X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/e90196a556e288234cacf7e5166f3f4a6d971175..8771a3239e0ab9b6447ac73c3b00de4b3d7257fe:/docs/gtk/changes.txt diff --git a/docs/gtk/changes.txt b/docs/gtk/changes.txt index fbcd2e58e1..6b85b38beb 100644 --- a/docs/gtk/changes.txt +++ b/docs/gtk/changes.txt @@ -1,10 +1,184 @@ -1st November '99: wxWindows 2.1.11 released +12th January '2000: wxWindows 2.1.14 released -There is still a unresolved problem with bitmap to image +Corrected one more bug in the TIFF handler. + +It is now possible to run wxGTK apps in the best visual +instead of only the default on system that support this +(typically IRIX). + +Added default keyboard handling to wxScrolledWindow. + +Fixed slightly overoptimized window colour and style handling. + +Fixed bug in drawing code that made GTK pick the wrong pen +style when using the default. + +The L-GPL iODBC library must now be enables explicitly so as +to not mislead people into reading the license wrong. + +24th January '2000: wxWindows 2.1.13 released + +Corrections to TAB handling in notebooks. + +Added scroll event to indicate when the thumb has +been released (as opposed to only changed). + +Fixed crashes with GTK Pixmap theme. + +Fixed endianness problems in image code. + +Minor fixes for sockets related to GUI reentrance. Also +improved the IPV address class and added more error +checking and rekated things. + +Many enhancements to wxHTML, more tags supported, better support +for non-western texts etc. + +Corrected code handling mono-bitmaps and their conversion to +wxImage etc. Added experimental ConvertToMonoBitmap() to +wxImage class. + +Fixed a few minor problems in wxListCtrl. + +The MIME-type code in now reads KDE and GNOME mime-type bindings +including icon information. This is used in the file dialog. + +Small fix for problems with code that didn't changed the size of a +window, but its client size and thus sent no wxSizeEvent. + +Fixed problem with shared contexts in OpenGl canvas. + +Fixed keyboard handling in wxCheckListBox. + +Corrected the completely unfunctional TIFF code. + +Various minor corrections to wxWizard, wxCalendarCtrl and other +complex controls. + +Revamped code for TCP based connections between programs. + +Updates to the ODBC classes (George Tasker). + +Build-fixes for various platforms and compilers. + +6th January '2000: wxWindows 2.1.12 released + +Who has a BigEndian computer (e.g. Sparc or PowerPC) that runs a 15 +and/or 16 bit colour mode? I need this for testing purposes, i.e. this +person could help me by running a small testprogram and sending +me the output. + +Improved support for GTK's themes, changes in font sizes (and +the dialogs' ability to react to that) and related things. + +Added Calendar control. + +Added classes for recoding text (e.g. from Windows encoding to ISO encoding +and for converting to and from Unicode). + +Updated the 64-bit long class (a class that substitutes a 64-bit int +type on platforms which don't provide a native one). + +Added wxImage::Replace() (for replacing colours) and wxImage::GetSubImage(). +Also corrected conversion from mono bitmaps to wxImage. + +Added wxBitmap::GetSubBitmap(). + +Removed some flicker from tree ctrl. Minor optical changes. + +Added support for multiple font and colour support for items in +list ctrls and tree ctrls. + +Added support for multiple-selection file dialog. + +Implemented wxMenuBar::Insert() and wxMenu::Insert(). There is +also a Remove() method now, but the GTK doesn't really like that. + +Enhanced wxMimeTypesManager to read GNOME and KDE file ending +bindings to MIME types and icons. + +Corrected wxExecute to longer eat up all memory and crash under +certain circumstances (Karsten Ballueder). + +wxGTK no longer gives warnings if the application shows a dialog +before entering the main loop. + +Added string to long/ulong/float conversion routines and some +more string related things. + +Updated documentation for wxFile, wxFFile and their respective +stream classes. Documented some more stream classes. + +Improved wxHTML and its help system. Options dialog, better printing, +history index. Also implemented more (cite, definition lists, etc). + +Corrected wxRegion::GetBox(). + +Added wxNotebookSizer for combining notebooks and sizers. + +Added wxDir class. Useful as a replacement for wxFileGetFirst() +and wxFileGetNext(). + +Fixed Y2000 bug in file dialog (sic.) + +Added wxStopWatch class. + +wxBitmap now derives from wxGDIObject. + +Added inlined classes for 2D geometry calculations. + +wxSpinCtrl now has its own event, intercepted using EVT_SPINCTRL. + +The ODBC classes can now be configured at run-time if they +are to use forward-only cursors or not. + +Added wxDateTime class. The existing classes wxTime and wxDate +have been reimplemented and corrected using wxDateTime. + +Rewritten wxThread to have a flag controlling if the +thread will delete its C++ class itself ("delete this") or +if the main thread must delete the C++ class. + +Added TIFF reading code, PCX writing code. + +Minor compile and build fixes for different architectures. + +Added more flags to wxSizer for proportional sizing and +centering and alignment combination and a wxNotebookSizer. + +Added controls to wxToolBars (e.g. combobox) and DeleteTool. + +Fixed several problems with buffered streams. Added support for +setting the end-of-line mode (Mac,DOS,Unix) in wxTextOutputStream. + +Added code to send events from one thread to another and added +function to wake up idle system (needed for sending inter-thread +events). + +Corrected wrongly set flag in dialogs which broke its tab code. +Also corrected navigation on wxRadioBox. + +Corrected segfaults in wxGLCanvas and stupid race when using +several such canvasses. + +Some minor updates to wxSockets. Fixed timeout problem. + +Speed-up for new encoding related font code. Minor fixes. + +Changed wxListBox to send deferred events, i.e. events emitted by +the listbox won't get processed before the next idle message. + +More minor changes and fixes. + +Began work on a new dialog and resource editor (wxDesigner). + +7st November '99: wxWindows 2.1.11 released + +There is still an unresolved problem with bitmap to image conversion on big-endian architectures (such as Solaris), where color values get exchanged. I'd need help on this -one. +one as I have no BE computer. Enlightment has struck the majority of the developers and they have chosen to use the Linux kernel numbering scheme @@ -13,13 +187,12 @@ release will be called wxWindows 2.2.X, development snapshots will be called 2.1.X. A lot of discussion has been wasted on how to maintain a -once released stable version will be maintained. It was -almost universally agreed that only a commercial entity -will have the motivation ($$$) to do that - so far there -is no wxWindows Inc. +once released stable version. It was almost universally +agreed that only a commercial entity will have the motivation +($$$) to do that - so far there is no wxWindows Inc. Support for GTK 1.0 has been dropped. This version has -been tested with GTK 1.2.3 and GTK 1.2.6 - it is known +been tested with GTK 1.2.3 and GTK 1.2.6 - it might not work with some other versions. Rewritten the support for multiple-format Drag'n'Drop and