X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/cf5d50573f5471ed00203d3cee8661a1a6d885ce..f62c55815f78f889c17c49f4375dce7104cf67ba:/docs/changes.txt?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt index 2235a91d01..0941ac08bd 100644 --- a/docs/changes.txt +++ b/docs/changes.txt @@ -5,6 +5,66 @@ INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.8.x ================================ + + Notice that these changes are described in more details in + the "Changes Since wxWidgets 2.8" section of the manual, + please read it if the explanation here is too cryptic. + + +Unicode-related changes +----------------------- + +The biggest changes in wxWidgets 3.0 are the changes due to the merge of the +old ANSI and Unicode build modes in a single build. See the Unicode overview +in the manual for more details but here are the most important incompatible +changes: + +- Many wxWidgets functions taking "const wxChar *" have been changed to take + either "const wxString&" (so that they accept both Unicode and ANSI strings; + the argument can't be NULL anymore in this case) or "const char *" (if the + strings are always ANSI; may still be NULL). This change is normally + backwards compatible except: + + a) Virtual functions: derived classes versions must be modified to take + "const wxString&" as well to make sure that they continue to override the + base class version. + + b) Passing NULL as argument: as NULL can't be unambiguously converted to + wxString, in many cases code using it won't compile any more and NULL + should be replaced with an empty string. + + +- Some structure fields which used to be of type "const wxChar *" (such as + wxCmdLineEntryDesc::shortName, longName and description fields) are now of + type "const char *", you need to remove wxT() or _T() around the values used + to initialize them (which should normally always be ASCII). + +- wxIPC classes didn't work correctly in Unicode build before, this was fixed + but at a price of breaking backwards compatibility: many methods which used + to work with "wxChar *" before use "void *" now (some int parameters were + also changed to size_t). While wxIPC_TEXT can still be used to transfer 7 + bit text, the new wxIPC_UTF8TEXT format is used for transferring wxStrings. + Also notice that connection classes should change the parameter types of + their overridden OnExecute() or override a more convenient OnExec() instead. + + +wxODBC and contrib libraries removal +------------------------------------ + +wxODBC library was unmaintained since several years and we couldn't continue +supporting it any longer so it was removed. Please use any of the other open +source ODBC libraries in the future projects. + +Also the "applet", "deprecated", "fl", "mmedia" and "plot" contrib libraries +were removed as they were unmaintained and broken since several years. +The "gizmos", "ogl", "net" and "foldbar" contribs have been moved to +wxCode (see http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/complist.php); they are now +open for futher development by volunteers. + +The "stc" and "svg" contribs instead have been moved respectively into a new +"official" library stc and in the core lib. + + Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -19,12 +79,46 @@ Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this! other platforms in the future), use wxWindow::Navigate() or NavigateIn() instead. +- Sizers distribute only the extra space between the stretchable items + according to their proportions and not all available space. We believe the + new behaviour corresponds better to user expectations but if you did rely + on the old behaviour you will have to update your code to set the minimal + sizes of the sizer items to be in the same proportion as the items + proportions to return to the old behaviour. + +- wxWindow::Freeze/Thaw() are not virtual any more, if you overrode them in + your code you need to override DoFreeze/Thaw() instead now. + +- wxCalendarCtrl has native implementation in wxGTK, but it has less features + than the generic one. The native implementation is used by default, but you + can still use wxGenericCalendarCtrl instead of wxCalendarCtrl in your code if + you need the extra features. + +- wxDocument::FileHistoryLoad() and wxFileHistory::Load() now take const + reference to wxConfigBase argument and not just a reference, please update + your code if you overrode these functions and change the functions in the + derived classes to use const reference as well. + +- Under MSW wxExecute() arguments are now always properly quoted, as under + Unix, and so shouldn't contain quotes unless they are part of the argument. + +- wxDocument::OnNewDocument() doesn't call OnCloseDocument() any more. + +- If you use wxScrolledWindow::SetTargetWindow() you must implement its + GetSizeAvailableForScrollTarget() method, please see its documentation for + more details. + + 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 +- 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. + - Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break @@ -43,14 +137,29 @@ Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors and has to be replaced with this: switch (str[i].GetValue()) { ... } -- Return type of wxString::c_str() is now wxCStrData struct and not - const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to const char* and - const