2.5.4 release planned?

Annius Groenink wrote:

>
> I was wondering if a 2.5.4 wxpython release is planned?
> A while ago I had a problem with the background colours on Panels and
> ScrollWindows and Robin said 2.5.4 would fix that.
>
> I am running on Windows XP and can't permit myself to get into compiling
> and developing (not sure I *want* to get to know Windows better than I
> do now :), so I was hoping there would be a self-contained release...

Peter Damoc wrote:

try one of the Release Candidates

http://starship.python.net/crew/robind/wxPython/preview/2.5.4.1rc4

Thanks for this, Peter. I did not know that this site existed.

For the record, I downloaded wxPython-src-2.5.4.1rc4, and compiled it on FC3
with Python 2.4. Everything works perfectly (so far), both GTK1 and GTK2.
The segfaults I was getting before have disappeared, and my problem with
grid text being invisible while editing has also been fixed - hooray.

Many thanks to Robin and the team.

Frank Millman

bare in mind that this is a Release Candidate... anyway... the entire 2.5 branch is considered by some "development" or "unstable".... from my personal experience with wxpython on WinXP... almost all the releases that came from wxpython labs are equally stable....

kamikaze programmers that like to ride the wave of "latest and greatest"... could join the devel mailing list... posts of previews and release candidates are rather frequent there.

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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:10:16 +0200, Frank Millman <frank@chagford.com> wrote:

Annius Groenink wrote:

>
> I was wondering if a 2.5.4 wxpython release is planned?
> A while ago I had a problem with the background colours on Panels and
> ScrollWindows and Robin said 2.5.4 would fix that.
>
> I am running on Windows XP and can't permit myself to get into compiling
> and developing (not sure I *want* to get to know Windows better than I
> do now :), so I was hoping there would be a self-contained release...

Peter Damoc wrote:

try one of the Release Candidates

http://starship.python.net/crew/robind/wxPython/preview/2.5.4.1rc4

Thanks for this, Peter. I did not know that this site existed.

--
Peter Damoc
Warrior Of The Light

For the record, I downloaded wxPython-src-2.5.4.1rc4, and compiled it on
FC3
with Python 2.4. Everything works perfectly (so far), both GTK1 and GTK2.
The segfaults I was getting before have disappeared, and my problem with
grid text being invisible while editing has also been fixed - hooray.

Many thanks to Robin and the team.

Frank Millman

Have you notice that, starting with wx-2.5.4, excerpt from
ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub/2.5.4/changes-2.5.4.txt

wxGTK:

- Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
  now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
  if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
  code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
  and if you have the libgnomeprint installed the printing system will use
it at runtime. It's not require at compilation time.

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With this we can have a better print preview support on Linux.
Try the Demo: More Windows/Controls -> TablePrint

See if it looks better, if not, my advice is to install the libgnomeprint.

Ricardo

>> http://starship.python.net/crew/robind/wxPython/preview/2.5.4.1rc4
>
> Thanks for this, Peter. I did not know that this site existed.

bare in mind that this is a Release Candidate... anyway... the entire 2.5
branch is considered by some "development" or "unstable".... from my
personal experience with wxpython on WinXP... almost all the releases that
came from wxpython labs are equally stable....

Thanks!

Annius.

Something I noticed about RC4 is that there is that there is now virtualy no flickering on resizing of windows - something that has allways annoyed me about wxWidgets. Kudos to Robin and the other wx developers!

Will McGugan

Ricardo Pedroso wrote:

For the record, I downloaded wxPython-src-2.5.4.1rc4, and compiled it on
FC3
with Python 2.4. Everything works perfectly (so far), both GTK1 and GTK2.
The segfaults I was getting before have disappeared, and my problem with
grid text being invisible while editing has also been fixed - hooray.

Many thanks to Robin and the team.

Frank Millman

Have you notice that, starting with wx-2.5.4, excerpt from
ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub/2.5.4/changes-2.5.4.txt

wxGTK:

- Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
  now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
  if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
  code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
  and if you have the libgnomeprint installed the printing system will use
it at runtime. It's not require at compilation time.

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With this we can have a better print preview support on Linux.
Try the Demo: More Windows/Controls -> TablePrint

See if it looks better, if not, my advice is to install the libgnomeprint.

Please note that this requires very recent versions of Gnome and libgnomeprint. It won't even build on my main development machine, so I can't vouch for it until I can update some things here.

But even without the libgnomeprint there have been some nice changes. The pango based printing in wxGTK2 has been removed and it instead uses the older but more stable postscript printing functionality, the gnome print setup and other dialogs are used, etc.

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Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!