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| <h1 class="title">Recent Changes for wxPython</h1>
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| <div class="section" id="id1">
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| <h1><a name="id1">2.6.0.1</a></h1>
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| <p>Added wx.BrushFromBitmap to create a stippled brush in a single step.
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| Also added missing brysh style flags: wx.STIPPLE_MASK
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| wx.STIPPLE_MASK_OPAQUE.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW: Fix for default control colours when the system text fg colour
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| is not black.</p>
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| <p>wxGTK: Patch #1171754, It is now possible to have a menu item that
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| both has an icon and is a submenu.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW: Patch #1197009, better refreshes when windows are moved and
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| resized.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW: Patch #1197468.  Keeps track of pending size/position changes
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| in case there is more than one adjustment for a window in a single
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| DeferWindowPos set, then the pending values can be used for defaults
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| instead of current values.</p>
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| <p>Fixed the typemap that converts a Python list of strings to a
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| wxArrayString so it uses the wxPython default encoding.</p>
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| <p>Several docstrings added and updated.  Lots more to go.</p>
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| <p>wxMac: Strings added to the clipboard or used in DnD no longer have an
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| extra null character at the end.</p>
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| <p>Added wx.GetXDisplay that returns a raw swigified pointer for the X11
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| Display, or None for the non-X11 platforms.</p>
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| <p>wxMenu: Don't send an event when selecting an already selected radio
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| item.</p>
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| <p>Added wx.LaunchDefaultBrowser.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW: Fixed erroneous selection of content in wx.ComboBox when within
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| a wx.StaticBox.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW: Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.</p>
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| <p>Ensure that Python is still in an initialized state before doing any
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| locking or unlocking in wxPyBeginBlockThreads and wxPyEndBlockThreads
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| as these can be triggered after Python has been finalized in embedding
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| situations.</p>
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| <p>Added alternate constructors for wx.Font: wx.FontFromPixelSize,
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| wx.FFont, wx.FFontFromPixelSize.  See the docstrings or new api docs
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| for details.</p>
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| <p>Added wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea Gavana.  It is a control like
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| static text that acts like a hyper-link, launching the system's
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| default browser in response to the clicks.</p>
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| <p>Added an optional parameter to wxversion.select that allows you to
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| specify that the extra components specified in the version string are
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| required.  For example, if you ask for "2.6-unicode" but only the ansi
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| version is installed then by default the ansi version will be selected
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| as it considered close enough since the version numbers match.  If you
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| want to force the options to be required then you can just add a True
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| parameter, like this:</p>
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| <pre class="literal-block">
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| import wxversion
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| wxversion.select("2.6-unicode", True)
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| import wx
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| </pre>
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| <p>Tweaked wx.lib.buttons such that flat buttons (e.g. have no bevel and
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| a wx.BORDER_NONE style flag) paint themed backgrounds if there are
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| transparent areas and the parent is displaying a theme.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW:  Fix for wrong sash colour of wx.SplitterWindow in the silver
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| theme on XP.</p>
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| <p>Added a wx.xrc.XmlResourceHandler for the Ticker class.  See
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| wx/lib/ticker_xrc.py</p>
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| <p>wxSTC: Fixed CmdKeyAssign key bindings for Ctrl-Backspace.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW: Fixed a bug in wx.TextCtrl where all the lines were being used
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| to calculate the best size, instead of using a reasonable limit.</p>
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| </div>
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| <div class="section" id="id2">
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| <h1><a name="id2">2.6.0.0</a></h1>
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| <ul class="simple">
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| <li>26-Apr-2005</li>
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| </ul>
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| <p>wxMSW: Fixed wx.TransientPopupWindow (and therefore wx.TipWindow) to
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| auto-dismiss when the mouse is clicked outside of the popup like it is
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| supposed to.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW: Fixed bug #1167891 wx.Notebook display problem with wx.NB_MULTILINE.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW: Fixed bad cliping of hidden windows inside of wx.StaticBox.</p>
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| <p>wxGTK:  The configure flags for selecting GTK+ 1.2.x or 2.x has
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| changed slightly.  It is now --with-gtk[=VERSION] where VERSION is
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| either '1', '2' or 'any'.  The default is '2'.</p>
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| <p>wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the following methods for alternate ways
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| to set and fetch text from the document buffer.  They work similarly
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| to the existing methods of the same name, except that they don't go
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| through the same string/unicode <--> wxString conversions.  The "Raw"
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| methods will do no conversions at all and in a unicode build of
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| wxPython the strings will be in the utf-8 encoding and in an ansi
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| build no assumption is made about the encoding.  The "UTF8" functions
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| will attempt to always get/set utf-8 text, which it will always be
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| able to do in a unicode build, and in an ansi build it will depend on
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| the content of the utf-8 used being compatible with the current
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| encoding, (you'll get an exception otherwise.)</p>
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| <blockquote>
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| <table border="1" class="docutils">
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| <colgroup>
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| <col width="49%" />
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| <col width="51%" />
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| </colgroup>
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| <tbody valign="top">
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| <tr><td>AddTextRaw</td>
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| <td>AddTextUTF8</td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr><td>InsertTextRaw</td>
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| <td>InsertTextUTF8</td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr><td>GetCurLineRaw</td>
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| <td>GetCurLineUTF8</td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr><td>GetLineRaw</td>
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| <td>GetLineUTF8</td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr><td>GetSelectedTextRaw</td>
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| <td>GetSelectedTextUTF8</td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr><td>GetTextRangeRaw</td>
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| <td>GetTextRangeUTF8</td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr><td>SetTextRaw</td>
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| <td>SetTextUTF8</td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr><td>GetTextRaw</td>
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| <td>GetTextUTF8</td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr><td>AppendTextRaw</td>
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| <td>AppendTextUTF8</td>
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| </tr>
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| </tbody>
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| </table>
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| </blockquote>
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| <p>wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl:  Added the StyleSetFontEncoding(style, enc)
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| method that allows you to set the encoding to be used by the font for
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| a particular style.</p>
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| <p>wxMac: Fixed wx.ComboBox to forward the EVT_CHAR, EVT_KEY_DOWN,
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| EVT_KEY_UP and EVT_TEXT events from its embedded text control.</p>
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| <p>wxMac: Corrected refresh bugs in wxGrid.</p>
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| <dl class="docutils">
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| <dt>XRCed: Updated to version 0.1.5.</dt>
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| <dd><ul class="first last simple">
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| <li>Added wxWizard, wxWizardPageSimple (only from pull-down menu).</li>
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| <li>Hide command for test window.</li>
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| <li>Replacing classes works better.</li>
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| <li>Added Locate tool.</li>
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| </ul>
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| </dd>
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| </dl>
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| </div>
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| <div class="section" id="id3">
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| <h1><a name="id3">2.5.5.1</a></h1>
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| <ul class="simple">
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| <li>8-Apr-2005</li>
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| </ul>
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| <p>wxMSW: Fixed bug #1022383, 'several ComboBoxes appear selected'</p>
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| <p>wx.grid.Grid: Fixed bug #1163384.  Moved the code that handles
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| activating the cell editors to a EVT_CHAR event handler.  This is done
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| so the character inserted into the editor will be the "cooked" char
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| value (including accented or composed keys) rather than the raw code
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| provided by the EVT_KEY_DOWN event.</p>
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| <p>Added orient parameter to wx.MDIParentFrame.Tile()</p>
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| <p>wxMSW: wxTextCtrl with wx.TE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if
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| available.</p>
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| <p>Added GetCount, GetCountRGB, and GetCountColour methods to
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| wx.ImageHistogram.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW: wx.Window.Refresh changed to explicitly refresh all children as
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| well as the parent.  Previously it was implicitly done because parents
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| did not clip their children by default.  Now that they always clip
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| children then Refresh needed to be fixed to do a recursive refresh.
