[wxPython-users] ANN: wxPython 2.8.4.2

[roee shlomo]

Hi Robin,
Thanks for the new release!

I got reports about bad background color on OS X.
It seems like the background color of panels on Mac is white.
Here is a quote from the report:

> The status bar is for example pale white instead of grey, the Toggle Spin
> has white background. And while the area of the Toolbars is grey, their
> wider range (beyond the actual range of the buttons left and/or right) is
> white again.
>

Note that this problem appeared in the 2.7 series as well, but got fixed
later (I believe the first 2.8 release was good).
On the other side it seems like 2.8.4.2 is a bit optimized compared to
2.8.4.0 on OS X.
Hope you can fix it soon :-)

Thanks,
Roee.

On 8/9/07, Robin Dunn <robin at alldunn.com> wrote:

> Announcing
> ----------
>
> The 2.8.4.2 release of wxPython is now available for download at
> http://wxpython.org/download.php.  This release includes a number of
> bug fixes, updates to some contribs and other improvements.
>
> Source code is available, as well as binaries for Python 2.3, 2.4 and
> 2.5, for Windows and Mac, as well some pacakges for various Linux
> distributions.  A summary of changes is listed below and also at
> http://wxpython.org/recentchanges.php.
>
>
> 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 GTK2, and Mac OS X 10.3+, in most
> cases the native widgets are used on each platform to provide a 100%
> native look and feel for the application.
>
>
> Changes in 2.8.4.2
> ------------------
>
> Added some SWIG magic that allows wx C++ lists to be exposed to
> wxPython as sequence-like wrappers around the real list, instead of
> making a Python list that is a copy of the real list as was done
> before.  These sequence-like objects support indexing, iteration,
> containment tests ("obj in seq") and index(obj), but not anything that
> would modify the sequence.  If you need to have a real list object
> like before then you can pass the sequence to Python's list() function
> to convert it.  Current functions that are affected by this are
> wx.Window.GetChildren, wx.GetTopLevelWindows, wx.Sizer.GetChildren,
> and wx.Menu.GetMenuItems.  Care should be taken to be sure that you
> don't try to use the sequence after the C++ object the list belongs to
> has been destroyed.
>
> Updated wrappers for the RichTextCtrl classes that were already
> wrapped, and added support for loading rich xml files and saving as
> HTML or XML.
>
> Added wxRoses sample from Ric Werme.
>
> Added better wrappers for wx.OutputStream and wxPython now deals with
> them similarly to how it handles wx.InputStreams.  Specifically, any
> Python file-like object can be passed where a wx.OutputStream is
> expected and the data will be written to the file object
> appropriately.
>
> Added some patches from Billy B. that improve the pySketch sample.
>
> Added patch from Chris Mellon that gives PyShell a custom context
> menu that is better integrated with the shell environment.
>
> There are now new build scripts for making the Universal binaries and
> Installer for OS X.  There is no longer any need for separate builds
> for each OS version, all builds are now Universal and work on both
> Panther and Tiger, and on PPC and i386.
>
> On the Linux side the debian and ubuntu packages will support multiple
> versions of Python if the Debian/Ubuntu release is setup to support
> more than one version.  To check which versions you can expect to get
> you can run "pyversions -s".  Also there is a new package available
> that contains a debug version of the wxPython extension modules, that
> can be used with the python-dbg package.  In addition the RPMs are now
> being built for Fedora Core 6 and Fedora Core 7.
>
>
> --
> Robin Dunn
> Software Craftsman
> http://wxPython.org  Java give you jitters?  Relax with wxPython!
>
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