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November 7 - FOX STABLE 1.4.22

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<li>Fixed bug in fxloadGIF [and thus also in FXGIFIcon and FXGIFImage; some subltety

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with the LZW implementation was wrong. It is very rare as we've lived with this

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flaw for a long time before discovering it. The symptom is that the decoder

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complains that the image is truncated [it isn't!].</li>

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<li>Bug in FXSettings causes trouble when writing large integer numbers back

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to the registry file.</li>

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November 2 - FOX STABLE 1.6.0 (Release Candidate 1)

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This is the first release candidate for FOX 1.6. The input methods for X11 now

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work. The next one will implement input methods on Windows. The API's are now

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pretty much frozen except insofar as changes are needed for input method support.

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Please note, we're doing the "root" method only. On the spot and over the spot

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methods will be done later.

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<li>A new class FXComposeContext manages the input context in text entry

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widgets.</li>

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<li>Small tweak to movement algorithm of docked bars:- don't add a new galley

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when the dock bar is about to be undocked from the dock site. However, you can

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still create a new galley by first undocking, and then redocking the dock bar.</li>

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<li>Added restore() API to FXBitmap like FXImage has.</li>

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<li>New API dropFinished() issues message to DND source that target has

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successfully acquired drop data and can proceed. This is normally done

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automatically when the SEL_DND_DROP message returns, but in a few cases

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one may want to release the DND source prior to returning from the handler,

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for example when the SEL_DND_DROP message handler takes a long time to

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process the DND data.</li>

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<li>Changed the way limits are handled in FXInputDialog.</li>

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<li>Changed some internals of FXFileList and FXDirList.</li>

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<li>FXTreeList, FXDirList makeItemVisible() tweaked to scroll the expand-box

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into view.</li>

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<li>Fixed some small drawing and layout issues in FXGroupBox.</li>

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<li>FXTopWindow HICON is deleted if FXTopWindow is.</li>

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<li>Obtain proper HINSTANCE on Windows; don't use GetModuleHandle(NULL) anymore;

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see October 29.</li>

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<li>Fixed FXGroupBox caption display issues. Now looks better at default size.</li>

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<li>Implemented extremely dumb and slow StretchBlt on X11.</li>

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<li>Added tooltip capability to pulldown menu items.

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<li>New API in FXApp, getActiveWindow() returns active toplevel window; previously,

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this API was called getFocusWindow(). The new implementation of getFocusWindow() returns

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the child widget of the active window that has the focus.</li>

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October 29 - FOX STABLE 1.4.21

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<li>The getDisplay() API now returns the proper HINSTANCE on Windows; thanks to

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Henrik and Claus Wann Jensen feedback on this problem. The solution fixes

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some instability problems in .DLL use of FOX on Windows.</li>

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October 25 - FOX STABLE 1.4.20

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<li>Set active window to owner when dialog closes on Windows.</li>

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<li>Fixed Thread Local Storage handle leak on Windows.</li>

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<li>Fixed GDI HICON handle leak for FXTopLevel's big/small icons on Windows.</li>

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I have written a few words here about the <a href="ftp://fox-toolkit.org/pub/FOX_Unicode_Tables.pdf">Unicode table compression method</a>

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used in the FOX Unicode implementation. The method achieves very nice compaction of the

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Unicode Character Properties tables by recursive partial overlapping identical property

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data and indirection blocks.

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September 23 - FOX UNSTABLE 1.5.13

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<li>Fixed bug in FXText for search selected option.</li>

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<li>Fixed X11 keysym determination code; was not observing shift state.</li>

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<li>Added registry setting for scrollbar width.</li>

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<li>Fixed some problem with FXRex encoding of characters in compiled regular expressions.</li>

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<li>Updated Windows keyboard handling for UTF-8.</li>

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September 15 - FOX UNSTABLE 1.5.12

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<li>Implemented <b>keyboard translation</b> for <b>X11</b> to unicode; the Windows keyboard

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translation will come in the next version, so stay tuned!.</li>

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<li>Moved fxparseAccel(), fxunparseAccel(), fxparseHotKey(), fxfindHotKey(),

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and fxstripHotKey() to FXAccelTable, and dropped the "fx" prefix. FXAccelTable

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is a more logical home for these functions.</li>

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<li>Added SEL_DOCKED and SEL_FLOATED messages to signify docking events; these

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are generated by FXDockBar as it is being docked or undocked.</li>

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<li>Updated Windows studio project files.</li>

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<li>Updated some documentation items in various widgets.</li>

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<li>Updated Watcom C++ makefiles.</li>

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September 13 - FOX UNSTABLE 1.5.11

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This is the FOX 1.6 pre-release; please test! The next one [barring bugs!] is going to

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be FOX 1.6.0!!

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<li>Added unicode clipboard support to FXTable.</li>

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<li>FXTable overlayText() and countText() can now have sets of column and row separators.</li>

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<li>FXTable extractText() can have separator of multiple characters.</li>

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<li>Updated comparecase in FXString for utf-8 awareness.</li>

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<li>Updated list widgets for utf-8 aware item comparison.</li>

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<li>Fixed FXTable overlayText(). Also fixed paste selection in FXTable.</li>

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<li>Fixed FXTable countText() and made it public.</li>

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<li>Corrected FXBZFileStream and FXGZFileStream filenames.</li>

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<li>Added missing getNumPatterns() API to FXFileDialog.</li>

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<li>Changed FXDataTarget constructors so as to avoid accidents.</li>

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<li>Fixed FXText upper/lower case conversion for utf-8.</li>

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<li>Fixed overly enthusiastic argument checking in FXText.</li>

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<li>Added checks against editing non-editable FXText widget.</li>

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<li>Fixed FXTextField against editing when non-editable.</li>

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<li>Fixed some minor issues with FXFont and FXApp for Windows.</li>

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<li>Fixed Windows VC++ studio projects for -DUNICODE.</li>

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September 7 - FOX UNSTABLE 1.5.10

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<li>Added unicode clipboard and primary selection support to FXText.</li>

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<li>Added unixToDos and dosToUnix API's to FXString.</li>

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<li>Expunged some FXbool's in favor of bool. This is OK where serialization is not required.</li>

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<li>New API's to FXMatXX classes.</li>