wchar_t*, so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot - convert the type. In particular, Borland C++ and DigitalMars compilers - don't correctly convert operator?: operands to the same type and fail with - compilation error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting - to const wxChar*: - wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "") +- Return type of wxString::c_str() is now a helper wxCStrData struct and not + const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to both "const char *" + and "const wchar_t *", so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot + apply the conversion. This can happen in 2 cases: + + + There is an ambiguity because the function being called is overloaded to + take both "const char *" and "const wchar_t *" as the compiler can't choose + between them. In this case you may use s.wx_str() to call the function + matching the current build (Unicode or not) or s.mb_str() or s.wc_str() to + explicitly select narrow or wide version of it. + + Notice that such functions are normally not very common but unfortunately + Microsoft decided to extend their STL with standard-incompatible overloads + of some functions accepting "const wchar_t *" so you may need to replace + some occurrences of c_str() with wx_str() when using MSVC 8 or later. + + + Some compilers, notably Borland C++ and DigitalMars, don't correctly + convert operator?: operands to the same type and fail with compilation + error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting to const + wxChar*: wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "") + +- wxCtime() and wxAsctime() return char*; this is incompatible with Unicode + build in wxWidgets 2.8 that returned wchar_t*. - DigitalMars compiler has a bug that prevents it from using wxUniChar::operator bool in conditions and it erroneously reports type @@ -59,31 +168,201 @@ Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors This can be worked around by explicitly casting to bool: for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); (bool)*p; ++p ) +- Virtual wxHtmlParser::AddText() takes wxString, not wxChar*, argument now. + +- Functions that took wxChar* arguments that could by NULL in wxWidgets 2.8 + are deprecated and passing NULL to them won't compile anymore, wxEmptyString + must be used instead. + +- wxTmemxxx() functions take either wxChar* or char*, not void*: use memxxx() + with void pointers. + +- Removed insecure wxGets() and wxTmpnam() functions. + +- Removed global GetLine() function from wx/protocol/protocol.h, use + wxProtocol::ReadLine() instead. + +- wxVariant no longer derives from wxObject. wxVariantData also no longer + derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you + can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments. + +- wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they couldn't be + implemented correctly any longer because automatically generated ids are not + necessarily allocated consecutively now. Use GetChildren() to find the + next/previous control sibling instead. + +- Calling wxConfig::Write() with an enum value will fail to compile because + wxConfig now tries to convert all unknown types to wxString automatically. + The simplest solution is to cast the enum value to int. + +- Several wxImage methods which previously had "long bitmaptype" parameters + have been changed to accept "wxBitmapType bitmaptype", please use enum + wxBitmapType in your code. + +- wxGridCellEditor::EndEdit() signature has changed and it was split in two + functions, one still called EndEdit() and ApplyEdit(). See the documentation + of the new functions for more details about how grid editors should be + written now. + +- wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGE event renamed to wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED and shouldn't + be vetoed any more, use the new wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING event to do it. + + Deprecated methods and their replacements ----------------------------------------- - wxCreateGreyedImage() deprecated, use wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale() instead. - wxString::GetWriteBuf() and UngetWriteBuf() deprecated, using wxStringBuffer or wxStringBufferLength instead. +- wxDIRCTRL_SHOW_FILTERS style is deprecated, filters are alwsys shown if + specified so this style should simply be removed +- wxDocManager::MakeDefaultName() replaced by MakeNewDocumentName() and + wxDocument::GetPrintableName() with GetUserReadableName() which are simpler + to use +- wxXmlProperty class was renamed to wxXmlAttribute in order to use standard + terminology. Corresponding wxXmlNode methods were renamed to use + "Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names. +- wxConnection::OnExecute() is not formally deprecated yet but new code should + use simpler OnExec() version which is called with wxString argument +- wxMenuItem::GetLabel has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabelText +- wxMenuItem::GetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabel +- wxMenuItem::GetLabelFromText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetLabelText +- wxMenuItem::SetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::SetItemLabel +- wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen ctor now take + respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a