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authorQt by Nokia <qt-info@nokia.com>2011-04-27 12:05:43 +0200
committeraxis <qt-info@nokia.com>2011-04-27 12:05:43 +0200
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+Qt 3.3.5 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward
+compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 3.3.4, Qt 3.3.3, Qt 3.3.2,
+Qt 3.3.1 and Qt 3.3.0.
+
+****************************************************************************
+* General *
+****************************************************************************
+
+Platforms
+---------
+
+- Qt now supports Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
+
+Compilers
+---------
+
+- Added support for VS 2005
+- Added support for GCC 4
+
+Windows Installer
+-----------------
+
+- The environment variables no longer contain invalid paths.
+- The user is warned if QTDIR is not set and the evaluation edition is
+ already installed, to avoid conflicts between the two packages.
+- A bug was fixed where a '\0' was appended to the end of a path.
+- Fixed the dependencies for image formats and styles.
+
+Qt Designer
+-----------
+
+- Fixed a problem with long string literals on certain Visual Studio
+ C++ compilers.
+- UIC now uses the include hints from the .ui file when generating
+ source files.
+- The "paste" action is now enabled and disabled correctly.
+- QWidgetFactory::supportsWidget() now returns true for QSplitter.
+- Parse files with more than one '.' in the file name correctly.
+- The project name is now displayed correctly also when the project is
+ created in a root directory.
+- Fixed a bug where Windows end-of-line terminators would be included
+ in string literals, which broke translation.
+- Several crashes were fixed related to cutting/copying/pasting menu
+ items.
+- Fixed some problems with designer generating corrupted pro files.
+- A crash was fixed for when designer loads a pro file with the same
+ file listed more than once.
+- The action editor is now closed when there is no main window form.
+- Stability fixes
+
+Qt Linguist
+-----------
+
+- lupdate now understands strings longer than 16384 characters.
+- Fixed escaping bugs for string that contain both ampersands and
+ double quotes.
+
+Qt Assistant
+------------
+
+- When printing, assistant now always uses the Active color group.
+- Fixed a rendering bug for paragraphs that start with a line break.
+- Support for setting the documentation root path, allowing
+ documentation files to be moved.
+- When opening a link in a new window, assistant will now properly
+ scroll to the correct anchor after the window has been shown.
+- Fixed full text search for documents not listed in the 'ref'
+ attribute of the <section> tag in the current .adp file.
+- The state of the forward/backward buttons now work properly when the
+ tabs are changed.
+
+****************************************************************************
+* Library *
+****************************************************************************
+
+General Fixes
+-------------
+
+Added security patches for zlib: CAN-2005-1849, CAN-2005-2096
+The FreeType library was upgraded from version 2.0.9 to 2.1.9
+
+- Build system
+ Improved build keys for gcc 4 compilers, so plugins no longer
+ need rebuilding after upgrading gcc to a new patch release.
+
+- QCanvas
+ Fixed wrong text scaling and cut-off text.
+ Fixed drawing with a brush when double buffering is enabled.
+
+- QCommonStyle
+ Fixed the appearance of QSlider after setBackgroundOrigin has
+ been called.
+ Fixed an overflow in calculating the handle position for
+ QScrollBar.
+
+- QCString
+ Fixed a crash in qUncompress() if the resulting QByteArray was
+ too large to fit in memory.
+ Fixed potential security problems by using vsnprintf() instead
+ of the less secure vsprintf().
+
+- QDataStream
+ Fixed a data corruption bug when using stream version Qt_3_1 and using
+ operator<<(qint64).
+
+- QDateTime
+ Fixed QDateTime::secsTo() when crossing daylight savings hours
+ boundaries.
+
+- QDockWindow
+ Undocked windows now remember their size also if the user
+ changes it.
+
+- QDom
+ The default constructor for QDocDocument now creates an empty
+ document that can be used to create elements.
+ A warning is now displayed when trying to construct or save an
+ invalid document.
