X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/f6bcfd974ef26faf6f91a62cac09827e09463fd1..9b4e3f352b36dee39d7e451a6c9db90862f5563e:/wxPython/CHANGES.txt diff --git a/wxPython/CHANGES.txt b/wxPython/CHANGES.txt index 83608f35c0..eefa6256aa 100644 --- a/wxPython/CHANGES.txt +++ b/wxPython/CHANGES.txt @@ -2,6 +2,576 @@ CHANGES.txt for wxPython ---------------------------------------------------------------------- +2.3.3 +----- +Added wxSplashScreen. + +Added wxGenericDirCtrl. + +Added wxMultiChoiceDialog. + +The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a +wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly) +so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed. + +Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also +added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now +be loaded from any Python "file-like" object. + +Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image +data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to +convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon. + +Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer. +This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a +row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row +spanning. Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank. +Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in +wxFlexGridSizer. + +Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky + +Added wxBufferedDC. + +Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla 1.40 to Scintilla 1.45, and then again +to version 1.47, and one more time to 1.48! + +UNICODE! + wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or + disabled. Previous to wxPython 2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always + used. Starting with 2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if + it is also available in wxWindows on the platform. Currently + wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with + the recent release of GTK+ 2.0 it is only a matter of time until + it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well. + + Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows + family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the + same unicode binaries on win95/98/ME platforms as well! This is + done by using a special library and DLL with the application + called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode). It simply gets out of + the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a + win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode + versions of the windows API. So far I have not been able to get + this to work perfectly on win9x. Most things work fine but + wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the + unicode build on win95. + + So how do you use it? It's very simple. When unicode is enabled, + then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString + from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and + parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can + accept either a Python string or unicode object. If a string + object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the + converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default + system encoding. If you need to use a string in some other + encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python + codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython + method. + +Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra. + +Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons. + +Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter. + +A little black magic... When the C++ object (for a window or +whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object +to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it. This leads to +crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++ +pointer. The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the +Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever +a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted. This works +for any class that is OOR aware. + +Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor, +wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their +derived classes. + +Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of +the image data. (Patch #546009) + +Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++ +application. + +Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their +wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual +methods to be overridden in Python derived classes. The methods +supported are: + + DoMoveWindow + DoSetSize + DoSetClientSize + DoSetVirtualSize + DoGetSize + DoGetClientSize + DoGetPosition + DoGetVirtualSize + DoGetBestSize + InitDialog + TransferDataFromWindow + TransferDataToWindow + Validate + AcceptsFocus + AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard + GetMaxSize + AddChild + RemoveChild + + If there are other methods that you think should be supported + please let me know. + +Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload +DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus. + +Added wxArtProvider. + +Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function +(or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there +are no pending events. This is useful for when you need to do +something but it can't be done during the current event handler. The +implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py. + +Fixed a boatload of reference leaks. + +Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect +creating a ScrolledPanel. + +Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and +other menu stuff. + +Added wxIEHtmlWin. This is essentially the same as using IE with the +ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in +C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and +so it is less fragile in the face of changes. + +Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem. Looks like when the win32com +modules make a "callback" that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a +transient thread state structure. Since wxPython is now saving +tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after +win32com got rid of the temporary tstate... + +Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext. This is +so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can +respond to mouse events and etc. + +Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -1 +on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise. + +Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to +import and launch each tool. This will let you import and use the +tools in your own scripts or apps as needed. On Linux and OS X the +tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to +easily launch them from the command line. For example, PyCrust can be +started with just the "pycrust" command. + +Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and +displays the details of the event. + +Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage. + +Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers +for nonstandard class types in XRC resources. See the demo for an +example. + + + + +2.3.2.1 +------- +Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as +well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines +without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers. + +Added some patches from library contributors. + + + +2.3.2 +----- +Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP, +EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent, +wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow, +and a demo to show them in action. + +Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see +http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/. ) + +Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl. + +Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps. + +Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman +Rolinsky. + +Added a new "constructor" to most of the window classes that calls the +default C++ contructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the +coresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a 2-step +creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such +as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for +passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the +resource. The name of the new "constructor" is the original name of +the class with a "Pre" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame, +etc. + +Updated to version 1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl +accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style +from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This +means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you +are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the +wxSTC flag accordingly. + +Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the +column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by +using wxColumnSorterMixin. + +Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White. + +Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper. + +Added pySketch to the samples. + +Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state +are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a +multi-processor machine. + +Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log +messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example. + +Added wxFindReplaceDialog. + +The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer, +wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods +that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally +created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still +exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the +original C++ pointer. + +Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList, +DrawPointList. + +Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama. + +Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning +text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side. + +Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to +and from web browsers. It's still not 100% bullet-proof for all types +of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular +browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape 4.x works, +if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the +wx-dev list. + +Added wxStopWatch. + +Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType. + +Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions +will now Disconnect the event. + +Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow. + +Added wxFileHistory. + +Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows +by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show +this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the +same document. + +Added wxEditableListBox gizmo. + +Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam +Feuer. + +Added the "SplitTree gizmos" which are a collection of classes that +were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with +additional columns for each item. The classes are +wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow, +wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may +also be useful by themselves. + +Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived +from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a +wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The +visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a +SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See +wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more +details. + + + + +2.3.1 +----- +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 ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to +subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc... + +Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package. + +Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton. + +Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1. + +Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran + + + +2.3.0 +----- +Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the +glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.) + +Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the +wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal +ctor and dtors. + +Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython. + +Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the +wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the +colour database. + +Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave, +wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI +access from non-GUI threads. + +wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads +use print, sys.stdout.write, etc. + +Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog + +Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class +that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. + +Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to +wxPython/lib from Lorne White. + +Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make +it gobs faster in certain situations. + +Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and +convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is +converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings +containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is +included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is +specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally +compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to +convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See +wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for +the implementation. + +Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some +experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too +many refreshes. + +A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with +the distutils that comes with Python 2.1. + +Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData. + +Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions. + +Added wxToggleButton. + +Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called. + +Added some methods to wxGrid: + GetCellHighlightPenWidth + GetCellHighlightROPenWidth + SetCellHighlightPenWidth + SetCellHighlightROPenWidth + GetGridWindow + GetGridRowLabelWindow + GetGridColLabelWindow + GetGridCornerLabelWindow + +Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect +representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such. +On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize. + + +***---***---***---***---***---***---***---***---***---***---***--- + Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See + the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a + nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will + now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By + "proper type" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from + FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object + constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr + as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for + wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the + original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it + will probably only work on Python 2.1 and beyond because it will + use weak references.) + + This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has + required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should + be transparent to you, however I'm not 100% sure that it didn't + introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get + stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything + thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any + object-type related oddities to me. +***---***---***---***---***---***---***---***---***---***---***--- + +There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like +in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython +specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it +finally got done. + +Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my +list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier. + +Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others. + +Added wxWave. + +Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where +useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help +make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from +Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out +of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others +please send it to me for inclusion in this package. + +Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started +by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in +wxPython/samples. + + + + +2.2.6 +----- + +No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only +changes and fixes in the wxWindows library. + + + +2.2.5 +----- + +New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond +that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If +a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert +it to a wxString using the default encoding. + +Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them. + +Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control. + +Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with +a matching prefix as keys are typed. + +Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a +column in report mode. + +Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status +bar after 2 seconds. + +Added wxJoystick. + +Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with +a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler +object, (usually a window.) + +Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow() + +Fixed GOBS of reference leaks. + +Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into +multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow +the "export" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from +the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared +libraries. Should also be usable from 3rd party code, just include +wxPython/src/export.h + +Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate +extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and +utils. Will probably add more later. + +Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a +wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the +wxPrinterDC2 name. + +Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class +that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints. + +Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg. + +Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the +mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called. + +Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not +integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an +XML-RPC server. + + + +New in 2.2.2 +------------ + +Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps +Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated +from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means +that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla +releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names +have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++ +interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now +some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain +how things work. + +I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some +of the distribution files. (See http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/) +This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack, +builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also +use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for +platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building +wxPython for Python 1.5.2 or for 1.6, then you will need to get and +install version 1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are +using Python 2.0 then you already have it. + +Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes, +contributed by Joerg Baumann. + +Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you +get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to +get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and +stdin. + +Removed the old python sizers. + +Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint +and wxRealPoint. + +Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for +the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the +libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems. + +Lots of little fixes here and there. + +Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the +wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on +wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now. + + + + +New in 2.2.1 +------------ + +Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc. + +Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo. + + + New in 2.2.0 ------------