X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/d35b028e046acb684d57e56db309313090b73718..65baafba0e8cd74f2264b7e2f7625ff5bea84864:/docs/changes.txt diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt index 8b7de0efe6..d8a0460092 100644 --- a/docs/changes.txt +++ b/docs/changes.txt @@ -1,22 +1,1584 @@ -wxWindows 2 Change Log ----------------------- +--------------------------------------------------------------- +wxWidgets Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual +--------------------------------------------------------------- + +2.7.0 +----- + +All: + +- wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag + +All (GUI): + +- added wxDialog::SetEscapeId() +- wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox, + wxComboBox and wxChoice) + +wxMSW: + +- wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson) +- Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd) + +Unix: + +- NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it + + +2.6.2 +----- + +All: + +- Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it. +- Fixed proxy handling in wxURL. +- Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl. +- Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls). +- Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev). +- Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson). +- Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler. +- wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual. +- Added wxLongLong::ToDouble(). +- Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs. +- Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett). +- Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout. + +All (GUI): + +- Added wxStaticText::Wrap() +- wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection, + added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour. +- Added wxXmlResource::Unload(). +- Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample). +- Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet). +- Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski). +- Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif. +- Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported. +- Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text). +- wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens. +- Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik). + +wxMSW: + +- wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005). +- Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP. +- Fixed multiline tooltips handling. +- Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin). +- Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus. +- Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates. +- Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski). +- Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound. +- Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW(). +- Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small. +- Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd). +- Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd). +- Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd). +- Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff). +- Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba). + +wxGTK: + +- ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso). +- Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp). +- Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif. +- wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now + instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp). +- Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under + GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp). +- Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp). +- Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and + removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell). +- Fixed domain socket handling. + +wxMac: + +- First implementation of native HIToolbar support. +- Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW). +- More CoreGraphics implementation improvements. +- Various text control bug fixes. +- Automatic menu management improved. +- Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons, + due to dangling cycle pointers. +- Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang). +- Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when + showing modally). + +wxOS2 + +- Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++. + +wxUniv: + +- Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL. +- Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler). + +wxMotif: + +- Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif. +- wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale. +- Fixed button size in common dialogs. +- Made wxFileDialog translatable. +- All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER + flag has been specified. +- Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to + be created with a "sensible" initial width. +- Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when + showing modally). + +wxMGL: + +- Fixed crash on exit. +- Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized. + +wxX11: + +- Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp). + + +2.6.1 +----- + +All: + +- Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser. +- Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg) + +All (GUI): + +- Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars. +- Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item. +- Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML. +- wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel. +- Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL. +- Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons. +- Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations. +- Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size. +- PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats. +- wxGrid focus and edit key improvements. + +wxMSW: + +- Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox + (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED). +- Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby + eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing. +- Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls) + by refreshing parent when the radio box moves. +- Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to + allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box. +- Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED. +- Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a + window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by + checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any. +- A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting. +- Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too. +- Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position. +- Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too. +- wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour. +- Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible. +- Compiles again with WIN64. +- Winelib compilation now works. +- When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha + channel and set the bitmap to use it. +- wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel +- Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements. +- wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed. +- Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug. +- Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored. +- wxNotebook refresh problem fixed. +- DDE fixed for Unicode. +- Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons. +- wxCheckListBox item background fixed. +- Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing. +- Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP + +wxWinCE: + +- Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName. + +wxGTK: + +- Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+). +- Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls. +- Fixed scrollbar border colour. +- Added bitmap support in menus. + +wxMac: + +- Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a + .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder). +- Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an + incorrect state. +- Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger. +- Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item. +- Window menu now added automatically. +- Configure fixed for wxBase compilation. +- Modified function key support fixed. +- wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements. + +wxX11: + +- Menu problems fixed. +- wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows. +- Fixed a font memory leak. +- Multiple wxTimers now work correctly. + + +2.6.0 +----- + +All: + +- wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead. +- Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default. + +All (GUI): + +- Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check + non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame. + +wxMSW: + +- Fixed static box border when the label is empty. +- Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box. +- wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController. + +wxWinCE: + +- Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting. + +wxGTK: +- New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version. + --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback + --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback + --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback + --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK +- wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too. +- Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText. + +wxMac: +- Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions + +2.5.5 +----- + +All: + +- wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get + user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added. +- Added wxDebugReport class. +- Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev. +- Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First). +- Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons. +- Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent). +- Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString. +- Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev) + +All (GUI): + +- Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original + GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr. +- Added XPM data constructor to wxImage. +- Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or + the whole virtual area. +- Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize. +- Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size + isn't used to set the window size. +- Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp). +- wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of + splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur). +- Added wxImage::IsTransparent(). + +Unix: + +- Fixed build on Linux/AMD64. + +wxMSW: + +- Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile(). +- wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available. +- fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert). +- wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well. +- Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour + handling (Jamie Gadd). + +wxGTK: + +- Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp). +- Corrected wxListBox selection handling. +- Corrected default button size handling for different themes. +- Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes. +- Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys. +- Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp). +- GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better, + and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp). + +wxMac: + +- Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows. + +wxPalmOS: + +- Native wxRadioBox implementation. + +wxWinCE: + +- Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE. +- Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId. + You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility. +- Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar. +- Panels more naturally white on PocketPC. +- wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes + with correct titlebar style. +- Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the + PocketPC guidelines +- Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic. +- Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware. +- Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event. +- Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE. +- Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls. +- wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons + to the dialog's toolbar. + +2.5.4 +----- + +All: + +- wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must + use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp) +- new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell) +- large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell) +- classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski) +- Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug) +- wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added +- added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC) +- added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this +- added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers +- changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison +- implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert) +- added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars +- Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented +- A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced. + SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent + behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds +- BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell) +- use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize() +- wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts) +- XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert) +- Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes. +- Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new + print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME + printing stuff in the GTK port. +- Deprecated print setup dialog. +- Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database +- The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB + datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database) +- added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded() +- wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition +- wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with + wxSystemSettings::Get*() +- wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between + the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the + client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers + to compensate for this bug may need to be changed. +- Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits + due to a rounding error. +- Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until + SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that. +- Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right + mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation. +- "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU +- wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter +- wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel) +- added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only) + + +All (GUI): + +- added wxMediaCtrl +- added wxDatePickerCtrl +- wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in tag +- wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski) +- recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index +- wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition +- wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this + item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II) +- wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native + book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others). + Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly. +- new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro +- wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style) +- wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts + of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog) +- wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as + in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth) +- added wxImage::InitAlpha() + +Unix: + +- wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build + +wxGTK: + +- Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library + now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it + if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing + code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed. +- Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText() +- fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard() +- native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski) +- implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer + is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right + after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp) +- Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at + runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions + are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker + errors otherwise. +- wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp) +- Added wxRawBitmap support +- Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its + interaction with wxWidgets' events. +- wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp) + +wxMac: + +- Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock) +- wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib" +- wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name +- wxJoystick now works on OSX + +wxMSW: + +- fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel) +- wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group +- fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize +- pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler +- added wxRegKey::Export(file) + +wxWinCE: +- Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4, + but not mentioned anywhere. +- Added (preliminary) support for sockets + +wxUniv: + +- wxBU_... button align flags support +- vertical notebook orientation support +- 3rd state support for checkboxes +- wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting + +wxPalmOS: + +- William Osborne has won and new port was born + (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge") +- polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed + all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port) +- enumeration of available volumes +- native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database +- native wxProgressDialog implementation +- native wxColourDialog implementation +- native wxSystemSettings colours +- native wxButton implementation +- native wxCheckBox implementation +- native wxSlider implementation +- native wxToggleButton implementation +- native wxRadioButton implementation +- native wxStaticText implementation +- native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation + + +2.5.3 +----- + +All: + +- support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (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) +- fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters + +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. +- IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal) + +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 + +wxCocoa: + +- added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2 +- fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2 +- Tooltips now supported +- wxSound now supported +- wxDisplay now supported +- Some stock cursors now supported + +wxMac: + +- fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX +- added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock +- added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2 +- wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes + +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 automated 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) +- subindented 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: removed 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 popup 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 necessary + 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 + +- 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. absence 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 supported (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: -- wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too +- 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 ----- @@ -73,7 +1635,7 @@ wxMSW: - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame - wxFrame restores focus better - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to - frames anddialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise + 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. @@ -156,7 +1718,7 @@ all (GUI): - Added wxImage::Rotate. - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively -- wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu menagament +- 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 @@ -172,7 +1734,7 @@ all (GUI): - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD) - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper - for dealing with convertions between different encodings, + 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 @@ -212,13 +1774,13 @@ wxHTML: - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController, including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog - and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster + and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search - splitted into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller + 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/poping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers +- 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 @@ -226,7 +1788,7 @@ wxHTML: fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in -NOTE: for changes after wxWindows 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS +NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS change log. 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999 @@ -324,7 +1886,7 @@ 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: @@ -481,7 +2043,7 @@ 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. @@ -537,7 +2099,7 @@ 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 ------------------------ @@ -652,7 +2214,7 @@ 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). @@ -694,7 +2256,7 @@ 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. @@ -798,7 +2360,7 @@ 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. @@ -827,7 +2389,7 @@ 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 @@ -908,7 +2470,7 @@ 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 @@ -927,7 +2489,7 @@ At this point, the following has been achieved: - Toolbar class hierarchy revised: wxToolBarBase wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar) - wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95 + wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95) wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32) - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly). - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now