X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/ad556aa948efb55c7ecf5060fb3e51f64aacc3ad..d2b1753d162aa390080a005fcf3e8bbf7bf966a8:/docs/changes.txt diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt index 3c0a6f86cc..a1aea07329 100644 --- a/docs/changes.txt +++ b/docs/changes.txt @@ -1,10 +1,1496 @@ -wxWindows 2 Change Log ----------------------- +------------------------ +wxWidgets 2.5 Change Log +------------------------ -NOTE: for changes after wxWindows 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS -change log. +INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x +================================ + + Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially + paying attention to the most important changes which are marked + with '!' in the first column. + + Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 + is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.4 + series. + +! windows are no longer fully repainted when resized, use new style + wxFULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE to force this (wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE still + exists but doesn't do anything any more, this behaviour is default now) + +! wxWindow::m_font and m_backgroundColour/m_foregroundColour are no longer + always set, use GetFont(), GetBack/ForegroundColour() to access + them, and they will be dynamically determined if necessary. + + +! The Sizers have had some fundamental internal changes in the 2.5.2 + and 2.5.3 releases intended to make them do more of the "Right + Thing" but also be as backwards compatible as possible. First a bit + about how things used to work: + + * The size that a window had when Add()ed to the sizer was assumed + to be its minimal size, and that size would always be used by + default when calculating layout size and positions, and the + sizer itself would keep track of that minimal size. + + * If the window item was Add()ed with the wxADJUST_MINSIZE flag + then when layout was calculated the item's GetBestSize would be + used to reset the minimal size that the sizer used. + + The main thrust of the new Sizer changes was to make behaviour like + wxADJUST_MINSIZE be the default, and also to push the tracking of + the minimal size to the window itself (since it knows its own needs) + instead of having the sizer take care of it. Consequently these + changes were made: + + * The wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag was added to allow for the old + behaviour. When this flag is used the size a window has when + Add()ed to the sizer will be treated as its minimal size and it + will not be readjusted on each layout. + + * The min size stored in wxWindow and settable with SetSizeHints or + SetMinSize will by default be used by the sizer (if it was set) + as the minimal size of the sizer item. If the minsize was not + set (or was only partially set) then the window's best size is + fetched and it is used instead of (or blended with) the minsize. + wxWindow:GetBestFittingSize was added to facilitate getting the + size to be used by the sizers. + + * The best size of a window is cached so it doesn't need to + recaculated on every layout. wxWindow::InvalidateBestSize was + added and should be called (usually just internally in control + methods) whenever something is done that would make the best + size change. + + * All wxControls were changed to set the minsize to what is passed + to the constructor or Create method, and also to set the real + size of the control to the blending of the minsize and bestsize. + wxWindow::SetBestFittingSize was added to help with this, + although most controls don't need to call it directly because it + is called indirectly via the SetInitialSize called in the base + classes. + + At this time, the only situation known not to work the same as + before is the following: + + win = new SomeWidget(parent); + win->SetSize(SomeNonDefaultSize); + sizer->Add(win); + + In this case the old code would have used the new size as the + minimum, but now the sizer will use the default size as the minimum + rather than the size set later. It is an easy fix though, just move + the specification of the size to the constructor (assuming that + SomeWidget will set its minsize there like the rest of the controls + do) or call SetMinSize instead of SetSize. + + In order to fit well with this new scheme of things, all wxControls + or custom controls should do the following things. (Depending on + how they are used you may also want to do the same thing for + non-control custom windows.) + + * Either override or inherit a meaningful DoGetBestSize method + that calculates whatever size is "best" for the control. Once + that size is calculated then there should normally be a call to + CacheBestSize to save it for later use, unless for some reason + you want the best size to be recalculated on every layout. + + * Any method that changes the attributes of the control such that + the best size will change should call InvalidateBestSize so it + will be recalculated the next time it is needed. + + * The control's constructor and/or Create method should ensure + that the minsize is set to the size passed in, and that the + control is sized to a blending of the min size and best size. + This can be done by calling SetBestFittingSize. + + + +- no initialization/cleanup can be done in wxApp/~wxApp because they are + now called much earlier/later than before; please move any exiting code + from there to wxApp::OnInit()/OnExit() +- also, OnExit() is not called if OnInit() fails +- finally the program exit code is OnRun() return value, not OnExit() one +- wxTheApp can't be assigned to any longer, use wxApp::SetInstance() instead +- wxFileType::GetIcon() returns wxIconLocation, not wxIcon +- wxColourDatabase is not a wxList any more, use AddColour to add new colours +- wxWindow::Clear() is now called ClearBackground() +- pointer returned by wxFont::GetNativeFontInfo() must not be deleted now +- wxMouseEvent::Moving() doesn't return true if mouse is being dragged any more +- (most) controls now inherit parents colours by default, override + ShouldInheritColours() to return false if you don't want this to happen +- wxApp::SendIdleEvent() now takes 2 arguments +- wxTabView::GetLayers() changed return type from wxList& to wxTabLayerList& + (when WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 == 0) +- wxID_SEPARATOR (id used for the menu separators) value changed from -1 to -2 +- wxGetNumberFromUser() is now in separate wx/numdlg.h, not wx/textdlg.h +- wxChoice and wxCombobox now handle their size in the same way as in all the + other ports under MSW, new code is actually correct but different from weird + stuff they were doing before so the behaviour of your programs might change +- wxTaskBarIcon objects must now be destroyed before the application can exit. + Previously, the application terminated if there were no top level windows; + now it terminates if there are no top level windows or taskbar icons left. +- wxZlibInputStream is not by default compatible with the output of the + 2.4.x version of wxZlibOutputStream. However, there is a compatibilty mode, + switched on by passing wxZLIB_24COMPATIBLE to the constructor. +- when WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 == 0 wxHashTable uses a new implementation + not using wxList keyed interface (the same used when wxUSE_STL == 1), + the only incompatibility being that Next() returns a wxHashTable::Node* + instead of a wxNode*. +- non-const wxDC methods GetBackground(), GetBrush(), GetFont() and GetPen() + as well as wxWindow methods GetFont() and GetCursor() don't exist any more, + please fix your code -- it never worked correctly anyhow if you modified the + objects returned by these methods so you should simply switch to using const + methods. +- wxWindow::GetFont() now returns wxFont object instead of reference +- EVT_XXX macros are now type-safe; code that uses wrong type for event + handler's argument will no longer compile. +- Identical functionality of wxFileDialog::ParseWildcard, + wxGenericDirCtrl::ParseFilter, Motif and MSW parsing native dialogs + is now accessible in ::wxParseCommonDialogsFilter +- wxNotebookSizer and wxBookCtrlSizer are now deprecated -- they are no longer + needed, you can treat wxNotebook as any other control and put it directly + into the sizer that was wxNotebookSizer's parent sizer in old code. +- wxFile methods now return wxFileOffset which may be a 64 bit integer type, + even on 32 bit platforms, instead of off_t and so the return value of + wxFile::Length(), for example, shouldn't be assigned to off_t variable any + more (the compiler might warn you about this). +- wxListItem::m_data is now of type wxUIntPtr, not long, for compatibility + with 64 bit systems + + +DEPRECATED METHODS SINCE 2.4.x +============================== + +Deprecated methods may still be used but will disappear in future wxWidgets +versions, please update your code to not use them. + +- wxDocManager::GetNoHistoryFiles() renamed to GetHistoryFilesCount() +- wxSizer::Remove(wxWindow *), use Detach() instead [it is more clear] +- wxSizer::Set/GetOption(): use Set/GetProportion() instead +- wxKeyEvent::KeyCode(): use GetKeyCode instead +- wxList::Number, First, Last, Nth: use GetCount, GetFirst/Last, Item instead +- wxNode::Next, Previous, Data: use GetNext, GetPrevious, GetData instead +- wxListBase::operator wxList&(): use typesafe lists instead +- wxTheFontMapper: use wxFontMapper::Get() instead +- wxStringHashTable: use wxHashMap instead +- wxHashTableLong: use wxHashMap instead +- wxArrayString::GetStringArray: use wxCArrayString or alternative wxWidgets + methods taking wxArrayString +- wxArrayString::Remove(index, count): use RemoveAt instead +- wxTreeItemId conversion to long is deprecated and shouldn't be used +- wxTreeCtrl::GetFirst/NextChild() 2nd argument now has type wxTreeItemIdValue + and not long, please change declarations of "cookie"s in your code + accordingly -- otherwise your code won't work on 64 bit platforms +- [MSW only] wxWindow::GetUseCtl3D(), GetTransparentBackground() and + SetTransparent() as well as wxNO_3D and wxUSER_COLOURS styles +- wxList keyed interface: use wxHashMap instead +- wxColourDatabase::FindColour(): use Find() instead (NB: different ret type) +- wxHashTable::Next: use wxHashTable::Node* or + wxHashTable::compatibility_iterator to store the return + value +- wxWave class; use wxSound instead +- The wxHIDE_READONLY flag for wxFileDialog was not implemented + and has now been removed +- wxTaskBarIcon::OnXXX() virtual methods: use events instead +- obsolete and not used wxUSE_GENERIC_DIALOGS_IN_MSW has been removed +- wxDbTable::wxDbTable with wxChar* deprecated, same with wxString& instead + + +OTHER CHANGES +============= + +2.5.3 +----- + +All: + +- support for huge (>2 Gb) files (Tim Kosse) +- number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten) +- fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem) +- fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect +- fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth) +- support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English + (based on patch by Stefan Kowski) +- added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep() +- basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani) +- fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps) +- deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear() +- active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox) +- sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP +- added wxStringInput/OutputStreams +- added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream) + + +All (GUI): + +- added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order +- added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way + of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly + is discouraged +- added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros +- added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control +- wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set +- added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey() +- added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown() +- implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll) +- added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse) +- added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and + wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants) +- added samples/splash +- added support for stock buttons +- added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() +- support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely) +- recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found +- added wxChoicebook control +- smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner) +- the XRC contrib library was moved to the core +- wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection +- it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter) +- added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive() +- wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not + supported, instead of zero. + +Unix: + +- wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol +- security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker +- wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed + builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only +- wx-config has new --version-full option + +wxMac: + +- Fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX (RN) +- Added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock (RN) +- Added wxDrawerWindow class for drawer windows for OSX >= 10.2 (RN - from Jason Bagley) +- Native font dialog on OSX 10.2 and greater (RN) + +wxGTK: + +- wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to + configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2 +- fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes +- implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog +- implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2) +- implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x +- wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW) +- added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only) +- implemented text underlining under GTK2 +- implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2) +- implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_? + in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp) +- implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement + freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp) +- wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release +- implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap +- added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load + icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art +- fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett) + +wxMotif: + +- added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox) + +wxMSW: + +- fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash) +- set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build +- support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik) +- wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox) +- restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2 +- fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls +- fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style +- fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build +- wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei) +- fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame +- don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more +- implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem) +- fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases +- fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build + +wxUniv/X11: + +- fixed fatal crash when opening a menu + +wxWinCE: + +- added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners +- added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners +- added automatized but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus +- fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox + +wxHTML: + +- added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more + than one page to wxHtmlHelpController + + +2.5.2 +----- + +All: + +- Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma) +- Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao) +- wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast internally and so using it + with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead + of run-time) now +- when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set, + wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible + to forward declare these classes. + +All (GUI): + +- wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering, + resulting in much better display of scaled images +- Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden +- implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock) +- support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko) +- The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for + sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize + will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a + window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial + size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When + windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's + min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize + are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items. +- added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount() +- it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox + +wxMSW: + +- wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested +- Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off + XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders) +- wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more +- wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't + even try to do it by default -- now it does +- wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application + won't exit even though there are no top level windows +- wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now +- wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows +- fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D) +- subdindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse) + +wxGTK: + +- added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp) + +wxMotif: + +- removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu() +- wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be + and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting + motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions). + +wxUniv/X11: + +- implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul) + +wxHTML: + +- improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse) +-
