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Offline Deschamps

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wxWidgets 2.8.4 released
« on: May 14, 2007, 01:53:33 pm »
Hello.

FYI: http://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub/2.8.4/


Change log:

2.8.4
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All:

- Fix bug in wxFileConfig when recreating a group (Steven Van Ingelgem)
- Fix wxStringOutputStream::Write() in Unicode build when the argument
  overlaps UTF-8 characters boundary
- Account for lines without newline at the end in wxExecute()
- Added wxString::char_str(), wchar_str(), From8BitData(), To8BitData(),
  FromUTF8(), ToUTF8() and utf8_str() methods for forward compatiblity
  with wxWidgets 3

All (Unix):

- Handle socket shutdown by the peer correctly in wxSocket (Tim Kosse)

All (GUI):

- Allow status bar children in XRC (Edmunt Pienkowski)
- Fix memory leak in wxWizard when not using sizers for the page layout
- Added wxListCtrl::SetItemPtrData()
- wxHTML: Apply table background colour between the cells too (Michael Hieke)

wxMSW:

- Corrected wxStaticBox label appearance when its foreground colour was set:
  it didn't respect font size nor background colour then (Juan Antonio Ortega)
- Don't lose combobox text when it's opened and closed (Kolya Kosenko)
- Corrected GetChecked() for events from checkable menu items (smanders)
- Fixed popup menus under Windows NT 4
- Fixed bug in wxThread::Wait() in console applications introduced in 2.8.3
- Support right-aligned/centered owner drawn items in wxListCtrl (troelsk)
- Compilation fixed with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6==0
- Fix wxComboCtrl colours under Windows Vista (Kolya Kosenko)

wxGTK:

- Fix infinite loop when adding a wxStaticText control to a toolbar :)
- Fix wxNO_BORDER style for wxRadioBox (David Hart)
- wxComboBox::SetValue() doesn't emit EVT_TEXT anymore
- Fix wxTextCtrl::GetLineText() for empty lines (Marcin Wojdyr)
- Fix support for wxFD_FILE_MUST_EXIST in wxFileDialog
- Fix support for setting orientation, paper size and collate
  in GNOME print backend
- Support wxTEXT_ALIGNMENT_JUSTIFIED in wxTextCtrl if GTK+ version is at
  least 2.11 (Mart Raudsepp).

wxMac:

- Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND) (Adrian Secord)

wxUniv:

- Fix wxTextCtrl::SetSelection(-1, -1) to behave as documented (Anders Larsen)
- Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND)
- Fix setting background colour for controls with transparent background



Regards.


« Last Edit: May 14, 2007, 02:11:32 pm by Deschamps »
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Offline Auria

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Re: wxWidgets 2.8.4 released
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2007, 01:47:40 am »
Is it really released?

It's been 3 days since you posted and it's not yet announced on wxwidgets.org

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Re: wxWidgets 2.8.4 released
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2007, 02:48:13 am »
Is it really released?

It's been 3 days since you posted and it's not yet announced on wxwidgets.org
I'm really curious too.

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Re: wxWidgets 2.8.4 released
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2007, 03:01:27 am »
Quote
updated_at.txt
cvs checkout done at Mon May 14 09:21:25 UTC 2007

Seems like a CVS snapshot to me

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Re: wxWidgets 2.8.4 released
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2007, 06:23:40 am »
They said that 2.8.4 should be out in the near future yesterday. I am hoping for Friday.

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Re: wxWidgets 2.8.4 released
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2007, 05:36:32 pm »
It is officially out now! :P

I have compared it to the 14. May release (only in size) and they dont match, so I deleted it and reinstalled it. Compiling now .... :twisted:

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Re: wxWidgets 2.8.4 released
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2007, 05:40:26 pm »
It is officially out now! :P

I have compared it to the 14. May release (only in size) and they dont match, so I deleted it and reinstalled it. Compiling now .... :twisted:

The main changes appeared to be in CVS the changing of Makefile are being built by newer bakefile version.
I am downloading the actual file now.
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Re: wxWidgets 2.8.4 released
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2007, 06:42:27 pm »
tonight's nightly == ysterdays but build with wx284

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Re: wxWidgets 2.8.4 released
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2007, 04:50:04 am »