Hi Robin,
Thanks for the new release!
I got reports about bad background color on OS X.
It seems like the background color of panels on Mac is white.
Here is a quote from the report:
The status bar is for example pale white instead of grey, the Toggle Spin has white background. And while the area of the Toolbars is grey, their wider range (beyond the actual range of the buttons left and/or right) is white again.
Note that this problem appeared in the 2.7 series as well, but got fixed later (I believe the first 2.8 release was good).
On the other side it seems like 2.8.4.2 is a bit optimized compared to 2.8.4.0 on OS X.
Hope you can fix it soon 
Thanks,
Roee.
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On 8/9/07, Robin Dunn robin@alldunn.com wrote:
Announcing
The 2.8.4.2 release of wxPython is now available for download at
http://wxpython.org/download.php. This release includes a number of
bug fixes, updates to some contribs and other improvements.Source code is available, as well as binaries for Python 2.3, 2.4 and
2.5, for Windows and Mac, as well some pacakges for various Linux
distributions. A summary of changes is listed below and also at
http://wxpython.org/recentchanges.php
.What is wxPython?
wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language. It
allows Python programmers to create programs with a robust, highly
functional graphical user interface, simply and easily. It isimplemented as a Python extension module that wraps the GUI components
of the popular wxWidgets cross platform library, which is written in
C++.wxPython is a cross-platform toolkit. This means that the same program
will usually run on multiple platforms without modifications.
Currently supported platforms are 32-bit Microsoft Windows, most Linux
or other Unix-like systems using GTK2, and Mac OS X 10.3+, in most
cases the native widgets are used on each platform to provide a 100%native look and feel for the application.
Changes in 2.8.4.2
Added some SWIG magic that allows wx C++ lists to be exposed to
wxPython as sequence-like wrappers around the real list, instead ofmaking a Python list that is a copy of the real list as was done
before. These sequence-like objects support indexing, iteration,
containment tests (“obj in seq”) and index(obj), but not anything thatwould modify the sequence. If you need to have a real list object
like before then you can pass the sequence to Python’s list() function
to convert it. Current functions that are affected by this are
wx.Window.GetChildren
, wx.GetTopLevelWindows, wx.Sizer.GetChildren,
and wx.Menu.GetMenuItems. Care should be taken to be sure that you
don’t try to use the sequence after the C++ object the list belongs to
has been destroyed.Updated wrappers for the RichTextCtrl classes that were already
wrapped, and added support for loading rich xml files and saving as
HTML or XML.Added wxRoses sample from Ric Werme.
Added better wrappers for wx.OutputStream and wxPython now deals with
them similarly to how it handles wx.InputStreams. Specifically, any
Python file-like object can be passed where a wx.OutputStream is
expected and the data will be written to the file objectappropriately.
Added some patches from Billy B. that improve the pySketch sample.
Added patch from Chris Mellon that gives PyShell a custom context
menu that is better integrated with the shell environment.There are now new build scripts for making the Universal binaries and
Installer for OS X. There is no longer any need for separate builds
for each OS version, all builds are now Universal and work on bothPanther and Tiger, and on PPC and i386.
On the Linux side the debian and ubuntu packages will support multiple
versions of Python if the Debian/Ubuntu release is setup to support
more than one version. To check which versions you can expect to getyou can run “pyversions -s”. Also there is a new package available
that contains a debug version of the wxPython extension modules, that
can be used with the python-dbg package. In addition the RPMs are nowbeing built for Fedora Core 6 and Fedora Core 7.
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