plain "int style"; + use the new wxBrush/wxPen style names (wxBRUSHSTYLE_XXX and wxPENSTYLE_XXX) instead + of the old deprecated wxXXX styles (which however are still available). +- EVT_CALENDAR_DAY event has been deprecated, use EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED. +- EVT_CALENDAR_MONTH and EVT_CALENDAR_YEAR events are deprecated, + use EVT_CALENDAR_PAGE_CHANGED which replaces both of them. +- wxCalendarCtrl::EnableYearChange() and wxCAL_NO_YEAR_CHANGE are deprecated. + There is no replacement for this functionality, it is being dropped as it is + not available in native wxCalendarCtrl implementations. +- wxDC::SetClippingRegion(const wxRegion&) overload is deprecated as it used + different convention from the other SetClippingRegion() overloads: wxRegion + passed to it was interpreted in physical, not logical, coordinates. Replace + it with SetDeviceClippingRegion() if this was the correct thing to do in your + code. +- wxTE_AUTO_SCROLL style is deprecated as it's always on by default anyhow. +- wxThreadHelper::Create() has been deprecated in favour of wxThreadHelper::CreateThread + which has a better name for a mix-in class, and allows setting the thread type. + Major new features in this release ---------------------------------- +- wxWidgets is now always built with Unicode support but provides the same + simple (i.e. "char *"-tolerant) API as was available in ANSI build in the + past. + +- wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally, + depending on what is optimal for the target platform. + +- New propgrid library containing wxPropertyGrid and related classes, many + enhancements to wxDataViewCtrl. + +- Event loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI. + +- Documentation for wxWidgets has been converted from LaTex to C++ headers + with Doxygen comments and significantly improved in the process (screenshots + of various controls were added, more identifiers are now linked to their + definition &c). Any reports about inaccuracies in the documentation are + welcome (and due to using the simple Doxygen syntax it is now easier than + ever to submit patches correcting them! :-) + 2.9.0 ----- All: -- Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi) -- Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov) -- Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev) -- Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead() +- Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen). +- Cleaned up wxURI and made it Unicode-friendly. +- Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski) +- Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it. +- Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe) +- Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications +- Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen) +- Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr). +- Added numeric options support to wxCmdLineParser (crjjrc) +- Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi). +- Added wxDateTime::FormatISOCombined() and ParseISODate/Time/Combined() +- Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov). +- Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev). +- Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead(). +- Implemented wxMemoryFSHandler::FindFirst/Next(). +- Added wxEventLoop::DispatchTimeout(). +- Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz). +- Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev). +- Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev). +- Allow using wxEventLoop in console applications (Lukasz Michalski). +- Added functions for Base64 en/decoding (Charles Reimers). +- Added support for binary data to wxConfig (Charles Reimers). +- Added functions for atomically inc/decrementing integers (Armel Asselin). +- wxLogInterposer has been added to replace wxLogPassThrough and new + wxLogInterposerTemp was added. +- Added support for broadcasting to UDP sockets (Andrew Vincent). +- Documentation now includes the wx library in which each class is defined. +- wxrc --gettext now generates references to source .xrc files (Heikki + Linnakangas). +- wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared, + if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented. +- Added wxWeakRef, wxScopedPtr, wxSharedPtr class templates +- Added wxVector class templates +- Added wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_SET() and wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_NULL() to wx/scopeguard.h. +- Added wxEvtHandler::QueueEvent() replacing AddPendingEvent() and + wxQueueEvent() replacing wxPostEvent(). +- wxString now uses std::[w]string internally by default, meaning that it is + now thread-safe if the standard library provided with your compiler is. +- Added wxCmdLineParser::AddUsageText() (Marcin 'Malcom' Malich). +- Fix reading/writing UTF-7-encoded text streams. +- Corrected bug in wxTimeSpan::IsShorterThan() for equal time spans. +- Use std::unordered_{map,set} for wxHashMap/Set if available (Jan van Dijk). +- Added wxString::Capitalize() and MakeCapitalized(). +- Added wxArray::swap(). +- Added wxSHUTDOWN_LOGOFF and wxSHUTDOWN_FORCE wxShutdown() flags (troelsk). +- Added wxArtProvider::GetNativeSizeHint(); GetSizeHint() as well as + GetNativeSizeHint() now return more sensible values in wxMSW and wxMac and + no longer return