handling fix (Xavier Nodet) + +Unix: + +- fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart) +- added "wx-config --libs=std," syntax (i.e. support for "std") + +wxODBC: + +- Full Unicode support is now available +- BLOB support is working + + +2.5.1 +----- + +All: + +- event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop) +- added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell) +- wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe) +- wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock) +- added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug) +- added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell) +- added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste) +- Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose) +- added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov) +- wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more +- wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works +- check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner) +- when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap + (as in 2.5.0). +- added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as + GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff) +- changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based + on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell) +- added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a + wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba) +- intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for + wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert) +- added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString + for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox, + wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog +- renamed wxWave class to wxSound + +All (GUI): + +- added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth) +- added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!) +- added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect() +- added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty() +- wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren) +- wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too +- bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett) +- status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it +- bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang) +- make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams) +- wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers +- added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton) +- added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay +- wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards +- added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg) +- fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars + when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper) +- dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba) +- added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis) +- wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was + added or inserted, or NULL on failure. +- using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id +- added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques) +- added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun) +- wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented +- added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents + +wxMSW: + +- wxWidgets now builds under Win64 +- fixed DDE memory leaks +- fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling +- wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding +- changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files +- wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour) +- several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner) +- wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic) +- make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff) +- MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna) +- fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig +- added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug) +- added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName +- wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event + should now pass the correct value even if the handler for + wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection +- wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs +- added wxTextCtrl::HitTest() +- experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff) +- fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style +- accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen) +- background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set +- fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour() +- Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch) +- Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons + aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1 +- Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller + than the specified default size +- Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall + +wxGTK: + +- fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas) +- fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte) +- fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data +- allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created +- use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units +- fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher) +- wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist) +- memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski) +- don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim) + +wxMac: + +- use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units +- implemented handling of mouse wheel +- fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs +- use unix sockets for Mach-o builds + +wxMotif: + +- look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure + +wxHTML: + +- wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm) + on Unix (Markus Sinner) + +Unix: + +- added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton) +- implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in + addition to existing OSS one +- it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs) + + +2.5.0 +----- + +All: + +- It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single + huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then + separately compiled library +- added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski) +- added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth) +- use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE +- wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs +- added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling +- added wxArray::SetCount() +- wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding + by default in Unicode mode +- bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed +- added wx/math.h (John Labenski) +- added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo) +- added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko) +- fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig +- chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW + and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h +- added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect() +- added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering) +- added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon) +- wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert) +- added wxRecursionGuard class +- added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard) +- Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h). + When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from, + std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be + implemented in terms of wxHashMap. +- Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except + it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work + both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0. + +wxBase: + +- added Watcom makefiles +- fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm) + +All GUI ports: + +- added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes +- added wxListbook control +- added alpha channel support to wxImage +- added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls +- added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames +- added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC +- wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan) +- added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski) +- added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski) +- implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber) +- improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke) +- fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem +- implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer +- support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW +- added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski) +- added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter) +- fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards) +- WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds +- it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu + by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth) +- Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far) +- FL: rmoved const from EnableTool parameters +- FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed +- In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call + wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s) +- Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr) +- Minor