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| This also fixes the Freeze/Thaw problems that some people had with
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| 2.5.4.1.</p>
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| <p>wx.SplitterWindow: Send EVT_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED only once after
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| end of dragging and not after each CHANGING event (modified patch
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| #1076226)</p>
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| <p>wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas: applied patch fixing problems with X server
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| crash when using nVidia cards (patch 1155132)</p>
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| <dl class="docutils">
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| <dt>wx.lib.mixins.listctrl: Patches from Toni Brkic:</dt>
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| <dd><ul class="first last simple">
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| <li>Bugfix for TextEditMixin when the view can't be scrolled</li>
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| <li>Enhancement for ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin, allowing it to manage
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| the width of any column.</li>
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| </ul>
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| </dd>
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| </dl>
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| <p>wxMac: removal and reusing toolbar tools like the other platforms is
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| now possible.</p>
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| <p>wxMac: Correct radio tool selection after calling Realize a 2nd time.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW: Applied patch #1166587, removes all flicker from wx.StaticBox</p>
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| <p>Added wx.lib.foldpanelbar, Andrea Gavana's port of Jorgen Bodde's C++
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| wxFoldPanelBar classes to Python.</p>
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| <p>wxGTK: Applied patch #1173802, reimplementation of GtkFileChooser
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| wxFileDialog by Mart Raudsepp.  Note that this new file dialog is only
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| used on GTK2 >= 2.4.  For earlier GTK2 versions and GTK1 then the
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| older generic file dialog is used.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW: fixes to static box borders calculations (finalizes patch
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| #1166587)</p>
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| <p>wx.Image: Use Python's buffer interface API for all image data and
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| alpha Set/Get methods and the ImageFromData* constructors.  They all
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| still copy the buffer except for SetDataBuffer and SetAlphaBuffer, but
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| this gives more flexibility on where the data can come from.</p>
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| <p>Added MDI support to XRC</p>
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| <p>Added wx.animate module and a demo.  The wx.animate module provides a
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| control that is able to display an animated GIF file.</p>
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| <p>wx.lib.plot.py: Applied patch from Werner F. Bruhin that allows either
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| vertical and/or horizontal gridlines.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW: Extra space given for top border of wx.StaticBoxSizer so the
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| upper line is not cliped when there is no label.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW: Restored old behaviour of wx.StaticBox.SetBackgroundColour only
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| affecting the label.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW: Fixed missing EVT_RIGHT_DOWN and EVT_TREE_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK
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| events in a wx.TreeCtrl.</p>
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| <p>Added wx.GetTopLevelWindows() function which returns a copy of the
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| list of top-level windows that currently exist in the application.</p>
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| <p>Updated docview library modules and sample apps from the ActiveGrid
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| folks.</p>
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| <p>Added the ActiveGrid IDE as a sample application.</p>
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| </div>
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| <div class="section" id="id4">
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| <h1><a name="id4">2.5.4.1</a></h1>
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| <ul class="simple">
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| <li>16-Mar-2005</li>
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| </ul>
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| <p>wx.Sizer Add, Insert, and Prepend functions now return a reference to the
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| wx.SizerItem that was added to the sizer, and the wx.SizerItem has a
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| GetRect accessor to give the position of the item on the parent window.</p>
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| <p>Added wx.Sizer.GetItem method which returns the wx.SizerItem for the given
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| wx.Window, wx.Sizer or position index.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW: wx.RadioButtons in the same group no longer have to be
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| consecutive (there may be intervening controls). Without this fix, an
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| out-of-sync assert is generated when clicking on a radio button and
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| then calling GetValue().</p>
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| <dl class="docutils">
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| <dt>Some XRC changes:</dt>
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| <dd><ul class="first last simple">
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| <li>Added 'icon' property to wxFrame and wxDialog</li>
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| <li>No longer ignores menu bitmaps on non-MSW platforms</li>
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| <li>Notebook page bitmaps are now supported</li>
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| <li>added system colours and fonts support (based on patch #1038207)</li>
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| </ul>
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| </dd>
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| </dl>
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| <p>wxMSW: fix for [ 1052989 ] TextCtrl.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NullColour)
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| bug.</p>
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| <p>Added wx.PasswordEntryDialog analagous to wx.TextEntryDialog, allows
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| detecting entering an empty string vs. cancel unlike the
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| wx.GetPasswordFromUser dialog function.</p>
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| <p>OGL patch from Shane Holloway:</p>
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| <blockquote>
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| <p>Two simple problems found in the new python ogl code.  First is
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| the patch for _canvas.py.  Essentially:</p>
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| <pre class="literal-block">
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| dx = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceX(x - self._firstDragX))
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| dy = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceY(y - self._firstDragY))
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| </pre>
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| <p>was incorrect because (x,y) and (self._firstDragX,
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| self._firstDragY) are both already in Logical coordinates.
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| Therefore the difference between the two is also in logical
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| coordinates, and the conversion call is an error.  This bug
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| surfaces when you have OGL on a scrollwin, and you are far from
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| the origin of the canvas.</p>
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| <p>The second change in _composit.py basically removes the assumption
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| that the child is in both self._children and self._divisions.
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| Causes many problems when it's not.  ;)</p>
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| </blockquote>
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| <p>Fixed GetSaveData and SetSaveData in wx.lib.multisash to not depend on
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| the default way that class objectss are converted to strings.</p>
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| <p>Fixed problem in StyledTextCtrl.Set[HV]ScrollBar that could leave the
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| internal scrollbar visible.</p>
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| <p>Added wx.StandardPaths which provides methods for determining standard
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| system paths for each platform.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW: The window background is now only erased by default if the
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| background colour or background mode has been changed.  This better
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| allows the default system themed behaviour to show through for
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| uncustomized windows.  Explicit support added for using the correct
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| theme texture for wx.Notebook pages and their children.</p>
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| <p>wx.Image: Added support for alpha channels in interpolated and
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| non-interpolated image rotation.  Added ConvertAlphaToMask helper
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| method for turning shades of grey into shades of alpha and a colour.</p>
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| <p>wxGTK2: Reimplemented DoDrawRotatedText() by way of a rotation of an
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| alpha blended text bitmap.  It would be better if Pango could draw
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| directly into an wxImage (as FreeType can,) but that is for later...</p>
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| <p>Added wrappers and a demo for the wx.MediaCtrl class, which can play
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| various forms of audio/video media using native codecs install on the
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| system.  So far it is only implemented for Windows and OSX.</p>
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| <p>wxGTK: Patch applied for Freeze()/Thaw() for wxTextCtrtl.</p>
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| <p>Added "gravity" for splitter window (patch 1046105). Gravity is a
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| floating-point factor between 0.0 and 1.0 which controls position of
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| sash while resizing the wx.SplitterWindow.  The gravity specifies
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| how much the left/top window will grow while resizing.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW: wx.Slider's C++ implementation rewritten to be more
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| maintainable and hopefully less buggy.  The position of the labels has
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| also been changed in order to better comply with Microsoft's examples
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| of how to use the control.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW:  Fix wx.TreeCtrl to end label editing if the control loses
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| focus (a slightly modified patch 1084592.)</p>
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| <p>Added wx.EXEC_NODISABLE flag for wx.Execute, which will prevent all
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| the app's windows being disabled while a synchronous child process is
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| running.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW: Much work to correct painting (or leaving transparent) of
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| control backgrounds, properly using background themes on XP, etc.</p>
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| <p>Fixed a circular reference problem with wx.Timer.  It will now
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| completely cleanup after itself when the last reference to the timer
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| is removed.  If you were previously using timer.Destroy() to cleanup
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| your timers it will no longer work.  Instead you should hold a
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| reference to the timer and then del the reference when you are
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| finished with the timer.</p>
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| <p>Updated to 1.3.24 of SWIG.  All of my big patches have been applied to
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| 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:</p>
 | ||
| <blockquote>
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| <ul class="simple">
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| <li>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.</li>
 | ||
| <li>The %name directive is now deprecated so I replaced most uses of
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| it with a custom %Rename macro that uses %rename internally.
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| These will evetually need to be replaced with a DocDecl macro
 | ||
| when docstrings are added for those items.</li>
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| <li>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
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| using long().</li>
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| </ul>
 | ||
| </blockquote>
 | ||
| <p>Added SetDefaultPyEncoding and GetDefaultPyEncoding functions which
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| will set/get the encoding used by wxPython to convert string or
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| unicode objects to/from wxString objects.  Previously the default
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| Python encoding was always used, but unless the user had tweaked their
 | ||
| sitecustomize.py file it is always "ascii", which would result in
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| errors if the strings contained character codes >= 128.