bogus values. + +All (Unix): + +- Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski). +- Noticeably (by a factor of ~150) improve wxIPC classes performance. All (GUI): -- Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron) -- Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron) +- Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes. +- Integrated wxPropertyGrid in wxWidgets itself (Jaakko Salli). +- Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK. +- Added wxHeaderCtrl and allow using it in wxGrid. +- Added wxRearrangeList, wxRearrangeCtrl and wxRearrangeDialog. +- Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames(). +- Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty). +- Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications. +- Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect(). +- Added wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson). +- Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski). +- Support custom labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson for wxMac version). +- Added wxScrolledWindow::ShowScrollbars(). +- Also added wxCANCEL_DEFAULT to wxMessageDialog. +- Allow copying text in the log dialogs. +- Added multisample (anti-aliasing) support to wxGLCanvas (Olivier Playez). +- Initialize wx{Client,Paint,Window}DC with fonts/colours of its window. +- Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows. +- Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr). +- Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron). +- Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse). +- Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron). +- Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage(). +- Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov). +- Made wxLogWindow thread-safe (Barbara Maren Winkler). +- Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid). +- Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid). +- Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid). +- Added support for drop-down toolbar buttons to XRC. +- Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II). +- New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr). - Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi). - Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi). - Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom(). @@ -91,44 +370,408 @@ All (GUI): - Fixed tab-related drawing and hit-testing bugs in wxRichTextCtrl. - Implemented background colour in wxRichTextCtrl. - Fixed crashes in helpview when opening a file. -- Set locale to the default in all ports, not just wxGTK -- Added wxJoystick::GetButtonState/Position() (Frank C Szczerba) -- Added wxGridUpdateLocker helper class (Evgeniy Tarassov) -- Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov) -- Added wxWindow::NavigateIn() in addition to existing Navigate() -- Add support for tags to wxrc +- Set locale to the default in all ports, not just wxGTK. +- Added wxJoystick::GetButtonState/Position() (Frank C Szczerba). +- Added wxGridUpdateLocker helper class (Evgeniy Tarassov). +- Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov). +- Added wxWindow::NavigateIn() in addition to existing Navigate(). +- Add support for tags to wxrc. +- Support wxAPPLY and wxCLOSE in CreateStdDialogButtonSizer() (Marcin Wojdyr). +- Show standard options in wxCmdLineParser usage message (Francesco Montorsi). +- Added wxRect::operator+ (union) and * (intersection) (bdonner). +- Added support for two auxiliary mouse buttons to wxMouseEvent (Chris Weiland). +- Added wxToolTip::SetAutoPop() and SetReshow() (Jan Knepper). +- Added wxTaskBarIcon::Destroy(). +- Added XRC handler for wxSearchCtrl (Sander Berents). +- Read image resolution from TIFF, JPEG and BMP images (Maycon Aparecido Gasoto). +- Add support for reading alpha data from TIFF images. +- Added wxSYS_DCLICK_TIME system metric constant (Arne Steinarson). +- Added wxApp::Get/SetAppDisplayName() (Brian A. Vanderburg II). +- Added wxWindow::GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser() (Arne Steinarson). +- Implemented wxTreeCtrl::GetPrevVisible() in the generic version and made the + behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions. +- Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table + to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance. +- Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren() + (Szczepan Holyszewski). +- Added parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler. +- Added support for automatic dialog scrolling, via the new + wxDialogLayoutAdapter class and various new wxDialog functions. See the + topic "Automatic Scrolling Dialogs" in the manual for further details. +- Added support for resizing wxWizard bitmaps to the current page height, + via SetBitmapPlacement, SetBitmapBackgroundColour and SetMinimumBitmapWidth. + Also made it easier to derive from wxWizard and override behaviour. +- Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window +- Add support for wxDatePickerCtrl in wxGenericValidator (Herry Ayen Yang) +- Added wxWindow::HasFocus(). +- Added wxGLCanvas::IsDisplaySupported(). +- Added wxApp::SetNativeTheme() (Stefan H.). +- Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola). +- Freeze() and Thaw() now recursively freeze/thaw the children too. +- Generalized wxScrolledWindow into wxScrolled template