Updated to SWIG 1.3.24 (plus a patch that corrects a bug and adds back

some things that were changed/removed from my patch I submitted to
them.)

Since it is now possible easily and simply share the SWIG type tables
across modules I reverted to always using the stock SWIG runtime
instead of my slightly hacked up version of it exported via the
wxPython C API.

The %name directive is now deprecated so replaced most uses of it with
a custom %Rename macro that uses %rename internally.  These will
evetually need to be replaced with a DocDecl macro when docstrings are
added.


git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@31130 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775

wxPython/docs/CHANGES.txt

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Recent Changes for wxPython
 2.5.3.3
 -------
 
-wx.Sizer Add, Insert, and Prepend funcitons now return a reference to the
+wx.Sizer Add, Insert, and Prepend functions now return a reference to the
 wx.SizerItem that was added to the sizer, and the wx.SizerItem has a
 GetRect accessor to give the position of the item on the parent window.
 
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ Added wx.PasswordEntryDialog analagous to wx.TextEntryDialog, allows
 detecting entering an empty string vs. cancel unlike the
 wx.GetPasswordFromUser dialog function.
 
-
 OGL patch from Shane Holloway:
 
     Two simple problems found in the new python ogl code.  First is
@@ -53,7 +52,7 @@ OGL patch from Shane Holloway:
 Fixed GetSaveData and SetSaveData in wx.lib.multisash to not depend on
 the default way that class objectss are converted to strings.
 
-Fixed problem in StyledTextCtrl.Set[H|V]ScrollBar that could leave the
+Fixed problem in StyledTextCtrl.Set[HV]ScrollBar that could leave the
 internal scrollbar visible.
 
 Added wx.StandardPaths which provides methods for determining standard
@@ -73,7 +72,9 @@ wxGTK2: Reimplemented DoDrawRotatedText() by way of a rotation of an
 alpha blended text bitmap.  It would be better if Pango could draw
 directly into an wxImage (as FreeType can,) but that is for later...
 
-Added wrappers and a demo for wx.MediaCtrl.
+Added wrappers and a demo for the wx.MediaCtrl class, which can play
+various forms of audio/video media using native codecs install on the
+system.  So far it is only implemented for Windows and OSX.
 
 wxGTK: Patch applied for Freeze()/Thaw() for wxTextCtrtl.
 
@@ -104,6 +105,35 @@ your timers it will no longer work.  Instead you should hold a
 reference to the timer and then del the reference when you are
 finished with the timer.
 
+Updated to 1.3.24 of SWIG.  All of my big patches have been applied to
+the main SWIG source tree, but unfortunatly there were also some bugs
+added that affected the wxPython build and a few details in my
+original patch were changed/removed, so we are still not free of
+patches.  A new patch for SWIG is located in the wxPython/SWIG
+directory of the wxPython source tree.  SWIG 1.3.24 plus this patch
+should be used by anyone who is making custom modifications to
+wxPython's *.i files, or building their own extension modules or
+etc. that need to interact with the wxPython swigged types.  For the
+morbidly curious, here are a few more details:
+
+    * Since it is now possible easily and simply share the SWIG type
+      tables across modules I reverted to always using the stock SWIG
+      runtime instead of my slightly hacked up version of it exported
+      via the wxPython C API.
+
+    * The %name directive is now deprecated so replaced most uses of
+      it with a custom %Rename macro that uses %rename internally.
+      These will evetually need to be replaced with a DocDecl macro
+      when docstrings are added.
+
+    * The "this" attribute of all SWIGged classes is no longer a
+      string containing a "swigified pointer", but rather a custom
+      built-in type that holds the real C pointer to the object and
+      the type info.  It can be converted to a string like the old
+      value using str() or to the long integer value of the pointer
+      using long().
+
+