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| SetDefaultPyEncoding will now allow you to control which encoding will
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| be used to do those conversions.  The default encoding is set to the
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| value of <cite>locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]</cite> when wxPython is first
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| imported.  Please see <a class="reference" href="http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html">http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html</a>
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| for information on the differences between the common latin/roman
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| encodings.</p>
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| <p>Added wxStdDialogButtonSizer, which is a a special sizer that knows
 | ||
| how to order and position standard buttons in order to conform to the
 | ||
| current platform's standards.  You simply need to add each <cite>wx.Button</cite>
 | ||
| to the sizer, and be sure to create the buttons using the standard
 | ||
| ID's.  Then call <cite>Realize</cite> and the sizer will take care of the rest.</p>
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| <p>wxMSW Toolbar: pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to the
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| EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED handler</p>
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| <p>wxGTK: Applied patch for combo box SELECTED events (no longer get
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| lots of surplus events)</p>
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| <p>wxGTK: Applied patch for proper menu highlight colour detection in
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| wx.SystemSettings.</p>
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| <p>wxGTK: Commited scrollbar patch #1093339 which sends lineup, linedown
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| events based on intercepting the mouse down events.</p>
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| <p>wxGTK: Applied patch #1102789 which solved conflicts between wxWidgets
 | ||
| and GTK+'s context menu code.</p>
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| <p>wxGTK: Applied patch #1100327 for correct feedback from DND actions
 | ||
| (not all actions are allowed).</p>
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| <p>Fixed memory leak in wxGrid::UpdateAttr[Rows][Or][Cols] (patch 1104355)</p>
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| <p>For efficiency reasons, text controls no longer set the string for
 | ||
| each text updated event, but rather query for the string value only
 | ||
| when GetString is called from an event handler.</p>
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| <p>Added wx.SL_INVERSE style which will cause wx.Slider to invert the min
 | ||
| and max ends of the slider.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Several patches applied, such as #1111174, #1110252 and others, that
 | ||
| make the generic wx.TreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac) be more
 | ||
| conistent with the wxMSW native wx.TreeCtrl.</p>
 | ||
| <dl class="docutils">
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| <dt>XRCed:</dt>
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| <dd><ul class="first last simple">
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| <li>Edit->Locate command (Ctrl-L) for quick selection of items.
 | ||
| Works with event-handling controls (buttons, text fields) but
 | ||
| not with labels/sizers.</li>
 | ||
| <li>Some improvements: relative paths for files supplied as command-
 | ||
| line argument work correctly, notebook panels are highlighted
 | ||
| better.</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| </dd>
 | ||
| </dl>
 | ||
| <p>wxMac: Fixed a long-standing issue where wxSlider controls with a
 | ||
| hardcoded size would misplace their labels behind the slider control.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wx.HtmlListBox fixed so calling RefreshLine(s) will cause the data for
 | ||
| that line to be refetched from the overridden methods in the derived
 | ||
| class.</p>
 | ||
| <p>The default DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
 | ||
| the client size and total size of the window, (such as the size of
 | ||
| borders.)  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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Can suppress themed notebook pages with the wxNB_NOPAGETHEME style or
 | ||
| setting system option msw.notebook.themed-background to 0.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxSyledTextCtrl updated to use Scintilla 1.62.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Can now set the msw.window.no-clip-children system option to 1 to
 | ||
| eliminate weird refresh behaviour (delays between a window being
 | ||
| erased and repainted, giving a ghostly gradual-redraw effect). May be
 | ||
| a temporary 'fix' until properly fixed before 2.6.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxMac:  Toolbar is now more native looking with borderless toolbar
 | ||
| buttons.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxMac: Switched wx.Bitmap to use newer Quartz object types and APIs
 | ||
| internally.  This results in faster display and better alpha support.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wx.DatePickerCtrl.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wx.html.HtmlWindow now supports background images.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wx.lib.gestures module from Daniel Pozmanter which supports
 | ||
| using Mouse Gestures in an application.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxGTK2: ENTER and LEAVE mouse events are now sent for multi-line text
 | ||
| controls.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxMSW:  "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not
 | ||
| WXK_MENU</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added modules from Peter Yared and Morgan Hua that implement the wx
 | ||
| Doc/View framework in pure Python code.  See wx.lib.docview for the
 | ||
| base implementation and wx.lib.pydocview for Python-specific
 | ||
| extensions.  There are also a couple sample applications located in
 | ||
| samples/docview.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added GetBitmap, GetIcon to wx.ImageList.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxGTK wx.Button.SetLabel no longer invalidates/resets the font.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer and etc. have now been
 | ||
| undeprecated at the request of Riaan Booysen, the Boa Constructor team
 | ||
| lead.  Boa needs them to help keep track of what kind of item is being
 | ||
| managed by the sizer.  They are now just simple compatibility aliases
 | ||
| for Add, and etc.</p>
 | ||
| <p>The old C++ version of the OGL lib is no longer built by default.  Use
 | ||
| the Python version in the wx.lib.ogl package instead.</p>
 | ||
| <p>The wx.iewin module is no longer built by default.  You can use the
 | ||
| wx.lib.iewin version instead.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed wx.BufferedPaintDC for scrolled windows to work whether the
 | ||
| buffer is covering only the client area or the full virtual area of
 | ||
| the scrolled window.  By default it will assume that only the client
 | ||
| area is covered.  This is different than the old behavior so to
 | ||
| indicate that the entire virtual area is covered simply add a
 | ||
| style=wx.BUFFER_VIRTUAL_AREA parameter.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl:  Add support for the EVT_TREE_ITEM_GETTOOLTIP
 | ||
| event.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added Resize, SetRGBRect, Size, and GetOrFindMaskColour methods to
 | ||
| wx.Image.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wx.Rect.IsEmpty</p>
 | ||
| <dl class="docutils">
 | ||
| <dt>wxGTK:</dt>
 | ||
| <dd><ul class="first last simple">
 | ||
| <li>Corrected wx.ListBox selection handling</li>
 | ||
| <li>Corrected default button size handling for different themes</li>
 | ||
| <li>Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes</li>
 | ||
| <li>Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| </dd>
 | ||
| </dl>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="id5">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="id5">2.5.3.1</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>9-Nov-2004</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>wxMac focus and border refreshes corrected.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Updated internal PNG library.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxMac fix for metal appearance on wx.ToolBar.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wx.grid.Grid fix allowing DoGetBestSize to be called before CreateGrid
 | ||
| (which means that a min size doesn't need to be specified.)</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxMac fix for not sending a native click to a control if it is not
 | ||
| enabled (does an enable itself)</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wx.lib.ogl.DrawnShape, and fixed various little bugs in the new
 | ||
| OGL.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added support to XRC and XRCed for the 3-state checkbox flags and also
 | ||
| for wx.ToggleButton.  Updated the generic window styles supported by
 | ||
| XRCed.</p>
 | ||
| <p>It is now possible to create "stock" buttons.  Basically this means
 | ||
| that you only have to provide one of the stock IDs (and either an
 | ||
| empty label or a label that matches the stock label) when creating the
 | ||
| button and wxWidgets will choose the stock label to go with it
 | ||
| automatically.  Additionally on the platforms that have a native
 | ||
| concept of a stock button (currently only GTK2) then the native stock
 | ||
| button will be used.  For example, the following will result in a
 | ||
| button with "Cancel" as the label and if run on wxGTK2 then there will
 | ||
| also be an image of a red X:</p>
 | ||
| <pre class="literal-block">
 | ||
| b = wx.Button(parent, wx.ID_CANCEL)
 | ||
| </pre>
 | ||
| <p>Added wx.lib.ticker.Ticker class from Chris Mellon.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fix some incorrect clipping regions in wxSTC on wxGTK.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wrapper for wx.grid.Grid.GetOrCreateCellAttr.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Removed my copy of distutils from the wxPython source tree.  Now that
 | ||
| I am no longer doing builds on Python 2.1 the newest distutils is no
