The wxWidgets team is in the early stages of preparing for a 2.8.10 release, but I already had a set of 2.8.9.2 release candidate files that I made a few days ago. Since it's still possible that there could be delays in the 2.8.10 release I thought that it would be nice to go ahead and release the 2.8.9.2 binaries. So...
Announcing ---------- The 2.8.9.2 release of wxPython is now available for download at http://wxpython.org/download.php. This release adds the wx.lib.agw package, adds an event watcher to the widget inspection tool, and fixes a bunch of bugs. 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[1], for Windows and Mac, as well some packages for various Linux distributions. [1] If installing the Python 2.6 version of wxPython on 64-bit XP or Vista then please read the README presented by the installer for instructions on how to enable the themed controls. (If anybody has a better solution for this please let Robin know.) 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 2.8.9.2 ------------------ Added the wx.lib.agw package, which contiains most of the widgets from http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/main/freeware.html written by Andrea Gavana. Andrea's widgets that were already in wx.lib were also moved to the wx.lib.agw package, with a small stub module left in wx.lib. As part of this addition the demo framework was given the ability to load demo modules from a sub-folder of the demo directory, to make it easier to maintain collections of demo samples as a group. Added the wx.PyPickerBase class which can be used to derive new picker classes in Python. Used it to implement a color picker for Mac that uses a wx.BitmapButton instead of a normal wx.Button. This makes the color picker look and behave lots better on Mac than before. You can now pass the handler function to the Unbind method. If it is given then Unbind will only disconenct the event handler that uses the same handler function, so if there are multiple bindings for the same event type you'll now be able to selectively unbind specific instances. Added a new tool to the Widget Inspection Tool that allows you to watch the events passing through a widget. It can also be used independently, see wx.lib.eventwatcher. -- Robin Dunn Software Craftsman http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
