx.LaunchDefaultBrowser.

wxMSW: Fixed erroneous selection of content in wx.ComboBox when within +a wx.StaticBox.

wxMSW: Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.

Ensure that Python is still in an initialized state before doing any +locking or unlocking in wxPyBeginBlockThreads and wxPyEndBlockThreads +as these can be triggered after Python has been finalized in embedding +situations.

Added alternate constructors for wx.Font: wx.FontFromPixelSize, +wx.FFont, wx.FFontFromPixelSize. See the docstrings or new api docs +for details.

Added wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea Gavana. It is a control like +static text that acts like a hyper-link, launching the system's +default browser in response to the clicks.

Added an optional parameter to wxversion.select that allows you to +specify that the extra components specified in the version string are +required. For example, if you ask for "2.6-unicode" but only the ansi +version is installed then by default the ansi version will be selected +as it considered close enough since the version numbers match. If you +want to force the options to be required then you can just add a True +parameter, like this:

+import wxversion
+wxversion.select("2.6-unicode", True)
+import wx
+

Tweaked wx.lib.buttons such that flat buttons (e.g. have no bevel and +a wx.BORDER_NONE style flag) paint themed backgrounds if there are +transparent areas and the parent is displaying a theme.

wxMSW: Fix for wrong sash colour of wx.SplitterWindow in the silver +theme on XP.

Added a wx.xrc.XmlResourceHandler for the Ticker class. See +wx/lib/ticker_xrc.py

wxSTC: Fixed CmdKeyAssign key bindings for Ctrl-Backspace.

wxMSW: Fixed a bug in wx.TextCtrl where all the lines were being used +to calculate the best size, instead of using a reasonable limit.

XRCed: Use wx.GetDefaultPyEncoding/wx.SetDefaultPyEncoding for +changing active encoding. Fixed pasting siblings (Ctrl key pressed +while pasting).

wx.lib.filebrowsebutton: Bug fix from Chad Netzer for when +self.history is None.

wx.ogl: Patch from Davide Salomoni that adds an optional point +parameter to LineShape.InsertLineControlPoint allowing one to +optionally specify where the new control point has to be drawn.

wxMSW: setting foreground colour for wx.CheckBox now works when using +XP themes.

More updates to the docview library modules and sample apps from the +ActiveGrid folks. Their sample IDE is now able to integrate with +Subversion.

wx.grid.Grid: Ensure that the grid gets the focus when it is +left-clicked. Note that if you have custom widgets that handle the +EVT_LEFT_DOWN event but do not call event.Skip() then you will +probably want to add a call to self.SetFocus in the event handler.

wxGTK: Add wxSTAY_ON_TOP support [Patch 1206023]

wx.TreeCtrl: wx.EVT_TREE_ITEM_MENU event made consistent on all +platforms. The location of the click or the item is included in the +event as well.

wxGTK: Setting background colour of a window now only affects the +window itself, not the borders, scrollbars, etc. (Bug #1204069)

Print framework: Add more paper sizes and code to fallback to an +explicit paper size if a known paper size is not found for the +printer.

wxMac: Applied patch for bug #1206181 Option-key decodes are wrong, +also applied patch for bug #1205691 Modified Fn keys don't work.

wx.Image: Fixed to preserve alpha channel in Rotate90 method.

wxMSW: Fixed incorrect background colour on wx.CheckListBox.

wxMSW: Fixed drawing of owner drawn buttons with multiline labels

Removed a bunch of unnecessary files, and removed or replaced images +that we're not sure of their origin or license.

The default DoGetBestSize is updated to not always return the current +size if the window has no sizer, children, or minsize set. Instead +the current size is set as the minsize. This solves the occasional +problem where a sizer may cause a childless panel to grow but never +shrink.

wxMSW: When converting a wx.Icon to a bitmap check if the icon has an +alpha channel and set the bitmap to use it.

Fixed the wrong class name used in wx.PyScrolledWindow's call to +_setCallbackInfo.

wxMSW: patch #1207202, Fixes GDI leak when using stock cursors.

wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl: Patch #1207531, Keeps the CalendarCtrl wide +enough even when the weekday names for the locale are shorter than +usual.

Made GridCellNumberEditor.StartingKey also insert the typed char when +there is a range of allowed values (so a wx.SpinCtrl is used instead +of a wx.TextCtrl.)