 | ||
| longer needed.  (There is still one small bug in Python 2.2 distutils
 | ||
| on win32, but it is easily worked around.) This sovles the problem of
 | ||
| incorrect builds on some systems where the system installed distutils
 | ||
| has been patched to behave slightly differently, for example SuSE on
 | ||
| x86_64 or Chandler's build.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Updated to SWIG 1.3.22 (plus my patch.)  See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
 | ||
| in the source tree if you need to use SWIG when building your own copy
 | ||
| of wxPython, or other extension modules that need to integrate with
 | ||
| the wxPython modules.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wx.Frame.RequestUserAttention which, if the platform suports it,
 | ||
| will do something (such as flash the task bar item) to suggest to the
 | ||
| user that they should look at that window.</p>
 | ||
| <p>"Fixed" wx.grid.Grid.SetDefaultEditor and SetDefaultRenderer by making
 | ||
| them register the editor or renderer for the "string" data type.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added depth param to wx.Image.ConvertToBitmap.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Extended the wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl class with methods that get/set
 | ||
| a Python datetime or date object.  (These will only work with Python
 | ||
| 2.3+) The methods are PySetDate, PyGetDate, PySetLowerDateLimit,
 | ||
| PySetUpperDateLimit, PySetDateRange, PyGetLowerDateLimit, and
 | ||
| PyGetUpperDateLimit.  Also, CalendarEvent was extended with PySetDate
 | ||
| and PyGetDate methods.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxMSW: SetBackgroundColour on a wx.Choice or a wx.ComboBox will now
 | ||
| also set the colour of the dropdown.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxMac: MessageDialog now supports wx.NO_DEFAULT style</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxMSW: added AssociateHandle and DissociateHandle to wx.Window</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxMac: fix for toolbar tooltips</p>
 | ||
| <p>wx.Sizer.Show (and Hide) now take an optional parameter specifying if
 | ||
| the item to be shown should be searched for recursivly in subsizers,
 | ||
| and return a boolean value indicating if the item was found.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxMSW: fixed MaximizeEvent generation in wx.Frame</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxMSW: fixed sending duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events</p>
 | ||
| <p>Smoother time estimation updates in wx.ProgressDialog (patch 992813)</p>
 | ||
| <p>Made wx.Listbook events more consistent with wx.Notebook ones (patch
 | ||
| 1001271)</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed rounding errors in variable status bar panes widths computation
 | ||
| (patch 1030021)</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added possibility to specify printer bin (patch 910272)</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxMSW: fixed wx.ListCtrl's SetWindowStyleFlag() to not remove
 | ||
| WS_VISIBLE; also refresh the control automatically (closes bug
 | ||
| 1019440)</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wx.Choicebook, yet another notebook-like control.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxMSW: Make radiobutton tab behaviour the same on MSW as in standard
 | ||
| MSW app, i.e. tab into the activated, not necessarily the first radio
 | ||
| button.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added limited support for wxEventLoop (you can't derive from a
 | ||
| wx.PyEventLoop version yet...)  Updated and moved the sample showing
 | ||
| how to replace the MainLoop to samples/mainloop/mainloop.py.</p>
 | ||
| <p>The C++ xrc lib has been moved out of contrib and into the core, so it
 | ||
| is always built by default.  wxPython's build has also changed
 | ||
| accordingly and will build the xrc module as part of the core set of
 | ||
| modules built by default.  If you were axplicitly using BUILD_XRC then
 | ||
| it will no longer be recognized as a build option, otherwise you
 | ||
| should notice no difference.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxMac: Fixed radio toolbar buttons to correctly untoggle the others
 | ||
| when a new one is selected.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxMac: Fixed GetLineLength and GetLineText for MLTE text controls</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxMac: wx.TaskBarIcon is implemented by allowing you to change the
 | ||
| app's icon on the Dock and also specifying a menu that should be
 | ||
| merged with the normal dock popup menu.  See the MigrationGuide for
 | ||
| more details and a warning.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wx.TopLevelWindow.IsActive() which tells you if the frame or
 | ||
| dialog is or containts the active window with the keyboard focus.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added ability to create a font based on pixel size rather than point
 | ||
| size via the FontFromPixelSize constructor.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Updated the Scintilla used by StyledTextCtrl to version 1.61</p>
 | ||
| <p>Improved image HitTest for TreeListCtrl.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wx.App.IsMainLoopRunning.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxGTK: Make wxComboBox spit out a bit fewer surplus events when
 | ||
| holding down the mouse button.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxGTK: Enable key based navigation through notebook tabs as in the
 | ||
| native control with Left and right keys. Support for vetoing.</p>
 | ||
| <p>FloatCanvas updates from Chris Barker</p>
 | ||
| <dl class="docutils">
 | ||
| <dt>PyPlot updates from Gordon Williams:</dt>
 | ||
| <dd><ul class="first last simple">
 | ||
| <li>Added bar graph demo</li>
 | ||
| <li>Modified line end shape from round to square.</li>
 | ||
| <li>Removed FloatDCWrapper for conversion to ints and ints in
 | ||
| arguments</li>
 | ||
| <li>Imported modules given leading underscore to name.</li>
 | ||
| <li>Added Cursor Line Tracking and User Point Labels.</li>
 | ||
| <li>Demo for Cursor Line Tracking and Point Labels.</li>
 | ||
| <li>Size of plot preview frame adjusted to show page better.</li>
 | ||
| <li>Added helper functions PositionUserToScreen and
 | ||
| PositionScreenToUser in PlotCanvas.</li>
 | ||
| <li>Added functions GetClosestPoints (all curves) and GetClosestPoint
 | ||
| (only closest curve) can be in either user coords or screen
 | ||
| coords.</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| </dd>
 | ||
| <dt>MaskedEdit updates from Will Sadkin:</dt>
 | ||
| <dd><ul class="first last simple">
 | ||
| <li>Added '*' mask char that means "all ansii chars" (ords 32-255)</li>
 | ||
| <li>Added proper unicode support to masked controls and wx.tools.dbg</li>
 | ||
| <li>Fixed two reported missing import bugs introduced by package
 | ||
| creation</li>
 | ||
| <li>Converted masked package doc strings to reST format for better
 | ||
| epydoc support</li>
 | ||
| <li>lots of doc string improvements and function hiding to better
 | ||
| reflect package's public contents.</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| </dd>
 | ||
| </dl>
 | ||
| <p>Restructured the installer packages slightly to help facilitate having
 | ||
| multiple versions of wxPython installed at the same time.  See the
 | ||
| Migrarion Guide for more information.</p>
 | ||
| <dl class="docutils">
 | ||
| <dt>Applied patch from Pim Van Heuven that modifies 4 files:</dt>
 | ||
| <dd><ul class="first last simple">
 | ||
| <li>wxPython/demo/ListCtrl_edit.py (new demo)</li>
 | ||
| <li>wxPython/demo/Main.py (include new demo in demo app)</li>
 | ||
| <li>wxPython/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py (several improvements to
 | ||
| TextEditMixin)</li>
 | ||
| <li>wxPython/wx/lib/wxpTag.py (some small fixes)</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| </dd>
 | ||
| </dl>
 | ||
| <p>Added (thanks to Kevin Ollivier!) wrappers for wx.WebKitCtrl for the
 | ||
| OSX build.  Other platforms will raise an exception if you try to use
 | ||
| it.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxPython on OSX can now be built in Unicode mode, can support multiple
 | ||
| version installs, and comes with an uninstaller script.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="id6">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="id6">2.5.2.8</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>27-Aug-2004</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Predominantly a bug-fix release.</p>
 | ||
| <blockquote>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>Fixed fatal error due to improper wrapping of wx.FSFile.</li>
 | ||
| <li>Fixed return type of EditableListBox.GetListCtrl</li>
 | ||
| <li>Give generic tree and list controls a DoGetBestSize so they play
 | ||
| nicer with sizers when there is no minimal size.</li>
 | ||
| <li>Some tweaks in the demo and samples to correct layout, some
 | ||
| flicker problems, and namespace use.</li>
 | ||
| <li>Add wx.Image.ConvertAlphaToMask</li>
 | ||
| <li>Minor corrections in wx.lib.dialogs</li>
 | ||
| <li>wx.FileHistory constructor now accepts the documented 2nd
 | ||
| parameter.</li>
 | ||
| <li>Corrections for exceptions in the new ogl</li>
 | ||
| <li>Fixed XRCed to not use reparenting of windows to implement caching
 | ||
| of property panels, since Reparent on wxMac is not implemented.</li>
 | ||
| <li>Add support for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL to the XRC handler for
 | ||
| wxScrolledWindow.</li>
 | ||
| <li>Add support for all wxListBox styles to the XRC handler for
 | ||
| wxCheckListBox.</li>
 | ||
| <li>Fix for wx.Listbook.DeleteAllPages to really delete everything.</li>
 | ||
| <li>wxGTK2 now supports alpha blended bitmap drawing</li>
 | ||
| <li>Made wx.grid.Grid play nicer with sizers.</li>
 | ||
| <li>etc.</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| </blockquote>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="id7">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="id7">2.5.2.7</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>14-Aug-2004</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
 | ||
| sizers.  This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
 | ||
| be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will
 | ||
| be used for the minimum size used by the sizer.  The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE
 | ||
| flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
 | ||
| that it will <em>not</em> call the window's methods to determine the new best
 | ||
| size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
