Re: Summaries in new releases

Hi D Haley,

Am 18.08.2014 12:11 schrieb D Haley:
> I have been using wxGlade for some time, and have noted that there
> has been an uptick in development recently. As a small request, can I
> ask that a summary of the most relevant changes be put in future
> release announcements on the main page?
That's a good idea. I'll update the wxglade homepage within the next days.

> It is difficult to pull these out from the repository, as it is hard
> to determine what is and is not significant.

Extract from NEWS.txt file:
General: 
  - Disable old import style for wxPython 3.0
  - Add missing styles for wxNotebook (Thanks to Udi Fuchs)
  - Use Python logging facility instead of print statements
  - Rework quoting and escaping of special character sequences
  - Rework internal path handling
  - Write always an error log file
  - Improve widget import to be able to import widgets from ZIP files
  - Change configuration default to remember the position and geometry
    of the three main windows. This change effects fresh installations only.
  - adapt GUI to run with wxPython 2.6 till 3.0
  - Unify the code generation of widget specific code
    This change causes some minor changes in the generated code.
  - Add Lisp and Perl support for wxDatePickerCtrl
  - Disable Lisp for wx 3.0
  - ...

Generated Code:
 - Use SetToolTip() instead of SetToolTipString() for wxPython 3.x
 - Use configurable indents instead of hard coded tabs in wxFrame code
   for Perl
 - ...

Bugs:
  - Fix escape sequences in Unicode strings were escaped twice Perl and Python
  - Wrong Lisp statement in wxHyperlinkCtrl and wxFrame
  - Prevent code generation from a template file by commandline invocation
  - Fix bug in generation of valid hash keys for Perl
  - Fix various issues during transformation from XRC into wxGlade 
  - Fix wrong conditions to generate application start code (sf bug #161)
  - Don't convert first char of a XRC extraproperty to upper case (sf bug #163)
  - ...

API (for custom widgets):
  - Simplify signature of quote_str(), use quote_path() to quote / escape
    filenames or paths
  - ...

Ongoing:
  - add support for wxWidgets 3.0
  - remove support for wxWidgets 2.6

Out of scope:
  - running with Python3.0

Regards,
Carsten

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