+ Characters that are not allowed in XML are now escaped
+ properly when saving.
+
+- QFileDialog
+ Shortcuts now show the icons of what they point to.
+ Entry sorting is now locale-aware, as opposed to sorting based
+ on Unicode order.
+ You can now select files by pressing 'enter' when using
+ QFileDialog::getOpenFileNames().
+ Fixed a missing repaint in contents preview after selecting a
+ file, then a directory, then the same file again.
+ dirPath() no longer chops off the last directory in a path.
+
+- QGVector
+ Fixed a bug that caused a memory leak and data corruption if
+ resize() failed.
+
+- QHeader
+ The header text is now rendered correctly next to the icon in
+ reverse layout mode.
+
+- QImage
+ Fixed comparison of images with alpha data, but with the alpha
+ channel disabled.
+
+- QKeySequence
+ Key sequences that ended with a ',' now work properly.
+
+- QLineEdit
+ Fixed the behavior of the delete key on the keypad.
+ Fixed support for transparent line edits.
+ Fixed a crash when opening the context menu in a QTextEdit
+ subclass that returns 0 for createPopupMenu().
+
+- QListBox
+ Fixed a crash when removing the current item while selecting
+ items with a rubberband.
+
+- QListView
+ Fixed the behavior of the Home and End keys when QListView
+ contains disabled and hidden items.
+ Fixed a problem with the QListView::...Clicked() signals were
+ emitted also when the root decorated section was not in the
+ left-most column.
+ HTML control characters in QListView's tool tip text are now
+ escaped properly.
+ sortChildren() now also sorts children of items with no
+ siblings.
+ Fixed a missing redraw after removing columns.
+ contentsWidth() now returns the correct value after
+ setContentsWidth() has been called.
+ Fixed a crash after a sequence of deleting and selecting
+ items.
+ Fixed the size of headers with multi-line text.
+ Fixed a lock-up and possible crash caused by an internal state
+ restore on controllers with no children.
+ Fixed keyboard navigation when jumping to entries by pressing
+ the key for the first character in the text of an item.
+
+- QLocale
+ Fixed support for NaN, which failed on certain compilers.
+ Passing Q_LLONG to toString() now properly includes the group
+ symbols.
+ Fixed locale detection when locale environment variables are
+ not set.
+ Added workarounds for compiler optimization bugs when parsing
+ doubles.
+
+- QLocalFS
+ Fixed a crash when canceling a QUrlOperator transfer before
+ completion.
+
+- QMenuData
+ Fixed a crash when closing an MDI application while the menu
+ bar has Alt-focus.
+
+- QMessageBox
+ Message boxes now work correctly in right-to-left mode.
+
+- QPaintDevice
+ Fixed drawing errors when using bitBlt() on a printer.
+
+- QPainter
+ Fixed drawing of rectangles with a negative (or 0) width.
+
+- QPopupMenu
+ The height of new columns is now initialized properly when
+ menu items are shown in multiple columns.
+
+- QProcess
+ Close socket connections properly when a
+ process is created after creating the socket connection.
+
+- QPSPrinter
+ Generate PS font names correctly.
+
+- QPushButton
+ Fixed a crash caused by deleting the button while the popup
+ menu is shown.
+
+- QRichText
+ Tab stops are now adjusted correctly when printing in high
+ resolution mode.
+ Reduced the number of memory allocations when deleting large
+ blocks of text.
+ Fixed parsing of hexadecimal HTML entities
+ Fixed a bug where the font changed after calling setText()
+ repeatedly.
+
+- QScriptEngine
+ Fixed an issue with shaping of Hebrew text, which lead to
+ layout problems in QTextLayout.
+ Fixed rendering of Hebrew text with punctuation.
+ Fixed bugs in Gurmukhi shaping.
+
+- QScrollView
+ Fixed the size hint when scrollbars are set to be permanently
+ on.
+ Fixed a drawing error seen on certain graphics drivers when a
+ scroll view spans multiple screens.