 | ||
| (or the size the window was created with) will always be used.  Please
 | ||
| see the Sizers section in the Migration Guide for more details.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin.  The modules are
 | ||
| now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked.  Demos updated.</p>
 | ||
| <p>The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in 2.5.1.5
 | ||
| have been reverted.  The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the 2.4
 | ||
| implemetation.  In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
 | ||
| that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
 | ||
| parameters.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
 | ||
| all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Deprecated the wx.iewin module.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well
 | ||
| as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same
 | ||
| reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on
 | ||
| all platforms like normal windows.  Also updated stattext.py and
 | ||
| buttons.py to handle attribute (font & colour) defaults and
 | ||
| inheritance the new way.  If you have custom controls of your own you
 | ||
| should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be
 | ||
| done.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but
 | ||
| exist for backwards compatibility.  The C++ version is now called
 | ||
| automatically when wxPython is initialized.  Since all the handlers
 | ||
| are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only
 | ||
| a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary
 | ||
| problems.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to
 | ||
| track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions.  Thanks go to
 | ||
| Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if
 | ||
| there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to
 | ||
| detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.</p>
 | ||
| <p>The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to "C" (compatibility) when
 | ||
| running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale
 | ||
| to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC
 | ||
| remaining compatible with "C".</p>
 | ||
| <p>Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the
 | ||
| wxCode project.</p>
 | ||
| <p>OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL!  (Oops, sorry.  A bit of my dramatic side
 | ||
| leaked out there...)  The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor
 | ||
| of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl
 | ||
| contributed by Pierre Hj<48>lm.  This will hopefully greatly extend the
 | ||
| life of OGL within wxPython by making it more easily maintainable and
 | ||
| less prone to getting rusty as there seems to be less and less
 | ||
| interest in maintaining the C++ version.  At this point there are just
 | ||
| a couple minor known compatibility differences, please see the
 | ||
| <a class="reference" href="MigrationGuide.html">MigrationGuide</a> file for details.</p>
 | ||
| <p>EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
 | ||
| Scintilla for several releases now.</p>
 | ||
| <p>All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) class constructors and also
 | ||
| many toplevel functions and static methods will now check that a
 | ||
| wx.App object has already been created and will raise a
 | ||
| wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added more default args as needed to allow most window types to be
 | ||
| constructed with only the parent window arg.  In some cases other args
 | ||
| may be required for normal operation, but they can usually be set
 | ||
| after construction.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Removed the deprecated ErrorDialogs and PythonBitmaps modules.  If you
 | ||
| were using these in your apps then please join wxPython-dev and assist
 | ||
| with a more modern reimplementation.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added a new version (0.8.3) of FloatCanvas from Chris Barker.  It's now
 | ||
| in a subpackage of wx.lib.</p>
 | ||
| <p>It is now possible to change the tab traversal order of controls on a
 | ||
| panel or dialog.  For details see the new MoveAfterInTabOrder and
 | ||
| MoveBeforeInTabOrder methods of wx.Window.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Applied (and heavily modified) a patch from Eugene
 | ||
| <<a class="reference" href="mailto:svip123@fastmail.fm">svip123@fastmail.fm</a>> that allows the sample modules in the demo to be
 | ||
| edited and reloaded, all from within the demo.  You can switch back
 | ||
| and forth between the default and your edited version, and any errors
 | ||
| ocurring upon the reload are reported on the Demo tab.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added a menu item in the demo that will open a PyShell window that has
 | ||
| the app and demo frame preloaded in the namespace.  This is another
 | ||
| good way to explore and play with the objects in the currently running
 | ||
| sample.  For example, load the Button sample and then do the following
 | ||
| in the PyShell:</p>
 | ||
| <pre class="literal-block">
 | ||
| >>> b = frame.demoPage.GetChildren()[0]
 | ||
| >>> for x in range(0, 500, 10):
 | ||
| ...     b.Move((x, 50))
 | ||
| ...     app.Yield(True)
 | ||
| ...     wx.MilliSleep(10)
 | ||
| </pre>
 | ||
| <p>wxGTK: Applied wxNO_BORDER patch (#1098374) for text control and combo
 | ||
| box.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="the-this-is-not-a-joke-release">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="the-this-is-not-a-joke-release">2.5.1.5    (the 'this is <em>not</em> a joke' release)</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>2-Apr-2004</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>(See also the <a class="reference" href="MigrationGuide.html">MigrationGuide</a> file for details about some of the
 | ||
| big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
 | ||
| adapt your code.)</p>
 | ||
| <p>The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets.  Please
 | ||
| see <a class="reference" href="http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm">http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm</a> for more details.  This won't
 | ||
| really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the
 | ||
| wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail
 | ||
| list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing.  We're going to try
 | ||
| and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to
 | ||
| be aware of this change if you run into any issues.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
 | ||
| to wxWidgets 2.5 that I have forgotten about.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxMirrorDC.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxIconLocation</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow,
 | ||
| wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook.  wxNotebook now derives
 | ||
| from wxBookCtrl.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
 | ||
| wx.lib.plot module.</p>
 | ||
| <p>I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
 | ||
| Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
 | ||
| happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.</p>
 | ||
| <p>The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in
 | ||
| Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc.  The RPMs are
 | ||
| also installing icons and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">*.desktop</span></tt> items in the generic KDE and
 | ||
| GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu
 | ||
| items on non-Mandrake systems.  (It didn't automatically do it on my
 | ||
| RH-9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...)  If you have ideas
 | ||
| for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more
 | ||
| distros please send me a patch.</p>
 | ||
| <p>The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-9 box, and I have tested
 | ||
| installing them also on my main Mandrake 9.2 box.</p>
 | ||
| <p>There are some big changes in the OS X disk image.  The actual
 | ||
| Installer package now <em>only</em> installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
 | ||
| extension modules and Python packages, and also the command-line tool
 | ||
| scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
 | ||
| for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
 | ||
| image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
 | ||
| want to put them.</p>
 | ||
| <p>The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
 | ||
| different API.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tac<61>o.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!</p>
 | ||
| <p>wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version 1.58 of Scintilla.</p>
 | ||
| <p>To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
 | ||
| I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
 | ||
| that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
 | ||
| it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
 | ||
| simple one instead.  By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
 | ||
| only.)  When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
 | ||
| menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
 | ||
| it.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
 | ||
| "Adi" Sieker.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.</p>
 | ||
| <p>AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
 | ||
| MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that
 | ||
| describe the platform and build options of wxPython.  See the
 | ||
| MigrationGuide for more details.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Created a new extension module "activex" from Lindsay Mathieson's
 | ||
| newest <a class="reference" href="http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/wxactivex.html">wxActiveX</a> class.  (The existing iewin module used an older
 | ||
| version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.)  This
 | ||
| new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX
 | ||
| controls in a wx.Window, <strong>without</strong> requiring the use of the win32com
 | ||
| and other PyWin32 modules!  This should eliminate the cronic problems
 | ||
| that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the
 | ||
| GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc.  The older iewin module
 | ||
| will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards
 | ||
| compatible, but you should migrate your code to the new IEHtmlWindow
 | ||
| in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one can be eventually removed.