improvements to document/view framework, including + delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen + a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to + the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the + default extension for the template +- sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd) +- Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff) +- wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next +- Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works +- Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu +- wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default +- Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub + to allow better rich text support. +- implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd) +- Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members +- Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to + custom filters as well as HTML viewing. +- Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code. +- wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that + user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing. +- wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that + sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function + DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action. +- Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval, + CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency. +- Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to + determine whether a window should receive idle events. +- Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window + styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes. +- send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK) +- improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten) +- added wxMirrorDC class +- printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has + been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can + report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set + number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps; + wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages + correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation + improved + +Unix: + +- fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version +- fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled +- added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11 +- added support for GNU/Hurd in configure +- wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug) + +Generic controls: + +- implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen) +- support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor) +- wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved + to contrib/src/deprecated + +wxGTK: + +- added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss) +- added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build +- fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams) +- made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace +- fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and + window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN +- added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation +- fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to + be appended to filenames with no extension +- added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2 +- fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2 +- fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock) +- don't consume 100% CPU when showing a poup menu + +wxMac: + +- generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events +- generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events + +wxMSW: + +- possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson) +- added wxCrashReport +- wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports) +- support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson) +- wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to +- wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more +- fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive() +- fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE +- fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers +- fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width) +- fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown +- added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss) +- libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin) +- when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported +- fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents +- Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer neccessary + to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes +- wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale + or if user's default locale is Unicode-only +- improved border handling under Windows XP +- partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME + enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells + wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds. +- disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP +- fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker) +- added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style +- you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder) + +wxMotif: + +- made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still + does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog + documentation for a detailed explanation +- implemented wxWakeUpIdle +- for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd + xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled + with Motif 1.x compatibility +- implemented wxToggleButton +- wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style + instead of a sunken border +- implemented wxBitmapDataObject +- finished wxClipboard implementation + +wxUniv: + +- controls in toolbars now supported + +wxHTML: + +- added text selection to wxHtmlWindow +- added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look) +- it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting +
into the markup (Greg Chicares) +- wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker + + +OLD CHANGES +=========== + +INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x +================================ + + Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially + paying attention to the most important changes which are marked + with '!' in the first column. + + Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 + is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2 + series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile + your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in + 2.6 release. + + NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions + of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro + (see the documentation) useful. + + +wxBase: + +! wxArray::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems + under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your + code. + +! wxArray macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit + architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be + used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the + arrays containing non-pointers. + +- wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they + simply don't make sense for all objects + +- wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented + by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please + add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them + +- small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation + +- unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed + from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which + could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from + a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change + is not supposed to have any effects on valid code) + +- another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you + must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override + the default assert handling. + +All (GUI): + +! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically + allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels + in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead + + You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour + but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code + instead! + +! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in + your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace + the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow. + +! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not + generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if + you want to get OnChar() as well + +- in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations + have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms, + please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details + +- wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO + have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to + ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following + will *NOT* work any longer: + + if ( flags & wxYES_NO ) + ... do something ... + if ( flags & wxYES ) + ... do something else ... + +- static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created + in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using + the ctor + +- wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow + +- wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code + if you derived any classes from it + +- wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to + unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const + +- wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but + now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes + +- WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events, + they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones -Major improvements are listed in readme.txt. +- the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the + parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this + from happening + +- several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode: + for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart() + and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes + +- wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore. + to obtain the previous behaviour, add + wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program + (you will need to #include ) + +wxMSW: + +! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more + but is created as part of the build process under lib//wx + where is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update + the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore, + xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder + class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your + make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now + use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll) + where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version + is only present for the DLLs builds. + +- child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR + style to avoid it + +- all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the + previously selected one instead of replacing it + +- wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not + return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has + never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow) + +- wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file + anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW + + +Unix ports: + +! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of + `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS + and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used + to compile pure C files. + + +wxThread and related classes: + +- The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions + as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in + semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of + wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code. + +! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class + documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was + unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour + (i.e. absense of race conditions) using the old API. + +- wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been + recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class + documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes. + +- wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed: + this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method. + + +OTHER CHANGES +============= + +2.4.0 +----- + +wxMSW: + +- fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString() + +2.3.4 +----- + +All: + +- added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.) +- added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin) +- fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek() + +Unix (Base/GUI): + +- minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1 +- don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output +- shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux) + +wxGTK: +- Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support. +- Addition of native frame site grip. + +wxX11: +- Unicode support through Pango library. + +wxMSW: + +- fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP +- added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl + +wxHTML: + +- fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build + +2.3.3 +----- + +wxBase: + +- building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings) +- wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram) +- fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages +- modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically + (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix +- memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth) +- fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro +- added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled + after (non standard) STL hash_map +- wxLocale now works in Unicode mode +- wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding +- added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini) +- added wxEXPLICIT macro +- IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding). + Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed +- debug new/free implementations made thread-safe + +Unix (Base/GUI): + +- wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make + programs and not only GNU make +- wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets +- wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X + lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into + the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh) +- fixed thread priority setting under Linux + +All (GUI): + +- it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a + small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class +- implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons +- added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons +- added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard + wxWidgets dialogs +- significantly improved native font support +- wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe + wxHashTable +- added IFF image handler +- fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2 +- support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage + (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats) +- support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott) +- wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added +- added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function +- added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events +- added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh) +- added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott) +- added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method + for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott) +- added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney) +- added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() +- Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent +- Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator +- wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search +- wxMessageOutput class added +- wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase + so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash + table fills up +- updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4 +- Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup. +- generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList + renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW + (Rene Rivera). +- Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell + whether a label edit was cancelled. +- added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor + +wxMSW: + +- small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP +- fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2 +- fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection +- refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten) +- huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create() +- changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style +- wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello) +- fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX() +- fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText +- improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours + are changed +- choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better +- fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535 +- wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version + of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it) +- wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones +- bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed +- showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite + recursion any more +- wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it +- the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more +- wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox +- wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now +- Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL +- Multiline labels in buttons are now supoprted (simply use "\n" in the label) +- Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it + has the capture before release it. +- fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox +- default button handling is now closer to expected +- setting tooltips for wxSlider now works +- disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK) +- multiple events avoided in wxComboBox +- tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox +- fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join +- fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing +- increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button +- don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register +- wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was + provided in wxFontData +- Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment. +- Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8. + +wxGTK: + +- wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way +- wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT +- wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles +- added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=') +- new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh. + Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update +- support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others) +- fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates +- implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks +- implemented wxChoice::Delete() +- fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott) +- made internal GC pool dynamically growable +- added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support + +wxMotif: + +- improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown) +- improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown) +- improved toolbar control alignment +- implemented wxSpinButton +- implemented wxCheckListBox +- fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers +- wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly + +wxX11: + +- added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten) +- first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working) + +wxMac: + +- Many improvements + +wxOS2: + +- First alpha-quality release + +wxHTML: + +- fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines +- added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via + wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL() +- fixed alignment handling in tables +- fixed handling to be case insensitive + +2.3.2 +----- + +New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution. + +wxBase: + +- wxRegEx class added +- wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber) +- wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen) +- more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with + glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s + capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script. + +All (GUI): + +- support for virtual list control added +- column images in report mode of the list control +- wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither) +- wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK) +- polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda) +- wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added +- fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output +- new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø) +- wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh) +- wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen) +- wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans) +- wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added +- support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott) +- improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger) + +wxMSW: + +- support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook) +- new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application + project files + +wxGTK: + +- fixed popup menu positioning bug +- fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger) +- fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they + correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger) + +wxMac: + +- support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer + Tools + +wxHTML: + +- new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes + to tags parsing +- added support for animated GIFs + +2.3.1 +----- + +wxBase: + +- Fixes for gcc 3.0 +- Fixed new charset detection code +- ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans) +- Added ODBC date support to wxVariant +- Added wxDir::Traverse +- Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class +- Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams, + so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary + +All (GUI): + +- Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables +- 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) +- Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and + GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl +- Added wxSingleInstanceChecker +- Improvements to Tex2RTF +- Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls +- Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not + first-time saved +- Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp +- Various wxXML enhancements +- Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow +- Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp +- Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt() + instead of GetId() +- Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid +- Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy + +wxMSW: + +- Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their + accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere +- Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control, + alt or shift) now work +- Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added +- Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added +- Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop() +- Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer + wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones +- Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed +- Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size +- Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug +- We now send iconize events +- Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug +- Added mousewheel processing +- Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure + wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option + in wxDC +- Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI + child frame styles are honoured + +wxGTK: + +- Fixed slider rounding bug +- Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding() +- We now send iconize events +- Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook + GetSelection() results + +2.3.0 +----- + +wxBase: + +- fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library +- wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories +- wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott) +- wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz) +- wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø) +- wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed +- wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs +- wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and + detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly + cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library. + +All (GUI): + +- new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter) +- wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed +- wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added +- FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values +- new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images +- added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap + (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of + wxImage methods and ctor) +- ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL +- ODBC documentation complete!! +- ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete +- ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested +- ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans) +- ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use + +wxMSW: + +- threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen) +- fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling +- it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers + other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime + +wxGTK: + +- added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix + +wxHTML: + +- mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup +- visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController + +2.2.0 +----- + +wxBase: + +- Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists +- wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=() +- Fixes for wxCmdLineParser +- Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis +- Completed Czech translations +- Some stream corrections +- added missing consts to wxPoint operators +- wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes +- wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist +- small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample + +All (GUI): + +- wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and + flicker-free dragging is now possible +- Added wxPrinter::GetLastError +- Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem +- Paper names now translated +- wxGrid fixes +- Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in + wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox) +- Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show + error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open + File dialog. +- Corrected Baltic font encoding handling +- wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP + writing code +- wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented +- Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample +- wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling + wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug + +wxMSW: + +- wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately. + This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for + backward compatibility, please set + wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h +- wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events +- wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls +- wxColour now accepts both grey and gray +- BC++ DLL compilation fixed +- Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation +- Fixed submenu accelerator bug +- Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have + the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed) +- Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed +- fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame +- wxFrame restores focus better +- Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to + frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise + (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow) +- wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue +- Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called. +- wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct + sizes can be different on different versions of Windows) +- wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW +- fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again +- fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before + +wxGTK: + +- Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt. + +wxMotif: + +- Small compilation fixes + +Documentation: + +- wxCaret documented + +2.1.16 +------ + +wxBase: + +All (GUI): + +wxMSW: + +- Various bug fixes +- Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help + files. This works under VC++ only +- Modal dialog handling improved +- Printer dialog now modal + +wxGTK: + +- Various bug fixes + +wxMotif: + +- Various bug fixes + +2.1.15 +------ + +Documentation: + +- Added docs/tech for technical notes + +File hierarchy: + +- Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors + the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it + +wxBase: + +- wxSocket support +- wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still + available but strongly deprecated) with many new features +- wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers +- wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and + long options, switches and parameters of different types) +- it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far) + and BeOS (without thread support yet) +- wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also + added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris + only so far) +- wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory +- wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe +- wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct + results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available) +- wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added +- buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function + is available) +- wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index) + +all (GUI): + +- Added wxImage::Rotate. +- new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively +- wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management +- wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be + dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions) +- vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes +- wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items +- "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by + John Norris) +- wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the + MIME types if available (Unix only) +- wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader) +- TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution) +- PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits) +- validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set +- wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface +- wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD) +- added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper + for dealing with conversions between different encodings, + charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML +- wxDragImage class added +- samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help + controllers, as well as native help +- moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib + +wxMSW: + +- wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added. +- support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles + (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added. +- implemented setting colours for push buttons +- wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be + positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom +- wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun) +- loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works +- tooltips work with wxRadioBox +- wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in + Unix ports +- returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing +- VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent +- wxSetCursorEvent added + +wxGTK: + +- wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed +- wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents +- UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl + +wxMotif: + +- wxMenu::Enable works +- wxToolBar bugs fixed +- OGL samples made to work again + +wxHTML: + +- almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController, + including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog + and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster + loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search + split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller +- added support for charsets and tag +- added support for font faces and justified paragraphs, + taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames +- added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers +- improved HTML printing +- added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions (  etc.) +- fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes +- added some tags:
, , , , , , + fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in + + +NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS +change log. 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999 ----------------------- @@ -101,7 +1587,7 @@ wxMSW: - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles rationalised. -- Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWindows as DLL. +- Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL. wxMotif: @@ -258,7 +1744,7 @@ wxMotif: global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK). - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1. -- Added a parent-existance check to popup menu code to make it not crash. +- Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash. - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker. It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs. @@ -314,7 +1800,7 @@ wxMSW: - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated. - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up. - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent - so event can travel up the window hierachy. + so event can travel up the window hierarchy. Alpha 14, July 31st 1998 ------------------------ @@ -429,7 +1915,7 @@ wxMSW: - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo. - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function. - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition - of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWindows + of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets startup/exit. - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples makefile.m95 files, and install.txt). @@ -471,7 +1957,7 @@ wxMSW: - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar) to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar tray area. -- Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWindows in the same +- Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings. - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++). - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames. @@ -575,7 +2061,7 @@ Generic: - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints. - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints. -- Cured some lemory leaks (thanks Vadim). +- Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim). - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from MoreRequested. @@ -604,7 +2090,7 @@ All: implementation updated to use these base classes. - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard - WinHelp), wxXLPHelPController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or + WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help. - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus @@ -685,7 +2171,7 @@ At this point, the following has been achieved: Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND. - PrologIO revised. - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added. - MDI is now achived using separate classes, not window styles. + MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles. - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard Windows settings. - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour