Development: To be Backported

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Overview

This article outlines a list of commits which should be backported from CVS HEAD to the latest stable branch (currently WX_2_8_BRANCH) once they're more fully tested.

Note that the revision column in the table indicates the new revision of the file, i.e. the diff to be applied to the stable branch is between the previous revision and this one. E.g. this is the revision to be used with svn merge -c option.

Please update the status of items on this page after backporting them.

Current Stable (2.8)

Done	Description	File	Revision
No	Handle mouse capture lost events in wxGrid	include/wx/generic/grid.h src/generic/grid.cpp	1.162 1.418
No	Enhancements to wxFont in wxX11/Unicode build (see this patch)	src/x11/font.cpp	1.31 -> 1.33
Yes	Set text colours in wxWindow::CreateWidgetStyle() to allow changing colour of text in single line wxTextCtrl	src/gtk/window.cpp	1.685
No	Fix repaint after wxVScrolledWindow::SetLineCount() (see this patch)	src/generic/vscroll.cpp	1.31
No	Don't enable the window when its parent is disabled, just remember to do it later	src/msw/window.cpp	1.734
No	Don't overwrite the old style when setting the new one in wxGTK wxTextCtrl (see this patch)	src/gtk/textctrl.cpp	1.279
No	Added a system option to override transparency detection	src/gtk/toplevel.cpp docs/latex/wx/sysopt.tex	1.146 1.18
No	Pass the text to EVT_TEXT generated by wxSpinCtrl in wxGTK	src/gtk/spinctrl.cpp docs/changes.txt	1.52 1.1059
No	Reset both normal and temporary default item pointers in wxTLW when the default child is destroyed	include/wx/toplevel.h src/common/wincmn.cpp src/common/toplvcmn.cpp	1.86 1.298 1.54
No	Don't delete and insert string in wxListBox::SetString() in wxGTK, just update it in place	src/gtk/listbox.cpp	1.202
No	Added wx-config --optional-libs	configure.in wx-config.in	47287
No	Use wx/msw/winundef.h from wx/defs.h (see this patch)	include/wx/defs.h	48116
No	Relinquish the mouse capture when the modal dialog is shown in wxGTK (see this patch)	src/gtk/{dialog,msgdlg,window}.cpp include/wx/gtk/window.h	48121
No	Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren() (see patch)	src/common/treebase.cpp src/generic/treectlg.cpp	49262
No	Implement VT_ARRAY and VT_BYREF handling in wxConvertOleToVariant (see patch)	src/msw/ole/automtn.cpp	50899
No	Don't crash if an event handler is destroyed while processing a pending event (see patch discussion)	include/wx/event.h src/common/event.cpp src/common/appbase.cpp	51021 and 51022
No	Move selection anchor to the focused item in wxMSW wxListCtrl	src/msw/listctrl.cpp	51661

Old Stable (2.6)

Here you can find the same table for the old stable WX_2_6_BRANCH.

Done	Description	File	Revision
Yes	Don't lose focus when switching pages of a hidden notebook (patch 1299005)	src/msw/notebook.cpp docs/changes.txt	1.161 1.744
Yes	Return GSOCK_TIMEOUT correctly from socket code (patch 1303554)	src/msw/gsocket.cpp src/unix/gsocket.cpp	1.19 1.52
Yes	Many bug fixes (especially MSW) in wxLaunchDefaultBrowser()	include/wx/msw/private.h src/common/utilscmn.cpp	1.148 1.147
No	wx presets for bakefile should be backported entirely to 2.6 after testing	build/bakefiles/wxpresets/presets/*
No	Fix Motif checkbox for Motif 1.2	src/motif/checkbox.cpp	1.41
Yes	Use SetTextColour in ::Create in wxListCtrl on MSW to fix GetTextColour always returning black	src/msw/listctrl.cpp	1.238
No	wxSTAY_ON_TOP runtime changing for wxGTK	src/gtk/toplevel.cpp	1.90
Yes	wxMiniFrame close button focus ring suppressing	src/gtk/minifram.cpp	1.43
No	Warnings fixes in VC5 DLL build	src/generic/listctrl.cpp	1.393
Yes	Compilation fix for VC6 with wxUSE_DISPLAY==1	src/msw/display.cpp	1.19
No	Fix wxCSConv("UTF-8") on Windows 2000 SP3 or older	src/common/strconv.cpp	1.175 1.176
No	Better input data checks in wxSound under Unix	src/unix/unix.cpp	1.17
No	Fixed GetBitmap() to respect the "param" argument if !wxUSE_FILESYSTEM	src/xrc/xmlres.cpp	1.80
Yes	Translate tips which appear inside _() in wxFileTipProvider	src/generic/tipdlg.cpp	1.42
Yes	Avoid redefinitions of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE with VC8	include/wx/defs.h	1.537
Yes	Fixed width computation for italics fonts	src/msw/dc.cpp	1.203
No	Handle alpha channel in wxImage::Mirror() and GetSubImage() (patch 1469817)	src/common/image.cpp	1.213
No	Use wxDC font in GetTextExtent() in wxGTK	src/gtk/dcclient.cpp	1.218
No	wxXmlDocument and co documentation	docs/latex/wx/xml*.tex	??
No	Mnemonic fixes in wxGTK	Patch #1448178	??
No	Make wxArrayString::Sort() really MT-safe	src/common/string.cpp	1.268
Yes	Don't set the WM_CLASS of toplevels	src/gtk/toplevel.cpp	1.115
Yes	Infinite loop in wxConsoleAppTraits::AlwaysYield() (patch 1501682)	src/msw/basemsw.cpp	1.5
No	Add wxFD_PREVIEW (in wxABI_VERSION check)	include/wx/filedlg.h docs/latex/wx/filedlg.tex src/gtk/filedlg.cpp	1.47 1.24 1.78
Yes	Don't send duplicate focus events in wxMSW wxSpinCtrl	src/msw/spinctrl.cpp	1.61
No	Make wxGetKeyState() work for non-modifier keys; corrected some key mappings (Patch #1521490)	src/unix/utilsx11.cpp	1.36
No	Many serious wxStackWalker fixes for amd64	src/unix/dlunix.cpp	1.13 -> 1.15
No	Disable wxGrid's "edge"-detection for lines that cannot be moved, fixing bug #548106	src/generic/grid.cpp	1.388
Yes	Fix infinite loop in IsDialogMessage() under Win2k when pressing Alt-X on notebook tabs	src/msw/window.cpp	1.719
No	wxDbTable::ClearMemberVar() didn't clear SQL_C_DATE/TIME values (patch #1541829)	src/common/dbtable.cpp	1.113
Yes	wxSemaphore::Post() didn't return wxSEMA_OVERFLOW (patch #1557642)	src/msw/thread.cpp	1.104
No	wxGTK: Tab stops and left indentation for wxTextCtrl (patch 1518114)	src/gtk/textctrl.cpp docs/changes.txt	1.264 1.936
No	Memory leak in wxGetTempFileName()	src/common/filefn.cpp	1.274 -> 1.277
No	Bug in wxFileConfig::RenameGroup() (bug 705022)	src/common/fileconf.cpp	1.160
No	Fix fatal freeze in GTK dnd code	src/gtk/window.cpp src/gtk/dnd.cpp src/gtk1/window.cpp src/gtk1/dnd.cpp	1.677 -> 1.679 1.114 -> 1.116 1.585 -> 1.587 1.107 -> 1.109
No	wxGTK: Fix for wxWindow::GetClientSize() reporting sizes including borders. BP: MR reports this as fixed, but I can't find the commit at the moment.	?	?