News, June 2014

The latest version still comes with the wxWidget library 2.8.12 and it comes on Windows, OSX and Linux at the same time. Linux is changed to 64-bit and Windows comes in both (32/64-bit). The full changes list follows:

Updated / Changed / Completed

  • bugfix: workaround for current mysql odbc driver error (dbRecordset)
  • added: wxTextInput/OutputStream
  • added: wxRegKey::QueryValue
  • bugfix: base("10", 16) returns now "A" and not "b"
  • added: base64enc/dec
  • bugfix: richtext copy/paste to external rtf editor
  • DbRecordset better support for dBase ODBC Driver
  • BUGFIX wxReportWriter in calculating positions of data objects, wxSystemOptions_SetOptionInt("reportwriter.compatiblemode", 1) 'this set old error style
  • Debugger: keep position at variable and stack list refresh
  • BUGFIX: ExecSQL with Sqlite
  • BUGFIX: richtexthtmlloader in UNICODE
  • BUGFIX: richtextrtf writer in UNICODE
  • BUGFIX: SQLParser
  • Added: wxArchive..., wxZip..., wxTar..., wxZLib..., wxFontList, wxFontMapper, wxDCClipper, (wxBufferedDC, wxBufferedPaintDC, ), wxStreamBuffer classes
  • Added: wxHtmlPrintout
  • Added: wxMimeTypesManager, wxFileType, wxIconLocation
  • Added: inherited image handlers from wxImageHandler like wxBMPHandler
  • 64bit version on GTK
  • compiled with msvc
  • editor.wxb new load mechanism, because of UNICODE problems
  • richtext sample added
  • integer is now long
  • handle int vars directly as int without float operations
  • changed a lot of float to long operations, now you can use wxHSCROLL|wxTE_MULTILINE without loosing data
  • BUGFIX: wNumberToChar lost precision with %g, so changed to %f
  • BUGFIX: speed up loading images in wxRichTextRTFHandler
  • wxImage: LoadStreamFile(), SaveStreamFile
  • wxNode: GetData, GetNext
  • wxFontEnumerator
  • wxListCtrl::GetStringItem(index, col)
  • wxHtmlEasyPrinting::SetStandardFonts
  • Config file handles in unicode!
  • Unicode Version
  • wxLog, wxLogNull, wxLogTextCtrl, wxLogWindow
  • wxFileOutputStream
  • wxStringInput/OutputStream (needed for RTF)
  • wxFilterInput/OutputStream (only abstract classes for inheritance)
  • wxRTFHandler...: html and rtf loader
  • wxHTTP
  • bugfix: format()
  • wxRegEx::GetMatch, GetMatchData
  • wxRichTextCtrl from wxControl
  • file name of error log (wxberr.log) can be changed via wxbasic.ini (because of security issues since vista)

June, 2014