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<li>New API's to FXVecXX classes.</li>

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<li>Fixed minor internal issues in FXText.</li>

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<li>Updates FXRangeXX and FXSphereXX classes.</li>

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<li>Added API's to FXText taking FXString.</li>

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<li>Switched argument order in FXText's changeStyle(); it was inconsistent.</li>

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<li>Safe-guarded FXOptionMenu for children it its FXMenuPane not being FXOption's.</li>

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September 3 - FOX UNSTABLE 1.5.9

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<li>Updated FXBZFileStream to subclass from FXFileStream.</li>

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<li>Updated makefiles for Watcom C++.</li>

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<li>FXMemMap now supports utf8 filenames on Windows as well.</li>

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<li>Fixed some typos in FXExtentd.</li>

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<li>Fixed missing operator << and >> in FXHiliteStyle for Watcom C++.</li>

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September 2 - FOX UNSTABLE 1.5.8

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<li>Modifier keys now stick around when a normal key is pressed; thus both press and

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release of normal key now have same modifier set applied.</li>

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<li>Fixed strtoll where it is used.</li>

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<li>Fixed compile with Xft for Fedora Core 4; FC4 apparently ships with old version of

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fontconfig.</li>

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<li>Fixed build issues with multi-monitor stuff on MS-Windows.</li>

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<li>Added FXExtentf and FXExtentd classes for 2D ranges.</li>

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<li>Added dllName() API to FXSystem.</li>

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<li>Added API's to FXString: compareversion().</li>

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<li>Fixed Windows compile issues with Visual Studio 7.</li>

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<li>FXToolBarGrip no longer gets focus.</li>

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<li>Added some API's to FXRectangle FXSize, FXPoint, FXVec3f (etc.).</li>

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August 19 - FOX UNSTABLE 1.5.7

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<li>Added NET_WM_PING message support for Extended Window Manager hints.</li>

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<li>New FXSystem namespace added to be a collection of system-interrogation functions.</li>

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<li>New FXIO class added which is the base class for FXFile, FXSocket, FXPipe. So far,

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FXFile is the most advanced in implementation; but FXPipe and FXSocket will follow...</li>

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<li>Added extractItem() API to the list widgets; it allows you to remove an item but not

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destroy it. The removed item can then be re-added to another list widget.</li>

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<li>Added private copy constructor and assignment operator to list items in order to

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prevent accidental copying.</li>

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<li>Added FXPath::convert() API. It will convert a path to local path separator convention.</li>

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<li>Added FXPath::contract() API, which will to the opposite of FXPath::expand().</li>

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<li>Added includeInRadius() API's to FXSphere. These include the new point or sphere

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without moving the center of the original FXSphere. This is often convenient when

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maintaining nested bounding spheres.</li>

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<li>Added DOCKSITE_NO_WRAP mode to FXDockSite. Passing the DOCKSITE_NO_WRAP will cause

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FXDockSite NOT to wrap toolbars to another galley should the amount of space be insufficient.</li>

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<li>Added new FXFile class which encapsulates low-level file manipulation on the system.

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<li>Added <b>-z</b> option to reswrap. This new option causes reswrap to compute the

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size of the resource, and incorporate this into the declaration.</li>

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<li>FXSlider, FXRealSlider, FXDial, and FXKnob now respond to keyboard arrows as well

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as + and - key bindings.</li>

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<li>Updated FXTopWindow to allow setting unicode title string in Extended Window Manager

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Hints-enabled window managers.</li>

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<li>Split off many functions from FXFile into new namespace FXPath; FXPath is a collection

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of functions manipulating pathnames in a resonably system-independent way. FXPath knows

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about local name conventions, forward and backward slashes, and so on. FXPath knows

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about unicode filenames.</li>

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<li>Some other functions from FXFile have been split off into a new class FXStat. FXStat

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is a collection of file-metadata such as access time, size, and so on. It replaces the

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unix stat() function. FXStat also knows about unicode filenames.</li>

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<li>FXDir has acquired a few additional functions which were moved out of FXFile; the

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new static member function listFiles() now is implemented in terms of FXDir's basic

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capabilities. FXDir also knows about unicode filenames.</li>

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<li>Fixed makeItemVisible() in FXList, FXIconList, FXTreeList, and FXFoldingList when

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widgets aren't realized yet. We now to delayed makeItemVisible() in such cases, causing

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<li>More features added to FXKnob; now can operate in <em>speedometer</em> mode.</li>

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August 1 - FOX STABLE 1.4.17

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<li>Fixed problem in FXMessageBox. When running MBOX_SAVE_CANCEL_DONTSAVE, a click

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on Save should return MBOX_CLICKED_SAVE and not MBOX_CLICKED_YES.</li>

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<li>Fixed problem on multi-head Windows machines in FXPopup and FXTopWindow.</li>

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<li>Fixed problem in FXQuatf and FXQuatd.</li>

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Well, after weeks of pounding the keyboard, here's a <em>massive</em> number of new

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features; first, we've got a nice set of new widgets:- the <b>FXKnob</b> control

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contributed by <b>Leandro Nini</b> which can be a drop-in for FXSlider or FXDial

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with different looks.<br>

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Next, there's <b>FXColorList</b> which is a flavor of FXList which can be used to

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select from a set of named colors. To wrap up the color selection methods, we now

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also have a new widget called <b>FXColorRing</b>, which is a hue/saturation/value control which manipulates

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a colors <b>hue</b> by means of a ring, and <b>saturation</b> and <b>value</b> by

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a rotating triangle centered in the hue ring. The tip of the triangle rotates

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to follow the hue selected in the outer ring. Its a quite intuitive way to control colors.<br>

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Then, we have a UTF-8 enabled FXTextField and FXText widget. FXTextField

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supports UTF-8 and UTF-16 clipboard support for interaction with other

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Finally, I have now embarked on the implementation of <b>possessive</b> match

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support for <b>FXRex</b>. The possessive match is a fairly recent addition in the

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world of regular expressions; what it does is to eliminate back tracking in greedy

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closures. For example, the pattern "a*b" is not ever going to match "aaaaaaac", so

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instead of performing massive numbers of vain backtracking attempts, we can now write a

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pattern "a*+b", which will simply give up as soon as we fail to match the "b" against

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speed up the syntax coloring engine or other sophisticated pattern matching using FXRex.<p>

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A detailed list of features follows:

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<li>Unicode support added to FXTextField. FXTextField is at this point

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pretty complete. Note that due to multi-byte representation of unicode

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in UTF8, the cursor in FXTextField is constrained to character-starts,

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<li>Added possessive match mode in FXRex. Current implementation is still limited

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to possessive match of simple patterns [this will change in subsequent releases].