that can derive + from any window class, not just wxPanel. +- Allow having menu separators with ids != wxID_SEPARATOR (Jeff Tupper) +- Fix appending items to sorted wxComboCtrl after creation (Jaakko Salli) +- Don't blit area larger than necessary in wxBufferedDC::UnMask (Liang Jian) +- Fixed wxPixelData compilation (Leonardo Fernandes). +- Added wxImage::GetType() (troelsk). +- Added wxGenericStaticBitmap suitable for display of large bitmaps. +- Support wxListCtrl::GetViewRect() in report view too. +- Implement wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() in generic version (David Barnard). +- Added wxVListBox::GetItemRect() (Javier Urien). +- Show busy cursor in wxLaunchDefaultBrowser and add wxBROWSER_NOBUSYCURSOR. +- Added wxFlexGridSizer::Is{Row,Col}Growable() (Marcin Wojdyr). +- Added "enabled" and "hidden" attributes to radio box items in XRC. +- wxWindow::IsBeingDeleted() now returns true not only if the window itself is + marked for destruction but also if any of its parent windows are. +- Improved drawing of the hint during column move in wxGrid (Santo Pfingsten). +- Add wxGridSelectRowsOrColumns selection mode to wxGrid. +- Get/HasModifiers() of wxKeyEvent are now also available in wxMouseEvent. +- Provide new/old cell value in wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING/CHANGED events. wxGTK: -- Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi) -- Native keyboard navigation implementation -- Don't overwrite primary selection with clipboard and vice versa +- Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi). +- Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi). +- Native keyboard navigation implementation. +- Added wxCB_SORT support to wxComboBox (Evgeniy Tarassov). +- Don't overwrite primary selection with clipboard and vice versa. - Implemented support for underlined fonts in wxStaticText. - wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints size increments now work. - wxTopLevelWindow::GetSize() returns the size including the WM decorations. - wxTopLevelWindow::GetClientSize() returns 0x0 when the window is minimized. - Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse). -- Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works -- Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff) -- Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option +- Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff). +- Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option. +- Added support for GTK+ print backend +- Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr). +- Fix wxDC::Blit() support for user scale and source offset (Marcin Wojdyr). wxMac: -- Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs) +- Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls). +- Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs). +- Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox). +- Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz). +- Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale. +- Native wxCollapsiblePane implementation. wxMSW: - Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications. - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized. +- wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich). +- wxCheckListBox now also supports use of client data (Marcin Malich). +- Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon +- Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it. +- Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk). +- Use vertical scrollbar in wxMessageDialog if it's too big to fit on screen. +- Show resize gripper on resizeable dialogs (Kolya Kosenko). +- Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron). +- Use different Win32 class names in different wx instances (Thomas Hauk). +- Support multiline labels for wxCheckBox and wxToggleButton. +- Print preview is now rendered in the resolution used by printer and + accurately represents what will be printed. This fixes wxHtmlEasyPrinting + preview inaccuracies on Windows; on other platforms, native preview + should be used. + +wxX11: + +- Added mouse wheel support (David Hart). +- Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart). + +wxDFB: + +- Implement wxBitmap ctor from XBM data. + + +2.8.9 +----- + +All: + +- Optimize wxString::Replace() for single character arguments. +- Updated Hindi translation (Priyank Bolia). +- Use tr1::unordered_{map,set} for wxHash{Map,Set} implementation if available + in STL build; in particular do not use deprecated hash_{map,set} which + results in a lot of warnings from newer g++ (Jan Van Dijk and Pete Stieber). + +All (GUI): + +- Added support for reading alpha channel in BMP format (Kevin Wright). +- Fixed help viewer bug whereby the splitter sash in wxHtmlHelpWindow could + go underneath the left-hand pane, permanently, after resizing the + help window. +- Fixed wxHTML default font size for printing to be 12pt regardless of the + platform, instead of depending on GUI toolkit's screen configuration. +- Support wxDP_ALLOWNONE style in generic wxDatePickerCtrl version. +- Set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar correctly in the events generated by generic + wxListCtrl (Mikkel S). +- Fix changing size of merged cells in wxGrid (Laurent Humbertclaude). +- Fixed wrapping bug in wxRichTextCtrl when there were images present; + now sets the cursor to the next