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diff --git a/dist/changes-4.6.0 b/dist/changes-4.6.0 index 440a82c..5321ed1 100644 --- a/dist/changes-4.6.0 +++ b/dist/changes-4.6.0 @@ -23,6 +23,24 @@ information about a particular change. * The minimum required version of the D-Bus reference library is now 0.93. + - [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. + +Third party components +---------------------- + + - Updated FreeType to version 2.3.9 **************************************************************************** * Library * @@ -30,18 +48,231 @@ information about a particular change. * [245219] Added QXmlQuery::setFocus(const QString &focus); + - QGraphicsBlurEffect + * Since the 4.6 beta Qt::RenderHint has been moved to + QGraphicsBlurEffect::BlurHint. + + * Input contexts are not activated for disabled widgets anymore. + + * [250555] Data copied from Mozilla Firefox can now be pasted correctly to + a Qt application. + +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 (") + - QScopedPointer + * New pointer class for cleaning up objects when leaving the + current scope + + - QFile + * Make QFile::resize() more robust when operating on buffered files + + - QObject + * 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. + * Introduced QGraphicsItem::ItemHasNoContents + * Introduced QGraphicsItem::ItemSendsGeometryChanges (see Behavioral Changes) + * Introduced QGraphicsItem::focusProxy(), focus proxy support + * Introduced QGraphicsItem::ItemNegativeZStacksBehindParent + * Introduced QGraphicsItem::ItemIsPanel, light-weight window support + * Introduced activation support. + * Introduced QGraphicsItem::stackBefore() + * Cached items are now always invalidated when update() is called. + +- QGraphicsLayout + * Introduced QGraphicsLayout::addChildLayoutItem() + + - QGraphicsObject + * New class; inherits QGraphicsItem and adds notification signals and property declarations. + + - QGraphicsProxyWidget + * [251407] Fixed window flag handling. Now QGraphicsProxyWidget's flags win. + * Fix Qt::ClickFocus policy + + - QGraphicsScene + * [245317] Fixes to mouse grabbing behavior. + * Fixed delivery of double-click events after explicit grab and then ungrab. + * Rewrote the internal rendering to use a recursive instead of an iterative approach. + * Many optimizations. + * Ensure hover enter events are delivered when an item is pressed. + * Introduced activation support. + * Fixed bugs in initial focus support. + + - QGraphicsTextItem + * Now inherits from QGraphicsObject instead + + - QGraphicsTransform + * New class; eases animation of transformations for QGraphicsItem. + + - QGraphicsView + * Fix mapToScene(QRect) to avoid extra unnecessary adjustments. + * Many optimizations. + * Introduced QGraphicsView::isTransformed() + * [QTBUG-4151] Items with parent that sets ItemClipsChildrenToShape were sometimes invisible. + + - QGraphicsWidget + * Now inherits from QGraphicsObject instead + * Interactive resizing of top level windows now respects height-for-width constraints. + + - QHeaderView + * [208320] Make sure the sort indicator s taken into account for the size hint + * [255574] Make sure the sizehint for the section depend on visible sections + + - QMainWindow + * [226060] Adding actions to a toolbar would always make the next toolbar move + + - 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 + + - 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 + * [245654] Fixed expandAll when deleting and recreating a mode for the tree + * [239271] Fixed missing update when adding a row when the first column is hidden + * [258225] Fixed scrollTo with center and bottom + + - QTreeWidget + * [253109] Shows the widget when calling setItemWidget + + - QTableView + * [191545] Selections work more similarly to well-known spreadsheets + * [234926] Fixed sorting after changing QTableView header + * [244651] [245327] [250193] [QTBUG-5062] Spans get plenty of love with + speed-up, support for rows/columns insertion/removal, and better keyboard + navigation + + - 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. + * [241383] Added ability to style the close tab button with style sheet + + - QComboBox + * [220195] Fixed keyboard search when current index is -1 + + - QPixmap + * Optimized width(), height(), isNull() and depth(). + + - QRegion + * Minor optimizations. + + - QSpinBox + * [259226] Fixed setting a stylesheet on a QSpinBox to change the arrow possition + + - 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 + + - QMenu + * [252610] Fixed position of the shortcut text while setting a stylesheet on menu items + + - QSortFilterProxyModel + * [251296] Fixed bugs in which filtered items could not be filtered. + + - QSplitter + * [206494] Added ability to style pressed slided with stylesheet + + - QWidget + * [201649] Added QWidget::previousInFocusChain + * [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(). + +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 * **************************************************************************** + - Added community supported Qt ports for QNX and VxWorks. See platform + notes in the Qt documentation for details. + - Significant external contribution from Milan Burda for planned removal of (non-unicode) Windows 9x/ME support. @@ -61,6 +292,106 @@ information about a particular change. - 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. + + - 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. + + - 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. + + - 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. + + - [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. + - The Cocoa port now supports static linking. + - The Cocoa port now supports the Qt3Support library (with the exception of Q3FileDialog) + to ease the transition from Carbon to Cocoa. + - The Cocoa binary packages are now Intel only (universal i386 and x86_64). + - Snow Leopard notes: + - Gcc 4.2 is used by default. Configure with -platform macx-g++40 to select 4.0. + - Using the 10.4u SDK requires gcc 4.0. + - Configuring for the Cocoa port (-cocoa) produces 64-bit binaries by default. + 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 + +**************************************************************************** +* Tools * +**************************************************************************** + +- Designer + + - [233683] Promoted Widgets are now stored correctly in scratchpad. + - [249823] Added search functionality to the resource browser. + - [254282] Enabled the use of promoted widgets in form templates. + - [254824] Made it possible to override the createAction()/createWidget() + functions of QUiLoader. + - [256332] Enabled deleting all pages of a QTabWidget or QStackedWidget. + - [259238] Fixed menubar/menu editing in right-to-left mode. + - [259918] Fixed setting of object names for container pages not to use + localized strings. + - [260658] Fixed saving of alpha values set in the palette editor. + - It is now possible to further specify the kind of custom widget + string properties using XML tags. + +- uic3 + + - [128859] Fixed code generation of QLabel's wordWrap property. + + - lupdate + - Fixed a bug in the java source code parser. + **************************************************************************** * DirectFB * **************************************************************************** @@ -206,3 +537,20 @@ information about a particular change. function setFloatingPointPrecision(). Set Qt_4_5 as the version of the QDataStream to get the behavior of previous versions. + - 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 + * stateChanged signal sends the new state as first parameter and old state as + the second + * QAnimationGroup::clearAnimations() has been renames to clear() + * QAnimationGroup::insertAnimationAt() has been renames to insertAnimation() + * 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. |