+ Fixed a bug where wheel events' horizontal/vertical status
+ were not forwarded to viewportWheelEvent().
+ Fixed a crash when mouse wheel events were sent to a scroll
+ view with disabled scroll bars.
+
+- QSettings
+ Fixed a bug when comparing keys with common prefixes.
+
+- QSGIStyle
+ Fixed the size of QComboBox.
+
+- QSizeGrip
+ Fixed a bug that caused the window to move when resizing to
+ the minimum size using the size grip.
+
+- QSocketDevice
+ Improved error reporting when the connection is unexpectedly
+ closed.
+ Fixed a bug where the socket would be closed if 0 was passed
+ as maxlen to readBlock().
+
+- QString
+ Fixed a lock-up in QString::section().
+ Let replace() behave as documented when the index is larger
+ than the length of the string.
+
+- QTable
+ Fixed positioning of QComboTableItems that span several rows.
+
+- QTextCodec
+ Fixed occasional crash in fromUnicode().
+ Fixed Big5 support to comply with the standards.
+
+- QTextEdit
+ Fixed bug in undo/redo history when input methods are used.
+ Fixed a crash caused by inserting text with an input method
+ during a focus change.
+ Fixed the behavior of the delete key on the keypad.
+ Fixed setMaxLogLines() when there are already too many lines.
+ Fixed crash when clearing a QTextEdit when the IME is active.
+ Fixed crash when the text edit is deleted while dragging text.
+
+- QTextLayout
+ Fixed layout of lines that are too long and do not contain a
+ possible break point.
+
+- QTimeEdit
+ Fixed several issues with stepUp() and stepDown().
+
+- QToolButton
+ Fixed a crash when assigning a tooltip to a tool button which
+ does not have QMainWindow as an ancestor.
+
+- QToolTip
+ Fixed an occasional crash.
+
+- QTranslator
+ Fixed a bug when calling messages() before tr() when using
+ compressed .qm files.
+
+- QUrlOperator
+ Fixed a crash when accessing invalid paths on an FTP server
+ using QFileDialog.
+ Fixed a bug where the source would be removed if the source
+ and destination were the same.
+
+- QVariant
+ Fixed a memory leak in clear().
+
+- QWidget
+ Fixed excessive flicker when reparenting a widget that has
+ tool windows.
+
+- QWorkspace
+ Fixed flickering when switching between maximized windows.
+ Fixed a lock-up when modal dialogs were created with
+ QWorkspace as parent.
+ Fixed a bug where modeless dialogs with QWorkspace as parent
+ would be drawn with no title bar.
+
+- SQL, DB2 driver
+ Compile fixes.
+ Fixed a bug where QSqlCursor::insert() would fail to insert
+ two blob fields at the same time.
+
+- SQL, MySQL driver
+ Fixed a crash when using empty database names.
+
+- SQL, Oracle driver
+ Fixed truncation of numeric data types to 22 digits.
+ Fixed UTF-8 support by ensuring that there is enough space to
+ store the text.
+
+- SQL, ODBC driver
+ Fixed problems with sorting and comparing strings larger than
+ 8192 characters.
+
+- SQl, PostgreSQL driver
+ Temporary tables are now only visible for the connection that
+ created them.
+
+- SQL, TDS driver
+ Fixed problems with compiling the plugin with later versions
+ of the TDS library.
+
+- SVG support
+ Fixed support for SVG viewbox.
+ Added basic support for stroke-dasharray.
+
+
+Platform-Specific Issues
+------------------------
+
+Windows:
+
+- ActiveQt
+ Unrelated types are no longer converted.
+ The control container is now only reset if the CLSID changes.
+ Fixed a bug where QAxObject::clear() did not reset the
+ metaobject when it was cached.
+ Fixed a memory leak.
+ Fixed a bug that caused flicker when navigating away from a
+ page embedding a control.
+ The VARIANT out-parameters in signals now map to "QVariant &"
+ and not "const QVariant &".