line after pressing Shift+Enter. +- Fixed Cmd+Back, Cmd+Del word deletion behaviour in wxRichTextCtrl. +- Fix crash when reading malformed PCX images. +- Fix bug with wrong transparency in GIF animations (troelsk). +- Store palette information for XPM images in wxImage (troelsk). +- Fixed selection bugs and auto list numbering in wxRichTextCtrl. +- Significantly optimize wxGrid::BlockToDeviceRect() for large grids (kjones). +- Introduced new wxAuiToolBar class for better integration and look-and-feel. +- Fix a crash in wxAuiFrameManager when Update() was called in between mouse-up + and mouse-down events +- wxAUI: added various NULL-ptr asserts. +- Fixed problem with Floatable(false) not working in wxAuiFrameManager. +- Fixed maximize bug in wxAUI. +- Allow period in link anchors in wxHTML. +- Fixed memory corruption in wxHTML when parsing "&;" in the markup. +- Fixed event type in EVT_GRID_CMD_COL_MOVE and EVT_GRID_COL_MOVE. +- wxGrid doesn't steal focus when hiding editor any more (Tom Eckert). + +All (Unix): + +- MIME types reading fixed when running under GNOME, reading .desktop + files and also the default application list. +- Added filesys.no-mimetypesmanager system option so that applications that + must load an XRC file at program startup don't have to incur the + mime types manager initialization penalty. + +wxMSW: + +- Potentially incompatible change: wxExecute() arguments are now quoted if they + contain spaces and existing quotes are escaped with a backslash. However, to + preserve compatibility, the argument is unchanged if it is already quoted. + Notice that this behaviour will change in wxWidgets 3.0 where all arguments + will be quoted, please update your code now if you are affected and use only + wxWidgets 2.8.9 or later. +- Fix keyboard support in wxSpinCtrl broken in 2.8.8. +- Compile fix for WinCE in window.cpp (no VkKeyScan in Windows CE). +- Support disabling items before adding them to the menu (Christian Walther). +- Allow to call SetFont(wxNullFont) to reset the font to default. +- Implement UUID::operator==() and !=() (SQLAware Corporation). +- Fixed long standing (introduced in 2.6.3) bug which resulted in always + creating a DIB and not DDB in wxBitmap(const wxImage&) ctor. +- Fix the bug with wxFileDialog not being shown at all if the default file name + was invalid. +- Fix hang in keyboard navigation code with radio buttons under Windows 2000. +- Implement wxWinINetInputStream::GetSize() (spicerno). +- Always copy "has alpha" flag when copying bitmaps (SQLAware Corporation). + +wxGTK: + +- Fixed masking of disabled bitmaps in wxMenuItem and wxStaticBitmap. +- Fixed generation of events for an initially empty wxDirPickerCtrl. +- Fixed detection of Meta key state so that NumLock isn't misdetected + as Meta (requires GTK+ 2.10). +- Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr). + +wxMac: + +- Fixed a glitch where clicking on a scrollbar (but not moving the scrollbar) + would cause the window to scroll. + + +2.8.8 +----- + +All: + +- Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner). +- Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date(). +- Initialize current line in wxTextBuffer ctor (Suzuki Masahiro). +- Improved performance of XML parsing (Francesco Montorsi). +- Fix wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date() to handle missing seconds (Joe Nader). + +All (GUI): + +- Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling(). +- Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov). +- Ensure that wxGrid::AutoSizeColumn/Row() never sets column/row size + smaller than the minimal size. +- Added parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler. +- wxRichTextCtrl performance has been improved considerably. +- Several wxRichTextCtrl style, paste and undo bugs fixed. +- Added wxRichTextCtrl superscript and subscript support (Knut Petter Lehre). +- wxNotebook RTTI corrected, so now wxDynamicCast(notebook, wxBookCtrlBase) + works. +- When focus is set to wxScrolledWindow child, scroll it into view. +- Improve wximage::ResampleBox() (Mihai Ciocarlie). +- Implemented ScrollList() in generic wxListCtrl (Tim Kosse). +- SaveAs in docview takes into account path now. +- Fixed wxXmlResource::GetText() to convert data to current locale's + charset in ANSI build. +- wxGrid now indicates focus by using different colour for selection + and hiding cell cursor when it doesn't have focus. +- Added alpha support to wxImage::Paste() (Steven Van Ingelgem) +- Use current date when opening popup in generic wxDatePickerCtrl. +- Remove associated help text from wxHelpProvider when a window is destroyed. +- Added wxSizerFlags::ReserveSpaceEvenIfHidden() and + wxRESERVE_SPACE_EVEN_IF_HIDDEN sizer flag. +- Added wxWindow::ClientToWindowSize() and WindowToClientSize() helpers. +- Added wxSizer::ComputeFittingClientSize() and ComputeFittingWindowSize(). +- Fixed wxSizer::SetSizeHints() to work when the best size decreases. +- Fixed crash in wxHtmlHelpController if the help window is still open. +- Fixed generic art provider to scale bitmaps down to client-specific + best size if needed. +- Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola). +- Fixed timing of malformed animated GIFs in wxHTML (Gennady Feller). +- Fixed incorrect layout width caching in wxHTML (Jeff Tupper). +- wxHTML: preserve TAB characters when copying
 content to clipboard.
