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authorGunnar Sletta <gunnar@trolltech.com>2009-07-30 11:55:17 (GMT)
committerGunnar Sletta <gunnar@trolltech.com>2009-07-30 11:57:36 (GMT)
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Squashed commit of the following: commit fcf7e8cab339d0cf9f3f2a9756d7754c54c4d934 Author: Gunnar Sletta <gunnar@trolltech.com> Date: Thu Jul 30 13:15:13 2009 +0200 note in the changes file... commit 2c9c3880215988e6609c290a8e738b228736e601 Author: Gunnar Sletta <gunnar@trolltech.com> Date: Thu Jul 30 12:51:42 2009 +0200 Don't leak native window HRGN handles commit 6bb30d2075dd1d71a8a600d25f413a38af7f2f2c Author: Gunnar Sletta <gunnar@trolltech.com> Date: Thu Jul 30 11:09:22 2009 +0200 Moved qregion_wince.cpp -> qregion_win.cpp, platforms are identical now commit 173fcc5baec73a198167985c6f777987e6015a71 Author: Gunnar Sletta <gunnar@trolltech.com> Date: Thu Jul 30 09:42:06 2009 +0200 win32 calls on QRegion.handle() is no longer supported, use from HRGN commit d7ddcce4ba29b70ed81f85274208b388a2bb9d4d Author: Gunnar Sletta <gunnar@trolltech.com> Date: Thu Jul 30 09:41:37 2009 +0200 Added convenience function to convert from HRGN to QRegion commit 2fc53ac3d59a9c42bb4154fff7557610092b7946 Author: Gunnar Sletta <gunnar@trolltech.com> Date: Wed Jul 29 09:28:10 2009 +0200 Kill qregion_win.cpp and use the unix code instead
Diffstat (limited to 'dist')
-rw-r--r--dist/changes-4.6.067
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/dist/changes-4.6.0 b/dist/changes-4.6.0
index 383c6b7..7a6decf 100644
--- a/dist/changes-4.6.0
+++ b/dist/changes-4.6.0
@@ -34,9 +34,15 @@ information about a particular change.
- Significant external contribution from Milan Burda for planned removal
of (non-unicode) Windows 9x/ME support.
+ - QRegion is no longer a GDI object by default. This means it is no
+ longer subjuect to gui-thread only nor does it potentially impact
+ the 10.000 GDI object limit per process. By explicitly calling
+ .handle() a GDI object will be created and memory managed by
+ QRegion. The native handle is for reading out only. Any GDI calls
+ made on the HRGN handle will not affect the QRegion.
****************************************************************************
-* Important Behavior Changes *
+* Important Behavior Changes *
****************************************************************************
- The experimental Direct3D paint engine has been removed. The reason for
@@ -71,33 +77,32 @@ information about a particular change.
QGraphicsItem::ItemSendsGeometryChanges (which is enabled by default by
QGraphicsWidget and QGraphicsProxyWidget).
-- QDesktopWidget on X11 no longer emits the resized(int) signal when screens
- are added or removed. This was not done on other platforms. Use the
- screenCountChanged signal instead
-
-- QUrl's parser is more strict when for hostnames in URLs. QUrl now
- enforces STD 3 rules:
-
- * each individual hostname section (between dots) must be at most
- 63 ASCII characters in length;
-
- * only letters, digits, and the hyphen character are allowed in the
- ASCII range; letters outside the ASCII range follow the normal
- IDN rules
-
- That means QUrl no longer accepts some URLs that were invalid
- before, but weren't interpreted as such.
-
-- The Unix configure-time check for STL is stricter now in Qt
- 4.6.0. This means some legacy STL implementations may fail to pass
- the test and, therefore, Qt will automatically disable STL support.
-
- This is a binary-compatible change: existing code will continue to
- work without being recompiled. However, it affects the source code,
- since some STL-compatibility API will not be enabled.
-
- Platforms affected by this change:
- * solaris-cc-* with the default (Cstd) C++ STL library
- recommendation: use -library=stlport4
- See Sun Studio's documentation for the effects of this option
-
+ - QDesktopWidget on X11 no longer emits the resized(int) signal when screens
+ are added or removed. This was not done on other platforms. Use the
+ screenCountChanged signal instead
+
+ - QUrl's parser is more strict when for hostnames in URLs. QUrl now
+ enforces STD 3 rules:
+
+ * each individual hostname section (between dots) must be at most
+ 63 ASCII characters in length;
+
+ * only letters, digits, and the hyphen character are allowed in the
+ ASCII range; letters outside the ASCII range follow the normal
+ IDN rules
+
+ That means QUrl no longer accepts some URLs that were invalid
+ before, but weren't interpreted as such.
+
+ - The Unix configure-time check for STL is stricter now in Qt
+ 4.6.0. This means some legacy STL implementations may fail to pass
+ the test and, therefore, Qt will automatically disable STL support.
+
+ This is a binary-compatible change: existing code will continue to
+ work without being recompiled. However, it affects the source code,
+ since some STL-compatibility API will not be enabled.
+
+ Platforms affected by this change:
+ * solaris-cc-* with the default (Cstd) C++ STL library
+ recommendation: use -library=stlport4
+ See Sun Studio's documentation for the effects of this option