 | ||
| Additionally, I've always considered that the wx.lib.activexwrapper
 | ||
| module is an ugly hack that I only included in the lib because I
 | ||
| couldn't figure out anything better.  Well now we have something that,
 | ||
| if it isn't already, has the potential to be better.  So consider
 | ||
| migrating away from using activexwrapper as well.  Please see the
 | ||
| MigrationGuide for more details on using the new module.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Floats are allowed again as function parameters where ints are expected.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="id9">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="id9">2.4.2.4</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>1-Oct-2003</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka.  Its usage is
 | ||
| demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="id10">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="id10">2.4.1.2</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>19-Jun-2003</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)</p>
 | ||
| <p>Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
 | ||
| be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">spam(*args,</span> <span class="pre">**kw)</span></tt> syntax
 | ||
| instead.  Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
 | ||
| informative.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
 | ||
| Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
 | ||
| and wxWindows match.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added the new wx "renamer" package that will dynamically import from
 | ||
| the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --> FooBar.  That means that
 | ||
| people can do imports without <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">"import</span> <span class="pre">*"</span></tt> and can use names like
 | ||
| wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame.  This is phase 1 of a full transition
 | ||
| to the new namespace.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Updated Scintilla to 1.52.  I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
 | ||
| instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
 | ||
| use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
 | ||
| worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
 | ||
| includes several new tools.  As part of the change the location of the
 | ||
| pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as "from wxPython
 | ||
| import py" (or "from wx import py" using the new namespace.)  There
 | ||
| are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
 | ||
| that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
 | ||
| package.  These will be removed in a future release.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
 | ||
| and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method.  This allows
 | ||
| code like "if obj: ..." to be the same as "if obj.IsOk(): ..."</p>
 | ||
| <p>Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
 | ||
| passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
 | ||
| and Will Sadkin.  Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.</p>
 | ||
| <p>When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
 | ||
| the __del__ of the original class is now called first.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxTreeListCtrl.  (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
 | ||
| wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
 | ||
| wxTreeCtrl.)</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
 | ||
| a call to any Python callable object.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
 | ||
| wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
 | ||
| to override the C++ virtual methods.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
 | ||
| the "option" parameter to "proportion" to match the docs ("option" is
 | ||
| still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
 | ||
| release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter,
 | ||
| and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxCursorFromBits.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="id11">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="id11">2.4.0.7</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>24-Mar-2003</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
 | ||
| TRUE/FALSE values.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
 | ||
| that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
 | ||
| when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a 16-bit value.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
 | ||
| unicode.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
 | ||
| OOR.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
 | ||
| wxSize and etc.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Updated PyCrust to version 0.9</p>
 | ||
| <p>Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
 | ||
| flag to turn it on.  In most cases turning it into an exception (the
 | ||
| default behavior) is enough.  See below in the 2.3.4.1 notes for more
 | ||
| details.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="a-k-a-the-i-m-so-stupid-release">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="a-k-a-the-i-m-so-stupid-release">2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>11-Mar-2003</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
 | ||
| returned from OnInit.  And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
 | ||
| think I am testing in the future...</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="a-k-a-the-blame-it-on-kevin-release">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="a-k-a-the-blame-it-on-kevin-release">2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>7-Mar-2003</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>A few little but annoying bug fixes.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Updated pycolourchooser.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Updated to 0.9b of PyCrust.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="id12">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="id12">2.4.0.4</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>7-Mar-2003</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Added missing wxRect methods</p>
 | ||
| <p>Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.</p>
 | ||
| <p>All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW.  Be warned that at the time
 | ||
| the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
 | ||
| and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
 | ||
| problems.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed SF Bug #689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
 | ||
| return type.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed SF Bug #689958, an endless loop in printout.py.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
 | ||
| can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
 | ||
| the parent window.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
 | ||
| wrapper.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
 | ||
| C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
 | ||
| that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
 | ||
| in C++.  Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
 | ||
| Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
 | ||
| class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
 | ||
| the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
 | ||
| static stable in the C++ class.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
 | ||
| true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
 | ||
| constants being added to Python.  Added code to wx.py to test for the
 | ||
| existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
 | ||
| present.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
 | ||
| Mac UI.  They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
 | ||
| always call them.  The functions are:</p>
 | ||
| <pre class="literal-block">
 | ||
| wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
 | ||
| wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
 | ||
| wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
 | ||
| wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
 | ||
| wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
 | ||
| wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
 | ||
| wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
 | ||
| wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
 | ||
| wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
 | ||
| wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
 | ||
| wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
 | ||
| wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
 | ||
| </pre>
 | ||
| <p>Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
 | ||
| functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.</p>
 | ||
| <p>The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
 | ||
| subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
 | ||
| doesn't have a standard place for them.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Updated to the 0.9a version of PyCrust</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="id13">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="id13">2.4.0.2</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>23-Jan-2003</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Several bug fixes.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="id14">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="id14">2.4.0.1</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>10-Jan-2003</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>No major new features since 2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
 | ||
| enhancements.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis.  See
 | ||
| wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="id15">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="id15">2.3.4.2</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>21-Dec-2002</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Various bug fixes.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="id16">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="id16">2.3.4.1</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>18-Dec-2002</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Several bug fixes in wxWindows.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxHtmlFilter.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
 | ||
| Python exceptions.  When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
 | ||
| (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
 | ||
| control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
 | ||
| will be raised.  The same exception restrictions are in place as
 | ||
| before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
 | ||
| through C++ to another Python layer.  That simply means that if you
 | ||
| want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
 | ||
| to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
 | ||
| handler or callback code.  There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
 | ||
| you can use to play with this new feature.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
 | ||
| you control how C++ assertions are processed.  Valid modes are:
 | ||
| wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
 | ||
| wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG.  Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
 | ||
| the old "final" builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
 | ||
| the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
 | ||
| 2.3.3.1 and prior "hybrid" builds.  You can also combine _EXCEPTION
 | ||
| and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.</p>
 | ||
| <p>You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
 | ||
| derived from wxApp.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
 | ||
| GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
 | ||
| to wxGrid.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
 | ||
| when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK.  They now work more or less as
 | ||
| they did before 2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
 | ||
| removed.  There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
 | ||
| is data waiting to be read from the pipe.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
 | ||
| "Pythonic" and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
 | ||
| events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
 | ||
| gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls.  It is currently using
 | ||
| wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
 | ||
| dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
 | ||
| implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
 | ||
| times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
 | ||
| windows when desired.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
 | ||
| HTMLHelp viewer does.  Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
 | ||
| and added a script to launch the doc viewer.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="id17">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="id17">2.3.3.1</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>19-Sep-2002</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxSplashScreen.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxGenericDirCtrl.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxBufferedDC.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla 1.40 to Scintilla 1.45, and then again
 | ||
| to version 1.47, and one more time to 1.48! <wink></p>
 | ||
| <dl class="docutils">
 | ||
| <dt>UNICODE!</dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p class="first">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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p class="last">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.</p>
 | ||
| </dd>
 | ||
| </dl>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
 | ||
| wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
 | ||
| derived classes.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
 | ||
| the image data.  (Patch #546009)</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
 | ||
| application.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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:</p>
 | ||
| <blockquote>
 | ||
| <p>DoMoveWindow
 | ||
| DoSetSize
 | ||
| DoSetClientSize
 | ||
| DoSetVirtualSize
 | ||
| DoGetSize
 | ||
| DoGetClientSize
 | ||
| DoGetPosition
 | ||
| DoGetVirtualSize
 | ||
| DoGetBestSize
 | ||
| InitDialog
 | ||
| TransferDataFromWindow
 | ||
| TransferDataToWindow
 | ||
| Validate
 | ||
| AcceptsFocus
 | ||
| AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
 | ||
| GetMaxSize
 | ||
| AddChild
 | ||
| RemoveChild</p>
 | ||
| <p>If there are other methods that you think should be supported
 | ||
| please let me know.</p>
 | ||
| </blockquote>
 | ||
| <p>Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
 | ||
| DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxArtProvider.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
 | ||
| creating a ScrolledPanel.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
 | ||
| other menu stuff.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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...</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -1
 | ||
| on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
 | ||
| displays the details of the event.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
 | ||
| for nonstandard class types in XRC resources.  See the demo for an
 | ||
| example.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="id18">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="id18">2.3.2.1</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>20-Dec-2001</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added some patches from library contributors.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="id19">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="id19">2.3.2</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>11-Dec-2001</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
 | ||
| <a class="reference" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/</a>. )</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
 | ||
| Rolinsky.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added a new "constructor" to most of the window classes that calls the
 | ||
| default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
 | ||