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of a ? is used. The possessive match is a greedy match that does not backtrack;

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therefore, using possessive match for syntax coloring can yield some dramatic speedups

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<li>Also added some [as yet internal] documentation on future syntax FXRex will

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support for unicode regular expressions. We stick to the standards whenever

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<li>Added FXColorRing class to edit color based on hue-ring and saturation/value

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triangle. This is now used in FXColorDialog in favor of FXColorWheel. The FXColorRing

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provides a single control that can select hue, saturation, and value using more

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a intuitive interface than sliders.</li>

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<li>Added Leandro Nini's FXKnob widget. It is a rotational valuator which

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can replace dial or slider if different looks are required.</li>

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<li>Split fxchar.h into fxascii.h and fxunicode.h.</li>

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<li>Added new FXColorList widget to pick from named colors; you can load your

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own colors in such a list.</li>

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<li>Added notify flag to FXTextField, FXSlider, FXRealSlider, FXDial, FXSpinner,

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FXRealSpinner, FXCheckButton, FXToggleButton, FXRadioButton.</li>

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<li>Added API to FXFileDict to change settings database being used.</li>

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<li>Fixed jumping mouse wheel bug in FXScrollBar.</li>

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<li>Fixed some subtleties in FXText w.r.t. makePositionVisible().</li>

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<li>Re-added getWindowCount(), to FXApp. The new implementation is more elegant

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in that it eliminates global variables.</li>

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<li>The fxgetticks() is now implemented for x86-64, IA64, PPC, HP-PA, and SPARC-V9,

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in addition to x86, when using GCC compiler. Please test!</li>

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<li>Added SSE3, HT detect to fxcpuid() [x86 only!].</li>

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these don't interpret the upper 128 codes and thus are safe to call on UTF-8 encoded

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<li>Added FXDir class for directory scanning; it scans one file at a time.</li>

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<li>Implemented text at an angle drawing routines.</li>

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<li>Added API's to FXScrollPane to get/set number of visible items.</li>

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<li>Fixed windows-related flaw by not disabling arrows in FXScrollPane.</li>

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<li>FXDragCorner now uses <a href="http://freedesktop.org">Extended Window Manager Hints</a> if available.</li>

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<li>Fixed bug in FXList and FXIconList: select lone item with arrow keys didn't work.</li>

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<li>Fixed sign error in quaternion classes in setAxes(). This only happens in one of the

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<li>Added access function wc() to FXString for reading wide character at byte offset.</li>

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<li>Added setData() API's to FXBitmap, analoguous to FXImage.</li>

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<li>The setCurrentItem() function in FXComboBox now has notify parameter; it generates

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to the SEL_COMMAND is the new text in the box.</li>

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<li>Added compose API to FXString.</li>

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<li>Added Hangul composition/decomposition functions.</li>

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new functions. Used internally by FXString but useful elsewhere also.</li>

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with notify=TRUE; it should have sent SEL_COMMAND as it sends SEL_COMMAND whenever

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the current item changes by other means. It still sends SEL_CHANGED when mouse is

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hovering over the list when its popped up.</li>

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messages with ID's which belong to the FXMDIChild itself.</li>

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<li>Added Euler angles to quaternion and back API's. There are now 6 of them,

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<li>Fixed loadImage() API in FXIconSource. It was returning FXIcon* instead of

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given byte offset in FXString.</li>

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ascii codes in utf8. Using the ctype.h for this purpose would trigger spurious

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<li>Added some API's to FXString for utf-8 support, these API's will be used for

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adding many utf-8 and wide character convenience functions later.</li>

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<li>Fixed FXTable selection rectangle issue; selection rectangle now set before callbacks

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March 20 - FOX DEVELOPMENT 1.5.1

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<p>

533

534

<ul>

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<li>Added scroll capability to FXTabBar and FXTabBook.</li>

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<li>Renamed <b>remove</b> API's in various containet classes to <b>erase</b> which

537

more closely resembles STL container classes' nomenclature.</li>

538

</ul>

539

540

541

<p>

542

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March 20 - FOX STABLE 1.4.10

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<p>

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547

<ul>

548

<li>Fixed compile problem on Windows.</li>

549

</ul>

550

551

552

<p>

553

554

March 17 - FOX STABLE 1.4.9

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556

<p>

557

558

<ul>

559

<li>Added fixes to LaTeX syntax coloring (thanks to: Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen).</li>

560

<li>Fixed typo in FXApp; handleTimout(), should have been handleTimeout().</li>

561

<li>Changed some bugs in FXGZStream, FXBZStream, and FXFileStream; in some cases,

562

the FXStreamEnd flag was set prematurely.</li>

563

<li>More work on unicode done.</li>

564

</ul>

565

566

567

<p>

568

569

March 16 - FOX STABLE 1.4.8

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571

<p>

572

573

<ul>

574

<li>FXUndoList should account for FXCommandGroup when FXUndoList::end() is called,

575

and not at the beginning when FXCommandGroup is still empty.<br>

576

This is useful if you subclass FXCommandGroup and add extra space when a complex

577

undo command is completed. As an example, suppose you're disconnecting nodes from

578

a graph. Then it is not known whether a collection of nodes becomes completely

579

detached from the graph until the last node is cut loose. <br>

580

To properly account for space when nodes become completely detached from the

581

graph, you can then add the extra space to the subclassed FXCommandGroup just

582

prior to the call to FXUndoList::end(). If you merely remove some connections

583

but the nodes are still connected by other edges then the space is not added

584

since the data structures are not completely owned by the undo system yet.</li>

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<li>Also, incorrectly accounted for size changes when merging undo records.</li>

586

<li>Adding an undo command should only change the size when its committed, i.e.

