ANN: wxPython 2.8.4.0

[Robin Dunn]

Announcing
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The 2.8.4.0 release of wxPython is now available for download at
http://wxpython.org/download.php.  This release includes a number of
bug fixes, updates to some contribs and other improvements.

Source code is available, as well as binaries for both Python 2.4 and
2.5, for Windows and Mac, as well some pacakges for various Linux
distributions.  A summary of changes is listed below and also at
http://wxpython.org/recentchanges.php.


What is wxPython?
-----------------

wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language. It
allows Python programmers to create programs with a robust, highly
functional graphical user interface, simply and easily. It is
implemented as a Python extension module that wraps the GUI components
of the popular wxWidgets cross platform library, which is written in
C++.

wxPython is a cross-platform toolkit. This means that the same program
will usually run on multiple platforms without modifications.
Currently supported platforms are 32-bit Microsoft Windows, most Linux
or other Unix-like systems using GTK2, and Mac OS X 10.3+, in most
cases the native widgets are used on each platform to provide a 100%
native look and feel for the application.


Changes in 2.8.4.0
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wxGTK: Make wx.NO_BORDER style work with wx.RadioBox (patch 1525406)

Update to 1.0 of TreeMixin.

wx.lib.customtreectrl: Patch from Andrea that fixes the following
problems/issues:

  * ZeroDivisionError when using the Vista selection style and calling
    SelectItem; for some strange reason, sometimes the item rect is not
    initialized and that generates the ZeroDivisionError when painting
    the selection rectangle;

  * Added a DeleteWindow method to GenericTreeItem class, for items
    that hold a widget next to them;

  * Renamed CustomTreeCtrl method IsEnabled to IsItemEnabled, otherwise
    it conflicts with wx.Window.IsEnabled;

  * Now CustomTreeCtrl behaves correctly when the widget attached to an
    item is narrower (in height) than the item text;


wx.lib.flatnotebook: Patch from Andrea that implements the following:

  * A new style FNB_FF2: my intentions were to make it like Firefox 2,
    however it turned out to be an hybrid between wxAUI notebook glose
    style & FF2 ...I still think it looks OK. The main purpose for
    making it more like wxAUI is to allow applications that uses both
    to have same look and feel (or as close as it can get...);

  * Changed the behavior of the left/right rotation arrows to rotate
    single tab at a time and not bulk of tabs;

  * Updated the demo module.

XRCed now uses a wx.FileHistory object for managing the recent files
menu.

wx.DateSpan and wx.TimeSpan now use lower case property names in order
to not conflict with the same named static methods that already
existed.

wx.aui.PyAuiDocArt and wx.aui.PyAuiTabArt can now be derived from in
wxPython and plugged in to wx.AUI.

XRCed has a new experimental feature to add controls by draging icons
from the tool palette to the test window. Mouse position is tracked
to highlight the future parent of the new item.

Updates to MaskedEdit controls from Will Sadkin:

   maskededit.py:
     Added parameter option stopFieldChangeIfInvalid, which can be used
     to relax the validation rules for a control, but make best efforts
     to stop navigation out of that field should its current value be
     invalid.  Note: this does not prevent the value from remaining
     invalid if focus for the control is lost, via mousing etc.

   numctrl.py, demo / MaskedNumCtrl.py:
     In response to user request, added limitOnFieldChange feature, so
     that out-of-bounds values can be temporarily added to the control,
     but should navigation be attempted out of an invalid field, it
     will not navigate, and if focus is lost on a control so limited
     with an invalid value, it will change the value to the nearest
     bound.

   combobox.py:
     Added handler for EVT_COMBOBOX to address apparently inconsistent
     behavior of control when the dropdown control is used to do a
     selection.

   textctrl.py
     Added support for ChangeValue() function, similar to that of the
     base control, added in wxPython 2.7.1.1.

Update to latest FloatCanvas from Chris Barker.

The pywxrc tool now properly supports generating classes for menus and
menubars, and also creating attributes for menus, menubars and menu
items.


-- 
Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org  Java give you jitters?  Relax with wxPython!