| corresponding  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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added pySketch to the samples.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
 | ||
| are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
 | ||
| multi-processor machine.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
 | ||
| messages however is wished.  See demo/Main.py for an example.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxFindReplaceDialog.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
 | ||
| DrawPointList.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
 | ||
| text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxStopWatch.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
 | ||
| will now Disconnect the event.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxFileHistory.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
 | ||
| Feuer.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="id20">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="id20">2.3.1</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>10-Jul-2001</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>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.)</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
 | ||
| GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added ability to use xml resource files.  Still need to add ability to
 | ||
| subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="id21">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="id21">2.3.0</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>22-May-2001</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
 | ||
| glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
 | ||
| wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
 | ||
| colour database.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
 | ||
| wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
 | ||
| access from non-GUI threads.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
 | ||
| use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama.  It contains a class
 | ||
| that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
 | ||
| wxPython/lib from Lorne White.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
 | ||
| it gobs faster in certain situations.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
 | ||
| the distutils that comes with Python 2.1.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxToggleButton.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.</p>
 | ||
| <dl class="docutils">
 | ||
| <dt>Added some methods to wxGrid:</dt>
 | ||
| <dd>GetCellHighlightPenWidth
 | ||
| GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
 | ||
| SetCellHighlightPenWidth
 | ||
| SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
 | ||
| GetGridWindow
 | ||
| GetGridRowLabelWindow
 | ||
| GetGridColLabelWindow
 | ||
| GetGridCornerLabelWindow</dd>
 | ||
| </dl>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <dl class="docutils">
 | ||
| <dt>OOR:</dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p class="first">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.)</p>
 | ||
| <p class="last">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.</p>
 | ||
| </dd>
 | ||
| </dl>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
 | ||
| list for a while.  The above OOR modification made this easier.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxWave.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="id22">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="id22">2.2.7</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>19-Jun-2001</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
 | ||
| changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="id23">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="id23">2.2.5</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>30-Jan-2001</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
 | ||
| a matching prefix as keys are typed.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
 | ||
| column in report mode.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
 | ||
| bar after 2 seconds.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxJoystick.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.)</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
 | ||
| wxPrintData object.  The old ctor is still there using the
 | ||
| wxPrinterDC2 name.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen.  It contains a class
 | ||
| that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
 | ||
| mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="new-in-2-2-2">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="new-in-2-2-2">New in 2.2.2</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>26-Oct-2000</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
 | ||
| of the distribution files.  (See <a class="reference" href="http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/">http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/</a>)
 | ||
| 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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
 | ||
| contributed by Joerg Baumann.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Removed the old python sizers.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
 | ||
| and wxRealPoint.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Lots of little fixes here and there.</p>
 | ||
| <p>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.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="new-in-2-2-1">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="new-in-2-2-1">New in 2.2.1</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>22-Aug-2000</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="new-in-2-2-0">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="new-in-2-2-0">New in 2.2.0</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>17-Jul-2000</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxLog and friends.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="new-in-2-1-16">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="new-in-2-1-16">New in 2.1.16</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>12-Jun-2000</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
 | ||
| specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
 | ||
| depressed state.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxTipProvider and friends.  See the demo for an example.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxDragImage.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed printing on wxGTK.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxCalendarCtrl.</p>
 | ||
| <p>WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
 | ||
| Method Names.  (Methods that are automatically turned into event
 | ||
| handlers by virtue of their name.)  The consensus was that it is more
 | ||
| confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
 | ||
| coverage.  I am finally getting around to removing the code that
 | ||
| generates the event binding.  This means that if you are using any of
 | ||
| the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
 | ||
| modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.</p>
 | ||
| <blockquote>
 | ||
| OnChar
 | ||
| OnSize
 | ||
| OnEraseBackground
 | ||
| OnSysColourChanged
 | ||
| OnInitDialog
 | ||
| OnPaint
 | ||
| OnIdle
 | ||
| OnActivate
 | ||
| OnMenuHighlight
 | ||
| OnCloseWindow
 | ||
| OnScroll</blockquote>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxSpinCtrl.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="new-in-2-1-15">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="new-in-2-1-15">New in 2.1.15</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>25-Apr-2000</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
 | ||
| flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
 | ||
| GetSelections.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed some problems in OGL.  Also wxShape.SetClientData and
 | ||
| .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Plugged a memory leak.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends.  The old wxGrid class is no longer
 | ||
| available.  There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
 | ||
| new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
 | ||
| consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
 | ||
| good...)</p>
 | ||
| <p>Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
 | ||
| authors.  There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
 | ||
| mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
 | ||
| It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
 | ||
| in a window and calling its methods.  It actually creates a new class
 | ||
| on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
 | ||
| needed to make it all work.  The resulting class can be instantiated
 | ||
| just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc.  It also responds to all COM
 | ||
| method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
 | ||
| matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
 | ||
| them.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
 | ||
| expecting a wxColour type.  The string is either a colour name as
 | ||
| defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
 | ||
| "#RRGGBB".  See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.</p>
 | ||
| <p>I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl!  Yes, the
 | ||
| wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!!  (And the crowd goes
 | ||
| wild...)   There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
 | ||
| but I've included a very readable source file in the
 | ||
| wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
 | ||
| can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
 | ||
| <a class="reference" href="http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html">http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html</a> to help fill in the gaps
 | ||
| until the docs are done.  (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
 | ||
| provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-1-13">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-1-13">What's new in 2.1.13</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>3-Feb-2000</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
 | ||
| and some flicker problems.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
 | ||
| wxPython.lib.vtk module.  (<a class="reference" href="http://www.kitware.com/">http://www.kitware.com/</a>)</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
 | ||
| "which" parameter.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
 | ||
| with wxWindow.GetParent.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
 | ||
| It is used like this:</p>
 | ||
| <blockquote>
 | ||
| intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)</blockquote>
 | ||
| <p>If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
 | ||
| rectangle representing the intersection is returned.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Rotated text!!!  WooHoo!  (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library.  These are simple
 | ||
| window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
 | ||
| a bit more control over them.  The bezel width can be set in addition
 | ||
| to colours, fonts, etc.  There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
 | ||
| versions too.  They should also serve as a good example of how to
 | ||
| create your own classes derived from wxControl.</p>
 | ||
| <p>The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
 | ||
| wrappers.  There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
 | ||
| but shouldn't impact anybody too much.  I took the opportunity to add
 | ||
| support for setting user data on each toolbar tool.  The new AddTool
 | ||
| methods look like this:</p>
 | ||
| <blockquote>
 | ||
| <dl class="docutils">
 | ||
| <dt>def AddTool(ID,</dt>
 | ||
| <dd>bitmap,
 | ||
| pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
 | ||
| toggle = FALSE,
 | ||
| clientData = NULL,
 | ||
| shortHelpString = "",
 | ||
| longHelpString = "")</dd>
 | ||
| <dt>def AddSimpleTool(ID,</dt>
 | ||
| <dd>bitmap,
 | ||
| shortHelpString = "",
 | ||
| longHelpString = "",
 | ||
| toggle=FALSE)</dd>
 | ||
| </dl>
 | ||
| </blockquote>
 | ||
| <p>There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
 | ||
| that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
 | ||
| is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas.  You can get it at
 | ||
| <a class="reference" href="http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL">http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL</a>.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added some missing EVT functions.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
 | ||
| package.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Changed all the "LIST" parameter names to "choices" to match the docs.</p>
 | ||
| <p>More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
 | ||
| than wxMSW!  (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
 | ||
| style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-1-11">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-1-11">What's new in 2.1.11</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>13-Nov-1999</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
 | ||
| syncronized.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
 | ||
| wxImage.  I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
 | ||
| itself.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
 | ||
| being added.  This should remove the need for our
 | ||
| wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
 | ||
| no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves.  This will
 | ||
| probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
 | ||
| a notebook or splitter.  If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
 | ||
| an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added new HTML printing classes.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxWindow.GetHandle</p>
 | ||
| <p>Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been deprecated in wxWindows as
 | ||
| it is no longer available by default.  You can use GetPositionTuple
 | ||
| (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
 | ||
| wxPoint.)</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
 | ||
| processed later.  This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
 | ||
| thread from other threads.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxFontEnumerator.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
 | ||
| Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar.  It still has some troubles on
 | ||
| wxGTK...</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-1-5">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-1-5">What's new in 2.1.5</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>12-Oct-1999</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
 | ||
| crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done.  No new
 | ||
| major features.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-1-4">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-1-4">What's new in 2.1.4</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>7-Oct-1999</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
 | ||
| wxMSW.  For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
 | ||
| binaries from the web site.  For other platforms you'll have to build
 | ||
| wxGTK from CVS.  (See <a class="reference" href="http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm">http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm</a>)
 | ||
| To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
 | ||
| the wxPy-2-1-4 tag.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Now back to what's new...</p>
 | ||
| <p>Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxWindow.GetChildren().  Be careful of this.  It returns a <em>copy</em>
 | ||
| of the list of the window's children.  While you are using the list if
 | ||
| anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
 | ||
| list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
 | ||
| memory and your app will likely crash.  But if you are careful it works
 | ||
| great!</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl.  The
 | ||
| SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
 | ||
| default sort order.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
 | ||
| either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used.  For
 | ||
| example, the following are equivallent:</p>
 | ||
| <pre class="literal-block">
 | ||
| win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
 | ||
| win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
 | ||
| </pre>