587

either an add() of a simple command at the toplevel, or an end() of a compound

588

command at the toplevel.</li>

589

</ul>

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<p>

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594

March 8 - FOX DEVELOPMENT 1.5.0

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<p>

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598

This is a development preview; it is not recommended for any development

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work at this time; in particular, no effort has been made to make it

600

compile on all platforms.

601

Some of the highlights of this release are below.

602

<ul>

603

<li>Added fxchar.h and fxchar.cpp unicode tables. The fxchar.h header file

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provides functions operating on 32-bit wide unicode characters. They support

605

the full range U+000000 to U+10FFFF. FOX will support wide characters but

606

most functions are going to be working on UTF-8, which is a more compact

607

and manageable representation of unicode characters.<br>

608

Some FXString API's have been added already for UTF-8. Many more will

609

follow. FXString has API's taking strings (sequences of bytes),

610

as well as API's taking single character parameters. The former will serve us

611

well for UTF-8, but for the latter, equivalent API's will be added which

612

take wide characters, allowing one to e.g. insert wide characters without

613

explicitly converting to UTF-8. </li>

614

<li>Added new class, FXTranslator. FXTranslator, once it is fleshed out,

615

will be responsible for translating messages into local languages.</li>

616

<li>Added new API, tr(), to FXWindow. This gets passed the message text

617

and optional translation hint. It adds the name of the widget as the

618

context and then passes these parameters to FXTranslator. Thus, three

619

things are available to translate a message. Actually, there may be

620

a forth (fifth) thing as well, and that is the application and vendor

621

keys, which FXTranslator could get at if needed. Some of the mechanisms

622

have yet to be worked out, at this time.</li>

623

<li>Went through the entire FOX library and added a call to tr() for each

624

and every message. Once FXTranslator is implemented, this will then

625

instantly enable localization of FOX.</li>

626

<li>Added mouse wheel support for FXComboBox, FXListBox, FXTreeListBox;

627

I can't believe I didn't add this long ago; its really very convenient!</li>

628

<li>Added utf.cpp source file containing some utf helper functions; this

629

is an internal file.</li>

630

<li>If you ever listen to music at your PC you've got to get the [FOX-based!]

631

<a href="http://fifthplanet.net/gmm">Goggles Media Manager</a>. What I

632

like about it is that you don't have to create play-lists like XMMS; it

633

keeps its info in a database and can do a number of useful queries.

634

Yet another nice program from <a href="http://fox-toolkit.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl">Sander</a>.</li>

635

</ul>

636

637

638

<p>

639

640

March 8 - FOX STABLE 1.4.7

641

642

<p>

643

644

<ul>

645

<li>Removed check for used thread-id; this allows restart of a thread.</li>

646

</ul>

647

648

649

<p>

650

651

February 22 - FOX STABLE 1.4.6

652

653

<p>

654

655

<ul>

656

<li>Added missing FXAPI in FXGUISignal.</li>

657

<li>Removed friend FXEmbeddedWindow from FXApp.</li>

658

<li>Flags TABLE_COL_SIZABLE and TABLE_ROW_SIZABLE now cause corresponding row and

659

column header controls to allow resizing or not.</li>

660

<li>Flags TABLE_NO_COLSELECT and TABLE_NO_ROWSELECT disable column and row select

661

mode for corresponding table headers.</li>

662

<li>Fixed bug in FXHeader which caused HEADER_BUTTON to be ignored (button was always

663

enabled).</li>

664

<li>Added flag HEADER_RESIZE to FXHeader which enables interactive header section

665

resizing by the user; this is now used by the FXTable as well.</li>

666

<li>Fixed problem in FXToolBar dealing with special children FXSeparator and FXToolBarGrip

667

which have special layout from the normal children.</li>

668

<li>Removed #error from ControlPanel application.</li>

669

</ul>

670

671

672

<p>

673

674

February 15 - FOX STABLE 1.4.5

675

676

<p>

677

678

<ul>

679

<li>Core dump with hitting select all in empty table FXTable fixed.</li>

680

<li>Core dump with non-ascii characters in FXSettings fixed.</li>

681

<li>Added missing FXRex.h in fx.h.</li>

682

</ul>

683

684

685

<p>

686

687

February 13 - FOX STABLE 1.4.4

688

689

<p>

690

691

<ul>

692

<li>Problem in fxtargaio fixed.</li>

693

<li>Rewrote important part of fxpcxio routine; all test images of depth 1, 4, 8, and 24

694

bits per pixel now pass the test.</li>

695

</ul>

696

697

698

<p>

699

700

February 12 - FOX STABLE 1.4.3

701

702

<p>

703

704

Well, here's a few other minor updates. Nothing very serious this time.

705

Now that the worst errors have been taken care of, I'm going to hold off

706

these rapid releases until there is something serious or after I've been

707

able to collect a bunch of them.

708

<ul>

709

<li>Fixed warnings and error that came up on SGI build.</li>

710

<li>Fixed TABLE_NO_ROWSELECT and TABLE_NO_ROWSELECT not working right in FXTable.</li>

711

<li>Suppress warning on VC++ for DLL binding templates.</li>

712

</ul>

713

714

715

<p>

716

717

February 10 - FOX STABLE 1.4.2

718

719

<p>

720

721

<ul>

722

<li>Fixed FXFileSelector popup menu:- was unable to delete directory due to introduced problem.</li>

723

<li>Updated Digital Mars C++ compiler makefiles.</li>

724

<li>Updated Watcom C++ compiler makefiles.</li>

725

<li>Fixed some FXCursor for Digital Mars C++.</li>

726

<li>Added FXAPI declaration to FXObjectListOf.</li>

727

<li>Fixed type on FXSplashWindow comment.</li>

728

<li>Removed default parameter from non-floating bar constructors in FXMenuBar, FXToolBar,

729

and FXDockBar. One must always pass a 2nd parameter as the two constructors can

730

otherwise not be distinguished [GCC people: can't this be detected during compilation?].</li>

731

<li>Fixed FXMutex reserved memory amount for HP-UX support.</li>

732

<li>Fixed FXMemMap for Digital Mars C++ compile issue.</li>

733

<li>Removed ControlPanel from Windows Builds; you can remove the warning message

734

and compile it, but it wont quite work since ControlPanel doesn't change the Windows Registry