+- Set focus to wxCalendarCtrl when it is clicked.
+- Don't clear the list control when wxLC_[HV]RULES style is toggled.
+- Don't crash when Ctrl-Shift-T is pressed in empty wxStyledTextControl.
+
+All (Unix):
+
+- Fixed shared libraries to not depend on GStreamer when built with
+  --enable-media; only wxMedia library depends on it now.
+- wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now uses xdg-open if available.
+- Don't close UDP socket if an empty datagram is received (Mikkel S)
+- Honour locale modifiers such a "@valencia" in system locale (Tim Kosse)
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Fix rare bug with messages delivered to wrong wxSocket (Tim Kosse).
+- Fix setting icons when they have non-default (16*16 and 32*32) sizes.
+- Fixed wxLocale::GetInfo to use the C locale.
+- Don't enable disabled windows when showing them (Harry McKame).
+- Fix assert when using owner-drawn menu items with the newest (Vista) SDK.
+- Fixed wxTextCtrl to not process clipboard events twice if there's
+  a custom wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_* event handler.
+- Fix wxComboBox to not lose the current value if it was programmatically set
+  to a value not in a list of choices on popup close (Kolya Kosenko)
+- Switching wxListCtrl to report mode from another one now uses full row
+  highlight, just as if the control were created in report mode initially.
+- Use correct index of the right-clicked column in wxListCtrl in the
+  corresponding event even when the control is scrolled horizontally.
+- Implement wxRadioBox::Reparent() correctly (Vince Harron).
+- Make context sensitive help work for the text part of wxSpinCtrl.
+- wxFileType::GetCommand() now looks at Explorer associations and CurVer
+  for increased reliability and conformance to user expectations.
+- Fixed double Init() call in wxTopLevelWindow causing a memory leak on
+  SmartPhone.
+- Fixed rendering of borders for wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH(2) style when
+  using Windows XP's Classic UI theme.
+- Text controls with wxTE_RICH style now also generate wxClipboardTextEvents.
+- Fixed wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_ENTER generation in wxSpinCtrl.
+- Fixed wxSpinCtrl::GetClientSize() to return sensible value and not just
+  spin button's client size.
+- Fixed IMPLEMENT_APP() to be compatible with the -WU flag of Borland C++
+  compiler (Matthias Bohm).
+- Correct size calculation for toolbars containing controls under pre-XP
+  systems (Gerald Giese)
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Return false from wxEventLoop::Dispatch() if gtk_main_quit() was called and
+  so the loop should exit (Rodolfo Schulz de Lima).
+- Implement wxListBox::EnsureVisible() (Andreas Kling)
+- Fixed wxCURSOR_HAND to map to GDK_HAND2 and not GDK_HAND1, for consistency
+  with other applications.
+- Fix wxNotebook::GetPage{Text,Image}() when they were called from the page
+  change event handler for the first added page (Mikkel S).
+- Fixed wxBitmapButton to use focus and hover bitmaps correctly.
+- Fixed race condition which could cause idle processing to stop without
+  processing all pending events.
+- wxAcceleratorTable now works with buttons too.
+
+wxMac:
+
+- Fixed cursor for wxBusyCursor and wxContextHelp.
+- Fixed wxListCtrl to respect items' non-default fonts.
+- wxListCtrl::SetColumnWidth() now supports wxLIST_AUTOSIZE.
+- Fixed handling of transparent background in borderless wxBitmapButton.
+
+
+2.8.7
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Fixed bug with default proxy destruction in wxURL (Axel Gembe).