2.6.0.0

26-Apr-2005

wxMSW: Fixed wx.TransientPopupWindow (and therefore wx.TipWindow) to +auto-dismiss when the mouse is clicked outside of the popup like it is +supposed to.

wxMSW: Fixed bug #1167891 wx.Notebook display problem with wx.NB_MULTILINE.

wxMSW: Fixed bad cliping of hidden windows inside of wx.StaticBox.

wxGTK: The configure flags for selecting GTK+ 1.2.x or 2.x has +changed slightly. It is now --with-gtk[=VERSION] where VERSION is +either '1', '2' or 'any'. The default is '2'.

wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the following methods for alternate ways +to set and fetch text from the document buffer. They work similarly +to the existing methods of the same name, except that they don't go +through the same string/unicode <--> wxString conversions. The "Raw" +methods will do no conversions at all and in a unicode build of +wxPython the strings will be in the utf-8 encoding and in an ansi +build no assumption is made about the encoding. The "UTF8" functions +will attempt to always get/set utf-8 text, which it will always be +able to do in a unicode build, and in an ansi build it will depend on +the content of the utf-8 used being compatible with the current +encoding, (you'll get an exception otherwise.)

+ ++++ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

AddTextRaw AddTextUTF8
InsertTextRaw InsertTextUTF8
GetCurLineRaw GetCurLineUTF8
GetLineRaw GetLineUTF8
GetSelectedTextRaw GetSelectedTextUTF8
GetTextRangeRaw GetTextRangeUTF8
SetTextRaw SetTextUTF8
GetTextRaw GetTextUTF8
AppendTextRaw AppendTextUTF8
+

wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the StyleSetFontEncoding(style, enc) +method that allows you to set the encoding to be used by the font for +a particular style.

wxMac: Fixed wx.ComboBox to forward the EVT_CHAR, EVT_KEY_DOWN, +EVT_KEY_UP and EVT_TEXT events from its embedded text control.

wxMac: Corrected refresh bugs in wxGrid.

XRCed: Updated to version 0.1.5.

Added wxWizard, wxWizardPageSimple (only from pull-down menu).
Hide command for test window.
Replacing classes works better.
Added Locate tool.

2.5.5.1

8-Apr-2005

wxMSW: Fixed bug #1022383, 'several ComboBoxes appear selected'

wx.grid.Grid: Fixed bug #1163384. Moved the code that handles +activating the cell editors to a EVT_CHAR event handler. This is done +so the character inserted into the editor will be the "cooked" char +value (including accented or composed keys) rather than the raw code +provided by the EVT_KEY_DOWN event.

Added orient parameter to wx.MDIParentFrame.Tile()

wxMSW: wxTextCtrl with wx.TE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if +available.

Added GetCount, GetCountRGB, and GetCountColour methods to +wx.ImageHistogram.

wxMSW: wx.Window.Refresh changed to explicitly refresh all children as +well as the parent. Previously it was implicitly done because parents +did not clip their children by default. Now that they always clip +children then Refresh needed to be fixed to do a recursive refresh. +This also fixes the Freeze/Thaw problems that some people had with +2.5.4.1.

wx.SplitterWindow: Send EVT_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED only once after +end of dragging and not after each CHANGING event (modified patch +#1076226)

wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas: applied patch fixing problems with X server +crash when using nVidia cards (patch 1155132)

wx.lib.mixins.listctrl: Patches from Toni Brkic:

Bugfix for TextEditMixin when the view can't be scrolled
Enhancement for ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin, allowing it to manage +the width of any column.

wxMac: removal and reusing toolbar tools like the other platforms is +now possible.

wxMac: Correct radio tool selection after calling Realize a 2nd time.

wxMSW: Applied patch #1166587, removes all flicker from wx.StaticBox

Added wx.lib.foldpanelbar, Andrea Gavana's port of Jorgen Bodde's C++ +wxFoldPanelBar classes to Python.

wxGTK: Applied patch #1173802, reimplementation of GtkFileChooser +wxFileDialog by Mart Raudsepp. Note that this new file dialog is only +used on GTK2 >= 2.4. For earlier GTK2 versions and GTK1 then the +older generic file dialog is used.

wxMSW: fixes to static box borders calculations (finalizes patch +#1166587)

wx.Image: Use Python's buffer interface API for all image data and +alpha Set/Get methods and the ImageFromData* constructors. They all +still copy the buffer except for SetDataBuffer and SetAlphaBuffer, but +this gives more flexibility on where the data can come from.

Added MDI support to XRC

Added wx.animate module and a demo. The wx.animate module provides a +control that is able to display an animated GIF file.

wx.lib.plot.py: Applied patch from Werner F. Bruhin that allows either +vertical and/or horizontal gridlines.

wxMSW: Extra space given for top border of wx.StaticBoxSizer so the +upper line is not cliped when there is no label.

wxMSW: Restored old behaviour of wx.StaticBox.SetBackgroundColour only +affecting the label.

wxMSW: Fixed missing EVT_RIGHT_DOWN and EVT_TREE_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK +events in a wx.TreeCtrl.

Added wx.GetTopLevelWindows() function which returns a copy of the +list of top-level windows that currently exist in the application.

Updated docview library modules and sample apps from the ActiveGrid +folks.

Added the ActiveGrid IDE as a sample application.

2.5.4.1

16-Mar-2005

wx.Sizer Add, Insert, and Prepend functions now return a reference to the +wx.SizerItem that was added to the sizer, and the wx.SizerItem has a +GetRect accessor to give the position of the item on the parent window.

Added wx.Sizer.GetItem method which returns the wx.SizerItem for the given +wx.Window, wx.Sizer or position index.

wxMSW: wx.RadioButtons in the same group no longer have to be +consecutive (there may be intervening controls). Without this fix, an +out-of-sync assert is generated when clicking on a radio button and +then calling GetValue().

Some XRC changes:

Added 'icon' property to wxFrame and wxDialog
No longer ignores menu bitmaps on non-MSW platforms
Notebook page bitmaps are now supported
added system colours and fonts support (based on patch #1038207)

wxMSW: fix for [ 1052989 ] TextCtrl.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NullColour) +bug.

Added wx.PasswordEntryDialog analagous to wx.TextEntryDialog, allows +detecting entering an empty string vs. cancel unlike the +wx.GetPasswordFromUser dialog function.

OGL patch from Shane Holloway:

+
Two simple problems found in the new python ogl code. First is +the patch for _canvas.py. Essentially:
+
+dx = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceX(x - self._firstDragX))
+dy = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceY(y - self._firstDragY))
+
+
was incorrect because (x,y) and (self._firstDragX, +self._firstDragY) are both already in Logical coordinates. +Therefore the difference between the two is also in logical +coordinates, and the conversion call is an error. This bug +surfaces when you have OGL on a scrollwin, and you are far from +the origin of the canvas.
+
The second change in _composit.py basically removes the assumption +that the child is in both self._children and self._divisions. +Causes many problems when it's not. ;)
+

Fixed GetSaveData and SetSaveData in wx.lib.multisash to not depend on +the default way that class objectss are converted to strings.

Fixed problem in StyledTextCtrl.Set[HV]ScrollBar that could leave the +internal scrollbar visible.

Added wx.StandardPaths which provides methods for determining standard +system paths for each platform.

wxMSW: The window background is now only erased by default if the +background colour or background mode has been changed. This better +allows the default system themed behaviour to show through for +uncustomized windows. Explicit support added for using the correct +theme texture for wx.Notebook pages and their children.

wx.Image: Added support for alpha channels in interpolated and +non-interpolated image rotation. Added ConvertAlphaToMask helper +method for turning shades of grey into shades of alpha and a colour.

wxGTK2: Reimplemented DoDrawRotatedText() by way of a rotation of an +alpha blended text bitmap. It would be better if Pango could draw +directly into an wxImage (as FreeType can,) but that is for later...

Added wrappers and a demo for the wx.MediaCtrl class, which can play +various forms of audio/video media using native codecs install on the +system. So far it is only implemented for Windows and OSX.

wxGTK: Patch applied for Freeze()/Thaw() for wxTextCtrtl.

Added "gravity" for splitter window (patch 1046105). Gravity is a +floating-point factor between 0.0 and 1.0 which controls position of +sash while resizing the wx.SplitterWindow. The gravity specifies +how much the left/top window will grow while resizing.

wxMSW: wx.Slider's C++ implementation rewritten to be more +maintainable and hopefully less buggy. The position of the labels has +also been changed in order to better comply with Microsoft's examples +of how to use the control.

wxMSW: Fix wx.TreeCtrl to end label editing if the control loses +focus (a slightly modified patch 1084592.)

Added wx.EXEC_NODISABLE flag for wx.Execute, which will prevent all +the app's windows being disabled while a synchronous child process is +running.

wxMSW: Much work to correct painting (or leaving transparent) of +control backgrounds, properly using background themes on XP, etc.

Fixed a circular reference problem with wx.Timer. It will now +completely cleanup after itself when the last reference to the timer +is removed. If you were previously using timer.Destroy() to cleanup +your timers it will no longer work. Instead you should hold a +reference to the timer and then del the reference when you are +finished with the timer.

Updated to 1.3.24 of SWIG. All of my big patches have been applied to +the main SWIG source tree, but unfortunatly there were also some bugs +added that affected the wxPython build and a few details in my +original patch were changed/removed, so we are still not free of +patches. A new patch for SWIG is located in the wxPython/SWIG +directory of the wxPython source tree. SWIG 1.3.24 plus this patch +should be used by anyone who is making custom modifications to +wxPython's .i files, or building their own extension modules or +etc. that need to interact with the wxPython swigged types. For the +morbidly curious, here are a few more details:

+
+
Since it is now possible easily and simply share the SWIG type +tables across modules I reverted to always using the stock SWIG +runtime instead of my slightly hacked up version of it exported +via the wxPython C API.
+
The %name directive is now deprecated so I replaced most uses of +it with a custom %Rename macro that uses %rename internally. +These will evetually need to be replaced with a DocDecl macro +when docstrings are added for those items.
+
The "this" attribute of all SWIGged classes is no longer a +string containing a "swigified pointer", but rather a custom +built-in type that holds the real C pointer to the object and +the type info. It can be converted to a string like the old +value using str() or to the long integer value of the pointer +using long().
+
+

Added SetDefaultPyEncoding and GetDefaultPyEncoding functions which +will set/get the encoding used by wxPython to convert string or +unicode objects to/from wxString objects. Previously the default +Python encoding was always used, but unless the user had tweaked their +sitecustomize.py file it is always "ascii", which would result in +errors if the strings contained character codes >= 128. +SetDefaultPyEncoding will now allow you to control which encoding will +be used to do those conversions. The default encoding is set to the +value of locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] when wxPython is first +imported. Please see http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html +for information on the differences between the common latin/roman +encodings.

Added wxStdDialogButtonSizer, which is a a special sizer that knows +how to order and position standard buttons in order to conform to the +current platform's standards. You simply need to add each wx.Button +to the sizer, and be sure to create the buttons using the standard +ID's. Then call Realize and the sizer will take care of the rest.

wxMSW Toolbar: pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to the +EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED handler

wxGTK: Applied patch for combo box SELECTED events (no longer get +lots of surplus events)

wxGTK: Applied patch for proper menu highlight colour detection in +wx.SystemSettings.

wxGTK: Commited scrollbar patch #1093339 which sends lineup, linedown +events based on intercepting the mouse down events.

wxGTK: Applied patch #1102789 which solved conflicts between wxWidgets +and GTK+'s context menu code.

wxGTK: Applied patch #1100327 for correct feedback from DND actions +(not all actions are allowed).

Fixed memory leak in wxGrid::UpdateAttr[Rows][Or][Cols] (patch 1104355)

For efficiency reasons, text controls no longer set the string for +each text updated event, but rather query for the string value only +when GetString is called from an event handler.

Added wx.SL_INVERSE style which will cause wx.Slider to invert the min +and max ends of the slider.

Several patches applied, such as #1111174, #1110252 and others, that +make the generic wx.TreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac) be more +conistent with the wxMSW native wx.TreeCtrl.

XRCed:

Edit->Locate command (Ctrl-L) for quick selection of items. +Works with event-handling controls (buttons, text fields) but +not with labels/sizers.
Some improvements: relative paths for files supplied as command- +line argument work correctly, notebook panels are highlighted +better.

wxMac: Fixed a long-standing issue where wxSlider controls with a +hardcoded size would misplace their labels behind the slider control.

wx.HtmlListBox fixed so calling RefreshLine(s) will cause the data for +that line to be refetched from the overridden methods in the derived +class.

The default DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between +the client size and total size of the window, (such as the size of +borders.) Code that sets the client size using the best size, or that +added extra space to sizers to compensate for this bug may need to be +changed.

Can suppress themed notebook pages with the wxNB_NOPAGETHEME style or +setting system option msw.notebook.themed-background to 0.

wxSyledTextCtrl updated to use Scintilla 1.62.

Can now set the msw.window.no-clip-children system option to 1 to +eliminate weird refresh behaviour (delays between a window being +erased and repainted, giving a ghostly gradual-redraw effect). May be +a temporary 'fix' until properly fixed before 2.6.

wxMac: Toolbar is now more native looking with borderless toolbar +buttons.

wxMac: Switched wx.Bitmap to use newer Quartz object types and APIs +internally. This results in faster display and better alpha support.

Added wx.DatePickerCtrl.

wx.html.HtmlWindow now supports background images.

Added wx.lib.gestures module from Daniel Pozmanter which supports +using Mouse Gestures in an application.

wxGTK2: ENTER and LEAVE mouse events are now sent for multi-line text +controls.

wxMSW: "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not +WXK_MENU

Added modules from Peter Yared and Morgan Hua that implement the wx +Doc/View framework in pure Python code. See wx.lib.docview for the +base implementation and wx.lib.pydocview for Python-specific +extensions. There are also a couple sample applications located in +samples/docview.

Added GetBitmap, GetIcon to wx.ImageList.

wxGTK wx.Button.SetLabel no longer invalidates/resets the font.

wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer and etc. have now been +undeprecated at the request of Riaan Booysen, the Boa Constructor team +lead. Boa needs them to help keep track of what kind of item is being +managed by the sizer. They are now just simple compatibility aliases +for Add, and etc.

The old C++ version of the OGL lib is no longer built by default. Use +the Python version in the wx.lib.ogl package instead.

The wx.iewin module is no longer built by default. You can use the +wx.lib.iewin version instead.

Fixed wx.BufferedPaintDC for scrolled windows to work whether the +buffer is covering only the client area or the full virtual area of +the scrolled window. By default it will assume that only the client +area is covered. This is different than the old behavior so to +indicate that the entire virtual area is covered simply add a +style=wx.BUFFER_VIRTUAL_AREA parameter.

wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl: Add support for the EVT_TREE_ITEM_GETTOOLTIP +event.

Added Resize, SetRGBRect, Size, and GetOrFindMaskColour methods to +wx.Image.

Added wx.Rect.IsEmpty

wxGTK:

Corrected wx.ListBox selection handling
Corrected default button size handling for different themes
Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes
Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys

2.5.3.1

9-Nov-2004

wxMac focus and border refreshes corrected.

Updated internal PNG library.

wxMac fix for metal appearance on wx.ToolBar.

wx.grid.Grid fix allowing DoGetBestSize to be called before CreateGrid +(which means that a min size doesn't need to be specified.)

wxMac fix for not sending a native click to a control if it is not +enabled (does an enable itself)

Added wx.lib.ogl.DrawnShape, and fixed various little bugs in the new +OGL.

Added support to XRC and XRCed for the 3-state checkbox flags and also +for wx.ToggleButton. Updated the generic window styles supported by +XRCed.

It is now possible to create "stock" buttons. Basically this means +that you only have to provide one of the stock IDs (and either an +empty label or a label that matches the stock label) when creating the +button and wxWidgets will choose the stock label to go with it +automatically. Additionally on the platforms that have a native +concept of a stock button (currently only GTK2) then the native stock +button will be used. For example, the following will result in a +button with "Cancel" as the label and if run on wxGTK2 then there will +also be an image of a red X:

+b = wx.Button(parent, wx.ID_CANCEL)
+

Added wx.lib.ticker.Ticker class from Chris Mellon.

Fix some incorrect clipping regions in wxSTC on wxGTK.

Added wrapper for wx.grid.Grid.GetOrCreateCellAttr.

Removed my copy of distutils from the wxPython source tree. Now that +I am no longer doing builds on Python 2.1 the newest distutils is no +longer needed. (There is still one small bug in Python 2.2 distutils +on win32, but it is easily worked around.) This sovles the problem of +incorrect builds on some systems where the system installed distutils +has been patched to behave slightly differently, for example SuSE on +x86_64 or Chandler's build.

Updated to SWIG 1.3.22 (plus my patch.) See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt +in the source tree if you need to use SWIG when building your own copy +of wxPython, or other extension modules that need to integrate with +the wxPython modules.

Added wx.Frame.RequestUserAttention which, if the platform suports it, +will do something (such as flash the task bar item) to suggest to the +user that they should look at that window.

"Fixed" wx.grid.Grid.SetDefaultEditor and SetDefaultRenderer by making +them register the editor or renderer for the "string" data type.

Added depth param to wx.Image.ConvertToBitmap.

Extended the wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl class with methods that get/set +a Python datetime or date object. (These will only work with Python +2.3+) The methods are PySetDate, PyGetDate, PySetLowerDateLimit, +PySetUpperDateLimit, PySetDateRange, PyGetLowerDateLimit, and +PyGetUpperDateLimit. Also, CalendarEvent was extended with PySetDate +and PyGetDate methods.

wxMSW: SetBackgroundColour on a wx.Choice or a wx.ComboBox will now +also set the colour of the dropdown.

wxMac: MessageDialog now supports wx.NO_DEFAULT style

wxMSW: added AssociateHandle and DissociateHandle to wx.Window

wxMac: fix for toolbar tooltips

wx.Sizer.Show (and Hide) now take an optional parameter specifying if +the item to be shown should be searched for recursivly in subsizers, +and return a boolean value indicating if the item was found.

wxMSW: fixed MaximizeEvent generation in wx.Frame

wxMSW: fixed sending duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events

Smoother time estimation updates in wx.ProgressDialog (patch 992813)

Made wx.Listbook events more consistent with wx.Notebook ones (patch +1001271)

Fixed rounding errors in variable status bar panes widths computation +(patch 1030021)

Added possibility to specify printer bin (patch 910272)

wxMSW: fixed wx.ListCtrl's SetWindowStyleFlag() to not remove +WS_VISIBLE; also refresh the control automatically (closes bug +1019440)

Added wx.Choicebook, yet another notebook-like control.

wxMSW: Make radiobutton tab behaviour the same on MSW as in standard +MSW app, i.e. tab into the activated, not necessarily the first radio +button.

Added limited support for wxEventLoop (you can't derive from a +wx.PyEventLoop version yet...) Updated and moved the sample showing +how to replace the MainLoop to samples/mainloop/mainloop.py.

The C++ xrc lib has been moved out of contrib and into the core, so it +is always built by default. wxPython's build has also changed +accordingly and will build the xrc module as part of the core set of +modules built by default. If you were axplicitly using BUILD_XRC then +it will no longer be recognized as a build option, otherwise you +should notice no difference.

wxMac: Fixed radio toolbar buttons to correctly untoggle the others +when a new one is selected.

wxMac: Fixed GetLineLength and GetLineText for MLTE text controls

wxMac: wx.TaskBarIcon is implemented by allowing you to change the +app's icon on the Dock and also specifying a menu that should be +merged with the normal dock popup menu. See the MigrationGuide for +more details and a warning.

Added wx.TopLevelWindow.IsActive() which tells you if the frame or +dialog is or containts the active window with the keyboard focus.

Added ability to create a font based on pixel size rather than point +size via the FontFromPixelSize constructor.

Updated the Scintilla used by StyledTextCtrl to version 1.61

Improved image HitTest for TreeListCtrl.

Added wx.App.IsMainLoopRunning.

wxGTK: Make wxComboBox spit out a bit fewer surplus events when +holding down the mouse button.

wxGTK: Enable key based navigation through notebook tabs as in the +native control with Left and right keys. Support for vetoing.

FloatCanvas updates from Chris Barker

PyPlot updates from Gordon Williams:

Added bar graph demo
Modified line end shape from round to square.
Removed FloatDCWrapper for conversion to ints and ints in +arguments
Imported modules given leading underscore to name.
Added Cursor Line Tracking and User Point Labels.
Demo for Cursor Line Tracking and Point Labels.
Size of plot preview frame adjusted to show page better.
Added helper functions PositionUserToScreen and +PositionScreenToUser in PlotCanvas.
Added functions GetClosestPoints (all curves) and GetClosestPoint +(only closest curve) can be in either user coords or screen +coords.

MaskedEdit updates from Will Sadkin:

Added '*' mask char that means "all ansii chars" (ords 32-255)
Added proper unicode support to masked controls and wx.tools.dbg
Fixed two reported missing import bugs introduced by package +creation
Converted masked package doc strings to reST format for better +epydoc support
lots of doc string improvements and function hiding to better +reflect package's public contents.

Restructured the installer packages slightly to help facilitate having +multiple versions of wxPython installed at the same time. See the +Migrarion Guide for more information.

Applied patch from Pim Van Heuven that modifies 4 files:

wxPython/demo/ListCtrl_edit.py (new demo)
wxPython/demo/Main.py (include new demo in demo app)
wxPython/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py (several improvements to +TextEditMixin)
wxPython/wx/lib/wxpTag.py (some small fixes)

Added (thanks to Kevin Ollivier!) wrappers for wx.WebKitCtrl for the +OSX build. Other platforms will raise an exception if you try to use +it.

wxPython on OSX can now be built in Unicode mode, can support multiple +version installs, and comes with an uninstaller script.

2.5.2.8

27-Aug-2004

Predominantly a bug-fix release.

+
+
Fixed fatal error due to improper wrapping of wx.FSFile.
+
Fixed return type of EditableListBox.GetListCtrl
+
Give generic tree and list controls a DoGetBestSize so they play +nicer with sizers when there is no minimal size.
+
Some tweaks in the demo and samples to correct layout, some +flicker problems, and namespace use.
+
Add wx.Image.ConvertAlphaToMask
+
Minor corrections in wx.lib.dialogs
+
wx.FileHistory constructor now accepts the documented 2nd +parameter.
+
Corrections for exceptions in the new ogl
+
Fixed XRCed to not use reparenting of windows to implement caching +of property panels, since Reparent on wxMac is not implemented.
+
Add support for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL to the XRC handler for +wxScrolledWindow.
+
Add support for all wxListBox styles to the XRC handler for +wxCheckListBox.
+
Fix for wx.Listbook.DeleteAllPages to really delete everything.
+
wxGTK2 now supports alpha blended bitmap drawing
+
Made wx.grid.Grid play nicer with sizers.
+
etc.
+
+

2.5.2.7

14-Aug-2004

wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in +sizers. This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will +be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will +be used for the minimum size used by the sizer. The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE +flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in +that it will not call the window's methods to determine the new best +size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer +(or the size the window was created with) will always be used. Please +see the Sizers section in the Migration Guide for more details.

Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin. The modules are +now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked. Demos updated.

The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in 2.5.1.5 +have been reverted. The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the 2.4 +implemetation. In addition a set of renamed methods have been added +that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual +parameters.

Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows +all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.

Deprecated the wx.iewin module.

Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well +as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.

Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same +reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on +all platforms like normal windows. Also updated stattext.py and +buttons.py to handle attribute (font & colour) defaults and +inheritance the new way. If you have custom controls of your own you +should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be +done.

wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but +exist for backwards compatibility. The C++ version is now called +automatically when wxPython is initialized. Since all the handlers +are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only +a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary +problems.

Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to +track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions. Thanks go to +Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.

wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if +there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.

wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to +detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.

The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to "C" (compatibility) when +running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale +to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC +remaining compatible with "C".

Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the +wxCode project.

OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL! (Oops, sorry. A bit of my dramatic side +leaked out there...) The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor +of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl +contributed by Pierre Hjälm. This will hopefully greatly extend the +life of OGL within wxPython by making it more easily maintainable and +less prone to getting rusty as there seems to be less and less +interest in maintaining the C++ version. At this point there are just +a couple minor known compatibility differences, please see the +MigrationGuide file for details.

EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in +Scintilla for several releases now.

All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) class constructors and also +many toplevel functions and static methods will now check that a +wx.App object has already been created and will raise a +wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.

Added more default args as needed to allow most window types to be +constructed with only the parent window arg. In some cases other args +may be required for normal operation, but they can usually be set +after construction.

Removed the deprecated ErrorDialogs and PythonBitmaps modules. If you +were using these in your apps then please join wxPython-dev and assist +with a more modern reimplementation.

Added a new version (0.8.3) of FloatCanvas from Chris Barker. It's now +in a subpackage of wx.lib.

It is now possible to change the tab traversal order of controls on a +panel or dialog. For details see the new MoveAfterInTabOrder and +MoveBeforeInTabOrder methods of wx.Window.

Applied (and heavily modified) a patch from Eugene +<svip123@fastmail.fm> that allows the sample modules in the demo to be +edited and reloaded, all from within the demo. You can switch back +and forth between the default and your edited version, and any errors +ocurring upon the reload are reported on the Demo tab.

Added a menu item in the demo that will open a PyShell window that has +the app and demo frame preloaded in the namespace. This is another +good way to explore and play with the objects in the currently running +sample. For example, load the Button sample and then do the following +in the PyShell:

+>>> b = frame.demoPage.GetChildren()[0]
+>>> for x in range(0, 500, 10):
+...     b.Move((x, 50))
+...     app.Yield(True)
+...     wx.MilliSleep(10)
+

wxGTK: Applied wxNO_BORDER patch (#1098374) for text control and combo +box.

2.5.1.5 (the 'this is not a joke' release)

2-Apr-2004

(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 @@ -28,19 +1573,19 @@ 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 packages, 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 @@ -49,17 +1594,47 @@ want to put them.

different API.

Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.

wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!

wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been update to version 1.58 of Scintilla.

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 +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. 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.

+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.

2.4.2.4

1-Oct-2003

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 @@ -68,12 +1643,15 @@ demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.

Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.

Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.

2.4.1.2

19-Jun-2003

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 -be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use spam(*args, **kw) syntax +be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use spam(*args, **kw) syntax instead. Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more informative.

Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative. @@ -81,7 +1659,7 @@ Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython and wxWindows match.

Added the new wx "renamer" package that will dynamically import from the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --> FooBar. That means that -people can do imports without "import *" and can use names like +people can do imports without "import *" and can use names like wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame. This is phase 1 of a full transition to the new namespace.

Updated Scintilla to 1.52. I also changed it to use wxListCtrl @@ -120,8 +1698,11 @@ 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.

2.4.0.7

24-Mar-2003

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 @@ -139,20 +1720,29 @@ flag to turn it on. In most cases turning it into an exception (the default behavior) is enough. See below in the 2.3.4.1 notes for more details.

2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)

11-Mar-2003

The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I think I am testing in the future...

2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)

7-Mar-2003

A few little but annoying bug fixes.

Updated pycolourchooser.

Updated to 0.9b of PyCrust.

2.4.0.4

7-Mar-2003

Added missing wxRect methods

Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.

Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.

@@ -186,7 +1776,7 @@ present.

Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to always call them. The functions are:

 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
@@ -198,7 +1788,8 @@ wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
-wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName

+wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName +

Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.

The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a @@ -208,25 +1799,37 @@ doesn't have a standard place for them.

Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.

Updated to the 0.9a version of PyCrust

2.4.0.2

23-Jan-2003

Several bug fixes.

Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.

Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.

2.4.0.1

10-Jan-2003

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.

2.3.4.2

21-Dec-2002

Various bug fixes.

2.3.4.1

18-Dec-2002

Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.

Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.

Several bug fixes in wxWindows.

@@ -280,8 +1883,11 @@ windows when desired.

HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built and added a script to launch the doc viewer.

2.3.3.1

19-Sep-2002

Added wxSplashScreen.

Added wxGenericDirCtrl.

Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.

@@ -304,7 +1910,7 @@ wxFlexGridSizer.

Added wxBufferedDC.

Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla 1.40 to Scintilla 1.45, and then again to version 1.47, and one more time to 1.48! <wink>

UNICODE!

wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or disabled. Previous to wxPython 2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always @@ -423,15 +2029,21 @@ example.

Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.

Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.

2.3.2.1

20-Dec-2001

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.

2.3.2

11-Dec-2001

Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP, EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent, wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow, @@ -513,8 +2125,11 @@ SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more details.

2.3.1

10-Jul-2001

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.)

@@ -527,8 +2142,11 @@ subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...

Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.

Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran

2.3.0

22-May-2001

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 @@ -569,7 +2187,7 @@ the distutils that comes with Python 2.1.

Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.

Added wxToggleButton.

Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.

Added some methods to wxGrid:: GetCellHighlightPenWidth GetCellHighlightROPenWidth @@ -583,7 +2201,7 @@ GetGridCornerLabelWindow

2.2.6

2.2.7

19-Jun-2001

No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.

2.2.5

30-Jan-2001

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 @@ -670,8 +2294,11 @@ mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.

integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an XML-RPC server.

New in 2.2.2

26-Oct-2000

Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means @@ -707,19 +2334,28 @@ libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.

wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.

New in 2.2.1

22-Aug-2000

Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.

Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.

New in 2.2.0

17-Jul-2000

Added wxLog and friends.

Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.

Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.

New in 2.1.16

12-Jun-2000

Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the depressed state.

@@ -751,8 +2387,11 @@ OnCloseWindow OnScroll

Added wxSpinCtrl.

New in 2.1.15

25-Apr-2000

Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.

Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and @@ -792,8 +2431,11 @@ can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)

What's new in 2.1.13

3-Feb-2000

Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.

Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK and some flicker problems.

@@ -825,7 +2467,7 @@ but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool methods look like this:

-
+

def AddTool(ID,

bitmap, pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap, @@ -855,8 +2497,11 @@ package.
than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)

What's new in 2.1.11

13-Nov-1999

Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all syncronized.

wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to @@ -873,7 +2518,7 @@ an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().

Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.

Added new HTML printing classes.

Added wxWindow.GetHandle

Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been depreciated in wxWindows as +

Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been deprecated in wxWindows as it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a wxPoint.)

@@ -890,14 +2535,20 @@ Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.

wxGTK...

Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.

What's new in 2.1.5

12-Oct-1999

This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done. No new major features.

What's new in 2.1.4

7-Oct-1999

This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build @@ -919,9 +2570,10 @@ default sort order.

Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For example, the following are equivallent:

 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
-win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))

+win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100)) +

Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that @@ -931,7 +2583,7 @@ pages. See the demo for an example.

wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.

Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.

Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only -versions are still in the library, but depreciated. (You will get a +versions are still in the library, but deprecated. (You will get a warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have @@ -983,19 +2635,15 @@ object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of wxApp.outputWindowClass like this:

-
-
class MyApp(wxApp):
-
outputWindowClass = MyClass
-
-
def OnInit(self):
-
frame = MyFrame() -self.SetTopWindow(frame) -return true
-
-
-
-

+class MyApp(wxApp):
+    outputWindowClass = MyClass
+
+    def OnInit(self):
+        frame = MyFrame()
+        self.SetTopWindow(frame)
+        return true
+

Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely @@ -1011,8 +2659,11 @@ bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some problems...)

What's new in 2.1b3

1-Sep-1999

This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.

Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html) for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my @@ -1044,8 +2695,11 @@ two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.

What's new in 2.1b2

6-Aug-1999

Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.

Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in @@ -1070,9 +2724,9 @@ matches MSW's.

Added wxGrid.GetCells

Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.

Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been depreciated in +

Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been deprecated in wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.

Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as: wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)

@@ -1088,8 +2742,11 @@ for unix systems.

SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled in wx.cpp.

What's new in 2.1b1

28-Jun-1999

Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)

@@ -1107,8 +2764,11 @@ of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!

What's new in 2.0b9

1-May-1999

Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)

Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a wxPython application.

@@ -1129,24 +2789,36 @@ wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.

Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl methods.

What's new in 2.0b8

28-Mar-1999

Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.

Several missing methods from various classes.

Various bug fixes.

What's new in 2.0b7

15-Mar-1999

Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.

Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.

What's new in 2.0b6

4-Mar-1999

Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.

What's new in 2.0b5

25-Feb-1999

Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for @@ -1164,16 +2836,19 @@ it should just work... More news on this later.

wxRegConfig class.

As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.

What's new in 0.5.3

30-Jan-1999

Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.

Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain compatibility with the current wxWindows.

What's new in 0.5.0

Changed the import semantics from "from wxPython import *" to -"from wxPython.wx import *" This is for people who are worried about +

What's new in 0.5.0

Changed the import semantics from "from wxPython import *" to +"from wxPython.wx import *" This is for people who are worried about namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."

Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.

@@ -1184,19 +2859,25 @@ prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."

objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.

Other assorted fixes and additions.

What's new in 0.4.2

21-Oct-1998

wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and -static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm -<H.v.d.Heijden@phys.tue.nl> for his astute detective work on tracking -down a nasty DECREF bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a -DSM (Dumb Stupid Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less -because the behavior was so different on different platforms.

+static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm van der +Heijden for his astute detective work on tracking down a nasty DECREF +bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a DSM (Dumb Stupid +Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less because the +behavior was so different on different platforms.

The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it must have been a different issue all along...

What's New in 0.4

2-Oct-1998

1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded @@ -1208,10 +2889,14 @@ version segfault shortly after starting up.

Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.

wxPython 0.3

9-Aug-1998

The first "modern" version of wxPython. See +http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/WxPythonHistory

- -

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