735

but only the file-based registry [Maybe that will change in future versions; however,

736

the FOX control panel isn't as important on Windows since FOX follows many of the standard

737

Windows Control Panel settings].</li>

738

</ul>

739

740

741

<p>

742

743

February 8 - FOX STABLE 1.4.1

744

745

<p>

746

747

<ul>

748

<li>Fixed bug in fxsaveJPG() routine; saving JPEG images didn't work properly.</li>

749

<li>Fixed problem with ControlPanel crash. ControlPanel would crash when registry

750

was empty.</li>

751

</ul>

752

753

754

755

<p>

756

757

February 7 - FOX STABLE 1.4.0

758

759

<p>

760

761

Well, after another last-minute feature got snuck in over the weekend, I'm pleased

762

to present the new major stable release, the <b>FOX Toolkit version 1.4</b>!<br>

763

This release is going to make a lot of people happy, since we've accomplished quite a bit

764

of work since the 1.2 release!<br>

765

<ul>

766

<li><b>Smooth dragging</b> and <b>side-by-side docking</b> of toolbars and dockable panels

767

has been implemented.</li>

768

<li>A new class <b>FXIconSource</b> facilitates loading and scaling of images or icons,

769

from a large variety of image formats.</li>

770

<li>The file selection widget now support <b>thumbnail previewing</b> mode. If a filename is

771

recognized as an image, and the thumbnail mode is in effect, the image is loaded and

772

scaled down to serve as the thumbnail. </li>

773

<li>Support was added for <b>shaped windows</b>, allowing you to make non-rectangular windows.</li>

774

<li>Thread support was augmented with synchronization primitives and a <b>global application

775

mutex</b> was added to deconflict worker threads and GUI thread.<br>

776

Also, a new class <b>FXGUISignal</b> serves to wake the GUI thread from a worker thread.</li>

777

<li><b>Editable cell</b> support were added for the Table widgets.</li>

778

<li><b>SUN Raster</b> image and <b>Amiga IFF</b> image file formats have been added.</li>

779

<li>Upgraded to <b>XDND release 5</b>, the latest specification of the XDND standard; interoperability

780

with OpenOffice has been accomplished.</li>

781

<li><b>Exception handling</b> for common resource errors was introduced, allowing FOX programs

782

to gracefully handle various runtime errors like running out of window handles and bitmaps and so on.</li>

783

<li>Added alpha channel support for TGA format.</li>

784

<li>New <b>7 Segment Display</b> widget was added. It is arbitrarily scalable.</li>

785

<li><b>Ruler widget</b> was completed. This is a document ruler widget a-la MS-Word.</li>

786

<li>New class added for support of <b>Memory Mapped Files</b>. This sure helps with

787

manipulating large blocks of data in a platform-independent way.</li>

788

<li>New class <b>FXSplashWindow</b> has been added. It uses the new shaped window

789

facility to present an attractive, arbitrarily shaped introduction window for your

790

application.</li>

791

</ul>

792

793

794

795

796

<p>

797

798

February 7 - FOX DEVELOPMENT 1.4.0

799

800

<p>

801

802

<ul>

803

<li>Added thumbnail icon previewing mode to FXFileList, when set in big icon mode.

804

This feature uses the new FXIconSource for the loading and scaling.<br>

805

It is quite fast for loading icons, but a bit tardy for directories with large

806

collections of photographs.</li>

807

808

<li>Changed setIcon API's in the various list widgets. An optional owned flag is

809

now passed. If the old icon was owned by the list item, it is deleted, and

810

replaced by the new icon. If the new icon is set to be owned, it will be

811

deleted when the list item is deleted, or when it in its turn is replaced when a

812

new icon is set. As a special case, resetting the same icon does not

813

delete the icon but just changes the owned flag; this allows the application

814

to "reposses" or "disown" the icon.</li>

815

816

<li>Also added a new class, FXIconSource, which embodies the knowledge

817

of various image file formats. It has three main API's: loading an icon

818

from a file, loading an icon from a reswrapped stream, or loading an icon

819

from an already opened FXStream.<br>

820

These API's are in turn invoked by three other API's, which can load and

821

scale an icon down to a certain size, using either the fast image

822

rescaler or the slower high-quality scaler. <br>

823

These six API's are duplicated for loading images instead of icons.<br>

824

Finally, the core loading API's are virtual so that the FXIconSource may

825

be subclassed to provide additional image format support.</li>

826

827

<li>Split off FXIconDict into its own class, and reorganized it to use the

828

new FXIconSource class. Consequently a set of API's has been added to

829

FXIconDict to set/get the FXIconSource.<br>

830

FXIconDict manages the lifetime of the FXIconSource object it uses; initially,

831

it creates its own icon source.</li>

832

833

<li>Every time I explain the new toolbar system to someone, I say "dock site"

834

when I meant FXToolBarDock. Obviously, the latter is the wrong name.

835

As of today, there is another reason why this name is not ideal and that is

836

that I have added another class, FXDockBar, which is basically a general-

837

purpose FXPacker with docking capabilities. </br>

838

FXToolBar now derives from that, adding just the reorientation capabilities

839

to the FXDockBar's capabilities. <br>

840

So now we have a general purpose packer that can be floated, we need a different-

