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@@ -25,6 +25,19 @@ information about a particular change.
- [MR#1742] Added new multimedia keys to the Qt::Key enum.
+ - QMatrix4x4, QGenericMatrix, QVector2D, QVector3D, QVector4D, QQuaternion
+ * New classes to support 3D applications.
+
+ - QGLShaderProgram, QGLShader
+ * New classes for using shader programs written in the GL Shading Language.
+
+ - Boxes demo ported to use new 3D math and shader program classes.
+
+ - OpenVG graphics system added.
+
+ - Add 800x480 screen mode to qvfb configuration dialog.
+
+ - Improved support for input methods in graphics view.
Third party components
----------------------
@@ -50,13 +63,14 @@ QtCore
- QObject
* [259514] fixed a possible dead-lock in the destructor
-
+
- QVariant
* Many optimisations
* Added QVariant::toFloat() and QVariant::toReal()
* Added QVariant(float) constructor
* qvariant_cast<QVariant> and qVariantFromValue<QVariant> are now
identify functions
+ * Added support for math3d types.
- Qt::escape
* now escape the double quote (&quot;)
@@ -72,19 +86,25 @@ QtCore
* Added the possibility to pass the flag Qt::UniqueConnection to QObject::connect
* Fixed race conditions that occured when moving object to threads while connecting
+ - QPluginLoader
+ * Improved performance of plugin loading by reusing the plugin cache instead of loading
+ it every time.
+
- QTextStream
* [221316] Fixed crash on large input.
* Improved reading utf8/utf16/utf32 data by correctly skipping the
ByteOrderMark when reading data by one character at a time.
QtGui
+- QGraphicsAnchorLayout
+ * Support for expanding size policy has been removed. (The Qt 4.6 Beta had support for it).
- QCompleter
* [246056] Fixed a possible assertion when setting the completer prefix
-
+
- QFontDialog
* [256466] fixed the dialog not always returning the selected style.
-
+
- QGraphicsItem
* Fixed bug and improved accuracy of QGraphicsItem::childrenBoundingRect().
* Many optimizations.
@@ -96,6 +116,10 @@ QtGui
* Introduced activation support.
* Introduced QGraphicsItem::stackBefore()
* Cached items are now always invalidated when update() is called.
+ * Added input hints.
+
+- QGraphicsLayout
+ * Introduced QGraphicsLayout::addChildLayoutItem()
- QGraphicsObject
* New class; inherits QGraphicsItem and adds notification signals and property declarations.
@@ -127,6 +151,8 @@ QtGui
- QGraphicsWidget
* Now inherits from QGraphicsObject instead
+ * Interactive resizing of top level windows now respects height-for-width constraints.
+ * Reduced memory footprint.
- QHeaderView
* [208320] Make sure the sort indicator s taken into account for the size hint
@@ -138,13 +164,16 @@ QtGui
- QMenuBar
* [260873] Fix mouse interaction while undocking a widget from the main window
* dock areas don't get a splitter if their dock widgets are not resizable
-
+
- QColumnView
* [246999] Fixed view not updating when the model is changed dynamically
-
+
+ - QLineEdit
+ * [248948] Clear selection when redoing a delete operation.
+
- QListView
* [243335] Fixed the visualRect to return correct values when the widget is not yet show
-
+
- QTreeView
* [234930] Be able to use :has-children and :has-sibillings in a stylesheet
* [252616] Set QStyleOptionViewItemV4::OnlyOne flag when painting spanning columns
@@ -164,7 +193,7 @@ QtGui
- QTableWidget
* [234641] Fixed takeItem to cause the view to be updated.
-
+
- QTabBar
* [196326] Fixed having a stylesheet on a QTabBar resulted in some tab names
to be slightly clipped.
@@ -181,10 +210,14 @@ QtGui
- QSpinBox
* [259226] Fixed setting a stylesheet on a QSpinBox to change the arrow possition
+ * [255051] Fixed sizeHint update bug.
- QStandardItemModel
* [255652] Fixed crash while using takeRow with a QSortFilterProxyModel
+ - QToolTip
+ * Fixed a bug where tooltips were not shown in popups. (Windows only).
+
- QGraphicsItem
* Added a new set of properties to set a transformation on a item
@@ -202,6 +235,51 @@ QtGui
* [254563] Fixed a crash when setting a focus in a widget tree that
contains invisible widgets
+ - QFontEngineQPF
+ * Make alphaMapForGlyph() generate the correct color table for
+ Indexed8 and Mono glyph images. Fixed the "all glyphs are white
+ boxes" problem in OpenGL1 paint engine.
+
+ - QPaintDevice
+ * New qt_paint_device_metric() function to replace the friend
+ declarations for window surface classes that need to access metric().
+
+ - QPushButton
+ * [255581] Fixed sizeHint recalculation bug.
