Re: [Gnumed-devel] Mac OS X: displaying frames problem

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Friday 04 June 2004 06:02, Jim Busser wrote:
> On Jun 3, 2004, at 8:02 AM, Dominique Buenzli wrote:
> > So what can we do ? Wait another version of the wxPython port ?
>
> Are the problems from Mac versions of  wxWindows (now wxWidgets),
> wxPython, or both?
>
> I checked the following sites and noted:
>
> http://www.wxwidgets.org/
>
> > May 31st, 2004: wxWidgets 2.5.2 has been released. You can download it
> > from the simplified download page, here. This is a development
> > snapshot. Amongst other improvements, sizers are working properly
> > again in 2.5.2, and wxMac has come on leaps and bounds.
>
> http://www.wxpython.org/
>
> >     Finally!  wxPython 2.5.1 is released!
> >
> > http://www.wxpython.org/recentchanges.php
> >     2.5.1.5
> >     There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual
> > Installer package now only installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
> > extension modules and Python pacakges, and also the command-line tool
> > scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
> > for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
> > image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
> > want to put them.
> >
> >     wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!
> >
> >     To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
> > I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
> > that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
> > it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
> > simple one instead. By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
> > only.) When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
> > menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
> > it.
> >
> >     AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
> > MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.
> >
> >     2.4.1.2
> >     Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.
>
> http://www.wxpython.org/download.php#binaries (available:
> wxPythonOSX-2.5.1.5-panther-Py2.3.dmg)
>
> > NOTE: Just after the source code snapshot for this release was taken a
> > number of far reaching fundamental changes for the wxMac port of
> > wxWidgets were checked in to CVS. Consequently, although most things
> > work very well there are a few known issues with this wxPythonOSX
> > release that were not able to be fixed because those other big changes
> > were in progress. A new release of wxPython will be made when issues
> > resulting from those big changes have been resolved.

As far as I can tell there has been put a lot of effort into the wxMAc port 
since the 2.4.2 realease. If I remember correctly wxWindows/wxpython 2.5 
introduced quite some changes.  We need to switch over sometime anyway but 
2.5 is not yet included inmajor distribution so this imposes extra work on 
people.

Check out the migration guide at http://www.wxpython.org/migrationguide.php
Please raise your voice on to when to switch over. My limited understanding 
tells me that the wxGTK / wxMac port in 2.5 should be closer to each other 
than in 2.4.

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