 | ||
| <p>Super-charged the wxHtml module.  You can now create your own tag
 | ||
| handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes.  There
 | ||
| is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
 | ||
| understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
 | ||
| pages.  See the demo for an example.</p>
 | ||
| <p>A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
 | ||
| wxGTK.  Added them back in since the methods exist now.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends.  The Python-only
 | ||
| versions are still in the library, but deprecated.  (You will get a
 | ||
| warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
 | ||
| disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
 | ||
| the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer.  I have
 | ||
| added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
 | ||
| smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
 | ||
| that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc.  One step I did
 | ||
| not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
 | ||
| wxGROW.  This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
 | ||
| portable to and from wxWin C++ code.  Please see the docs and demo for
 | ||
| further details.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
 | ||
| wxCommandEvent.  Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
 | ||
| accept or return a single Python object.  You can use these classes
 | ||
| directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
 | ||
| that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
 | ||
| Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.)  Stay tuned
 | ||
| for more info and examples in future releases.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
 | ||
| from the C++ sizers.  In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
 | ||
| wxFlexGridSizer.  wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
 | ||
| all the widths and heights are the same.  wxFlexgridSizer allows
 | ||
| different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
 | ||
| columns that are growable.  See the demo for a couple examples for how
 | ||
| to use them.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
 | ||
| that should be used for the base class of any Python validators.  See
 | ||
| the demo for an example.  Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
 | ||
| method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
 | ||
| in the underlying C++ library.  I did not add wxTextValidator because
 | ||
| of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
 | ||
| in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
 | ||
| there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
 | ||
| enough for the validator to do its job.  On the other hand, it should
 | ||
| be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
 | ||
| pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.</p>
 | ||
| <p>I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
 | ||
| years!  Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
 | ||
| object?  Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
 | ||
| value.  This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
 | ||
| sys.stderr.  A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
 | ||
| them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.  (On windows the
 | ||
| default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.)  This class
 | ||
| creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
 | ||
| to sys.stdout or sys.stderr.  If you close the window it will come
 | ||
| back again the next time something is written.  (You can call
 | ||
| app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.)  If you would rather that the stdio be
 | ||
| redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
 | ||
| object's constructor that is a filename.  If you want to use your own
 | ||
| class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
 | ||
| RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
 | ||
| wxApp.outputWindowClass like this:</p>
 | ||
| <pre class="literal-block">
 | ||
| class MyApp(wxApp):
 | ||
|     outputWindowClass = MyClass
 | ||
| 
 | ||
|     def OnInit(self):
 | ||
|         frame = MyFrame()
 | ||
|         self.SetTopWindow(frame)
 | ||
|         return true
 | ||
| </pre>
 | ||
| <p>Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
 | ||
| wx.py for more details.  A few words of caution:  if you are running
 | ||
| your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
 | ||
| to really screw things up.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxCaret.  Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
 | ||
| in the wxWindows docs...</p>
 | ||
| <p>Some new 3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib.  PyShell, in
 | ||
| shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
 | ||
| shell in wxWindows.  floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
 | ||
| that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
 | ||
| frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
 | ||
| bar back into the original parent.  (Unfortunately there is currently
 | ||
| a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
 | ||
| problems...)</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-1b3">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-1b3">What's new in 2.1b3</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>1-Sep-1999</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see <a class="reference" href="http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html">http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html</a>)
 | ||
| for some of the new features and such.  Also they have encorporated my
 | ||
| patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
 | ||
| old) release...  This version of SWIG gives the following new
 | ||
| features:</p>
 | ||
| <blockquote>
 | ||
| <ol class="arabic">
 | ||
| <li><p class="first">Keyword arguments.  You no longer have to specify all the
 | ||
| parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
 | ||
| non-default value on the end.  You can now do this instead:</p>
 | ||
| <blockquote>
 | ||
| <p>win = wxWindow(parent, -1, style = mystyle)</p>
 | ||
| </blockquote>
 | ||
| </li>
 | ||
| <li><p class="first">There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
 | ||
| NULL.  This means that any methods that might return NULL will
 | ||
| now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
 | ||
| expecting NULL.  This makes things much more snake-ish.</p>
 | ||
| </li>
 | ||
| </ol>
 | ||
| </blockquote>
 | ||
| <p>There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
 | ||
| raw makefiles.  Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
 | ||
| Unix systems.  See the end of this file for new build instructions and
 | ||
| see distrib/build.py for more details.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
 | ||
| two different versions.  wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
 | ||
| takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
 | ||
| interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-1b2">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-1b2">What's new in 2.1b2</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>6-Aug-1999</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
 | ||
| provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
 | ||
| their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
 | ||
| It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
 | ||
| line 496 if you want to do it by hand.</p>
 | ||
| <p>It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
 | ||
| process.  The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
 | ||
| prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
 | ||
| is being unloaded by Python.</p>
 | ||
| <p>I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
 | ||
| make wxPython look bad.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of  x,y.  Added
 | ||
| wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.</p>
 | ||
| <p>You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method.  See
 | ||
| wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
 | ||
| code to show how to use it.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
 | ||
| matches MSW's.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxGrid.GetCells</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
 | ||
| wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been deprecated in
 | ||
| wxWindows.  Use wxMenu and events instead.</p>
 | ||
| <dl class="docutils">
 | ||
| <dt>Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as</dt>
 | ||
| <dd>wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)</dd>
 | ||
| </dl>
 | ||
| <p>Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
 | ||
| objects of one type into shadow objects of another type.  (Like doing
 | ||
| a down-cast.)  See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
 | ||
| data transfer.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added access methods to wxGridEvent.</p>
 | ||
| <p>New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
 | ||
| for unix systems.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.</p>
 | ||
| <p>SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
 | ||
| in wx.cpp.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-1b1">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-1b1">What's new in 2.1b1</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>28-Jun-1999</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
 | ||
| item.  (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
 | ||
| wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added the Printing Framework.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
 | ||
| version.  The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
 | ||
| data after loading each extension module.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
 | ||
| wxWindows classes.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items.  Actually was a
 | ||
| symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
 | ||
| when doing any Py_DECREFs.</p>
 | ||
| <p>wxSizer and friends.  Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
 | ||
| of windows and sizers.  Different types of sizers apply different
 | ||
| types of layout algorithms.  You saw it here first!  These classes are
 | ||
| not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-0b9">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-0b9">What's new in 2.0b9</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>1-May-1999</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file...  DSM!)</p>
 | ||
| <p>Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
 | ||
| wxPython application.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
 | ||
| associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl.  Added test pytree.py to show
 | ||
| this feature off.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxSafeYield function.</p>
 | ||
| <p>OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
 | ||
| how it all works.</p>
 | ||
| <p>The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
 | ||
| DLL.  It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added a couple missing items from the docs.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
 | ||
| wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
 | ||
| methods.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-0b8">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-0b8">What's new in 2.0b8</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>28-Mar-1999</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Several missing methods from various classes.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Various bug fixes.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-0b7">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-0b7">What's new in 2.0b7</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>15-Mar-1999</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-0b6">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-0b6">What's new in 2.0b6</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>4-Mar-1999</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
 | ||
| Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-0b5">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-0b5">What's new in 2.0b5</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>25-Feb-1999</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed.  I did this to
 | ||
| reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
 | ||
| wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
 | ||
| wxWindows 1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
 | ||
| with the 2.0 version of wxWindows.</p>
 | ||
| <p>I have finally started documenting wxPython.  There are several pages
 | ||
| in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
 | ||
| have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
 | ||
| diverges from wxWindows.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
 | ||
| window handle.  If you can get the window handle into the python code,
 | ||
| it should just work...  More news on this later.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
 | ||
| wxRegConfig class.</p>
 | ||
| <p>As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-0-5-3">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-0-5-3">What's new in 0.5.3</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>30-Jan-1999</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
 | ||
| compatibility with the current wxWindows.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-0-5-0">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-0-5-0">What's new in 0.5.0</a></h1>
 | ||
| <p>Changed the import semantics from <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">"from</span> <span class="pre">wxPython</span> <span class="pre">import</span> <span class="pre">*"</span></tt> to
 | ||
| <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">"from</span> <span class="pre">wxPython.wx</span> <span class="pre">import</span> <span class="pre">*"</span></tt>  This is for people who are worried about
 | ||
| namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then
 | ||
| prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Made the events work for wxGrid.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxConfig.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
 | ||
| objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Other assorted fixes and additions.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-0-4-2">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-0-4-2">What's new in 0.4.2</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>21-Oct-1998</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>wxPython on wxGTK works!!!  Both dynamic and static on Linux and
 | ||
| static on Solaris have been tested.  Many thanks go to Harm van der
 | ||
| Heijden for his astute detective work on tracking down a nasty DECREF
 | ||
| bug.  Okay so I have to confess that it was just a DSM (Dumb Stupid
 | ||
| Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less because the
 | ||
| behavior was so different on different platforms.</p>
 | ||
| <p>The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
 | ||
| must have been a different issue all along...</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-0-4">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-0-4">What's New in 0.4</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>2-Oct-1998</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility.  It is partially working.  On a
 | ||
| Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
 | ||
| linked with the Python interpreter.  When built as a dyamically loaded
 | ||
| extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
 | ||
| And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
 | ||
| version segfault shortly after starting up.</p>
 | ||
| <ol class="arabic simple" start="2">
 | ||
| <li>Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.</li>
 | ||
| <li>Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.</li>
 | ||
| </ol>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="section" id="wxpython-0-3">
 | ||
| <h1><a name="wxpython-0-3">wxPython 0.3</a></h1>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li>9-Aug-1998</li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>The first "modern" version of wxPython.  See
 | ||
| <a class="reference" href="http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/WxPythonHistory">http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/WxPythonHistory</a></p>
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