+
+ - QApplication
+ * [QTBUG-739] Removed internal widgets from QApplication::topLevelWidgets().
+
+QtOpenGL
+
+ - QGLFormat
+ * Increase unit test coverage and fix some long-standing issues.
+ * Improve performance of code that tests QGLFormat options.
+ * operator==() now tests for equality on all fields.
+
+ - QGLColormap
+ * setEntry() was inserting entries instead of replacing them.
+ * Clarified documentation for isEmpty().
+
+ - QGLFramebufferObject
+ * Add support for the ARB_framebuffer_object, OES_framebuffer_object,
+ and OES_packed_depth_stencil extensions.
+ * Unbind the texture after it is initialized.
+ * Don't destroy the texture target on cleanup if one wasn't created.
+
+ - QGLFramebufferObjectFormat
+ * New class for controlling fbo options.
+
+ - Improvements to context sharing and object cleanup logic.
+
+ - QGLContext
+ * Fix RGB565 mode in bindTexture().
+ * Map mipmaps work on OpenGL/ES 2.0 systems in bindTexture().
+ * Improve performance of QGLContext::currentContext().
+
+ - QGLGradientCache
+ * [249919] Clean up the gradient cache in the right context.
+
****************************************************************************
* Platform Specific Changes *
****************************************************************************
@@ -209,6 +287,29 @@ QtGui
- Added community supported Qt ports for QNX and VxWorks. See platform
notes in the Qt documentation for details.
+Qt for Linux/X11
+----------------
+
+ - KDE Integration: Improved the integration into KDE desktop (loading of KDE
+ palette, usage of KColorDialog and KFileDialog) using the GuiPlatformPlugin
+
+ - Fixed pasting the clipboard content to non-Qt application on X11 when the
+ requested format is image/ppm. Patch by Ritt.K
+
+ - On X11 Qt now supports the _NET_WM_SYNC protocol.
+
+ - On X11 Qt now supports the SAVE_TARGET protocol that allows to keep
+ clipboard contents if the application that owns the clipboards exits
+
+ - [QTBUG-4652] On X11 clipboard content can be properly retrieved even when an
+ application asks the unsupported target. This fixes copying and pasting data
+ when using Synergy.
+ - [MR#797] Fixed a crash when using QX11EmbedContainer/Widget on x86_64.
+ - [MR#1111] Emit workAreaResized when _NET_WORKAREA is changed on X11.
+
+Qt for Windows
+--------------
+
- Significant external contribution from Milan Burda for planned removal
of (non-unicode) Windows 9x/ME support.
@@ -219,45 +320,40 @@ QtGui
QRegion. The native handle is for reading out only. Any GDI calls
made on the HRGN handle will not affect the QRegion.
- - [259221] QFileInfo::symLinkTarget() now supports NTFS symbolic links
- thanks to Konstantin Ritt (merge request 1217).
-
- The reading code of QLocalSocket on Windows has been rewritten to improve
reading performance.
- - On Windows CE the link time code geration has been disabled by default to
- be consistent with win32-msvc200x.
-
- - Added QMAKE_LIBS_OPENGL_ES1, QMAKE_LIBS_OPENGL_ES1CL and
- QMAKE_LIBS_OPENGL_ES2 qmake variables for specifying OpenGL ES
- specific libraries.
-
- - KDE Integration: Improved the integration into KDE desktop (loading of KDE
- palette, usage of KColorDialog and KFileDialog) using the GuiPlatformPlugin
-
- - Fixed pasting the clipboard content to non-Qt application on X11 when the
- requested format is image/ppm. Patch by Ritt.K
-
- On Windows when a file cannot be accessed (stat()ed), we are now restoring
the error mode to the original value.
- - On X11 Qt now supports the _NET_WM_SYNC protocol.
+ - [259221] QFileInfo::symLinkTarget() now supports NTFS symbolic links
+ thanks to Konstantin Ritt (merge request 1217).
+ - [251554] Fixed openUrl("mailto:") with Thunderbird on Windows.
+ - [254501] QDestopServices now supports cyrillic file names.
+ - Fixed an issue which prevents moving fixed size windows using titlebar.
+ - [258087] Fixed an issue on Vista which returns incorrect file paths when using
+ QFileDialog::getOpenFileNames()
+ - [253763] Fixed a focus issue when using out-of-process ActiveQt controls.
+ - [255912] Mouse move events will not be delivered to a blocked widget.
+ - [225588] Enabled IME reconversion support.
- - On X11 Qt now supports the SAVE_TARGET protocol that allows to keep
- clipboard contents if the application that owns the clipboards exits
+ - Phonon on Windows
+ * Now much more reliable when reading a file through a QIODevice.
+ * If Video Mixing Renderer 9 is not available, falls back to software
+ rendering.