841

looking handle to move it around, and indeed, that is another class now which

842

is another flavor of FXToolBarGrip called FXDockTitle. This serves as

843

both decorative title as well as a grip for moving the bar. <br>

844

We reserve the toolbar grip for small handle-bars inside FXToolBars.</li>

845

846

<li>FXMenuTitle now pops its FXMenuPane to the side depending on where the

847

FXMenuBar containing the FXMenuTitle is docked. The idea is to prevent

848

obscuring the other FXMenuTitles and to try and make sure the mouse is

849

not over the menu pane when first popped up; the latter is potentially

850

dangerous since the risk exists of accidentally invoking a menu option

851

by releasing, without movement, the mouse button [under normal circumstances

852

pressing and releasing the mouse lets the panel stay up; but if the panel

853

appears right under the cursor, a menu option may be invoked instead].</li>

854

<li>A few more toolbar docking issues; first, toolbars which are stretched

855

should undock only when their default size sticks out, or oscillation will

856

result. Next, new API's have been added to FXToolBarDock which adjust the

857

layout options of the remaining items in the dock when toolbars are undocked

858

or docked.<br>

859

Finally, when releasing the mouse in the toolbar grip, the toolbar was not

860

docking at the same place as it was when the timer expired. This has now

861

been fixed.</li>

862

863

<li>Refactored the code a bit between FXToolBar and FXDockSite. Its FXDockSite's

864

responsibility to know about the interpretation of the layout issues of the

865

toolbar inside of itself; this means FXDockSite needs to be informed when

866

toolbars dock and undock, or are moved around. It falls upon FXToolBar to

867

find which dock should be attempted, and to determine based on heuristic

868

fudge constants when something docks or undocks. We now have a single

869

internal function which decides dock/no dock. While not perfect, it can

870

be counted upon to give the same answer solely based on the relative

871

relationships of toolbar and dock, regardless of whether we're docking

872

or undocking. It is hoped that this prevents oscillation as much as

873

possible.</li>

874

875

<li>Finally, we have a new option in the right-mouse popup menu over

876

FXToolBarGrip which gives the user the ability to flip the orientation

877

of the toolbar without having to dock it.</li>

878

<li>Fixed bug to allow dragging even when no alternate parent has

879

been specified; you should be able to reorganize the layout inside

880

a dock site even if floating is not an option.</li>

881

<li>Hold Control key while dragging toolbars to prevent docking; this

882

allows parking toolbars near edges of the main window where they would

883

otherwise have docked.</li>

884

885

<li>Drag and drop between FOX and <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice</a>

886

works too!<br>

887

OpenOffice appears to be using XDND 5. also. I've managed to drag both text from

888

Adie as well as JPEG image files via PathFinder into OpenOffice; I think I may get

889

used to this!.</li>

890

891

<li>Fixed bug in drawEllipse() on Windows; thanks to Mauro Zecchini

892

for discovering this problem.</li>

893

894

<li>FXFile::search() now expands environment variables (e.g. $HOME) and user names (e.g. ~user)

895

in directories from the search path.</li>

896

897

</ul>

898

899

900

901

<p>

902

903

January 31 - FOX DEVELOPMENT 1.3.26

904

905

<p>

906

907

<ul>

908

<li>Upgraded to <a href="http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/xdnd/">XDND</a> version

909

5 standard. Verified interoperation between KDE and FOX, as well as GTK and FOX.

910

using application/x-color drag. Unfortunately, GTK does not accept color drags

911

from FOX, but FOX does accept color drags from GTK. The problem is GTK, since

912

it doesn't accept color drags from KDE either.<br>

913

XDND version 5 brings a final confirmation in response to endDrag().

914

It is possible that the drop target, in processing the drop, encounters some

915

sort of error. The XDND 5 implementation in FOX allows the drop target to

916

call acceptDrop(), indication which action the target DID manage to

917

perform.<br>

918

For example, when attempting to move a file from one place to another, the

919

drop target may accept a drop but be unable to perform it [e.g. running

920

out of disk space]. Returning DRAG_REJECT will allow the drop target to

921

tell the drag source it was unsuccessful, and that it should remove the

922

original file<br>

923

Note that we used to perform such a thing by trying to obtain TWO DND data's

924

from the source, the real data and NULL data using the "DELETE" atom.</li>

925

<li>FXSettings, doesn't quote values unless leading and trailing spaces

926

or special characters in it.</li>

927

<li>Updated Control Panel with capability to set file bindings; thanks

928

to Sander for this!</li>

929

<li>Minor tweaks to toolbar dragging.</li>

930

</ul>

931

932

933

934

<p>

935

936

January 30 - FOX DEVELOPMENT 1.3.25

937

938

<p>

939

940

<ul>

941

<li>Changed algorithm that determines when a toolbar docks. For a horizontal

942

dock site, the new algorithm docks the toolbar when the upper or lower edge

943

of the bar falls inside the dock (with a slight amount of fudge since dock

944

sites may be collapsed to 0 pixels when there's no bar inside), and when the

945

bar doesn't stick out too much (mostly overlaps with the dock horizontally).</li>

946

<li>Also added some small icons to the toolbar grip docking menu.</li>

947

<li>Implemented workaround for grab-lost problems which happen under X11 when

948

a window which is grabbed is docked or undocked. The workaround appear to

949

really kill the issue dead and the opaque-dragging toolbars work just super

950

now.</li>

951

<li>LAYOUT_DOCK_NEXT and LAYOUT_DOCK_SAME options conflicted with other

952

layout options. One of the two reserved flag bits has now been used.</li>

953

<li>Removed the undock timer. Undocking now happens immediately, but docking

954

is still done with a timer since we shouldn't dock just casually dragging

955

a toolbar across a dock site by accident.</li>

956

<li>Docking back now happens not only when hovering near a dock area, but also when

957

you release the toolbar grip near a dock area.</li>

958

<li>FXMenuTitle now pops its FXMenuPane besides itself instead of below, if the menubar

959

is oriented vertically.</li>

960

<li>Fixed SUN Solaris build issue with FXGUISignal class.</li>

961

</ul>

962

963

964

<p>

965

966

January 28 - FOX DEVELOPMENT 1.3.24

967

968

<p>

969

970

<ul>

971

<li>Reintroduced FXTextCodec's. These were not be part of official 1.4 API, but apparently

972

were being used by the FOX based <a href="http://swtfox.sourceforge.net">SWT Widget Set</a>

973

for the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse Project</a>.

974

Note that FXWString really <em>is</em> permanently gone:- FOX 1.5 will take a different approach

975

to unicode support.</li>

976

<li>Fixed Borland C++ build issues and some Borland C++ specific compiler warnings.</li>

977

<li>Fixed Visual C++ build issues.</li>

978

</ul>

979

980

981

982

<p>

983

984

January 27 - FOX DEVELOPMENT 1.3.23

985

986

<p>

987

988

<ul>

989

<li>Added new class, FXGUISignal, which allows an FXThread to awaken the FOX GUI and

990

cause it to run some callback message handler. Any number of FXGUISignals may be

991

installed.</li>

992

<li>Changed FXToolBar class for docking/floating behaviour against FXToolBarDock.</li>

993

<li>Added new class called FXToolBarDock. FXToolBarDock implements rearranging of FXToolBars

994

inside of it. FXToolBarDock is meant to be placed against the sides of an FXTopWindow

995

where docking of toolbars and menubars is to be allowed. FXToolBarDock arranges

996

FXToolBar in multiple galleys or rows. Each galley can have one or more FXToolBar

997

widgets parked side-by-side.<br>

998

When space runs out, FXToolBarDock adjusts the number of toolbars on each galley

999

by placing the last bar on the galley onto the next galley down until each

1000

galley fits.</li>

1001

<li>Added new API's to FXUndoList and FXCommand to allow merging of undo records.

