X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/cb2d8b773c177d38fc0d0d91454d981262106155..51ba037fa8891066572ff367577770e234089dc0:/wxPython/docs/MigrationGuide.txt diff --git a/wxPython/docs/MigrationGuide.txt b/wxPython/docs/MigrationGuide.txt index 6db1c89ea7..c469b3808f 100644 --- a/wxPython/docs/MigrationGuide.txt +++ b/wxPython/docs/MigrationGuide.txt @@ -9,12 +9,27 @@ usual to see info about the not so major changes and other things that have been added to wxPython. +wxName Change +------------- + +The **wxWindows** project and library is now known as +**wxWidgets**. Please see here_ for more details. + +.. _here: http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm + +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. + + Module Initialization --------------------- The import-startup-bootstrap process employed by wxPython was changed -such that wxWindows and the underlying gui toolkit are **not** +such that wxWidgets and the underlying gui toolkit are **not** initialized until the wx.App object is created (but before wx.App.OnInit is called.) This was required because of some changes that were made to the C++ wxApp class. @@ -117,7 +132,8 @@ automatically generate a new ID if -1 is given, similar to using -1 with window classess. This means that you can create menu or toolbar items and event bindings without having to predefine a unique menu ID, although you still can use IDs just like before if you want. For -example, these are all equivallent other than ID values:: +example, these are all equivallent other than their specific ID +values:: 1. item = menu.Append(-1, "E&xit", "Terminate the App")