X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/ab66414a667682bc37deeda4a03642c74b83bc41..89b3361ec25cf1e6d255b14c7633d8375646e4fb:/docs/changes.txt diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt index 2a3801d200..61441f9754 100644 --- a/docs/changes.txt +++ b/docs/changes.txt @@ -10,6 +10,14 @@ INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.8.x the "Changes Since wxWidgets 2.8" section of the manual, please read it if the explanation here is too cryptic. +Table of contents of this section: + + - Unicode-related changes + - wxODBC and contrib libraries removal + - Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors + - Build system changes + - Major new features in this release + Unicode-related changes ----------------------- @@ -133,6 +141,10 @@ Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this! or equivalent function should now be done into wxApp::OnEventLoopEnter(). See wxApp::OnEventLoopEnter() and wxApp::OnEventLoopExit() docs for more info. +- wxDialogs get wxEVT_SIZE events immediately after creation in wxMSW, as with + wxFrames. This means that this event handler may be called earlier than in + 2.8, check that all the controls are initialized before using them in it. + - wxLoadFileSelector() now allows the user to select existing files only. - Erase background events are now not generated at all when background style is @@ -207,8 +219,9 @@ Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this! behaved differently in wxMSW and wxGTK/wxOSX before) if more than one item is selected in a control with wxDV_MULTIPLE style. -- wxDC::Blit() now honours the source DC coordinate system in wxMSW, as in all - the other ports, do not apply scaling to source coordinates manually any more. +- wxEVT_COMMAND_MENU_SELECTED, MENU_OPEN and CLOSE events returned a menu from + GetEventObject() in all ports but the frame the menu was attached to in wxMSW. + Now all ports return the menu that was opened or closed as the event object. Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors @@ -217,6 +230,21 @@ Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors - WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 doesn't exist any more, please update your code if you still relied on features deprecated since version 2.4 +- WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6 still exists but is 0 by default in this release and + will be removed in 3.2. You can set it to 1 and rebuild wxWidgets to access + the old and deprecated symbols but please consider updating your code + instead. Here are replacements for some of the obsolete symbols: + + wxSAVE and wxOPEN -> wxFD_SAVE and wxFD_OPEN + + WXK_PRIOR and WXK_NEXT -> WXK_PAGEUP and WXK_PAGEDOWN + + wxRESIZE_BOX -> wxMAXIMIZE_BOX + + wxTHICK_FRAME -> wxRESIZE_BORDER + + wxPROCESS_ENTER and wxPASSWORD -> wxTE_PROCESS_ENTER and wxTE_PASSWORD + + EVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL -> EVT_SCROLL_CHANGED + + NewControlId -> wxWindow::NewControlId() + + wxFileHistory::GetNoHistoryFiles() -> wxFileHistory::GetCount() + + wxSizerItem::SetOption() -> wxSizerItem::SetProportion() + + wxSizer::Remove(wxWindow*) -> wxSizer::Detach() + - wxDC classes hierarchy has changed, if you derived any classes from wxDC you need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours. @@ -265,6 +293,12 @@ Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting to const wxChar*: wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "") +- wxDateTime::ParseXXX() overloads don't return anything when called with + wxCStrData argument. If you need to test the parsing success, use a newer + overload taking wxString::const_iterator and returning bool or explicitly + select a narrow or wide char version to use by casting c_str() to either + "char*" or "wchar_t*". Or create a temporary wxString and parse it instead. + - wxCtime() and wxAsctime() return char*; this is incompatible with Unicode build in wxWidgets 2.8 that returned wchar_t*. @@ -352,6 +386,12 @@ Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors result in compilation errors due to an ambiguity between them if you pass NULL as client data. To fix this, cast NULL explicitly to "void**". +- wxChoicebookEvent, wxListbookEvent, wxNotebookEvent, wxToolbookEvent and + wxTreebookEvent are now all synonyms for wxBookCtrlEvent. The existing code + using the old names continues to work but they can't be forward-declared + any more. Use wxBookCtrlEvent in your code if you need to forward-declare + it