1002

The undo records can be made mergeable by implementing canMerge() and mergeWith()

1003

API's in your subclass of FXCommand. FXUndoList uses these to merge two

1004

records when adding a new FXCommand to the undo list.</li>

1005

<li>Added before() and after() API's to FXWindow to allow testing of order of

1006

sinbling windows.</li>

1007

<li>Changed reparent() function to have extra argument. The new reparent() API makes

1008

it possible to insert a widget at any location in the widget tree with a single

1009

call. If the widget keeps the same parent, all that happens is a layout recalculation;

1010

otherwise, the widget is reparented using a call to the native window interface.

1011

The old linkBefore() and linkAfter() API's are now obsolete.</li>

1012

<li>Added option MBOX_SAVE_CANCEL_DONTSAVE; patch contributed by Sander.</li>

1013

<li>Augmented FXStream for long file support.</li>

1014

<li>Added own replacement strtoll() and strtoull() functions in case not

1015

available in local C-library.</li>

1016

<li>64-bit FXlong and FXulong datatypes are now ALWAYS available.</li>

1017

<li>Updated FXFile, FXFileList, FXDirList for long file support.</li>

1018

<li>Added FXLongVal, FXULongVal and signed and unsigned long FXStringVal API's

1019

for FXString.</li>

1020

<li>Dropped FXWString and old text codecs; these are obsolete now.</li>

1021

<li>Fixed bug in Windows event processing of WM_MOUSEMOVE. When mouse was grabbed,

1022

coordinates were wrong when cursor moves outside of grabbed window.</li>

1023

<li>Fixed bug in getAppName() and getVendorName() in FXApp and similar

1024

problems in FXRegistry.</li>

1025

<li>Upgraded internals of FXIconList, FXList, and FXHeader widgets to use

1026

FXObjectListOf template class instead of maintaining own array; this saves

1027

some code.</li>

1028

<li>Changed many access function to return const FXString& instead

1029

of FXString. This eliminates generating a string copy.</li>

1030

<li>Fixed FXMutex reserved memory size to be sufficient for

1031

<a href="http://www.ibm.com">IBM PowerPC/AIX</a>.</li>

1032

</ul>

1033

1034

1035

1036

<p>

1037

1038

X-Mas Release - FOX DEVELOPMENT 1.3.22

1039

1040

<p>

1041

1042

<ul>

1043

<li>Completed layout computation for FXDockSite widget.</li>

1044

<li>Fixed highlighting in FXToolBarGrip widget.</li>

1045

<li>Added API's to FXStream: setBigEndian() and isBigEndian(). These force

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the FXStream into a particular byte order. Byte swapping will be enabled or

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disabled depending on the endianness of the platform. The old API isLittleEndian()

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is removed: to determine byte order, just use FOX_BIGENDIAN macro directly.</li>

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<li>Simplify code for FXHorizontalFrame and FXVerticalFrame a little bit.</li>

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</ul>

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December 21 - FOX STABLE 1.2.13

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<p>

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<ul>

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<li>Backported fixes to 1.2 branch.</li>

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</ul>

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December 14 - FOX DEVELOPMENT 1.3.21

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<ul>

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<li>In the FX***Image classes, loadPixels() now can be called even after the image

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has been created already. It'll resize the server-side pixel storage but not yet

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call render(), since further manipulations may be desired prior to render().</li>

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<li>Added new colors to FXApp for selected menu foreground and background.</li>

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<li>Fixed some long-standing issues with FXPopup menu handling code. It works

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better now...</li>

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<li>Added API's like fxcheckTIF(), fxcheckJPG(), etc. These API's read a portion

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of the image file from the stream, determine if the image format is recognized,

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and then rewind the stream back to the same point. Thus, you can successively

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try each image type, create the right FXXXXImage class, and call loadPixels().<br>

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A few of these fxcheckXYZ() API's need some further testing [mostly, due to poorly

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designed image formats where it is hard to determine the correct type easily].</li>

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<li>Fixed issues with reswrap: first, when passing a prefix for the resource name,

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the resource name can start with a digit since the prefix is in front of it.

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Second, the prefix is now also used when using the <b>-r altname</b> option.

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Finally, filenames on windows can have mixed <b>\</b> and <b>/</b> path separators.

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When turning filenames into legal identifiers, we now allow ":" in the name since

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one could use scope-resolution operator in icon name.</li>

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<li>FXFile::absolute() no longerdoes tilde or environment expansion; there were

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cases where this was inappropriate and unexpected. You can call FXFile::expand()

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explicitly where desired.

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<li>FXFileList now shows "." instead of ".." when displaying root of a file system.</li>

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<li>FXFile::simplify didn't handle cases like <a href="http://slashdot.org">"/."</a> to "/", causing trouble with the

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change made to FXFileList; we all knew we had to do <a href="http://slashdot.org">slashdot</a> right ;-).</li>

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<li>FXFileDialog could not select "/" when in Directory selection mode. Adding "." in

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the top directory and simplifying "/." to "/" fixed this problem.</li>

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<li>Changed handling of default color settings; system settings now applied

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only to settings NOT superceded from FOX Registry. Also, added support to

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read a few of the most important color settings from X Defaults database, which

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means FOX displays in colors as set up by your local window manager. </li>

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<li>Updated HTML Syntax patterns from Andy Preston.</li>

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<li>Updated Makefile Syntax patterns.</li>

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<li>Fixed focus navigation code eating key/modifier combinations other than

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the ones its supposed to; thanks to chafar@alcances.net for pointing this out.</li>

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<li>Hmmm, the FLTK people seem to like my <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/fltk/fltk/src/Fl.cxx">timer-handling</a>

