Announcing ---------- The 2.8.10.1 release of wxPython is now available for download at http://wxpython.org/download.php. This release fixes the problem with using Python 2.6's default manifest, and updates wxcairo to work with the latest PyCairo. A summary of changes is listed below and also at http://wxpython.org/recentchanges.php. Source code is available as a tarball and a source RPM, as well as binaries for Python 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6, for Windows and Mac, as well some packages for various Linux distributions. 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 and 64-bit Microsoft Windows, most Linux or other Unix-like systems using GTK2, and Mac OS X 10.4+. In most cases the native widgets are used on each platform to provide a 100% native look and feel for the application. Changes in 2.8.10.1 ------------------- wx.grid.Grid: Added methods CalcRowLabelsExposed, CalcColLabelsExposed, CalcCellsExposed, DrawRowLabels, DrawRowLabel, DrawColLabels, and DrawColLabel to the Grid class. Added the wx.lib.mixins.gridlabelrenderer module. It enables the use of label renderers for Grids that work like the cell renderers do. See the demo for a simple sample. Solved the manifests problem with Python 2.6 on Windows. wxPython now programatically creates its own activation context and loads a manifest in that context that specifies the use of the themable common controls on Windows XP and beyond. This also means that the external manifest files are no longer needed for the other versions of Python. wx.Colour: Updated the wx.Colour typemaps and also the wx.NamedColour constructor to optionally allow an alpha value to be passed in the color string, using these syntaxes: "#RRGGBBAA" or "ColourName:AA" wx.lib.wxcairo: Fixed a problem resulting from PyCairo changing the layout of their C API structure in a non-binary compatible way. The new wx.lib.wxcairo is known to now work with PyCairo 1.6.4 and 1.8.4, and new binaries for Windows are available online at http://wxpython.org/cairo/ -- Robin Dunn Software Craftsman http://wxPython.org