wxWidgets 2.8.8 is out !!!

June 24th, 2008 — the wxWidgets team is pleased to announce a new wxWidgets release. wxWidgets is a mature, open source, cross-platform application framework for C++ and other languages. To get wxWidgets, please go to the download page at http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/ This is mainly a bug fix release; please see the change log below for details.

wxWidgets 2.8.8 changes

All:

• Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner).
• Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date().
• Initialize current line in wxTextBuffer ctor (Suzuki Masahiro).
• Improved performance of XML parsing (Francesco Montorsi).
• Fix wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date() to handle missing seconds (Joe Nader).

All (GUI):

• Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling().
• Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
• Ensure that wxGrid::AutoSizeColumn/Row() never sets column/row size smaller than the minimal size.
• Added parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
• wxRichTextCtrl performance has been improved considerably.
• Several wxRichTextCtrl style, paste and undo bugs fixed.
• Added wxRichTextCtrl superscript and subscript support (Knut Petter Lehre).

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• wxNotebook RTTI corrected, so now wxDynamicCast(notebook, wxBookCtrlBase) works.
• When focus is set to wxScrolledWindow child, scroll it into view.
• Improve wximage::ResampleBox() (Mihai Ciocarlie).
• Implemented ScrollList() in generic wxListCtrl (Tim Kosse).
• SaveAs in docview takes into account path now.
• Fixed wxXmlResource::GetText() to convert data to current locale’s charset in ANSI build.
• wxGrid now indicates focus by using different colour for selection and hiding cell cursor when it doesn’t have focus.
• Added alpha support to wxImage::Paste() (Steven Van Ingelgem)
• Use current date when opening popup in generic wxDatePickerCtrl.
• Remove associated help text from wxHelpProvider when a window is destroyed.
• Added wxSizerFlags::ReserveSpaceEvenIfHidden() and wxRESERVE_SPACE_EVEN_IF_HIDDEN sizer flag.
• Added wxWindow::ClientToWindowSize() and WindowToClientSize() helpers.
• Added wxSizer::ComputeFittingClientSize() and ComputeFittingWindowSize().
• Fixed wxSizer::SetSizeHints() to work when the best size decreases.
• Fixed crash in wxHtmlHelpController if the help window is still open.
• Fixed generic art provider to scale bitmaps down to client-specific best size if needed.
• Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
• Fixed timing of malformed animated GIFs in wxHTML (Gennady Feller).
• Fixed incorrect layout width caching in wxHTML (Jeff Tupper).
• wxHTML: preserve TAB characters when copying <pre> content to clipboard.
• Set focus to wxCalendarCtrl when it is clicked.

All (Unix):

• Fixed shared libraries to not depend on GStreamer when built with –enable-media; only wxMedia library depends on it now.
• wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now uses xdg-open if available.
• Don’t close UDP socket if an empty datagram is received (Mikkel S)
• Honour locale modifiers such a “@valencia” in system locale (Tim Kosse)

wxMSW:

• Fix rare bug with messages delivered to wrong wxSocket (Tim Kosse).
• Fix setting icons when they have non-default (16*16 and 32*32) sizes.
• Fixed wxLocale::GetInfo to use the C locale.
• Don’t enable disabled windows when showing them (Harry McKame).
• Fix assert when using owner-drawn menu items with the newest (Vista) SDK.
• Fixed wxTextCtrl to not process clipboard events twice if there’s a custom wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_* event handler.
• Fix wxComboBox to not lose the current value if it was programmatically set to a value not in a list of choices on popup close (Kolya Kosenko)
• Switching wxListCtrl to report mode from another one now uses full row highlight, just as if the control were created in report mode initially.
• Use correct index of the right-clicked column in wxListCtrl in the corresponding event even when the control is scrolled horizontally.
• Implement wxRadioBox::Reparent() correctly (Vince Harron).
• Make context sensitive help work for the text part of wxSpinCtrl.
• wxFileType::GetCommand() now looks at Explorer associations and CurVer for increased reliability and conformance to user expectations.
• Fixed double Init() call in wxTopLevelWindow causing a memory leak on SmartPhone.
• Fixed rendering of borders for wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH(2) style when using Windows XP’s Classic UI theme.
• Text controls with wxTE_RICH style now also generate wxClipboardTextEvents.
• Fixed wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_ENTER generation in wxSpinCtrl.
• Fixed wxSpinCtrl::GetClientSize() to return sensible value and not just spin button’s client size.
• Fixed IMPLEMENT_APP() to be compatible with the -WU flag of Borland C++ compiler (Matthias Bohm).
• Correct size calculation for toolbars containing controls under pre-XP systems (Gerald Giese)

wxGTK:

• Return false from wxEventLoop::Dispatch() if gtk_main_quit() was called and so the loop should exit (Rodolfo Schulz de Lima).
• Implement wxListBox::EnsureVisible() (Andreas Kling)
• Fixed wxCURSOR_HAND to map to GDK_HAND2 and not GDK_HAND1, for consistency with other applications.
• Fix wxNotebook::GetPage{Text,Image}() when they were called from the page change event handler for the first added page (Mikkel S).
• Fixed wxBitmapButton to use focus and hover bitmaps correctly.
• Fixed race condition which could cause idle processing to stop without processing all pending events.
• wxAcceleratorTable now works with buttons too.

wxMac:

• Fixed cursor for wxBusyCursor and wxContextHelp.
• Fixed wxListCtrl to respect items’ non-default fonts.
• wxListCtrl::SetColumnWidth() now supports wxLIST_AUTOSIZE.
• Fixed handling of transparent background in borderless wxBitmapButton.