+ * Fixed a flicker issue when switching source with a transition time of 0
- - [QTBUG-4652] On X11 clipboard content can be properly retrieved even when an
- application asks the unsupported target. This fixes copying and pasting data
- when using Synergy.
+Qt for Mac OS X
+---------------
+ - Add support for GetURL events on Mac OS X
+ - [123740] Fixed an issue with dead keys on Mac (cocoa) on French keyboard layout.
+ - [252088] Drag Leave events will be delivered correctly on Cocoa.
+ - [257661] Cocoa now uses the correct line ending for clipboard plain text.
+ - [258438] Enabled Emacs style keyboard shortcuts.
+ - [258173] Fixed an issue which caused "whatsthis" pointer to flicked on Cocoa.
- [QTBUG-4418] Fixed maximizing and restoring a window on Mac.
- - [MR#797] Fixed a crash when using QX11EmbedContainer/Widget on x86_64.
-
- - [MR#1111] Emit workAreaResized when _NET_WORKAREA is changed on X11.
-
- - Add support for GetURL events on Mac OS X
-
General changes on Mac OS X:
- Mac OS X version support: Support for 10.3(Panther) has been dropped, support for
10.6(Snow Leopard) has been added.
@@ -272,12 +368,50 @@ General changes on Mac OS X:
Use the -arch flags to override.
- Building for ppc64 is no longer supported by the gcc tool chain.
- Building for ppc is still supported.
-
- - Phonon on Windows
- * Now much more reliable when reading a file through a QIODevice.
- * If Video Mixing Renderer 9 is not available, falls back to software
- rendering.
- * Fixed a flicker issue when switching source with a transition time of 0
+
+Qt for Embedded Linux
+---------------------
+
+- Added QMAKE_LIBS_OPENGL_ES1, QMAKE_LIBS_OPENGL_ES1CL and
+ QMAKE_LIBS_OPENGL_ES2 qmake variables for specifying OpenGL ES
+ specific libraries.
+
+- Compilation fixes for OpenGL/ES 1.0 and OpenGL/ES 1.1 Common Lite.
+
+- EGL and OpenGL/ES
+ * Protect the use of version-specific EGL symbols with #ifdef's.
+ * Make sure an EGL context is current when resolving GL extensions.
+ * Introduce "lazyDoneCurrent" for optimizing context switching in
+ paint engines.
+ * Separate EGLSurface from QEglContext so that the same context can
+ be used with multiple surfaces.
+ * Move common functions from system-specific files to qgl_egl.cpp.
+ * Fix a memory leak of EGLSurface's in QGLContext.
+ * Fix detection of pbuffers on OpenGL/ES systems.
+ * EGL_SAMPLES was being set to the wrong value for multisampled surfaces.
+
+- PowerVR
+ * Make the code better at detecting MBX vs SGX header files.
+ * Fix 32-bit screen support - some code was still assuming 16-bit.
+ * Stop GL window surfaces double-flushing their contents.
+ * Remove surface holder, which never worked all that well.
+ * Implement screen rotations.
+
+- Remove obsolete OpenGL/ES screen drivers: hybrid, ahigl.
+
+Qt for Windows CE
+-----------------
+ - On Windows CE the link time code generation has been disabled by default to
+ be consistent with win32-msvc200x.
+ - The default button size has been reduced in the Windows mobile style.
+ - [QTBUG-3613] QWizard issues have been fixed on Windows mobile.
+ - [254673] Restoring minimized widgets fixed for Windows mobile and
+ Windows CE.
+ - [255242] Seeking within large files (bigger than 0x80000000 bytes) fixed
+ on Windows CE.
+ - [257352] When configuring Qt for Windows CE, configure points the user to
+ setcepaths, when its done.
+ - [259850] Added a makespec template for Windows CE 6.
****************************************************************************
* Tools *
@@ -302,6 +436,9 @@ General changes on Mac OS X:
- [128859] Fixed code generation of QLabel's wordWrap property.
+ - lupdate
+ - Fixed a bug in the java source code parser.
+
****************************************************************************
* DirectFB *
****************************************************************************
@@ -450,7 +587,7 @@ General changes on Mac OS X:
- On Mac OS X, QDesktopServices::storageLocation(DataLocation) now includes
QCoreApplication::organizationName() and QCoreApplication::applicationName()
if those are set. This matches the behavior on the other platforms.
-
+
- The Animation Framework
* currentTime() now returns the complete current time including previous loops
* currentLoopTime() returns the time inside the current loop
@@ -461,3 +598,6 @@ General changes on Mac OS X:
* QAnimationGroup::takeAnimationAt() has been renames to takeAnimation()
* QSequentialAnimationGroup::insertPauseAt() has been renames to insertPause()
+- Refactoring in OpenGL examples to improve portability and utilize the
+ Animation framework for animation. The hellogl and overpainting examples
+ now compile on OpenGL/ES 1.1. Also common code is factored.