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1 wxErlang Release Notes

This document describes the changes made to the wxErlang application.

1.1  Wx 0.99.2

Improvements and New Features

• Fix errors in wxDC and wxGraphicsContext api.

  Add wxTaskBarIcon.

  Add wxStyledTextControl:setEdgeMode/2.

  Add type and specs for all functions and records.

  Own Id: OTP-9947

1.2  Wx 0.99.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

• Fixed a deadlock in the driver, which could happen if a callback caused another callback to be invoked.

  Own Id: OTP-9725

Improvements and New Features

• Implemented wxSystemOptions.

  Load Opengl from libGL.so.1 instead libGL.so to work around linux problems.

  Own Id: OTP-9702

1.3  Wx 0.99

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

• wx: fix obsolete guard warning (list/1) (Thanks to Tuncer Ayaz)

  Own Id: OTP-9513

• XML files have been corrected.

  Own Id: OTP-9550 Aux Id: OTP-9541

Improvements and New Features

• Support virtual tables in wxListCtrl.

  Own Id: OTP-9415

1.4  Wx 0.98.10

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

• Fixed wx app files on mac and solaris. Thanks Jachym Holecek and Joe Williams.

  Own Id: OTP-9324

1.5  Wx 0.98.9

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

• Wx crashed if graphics could not be initiated, for instance if DISPLAY was not available.

  Wx could crash during startup, thanks Boris Muhmer for extra ordinary testing.

  Own Id: OTP-9080

• Wx on MacOS X generated complains on stderr about certain cocoa functions not beeing called from the "Main thread". This is now corrected.

  Own Id: OTP-9081

1.6  Wx 0.98.8

Improvements and New Features

• Add wxSystemSettings which was missing in the previous release, despite previous comments.

  Fix an external loop when stopping erlang nicely.

  Separate OpenGL to it's own dynamic loaded library, so other graphic libraries can reuse the gl module and it will not waste memory if not used.

  Own Id: OTP-8951

1.7  Wx 0.98.7

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

• Fix crash (segmentation fault) in callback handling.

  Own Id: OTP-8766

Improvements and New Features

• Add wxSystemSettings module.

  Add wxTreeCtrl:editLabel/2.

  Own Id: OTP-8767

1.8  Wx 0.98.6

Improvements and New Features

• Calling sys:get_status() for processes that have globally registered names that were not atoms would cause a crash. Corrected. (Thanks to Steve Vinoski.)

  Own Id: OTP-8656

1.9  Wx 0.98.5

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

• Corrected incorrectly generated wxFileDialog:getPaths/1. Reported by Jason/hornja.

  Own Id: OTP-8330

• Fixed a memory reference bug which caused unexplained {badarg, Int} exits when running multiple wx applications.

  Own Id: OTP-8461

Improvements and New Features

• Added wxListCtrl:getEditCtrl/1 (not available on Mac).

  Own Id: OTP-8408

• Cleanups suggested by tidier and modernization of types and specs.

  Own Id: OTP-8455

• Changed representation of wxTreeItem to be an integer. This saves memory, where the driver do not need to keep a object reference to each tree item.

  Added getFirstChild and getNextChild to wxTreeCtrl.

  Own Id: OTP-8462

1.10  Wx 0.98.4

Improvements and New Features

• Added wx_object improvements from Mazen.

  Fixed pid issues, reported by Mazen.

  Added wxLogNull class, reported by Amit Murthy.

  Various configure fixes.

  Own Id: OTP-8243 Aux Id: seq11418

• The documentation is now built with open source tools (xsltproc and fop) that exists on most platforms. One visible change is that the frames are removed.

  Own Id: OTP-8250

• wx now builds with wxWidgets 2.8.4 or a later 2.8 release, thanks Nico Kruber.

  Own Id: OTP-8292

1.11  Wx 0.98.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

• Added wxListCtrl sorting and build fixes supplied by Paul Hampson. Thanks.

  Own Id: OTP-8126

Improvements and New Features

• wxHtmlWindow class implemented.

  All exceptions from callbacks are now catched and written to the log.

  Some defines where wrong in 'wx.hrl'.

  wx:batch/1 and friends could hang forever if for instance a breakpoint was set inside the fun. That caused all wx applications to hang.

  Added missing wxAuiPaneInfo constructor and destructor.

  Added wxAuiNotebookEvent and wxAuiManagerEvent.

  Calling non supported wxWidgets functions hanged instead of crashed.

  Update OpenGL to version 3.1 and added some of the missing glu functions.

  Fixed wxRadioBox which inherited the wrong class, thanks Atilla Erdodi.

  Own Id: OTP-8083

• Removed some of the automatic garbage collecting after application exit, user will get a warning instead so he can correct the code.

  Own Id: OTP-8138

1.12  Wx 0.98.2

Improvements and New Features

• Olle Mattson have made a large demo, see examples/demo/, that triggered the following bugs and new features:

  New book controls.

  Added wxToolbar:addTool/6.

  Empty binaries will be used to indicate NULL where applicable.

  Own Id: OTP-7943

• Applied patch from Nico Kruber, which fixes building on some wxwidgets installations.

  Open source

1.13  Wx 0.98.1

Improvements and New Features

• Added xrcctrl/3 to wxXmlResource and added a resource example.

  Added several event types and events records and fixed a couple of event related bugs.

  Event callbacks can now use wxEvtHandler:connect/2.

  Error handling and debugging aid have been improved.

  Added wxSplitterWindow and wxGauge:pulse and a couple of missing macros in wx.hrl.

  Thanks to Steve Davis for feedback and bug reports.

  Own Id: OTP-7875

1.14  Wx 0.98

Improvements and New Features

• A first beta release of wxErlang.

  Own Id: OTP-7859