or just include the appropriate header instead of forward declaration. + Deprecated methods and their replacements ----------------------------------------- @@ -430,6 +470,28 @@ Deprecated methods and their replacements possible or wxWindowDisabler otherwise. +Changes in behaviour visible to end users +----------------------------------------- + +- In wxMSW wxSpinCtrl used to prevent the user from entering more digits than + could fit in its visible area. This was inconsistent with the other ports and + now the control scrolls if too much text is added. + + +Build system changes +-------------------- + +- In wxMSW makefile builds, "_x64" is used instead of "_amd64" when compiling + for this architecture in the architecture-specific paths and library names. + TARGET_CPU can still be specified as "amd64" for compatibility but "x64" + should be used now. + +- Official wxMSW binaries, i.e. those built with OFFICIAL_BUILD=1, built with + MSVC now include the version of the compiler used and the architecture if + it's not the default "x86". E.g. a library built with MSVC 10 for amd64 is + called "wxbase294ud_vc110_amd64.dll" now. + + Major new features in this release ---------------------------------- @@ -462,22 +524,84 @@ Major new features in this release was added. -2.9.4: +2.9.5: (released ????-??-??) +---------------------------- + +All: + +- Add wxDir::Close() method (Silverstorm82). +- Fix compilation of wxHash{Map,Set} with g++ 4.7 (Nathan Ridge). +- Fix posting large amounts of data in wxHTTP (Platonides). +- Added Nepali translation (Him Prasad Gautam). + +All (GUI): + +- Add wxBITMAP_PNG() macro similar to wxBITMAP() but for PNG files. +- Add new wxSimplebook class. +- Support hexadecimal numbers in wxSpinCtrl. +- Respect window max size in wxBoxSizer (Nathan Ridge). +- Add support for searching in wxWebView for MSW and GTK (Allonii). +- Add generic wxFileSystem support to wxWebView with + wxWebViewFSHandler (Nick Matthews). +- Add possibility to hide and show again wxRibbonBar pages (wxBen). +- Add wxRibbonBar pages highlighting (wxBen). +- Add expand/collapse button to wxRibbonBar (rakeshthp). +- Fix item data access in wxDataViewListCtrl (Kry). +- Fix problem with floating maximized AUI panes (Laurent Poujoulat). +- Add owned client data support to wxRibbonButtonBar. Notice that the client + data now must be set using the SetItemClient{Data,Object}() methods and not + when inserting the button (Laurent Poujoulat). +- Add wxBitmapButton::NewCloseButton(). +- Add wxTextEntry::SelectNone() (troelsk). +- Restore the original wxGrid col/row size when unhiding it (Michael Richards). +- Fix text origin and extent computations in wxSVGFileDC (Neil Chittenden). +- Show tooltips for the too long items in generic wxTreeCtrl (Steven Houchins). +- Add wxStyledTextCtrl::AnnotationClearLine() (sentieshar). + +wxGTK: + +- Allow building wxGTK3 with Broadway backend (Kolya Kosenko). +- Provide native implementation of wxNotificationMessage using libnotify. +- Generate clipboard events for wxComboBox and not only wxTextCtrl. +- Improve drag-and-drop of URLs. + +wxMSW: + +- Fix setting colours for the text part of wxComboBox (Igor Korot). +- Add support for CURRENCY and SCODE types to OLE Automation helpers (PB). +- Allow setting LCID used by wxAutomationObject (PB). +- Fix calling Iconize(false) on hidden top level windows (Christian Walther). +- Don't send any events from wxSpinCtrl::SetRange() even if the value changed. + + +2.9.4: (released 2012-07-09) ------ +INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.9.3 + +- wxDataViewListCtrl doesn't delete its client data any more for compatibility + with wxListCtrl, use full wxDataViewCtrl if you don't need compatibility. + All: - Added wxLogFormatter to allow customizing wxLog output (Sébastien Gallou). +- Added wxFSInputStream for reading data from wxFileSystem (Armel Asselin). - Added "%z" support to wxDateTime::Format() and Parse() (Armel Asselin). - Add wxHTTP::SetPostBuffer(wxMemoryBuffer) and SetPostText() (Eran Ifrah). - Fix wrong time zone used in wxDateTime::UNow(). - Fix performance of wxStdInputStream with MSVC8/9 (wsu). - Added wxFileName::Exists(). - Implement wxThread::SetConcurrency() for POSIX systems (Igor Korot). +- Fix deadlock due to too many events in Unix console apps (Lukasz Michalski). +- Added wxDir::GetNameWithSep(). +- Allow unloading wxPluginLibrary objects in any order (manyleaves). +- Fix passing strings with embedded NULs in wxThreadEvents (sodev). All (GUI): +- Add wxGrid::Render() for printing wxGrid (John Roberts). - Added strike-through support to wxFont (Igor Korot). +- Add support for horizontal mouse wheel events to MSW and GTK (Lauri Nurmi). - Fix infinite loop in wxHtmlEasyPrinting when trying to page break images taller than the page height in wxHtmlEasyPrinting (Laurent Poujoulat). - Added wxFilePickerCtrl::SetInitialDirectory(). @@ -490,28 +614,48 @@ All (GUI): - Send wxEVT_UPDATE_UI for wxRibbonButtonBar and wxRibbonToolBar (Emilien Kia). - Add InsertXXXButton() to wxRibbonButtonBar and wxRibbonToolBar (Emilien Kia). - Allow enabling/disabling and toggling tools in wxRibbonToolBar (Emilien Kia). +- Add wxRibbonBar::DeletePage() and ClearPages() methods (Emilien Kia). +- Implement support for extension button to wxRibbonPanel (Emilien Kia). - Fix multiple item selection in generic wxTreeCtrl (Igor Korot). - Implement wxMenuBar::IsEnabledTop() for all major ports (Igor Korot). - Implement best size calculation for report mode wxListCtrl. - Fix setting of the frame icon when using non-standard icon sizes (vid). - Implement wxDV_ROW_LINES in generic wxDataViewCtrl (RedCAT). - Added EVT_AUI_PANE_ACTIVATED event (Ronny Krüger). +- Added support for page tooltips to wxAuiNotebook (Armel Asselin). - Added wxSplitterWindow::SetSashInvisible() (Armel Asselin). - Enable/disable "Window" menu items in AUI MDI correctly (wsu). - Added wxTimePickerCtrl::Get/SetTime(). - +- Fix WXK_MENU handling in wxStyledTextCtrl under wxGTK (cantabile). +- Added wxAcceleratorEntry::ToRawString() (Armel Asselin). +- Added wxDataViewEvent::SetDragFlags() and GetDropEffect() (Friedrich). +- Added support for fields and virtual attributes to wxRichTextCtrl. +- Added custom text and dimension scaling to wxRichTextCtrl. +- Added pixel font size capability to wxTextAttr and wxRichTextCtrl. +- Fully implement wxStyledTextCtrl::PositionToXY() (troelsk). +- Added wxDataViewListCtrl::{Set,Get}ItemData(). +- Added wxDataViewListCtrl::GetItemCount() (Kry). +- Added support for Korean Johab and Vietnamese encodings (jank9201). +- Fix off by 1 bug with setting font size in points in wxHTML (gevorg). +- Fix return value of wxGenericListCtrl::InsertColumn() (Sebastian Walderich). GTK: +- Added support for GTK+ 3 (John Chain and Paul Cornett) - Implement support for wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT (Armel Asselin). +- Implement stippled/hatched pens/brushes in wxGraphicsContext (Kit Bishop). - Fix wxNotebook best size calculation. - Implement wxDirDialog::Create() and wxFileDialog::Create() (vinayakgarg). - Fix const methods display in assert dialog (vinayakgarg). - Implement native tab art for wxAUI (Jens Lody and Teodor Petrov). +- Fix pasting large amounts of text (Bradley Hawkins). +- Show gstreamer errors if wxMediaCtrl fails to play file. +- Fix wxGridCellEnumEditor mouse handling (Fulvio Senore). MSW: - Fixed regression with initial focus in the dialogs in 2.9.3. +- Use new style directory selection dialog under Vista and later (PB). - Added support for wxEXEC_MAKE_GROUP_LEADER to wxExecute (tteras). - Set wxMenu being closed in wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events (Marcin Malich). - Fix coordinates and Z-position for joystick events (Markus Juergens). @@ -519,18 +663,30 @@ MSW: - Add wxActiveXContainer::QueryClientSiteInterface and implement it in wxWebViewIE to improve the default behaviour (Allonii). - Update stretchable spaces in wxToolBar after tool removal (Catalin Raceanu). -- Add support for horizontal mouse wheel events (Lauri Nurmi). - Implement wxGraphicsContext::SetInterpolationQuality() (Eric Jensen). +- Fix coordinate handling in wxDC::Blit() when source DC is a DIB. +- Fix handling of composite windows in wxToolTip (Armel Asselin). +- Add VT_I8 support to wxAutomationObject (PB). +- Fix wxListbook size calculations to avoid spurious scrollbars. +- Fix code compilation with wxUSE_UNICODE_UTF8 (Kolya Kosenko). +- Fix crash in wxTreeCtrl when calling GetSelection() from selection changed + event handler under Vista and later (sbrowne). +- Fix text extent computation in wxGraphicsContext (juria90). OSX: - Provide native implementations of wxDatePickerCtrl and wxTimePickerCtrl. - Fix handling of positional parameters in wxPrintf() &c (David Connet). +- Implement wxStackWalker. Univ: - Fix regression with read-only wxComboBox appearance (Jason Erb). +Unix: + +- Fix bug with wxDir("/").GetName() returning empty string. + 2.9.3: (released 2011-12-14)