+ Signal parameters of type "bool" are marshalled to the bool
+ slot also when the control sends an integer parameter.
+
+- Drag & drop
+ Fixed a bug with sending single-color pixmaps.
+ Fixed a crash caused by reading a drag object after it has
+ been deleted (before the drop event).
+ Dragged pixmaps are now cleaned up before drawn to avoid
+ problems with broken alpha values and resetting masked pixels.
+
+- QApplication
+ Fixed a lockup caused by showing a dialog while resizing a
+ window.
+ QWidget::grabKeyboard() now also grabs the menu button.
+ Fixed a bug where mouse events were sent to the wrong widget
+ after calling QEventLoop::processEvents() with
+ ExcludeUserInput.
+ Windows Server 2003 can now also use the Windows XP style.
+ Fixed a memory leak in QEventLoop.
+
+- QColor
+ Fixed failed initialization of the Qt colors (e.g., Qt::red) when
+ using the MinGW compiler.
+
+- QFile
+ Fixed a bug where a read error was not handled properly.
+
+- QFileInfo
+ permission() now uses the correct file name on Windows 9x.
+
+- QFontDataBase
+ Added support for scalable fonts.
+
+- QFontEngine
+ Fixed a problem with symbol fonts.
+ Fixed support for user defined characters.
+
+- QLibrary
+ Fixed the directory separators.
+ Fixed some library loading errors.
+
+- QLocale
+ The locale() function now returns the correct ISO name instead
+ of a number.
+
+- QNPWidget (NPAPI)
+ Fixed a bug where the widget was not clipped properly by the
+ browser.
+
+- QPainter
+ Fixed a bug where QPainter failed to fill ellipses of size
+ 2x2.
+ Fixed a potential lock-up after failed GDI allocations.
+
+- QPrinter
+ Rich text tables are now printed correctly when the table
+ spans pages.
+ Fixed text printing errors on page 2 and out caused by the
+ background mode being reset to OPAQUE.
+
+- QProcess
+ The directory separators for the current working directory are
+ now converted properly, so that a UNC path can be used on
+ Windows.
+
+- QTranslator
+ Fixed an issue with isReadable() on NTFS.
+
+- QWindowsXPStyle
+ XP style now works when compiled as a plugin.
+ Fixed menu bar placement.
+ Fixed a bug in setting the background color of QTabWidget.
+ Fixed the position of the size grip in large QSizeGrip
+ widgets.
+ QGroupBox now uses the correct colors.
+
+- QWorkspace
+ Fixed bug where hidden windows would be shown after restoring
+ from maximized mode.
+
+- qmake
+ The Makefile generator now only searches for the latest
+ version of the Qt library, as opposed to searching all
+ libraries.
+ Dependency checking for pre-compiled headers were fixed.
+ Fixed support for listing .pro files in SUBDIRS in subdir .pro
+ files.
+ Fixed support for multiple -L and -I entries in QMAKE_LIBS.
+
+Mac:
+
+- Build system
+ When using Xcode, the optimization level is set to 0 in debug
+ mode.
+ Added support for Xcode 2.1 and up.
+ Fixed copying of target files when DESTDIR is set.
+
+- Drag & drop
+ Fixed a crash when deleting the drag object before dropping.
+
+- QApplication
+ The default font is now only set if the user has not set one.
+ Fixed a problem where popup menus would not go away after
+ releasing the mouse button outside the popup.
+ Added support for dual axis mouse wheels.
+ Fixed a bug in tablet identification.
+ Added support for tablet erasers.
+ Fixed a deadlock in postEvent() when there was contention for
+ a wakeup.
+ Fixed a crash when switching displays at the same time as
+ QApplication is destroyed.
+ Stability fixes.
+
+- QColorDialog
+ Fixed modality support.
+
+- QFileDialog
+ Let the file dialog remember the previous directory.
+ Fixed keyboard navigation when jumping to entries using the
+ first letter of a file name.
+ Fixed a memory leak.
