X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/e1720942b02fdf109d23a519bf21033483b4bdab..8329fea8ad89a4df6c2f0441facdc5ad189473ea:/docs/changes.txt diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt index 5e940dec52..16be1cb0a8 100644 --- a/docs/changes.txt +++ b/docs/changes.txt @@ -1,38 +1,415 @@ ----------------------------- -wxWindows 2.5/2.6 Change Log ----------------------------- +------------------------------------------------------------------- +wxWidgets 2.5 Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual +------------------------------------------------------------------- -INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x -================================ +2.5.4 +----- + +All: + +- new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell) +- Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug) +- wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added +- 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 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 ODonnell) +- use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize() +- wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts) +- XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert) -- wxFileType::GetIcon() returns wxIconLocation, not wxIcon +All (GUI): +- 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) -DEPRECATED METHOD SINCE 2.4.x -============================= +Unix: -Deprecated methods may still be used but will disappear in future wxWindows -versions, please update your code to not use them. +- wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build -- wxDocManager::GetNoHistoryFiles() renamed to GetHistoryFilesCount() -- wxSizer::Remove(wxWindow *), use Detach() instead [it is more clear] -- wxSizer::Set/GetOption(): use Set/GetProportion() instead -- wxKeyEvent::KeyCode(): use GetKeyCode instead -- wxList::Number, First, Last, Nth: use GetCount, GetFirst/Last, Item instead -- wxNode::Next, Previous, Data: use GetNext, GetPrevious, GetData instead -- wxListBase::operator wxList&(): use typesafe lists instead -- wxTheFontMapper, use wxFontMapper::Get() instead +wxGTK: +- fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard() +- native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski) + +wxMac: + +- wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib" +- wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name + +wxMSW: + +- fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel) +- wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group + +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 + + +2.5.3 +----- + +All: + +- support for huge (>2 Gb) files (Tim Kosse) +- number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten) +- fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem) +- fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect +- fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth) +- support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English + (based on patch by Stefan Kowski) +- added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep() +- basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani) +- fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps) +- deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear() +- active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox) +- sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP +- added wxStringInput/OutputStreams +- added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream) +- 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. + +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) -OTHER CHANGES -============= 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 @@ -46,6 +423,19 @@ All: - 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: @@ -55,9 +445,12 @@ wxBase: 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) @@ -66,12 +459,13 @@ All GUI ports: - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski) +- added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter) - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards) - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth) - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far) -- FL: rmoved const from EnableTool parameters +- FL: 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) @@ -81,13 +475,40 @@ All GUI ports: 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 -- Speeded up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd) +- sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd) - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff) -- Wizard now validates when pressing Back or Next +- 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 +- 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: @@ -95,6 +516,14 @@ Unix: - 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: @@ -107,44 +536,45 @@ wxGTK: - 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 SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2 +- 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 compiler +- 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 -- all libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix - (for MinGW and Cygwin) -- When using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported - added - WXEXPORTDLL -- A wxEvtHandler object was not removed from wxPendingEvents on deletion. - wxPendingEventsLocker was being deleted in App before all wxEvtHandler - objects have been destroyed resulting in stale handler/lock - ptrs; fixed -- Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer neccessary +- 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 so it no longer shows a thin and - sunken border under XP +- 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 - wxWindows to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds. - Proper XP theme support is planned for 2.6 -- disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles - if the version of CommCtl doesn't support it (XP) + 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: @@ -191,7 +621,7 @@ INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x 2.6 release. NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions - of wxWindows you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro + of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro (see the documentation) useful. @@ -333,7 +763,7 @@ wxThread and related classes: ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour - (i.e. absense of race conditions) using the old API. + (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 @@ -394,7 +824,7 @@ wxBase: - 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) +- 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 @@ -408,10 +838,10 @@ wxBase: Unix (Base/GUI): -- wxWindows may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make +- 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 -- wxWindows may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X +- 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 @@ -423,7 +853,7 @@ All (GUI): - 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 - wxWindows dialogs + wxWidgets dialogs - significantly improved native font support - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe wxHashTable @@ -464,11 +894,11 @@ wxMSW: - 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 wxWindows styles also changes the underlying Windows window style +- 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 wxWindows applications behaviour when the system colours +- improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours are changed - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535 @@ -483,7 +913,7 @@ wxMSW: - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL -- Multiline labels in buttons are now supoprted (simply use "\n" in the label) +- 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 @@ -657,7 +1087,7 @@ wxMSW: - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug - Added mousewheel processing - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure - wxWindows at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option + 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 @@ -927,7 +1357,7 @@ 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 @@ -1025,7 +1455,7 @@ 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: @@ -1353,7 +1783,7 @@ 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). @@ -1395,7 +1825,7 @@ 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. @@ -1628,7 +2058,7 @@ 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