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code too ;-)</li>

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<p>

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<ul>

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<li>Fixed problems with FXFileSelector/FXFileDialog; right-mouse popup menu

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functions Move/Copy/Link/Delete were not quite working right when multiple

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files were selected. </li>

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<li>Added overloaded setData() to FXImage which changes shape as well as contents

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of client-side pixel buffer from given pixel array. </li>

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<li>Updated FXDockSite.</li>

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<li>FXFile::getUserDirectory() now uses %USERPROFILE%.</li>

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<li>Added Python and Makefile patterns to Adie.stx syntax coloring file.</li>

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November 24 - FOX DEVELOPMENT 1.3.19

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<p>

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<ul>

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<li>New program, fxdesktop control panel, allows you to set FOX colors and other

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settings interactively. </li>

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<li>The quaternion function arc() now returns the quaternion representing

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the rotation of the two vectors, instead of double the angle of rotation about

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the same axis. </li>

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<li>More new functions for manipulation of quaternions.</li>

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<li>Ascii mode FXRegistry now uses %USERPROFILE% as default location for

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registry subdirectory. This affects few FOX programs since on Windows,

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the normal Windows Registry is used by default.</li>

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<li>Added support for Xft in glUseFXFont(). It now properly generates OpenGL

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display list bitmaps for FreeType fonts.</li>

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<li>Further work in FXFont support for Xft:- now properly fill in properties

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of the font that matched the desired font.</li>

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<li>Made some API's in FXGLViewer virtual upon request from ESI-Group.</li>

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<li>Fixed some HTML highlight pattern for Adie.</li>

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<li>Read/write ascii based registry from %USERPROFILE%/foxrc on Windows;

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this is a more logical choice on Windows that %HOME%/.foxrc, which was the

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old choice. Note, this only affects programs which use the ascii-based

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registry on Windows. Most FOX programs use the Windows Registry and are

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thus not affected by this change.</li>

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<li>Fixed problem with FXMessageBox ID_CLICKED_SKIP and ID_CLICKED_SKIPALL.</li>

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<li>Fixed bug in FXStream usage of FXHash.</li>

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</ul>

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Halloween Release - FOX DEVELOPMENT 1.3.18

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<ul>

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<li>Important change: consolidated reparentItem(), moveItemBefore(), and moveItemAfter()

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in FXFoldingList and FXTreeList into a single new API called moveItem(). This is

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much easier to remember and also allows one to move an item into the right place in

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the tree in a single call.</li>

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<li>Another important change: harmonized and simplified item addition API's in FXTreeList,

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FXFoldingList, and FXTreeListBox. The new API's are simpler to use, and easier to

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remember due to more similar naming to similar API's in the other list widgets.</li>

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<li>Added setHeaders() API's to FXIconList and FXFoldingList. setHeaders() allows

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you to populate the entire header control of the list widget with a single call.</li>

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<li>Fixed slight offset in editable cell text v.s. non-edited cell in FXTable.</li>

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<li>Added new API's to list widgets. The new API's fillItems() can be used

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to populate a list widget with a number of items in one fell swoop. The new

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items are appended to the already existing ones.</li>

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<li>Updated FXSpheref and FXSphered. including one point at a time now produces

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smaller bounding spheres. Also, empty sphere cases are now handled properly.</li>

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<li>Fixed FXTreeListBox. When adding or removing items, the field was not updated

1188

properly.</li>

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October 28, 2004 - FOX DEVELOPMENT 1.3.17

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<li>Added editability to FXTable. You can edit cells in the table. From a

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user's perspective, editing a cell in FXTable is initiated in a number of

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different ways:

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<p>

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<ul><li>Double-click. This will create an input control in the cell and

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allow you to type.</li>

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<li>Hit F2 function key, or RETURN key.</li>

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<li>Start typing any printable character. This works if the input control

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is a text field; other input controls may drop the input.</li>

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<li>Send an ID_START_INPUT message to the table.</li></ul><br>

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The editing ends in one of two ways. If the input is to be discarded,

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you can hit the ESC key. If the input is to be accepted, you can hit

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RETURN or nativage to the next cell using arrows or TAB keys.</li>

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<li>Added API's startInput(), cancelInput(), acceptInput() to FXTable.

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These API's introduce sub-classable input editing for table items to the

1215

FXTable class.</li>

1216

<li>Added setEditable() and isEditable() API's to FXTable.</li>

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<li>getColumnX() and getRowY() in FXTable now return proper <em>scrolled</em>

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x and y positions of the start of a column (row). </li>

1219

<li>Removed setColumnX() and setRowY() API's. Functionality of these API's

1220

is more intelligibly supported by calling setColumnWidth() and setColumnHeight().</li>

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<li>Added new API's to FXTableItem. The getControlFor() creates and populates a

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editor control to be used to edit the item. It is used by FXTable to determine

1223

what type of control to use to edit a cell. By making this virtual, you can

1224

make custom FXTableItems which are edited by a control of your choice.<br>

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The FXTableItem setFromControl() API is used to populate the item from the

1226

control. Its function is to read the control and extract the data into

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the item. In typical usage, it is envisioned that getControlFor() and

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setFromControl() are both reimplemented for subclassed FXTableItems.</li>

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<li>Added more extensive documentation for FXRegistry.</li>

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<li>Added center-justification mode to FXTextField. In addition to right- and

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left-justified text in the text field, you can now also have centered text.

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Centered text larger than the text field can scroll both ways.

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For backward compatibility reasons, the centered mode is only enabled when

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explicitly passing JUSTIFY_CENTER_X in the setJustify() API [otherwise, all

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text fields would end up being centered!].</li>

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<li>Added API changeFocus() to FXWindow; it lets a parent widget know when

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the focus child is changed.</li>

1238

<li>Added new API changeFocus() to FXWindow. It can be used by a composite

1239

widget to know when the focus changes to another child.</li>

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<li>Added _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS for older SUN Solaris thread support.</li>

1241

<li>Added some API's in FXXYZStream classes.</li>

1242

<li>Defaulted the normal FOX font to "helvetica,90" normally and "Sans,90"

1243

when XFT is enabled.</li>

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<li>Removed deprecated timer and chore API's from FXApp.</li>

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