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Correct (harmless) warnings given for forward-declared DLL-exported classes
+  by mingw32 4.2 (Tim Stahlhut).
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Added gtk.window.force-background-colour wxSystemOptions option to work around
+  a background colour bug in the gtk-qt theme under KDE.
+- Implemented wxGetClientDisplayRect() correctly for wxGTK and X11-based ports.
+
+
+2.8.6
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Fixed another bug in wxFileConfig when deleting entries (Axel Gembe)
+- Added Portuguese translation (Antonio Cardoso Martins)
+
+
+2.8.5
+-----
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Added colour normalization to PNM image handler (Ray Johnston)
+- Fixed selecting part of word from right to left in wxHTML (Michael Hieke)
+- Selecting text in wxHTML with character precision was made easier, it's
+  enough to select half of a character (Michael Hieke)
+- Significantly improved startup times of XRC-based applications using
+  embedded resources on Unix (requires resources recompilation)
+- Fixed freeing of "static" alpha data in wxImage (Axel Gembe)
+- Don't invalidate the font in SetNativeFontInfo[Desc]() if the string is
+  invalid, to conform to the documented behaviour (Langhammer)
+- Fixed wxXPMHandler::SaveFile for images with more than 92 colors.
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Correct problem with page setup dialog when using landscape mode
+- Added msw.font.no-proof-quality system option, see manual for description
+- Fix appearance of notebook with non-top tabs under Windows Vista
+- Fixed bug with symbol resolving in wxStackWalker (Axel Gembe)
+- Fixed showing busy cursor for disabled windows and during wxExecute()
+- Set the string of wxEVT_COMMAND_CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLED events (Luca Cappa)
+- Fix problems with timers on SMP machines in wxAnimationCtrl (Gennady)
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works
+- More work on setting defaults in GNOME print dialogs.
+- Also made landscape printing work as per wxMSW.
+- Add support for clipping in GNOME print backend.
+- Speed up wxBitmap::Rescale()
+- Add right button event for wxToolbar's tools (Tim Kosse)
+- Don't unconditionally add wxCAPTION style to wxMiniFrame
+- Generate wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_END_LABEL_EDIT event even if label didn't change
+- Fix WX_GL_STEREO attribute handling (Tristan Mehamli)
+- Fix wxThread::SetPriority() when the thread is running (Christos Gourdoupis)
+- Fixed off by 1 bug in wxDC::GradientFillLinear() (Tim Kosse)
 
 
 2.8.4
 -----
 
+All:
+
+- Fix bug in wxFileConfig when recreating a group (Steven Van Ingelgem)
+- Fix wxStringOutputStream::Write() in Unicode build when the argument
+  overlaps UTF-8 characters boundary
+- Account for lines without newline at the end in wxExecute()
+
 All (Unix):
 
 - Handle socket shutdown by the peer correctly in wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
 
+All (GUI):
+
+- Allow status bar children in XRC (Edmunt Pienkowski)
+- Fix memory leak in wxWizard when not using sizers for the page layout
+- Added wxListCtrl::SetItemPtrData()
+- wxHTML: Apply table background colour between the cells too (Michael Hieke)
+
 wxMSW:
 
 - Corrected wxStaticBox label appearance when its foreground colour was set:
@@ -137,12 +780,25 @@ wxMSW:
 - Corrected GetChecked() for events from checkable menu items (smanders)
 - Fixed popup menus under Windows NT 4
 - Fixed bug in wxThread::Wait() in console applications introduced in 2.8.3
+- Support right-aligned/centered owner drawn items in wxListCtrl (troelsk)
 - Compilation fixed with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6==0
+- Fix wxComboCtrl colours under Windows Vista (Kolya Kosenko)
 
 wxGTK:
 
 - Fix infinite loop when adding a wxStaticText control to a toolbar
 - Fix wxNO_BORDER style for wxRadioBox (David Hart)
+- Fix wxTextCtrl::GetLineText() for empty lines (Marcin Wojdyr)
+
+wxMac:
+
+- Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND) (Adrian Secord)
+
+wxUniv:
+
+- Fix wxTextCtrl::SetSelection(-1, -1) to behave as documented (Anders Larsen)
+- Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND)
+- Fix setting background colour for controls with transparent background
 
 
 2.8.3