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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 0.98.10</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Fixed wx app files on mac and solaris. Thanks Jachym
Holecek and Joe Williams.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9324</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Wx 0.98.9</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Wx crashed if graphics could not be initiated, for
instance if DISPLAY was not available.</p> <p>Wx could
crash during startup, thanks Boris Muhmer for extra
ordinary testing.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9080</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Wx on MacOS X generated complains on stderr about certain
cocoa functions not beeing called from the "Main thread".
This is now corrected.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9081</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Wx 0.98.8</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Add wxSystemSettings which was missing in the previous
release, despite previous comments.</p> <p>Fix an
external loop when stopping erlang nicely.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8951</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Wx 0.98.7</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Fix crash (segmentation fault) in callback handling.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8766</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Add wxSystemSettings module.</p>
<p>
Add wxTreeCtrl:editLabel/2.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8767</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<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>
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