+
+- QFontDatabase
+ Fall back to the "Geneva" font, which is guaranteed to be
+ available, instead of "Helvetica".
+
+- QFontEngine
+ Fixed a memory leak.
+ Fixed rendering of glyphs that modify previous glyphs,
+ including Indic text.
+
+- QMacStyle
+ Title bars are now shown as deactivated when the window is
+ deactivated.
+ Fixed a bug where buttons in button groups inside a container
+ would look like they were pressed.
+ Fixed a crash caused by drawing onto a non-pixmap background.
+ Fixed the width of QComboBox.
+ Improved drawing of size grips.
+ Improved drawing of sliders, and made QSlider slightly wider
+ by default.
+
+- QMenuBar
+ Fixed a lockup caused by menu items ending with an '&'.
+ Menu items with disabled popups are now also disabled.
+
+- QMessageBox
+ The resize handle is now shown.
+
+- QPainter
+ Fixed double transformation of ellipses with a transformed
+ width or height of 1.
+
+- QPixmap
+ Fixed a crash when loading a cursor from an embedded image.
+ The color depth is now set properly when converting a QBitmap.
+
+- QPrinter
+ Fixed a crash when using bitBlt() to copy a QBitmap onto a
+ printer.
+
+- QProcess
+ Fixed support for launching bundles.
+
+- QPushButton
+ Icons are now drawn properly.
+
+- QTextBrowser
+ Fixed a bug where a text browser popup triggered by a
+ hyperlink would pop up again when the user clicks inside the
+ first popup.
+
+- QToolButton
+ Fixed a painting problem when the button was pressed.
+
+- QWidget
+ Menubar popups no longer steal focus from QTextEdit.
+ Fixed collapsing of windows with no title bar decorations.
+ Several window activation bugs have been fixed.
+ Fixed a bug where modal dialogs would be modal to its own
+ children.
+ Fixed tablet support for multiple screens.
+ Fixed a memory leak.
+
+X11:
+
+- Build system
+ Removed aliasing/redefinitions of the 'which' command to fix
+ failures in the configure script on certain Unix systems.
+ Added some missing flags for the yacc tool on 64-bit Linux.
+ The -fn application command line option, which selects the
+ default application font, works again.
+ Fixed copying of target files when DESTDIR is set.
+
+- Drag and drop
+ Fixed a crash in the dragging application when the drop target
+ crashes.
+ Fixed a bug in finding the widget under the cursor while
+ dragging.
+ Some problems were fixed with the internal timestamp in the
+ drop event.
+
+- OpenGL
+ Fixed colors when rendering using glColor() onto an 8 bit
+ pixmap.
+
+- QApplication
+ Support the F11 and F12 keys on Sun keyboards.
+
+- QCanvasView
+ Support multiple shared views of a single canvas on multiple X11
+ screens.
+
+- QClipboard
+ Fixed a rare crash related to cut & paste with the Motif
+ extension.
+
+- QFontDatabase
+ Fixed a bug where QFontInfo would return an empty family and
+ point size after trying to select a font that was not
+ installed on the system.
+
+- QFontEngine
+ Fixed a bug where scaling italic fonts would sometimes cut
+ overhangs.
+
+- QInputContext
+ Fixed a bug that led to a corrupted display in QLineEdit and
+ QTextEdit when using Japanese input methods with very long
+ input selections.
+
+- QPainter
+ Fixed a crash when setting a pen on an inactive painter.
+
+- QPrinter
+ Fixed printing on Tru64 by removing the -o argument to the lp
+ command.
+
+- QScriptEngine
+ Added support for Khmer fonts.
+ Fixed shaping of Telugu text.
+ Fixed a crash when scaling Japanese XLFD fonts by a factor of
+ 1000.
+
+Embedded:
+
+- QApplication
+ Fixed a memory leak.
+
+- VNC driver
+ Fixed a memory leak.
+
+- QWidget
+ Fixed a potential crash when reparenting widgets.