Announcing ---------- I'm pleased to announce the 2.5.5.1 release of wxPython, now available for download at http://wxpython.org/download.php. This is mostly a bug-fix release, but there are a few new features as well. See the changes list below for details. 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 GTK or GTK2, and Apple Macintosh OS X. Changes in 2.5.5.1 ------------------ wxMSW: Fixed bug #1022383, 'several ComboBoxes appear selected' wx.grid.Grid: Fixed bug #1163384. Moved the code that handles activating the cell editors to a EVT_CHAR event handler. This is done so the character inserted into the editor will be the "cooked" char value (including accented or composed keys) rather than the raw code provided by the EVT_KEY_DOWN event. Added orient parameter to wx.MDIParentFrame.Tile() wxMSW: wxTextCtrl with wx.TE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available. Added GetCount, GetCountRGB, and GetCountColour methods to wx.ImageHistogram. wxMSW: wx.Window.Refresh changed to explicitly refresh all children as well as the parent. Previously it was implicitly done because parents did not clip their children by default. Now that they always clip children then Refresh needed to be fixed to do a recursive refresh. This also fixes the Freeze/Thaw problems that some people had with 2.5.4.1. wx.SplitterWindow: Send EVT_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED only once after end of dragging and not after each CHANGING event (modified patch #1076226) wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas: applied patch fixing problems with X server crash when using nVidia cards (patch 1155132) wx.lib.mixins.listctrl: Patches from Toni Brkic: * Bugfix for TextEditMixin when the view can't be scrolled * Enhancement for ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin, allowing it to manage the width of any column. wxMac: removal and reusing toolbar tools like the other platforms is now possible. wxMac: Correct radio tool selection after calling Realize a 2nd time. wxMSW: Applied patch #1166587, removes all flicker from wx.StaticBox Added wx.lib.foldpanelbar, Andrea Gavana's port of Jorgen Bodde's C++ wxFoldPanelBar classes to Python. wxGTK: Applied patch #1173802, reimplementation of GtkFileChooser wxFileDialog by Mart Raudsepp. Note that this new file dialog is only used on GTK2 >= 2.4. For earlier GTK2 versions and GTK1 then the older generic file dialog is used. wxMSW: fixes to static box borders calculations (finalizes patch #1166587) wx.Image: Use Python's buffer interface API for all image data and alpha Set/Get methods and the ImageFromData* constructors. They all still copy the buffer except for SetDataBuffer and SetAlphaBuffer, but this gives more flexibility on where the data can come from. Added MDI support to XRC Added wx.animate module and a demo. The wx.animate module provides a control that is able to display an animated GIF file. wx.lib.plot.py: Applied patch from Werner F. Bruhin that allows either vertical and/or horizontal gridlines. wxMSW: Extra space given for top border of wx.StaticBoxSizer so the upper line is not cliped when there is no label. wxMSW: Restored old behaviour of wx.StaticBox.SetBackgroundColour only affecting the label. wxMSW: Fixed missing EVT_RIGHT_DOWN and EVT_TREE_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK events in a wx.TreeCtrl. Added wx.GetTopLevelWindows() function which returns a copy of the list of top-level windows that currently exist in the application. Updated docview library modules and sample apps from the ActiveGrid folks. Added the ActiveGrid IDE as a sample application. -- Robin Dunn Software Craftsman http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!