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    <title>wxErlang Release Notes</title>
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  <p>This document describes the changes made to the wxErlang
    application.</p>

<section><title>Wx 0.98.6</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
            Calling <c>sys:get_status()</c> for processes that have
            globally registered names that were not atoms would cause
            a crash. Corrected. (Thanks to Steve Vinoski.)</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-8656</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Wx 0.98.5</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
            Corrected incorrectly generated wxFileDialog:getPaths/1.
            Reported by Jason/hornja.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-8330</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
            Fixed a memory reference bug which caused unexplained
            {badarg, Int} exits when running multiple wx
            applications.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-8461</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
            Added <c>wxListCtrl:getEditCtrl/1</c> (not available on
            Mac).</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-8408</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
            Cleanups suggested by tidier and modernization of types
            and specs.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-8455</p>
        </item>
        <item>
            <p> 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. </p> <p>
            Added getFirstChild and getNextChild to wxTreeCtrl.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-8462</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Wx 0.98.4</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
            <p>Added wx_object improvements from Mazen.</p> <p>Fixed
            pid issues, reported by Mazen.</p> <p>Added wxLogNull
            class, reported by Amit Murthy.</p> <p>Various configure
            fixes.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-8243 Aux Id: seq11418 </p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
            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.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-8250</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
            wx now builds with wxWidgets 2.8.4 or a later 2.8
            release, thanks Nico Kruber.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-8292</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Wx 0.98.3</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
            Added wxListCtrl sorting and build fixes supplied by Paul
            Hampson. Thanks.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-8126</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
            <p>wxHtmlWindow class implemented.</p> <p>All exceptions
            from callbacks are now catched and written to the
            log.</p> <p>Some defines where wrong in 'wx.hrl'.</p>
            <p><c>wx:batch/1</c> and friends could hang forever if
            for instance a breakpoint was set inside the fun. That
            caused all wx applications to hang.</p> <p>Added missing
            wxAuiPaneInfo constructor and destructor.</p> <p>Added
            wxAuiNotebookEvent and wxAuiManagerEvent.</p> <p>Calling
            non supported wxWidgets functions hanged instead of
            crashed.</p> <p>Update OpenGL to version 3.1 and added
            some of the missing glu functions.</p> <p>Fixed
            wxRadioBox which inherited the wrong class, thanks Atilla
            Erdodi.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-8083</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
            Removed some of the automatic garbage collecting after
            application exit, user will get a warning instead so he
            can correct the code.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-8138</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Wx 0.98.2</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
            <p>Olle Mattson have made a large demo, see
            <c>examples/demo/</c>, that triggered the following bugs
            and new features:</p> <p>New book controls.</p> <p>Added
            wxToolbar:addTool/6.</p> <p>Empty binaries will be used
            to indicate NULL where applicable.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-7943</p>
        </item>
	<item>
          <p>Applied patch from Nico Kruber,
	    which fixes building on some wxwidgets installations.
	  </p>
          <p>Open source</p>            
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

  <section><title>Wx 0.98.1</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
            <p>Added <c>xrcctrl/3</c> to wxXmlResource and added a
            resource example.</p> <p>Added several event types and
            events records and fixed a couple of event related
            bugs.</p> <p>Event callbacks can now use
            <c>wxEvtHandler:connect/2</c>.</p> <p>Error handling and
            debugging aid have been improved.</p> <p>Added
            wxSplitterWindow and wxGauge:pulse and a couple of
            missing macros in <c>wx.hrl</c>.</p> <p>Thanks to Steve
            Davis for feedback and bug reports.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-7875</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>


  <section><title>Wx 0.98</title>
    
    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
            A first beta release of wxErlang.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-7859</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
    
</section>

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