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diff --git a/dist/changes-4.6.0 b/dist/changes-4.6.0 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2ebdc7ccef --- /dev/null +++ b/dist/changes-4.6.0 @@ -0,0 +1,1176 @@ +Qt 4.6 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes +over the 4.5.x series. For more details, refer to the online documentation +included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online: + + http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.6 + +The Qt version 4.6 series is binary compatible with the 4.5.x series. +Applications compiled for 4.5 will continue to run with 4.6. + +Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers +corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker, the (now obsolete) Task +Tracker, or the Merge Request queue of the public source repository. + +Qt Bug Tracker: http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com +Task Tracker: http://qt.nokia.com/developer/task-tracker +Merge Request: http://qt.gitorious.org + +**************************************************************************** +* General * +**************************************************************************** + +New features +------------ + + - QState, QStateMachine + * New classes for state machine framework added to QtCore. + + - QAbstractAnimation + * New animation framework added to QtCore + + - QTouchEvent + * New class for handling multitouch events added to QtGui + + - QGesture, QGestureRecognizer + * New gesture framework added to QtGui + + - 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. + + - QGraphicsEffect + * New classes for applying graphics effects to graphics items and widgets. + + - QWebElement + * New class for DOM access added to QtWebKit + + - QAudioInput, QAudioOutput + * New audio input and output classes. + + - QAbstractVideoSurface, QVideoFrame + * New abstract video output classes. + + - OpenVG graphics system added. + + - Added 800x480 screen mode to qvfb configuration dialog. + + - Improved support for input methods in graphics view. + + - [MR#1742] Added new multimedia keys to the Qt::Key enum. + + - Boxes demo ported to use new 3D math and shader program classes. + + - QtTest now supports outputting XUnit XML documents, for integrating + with existing continuous integration systems. This is enabled by + running the test program with the -xunitxml option. + + - QtDBus + * The minimum required version of the D-Bus reference library is + now 0.93. + * Support for reading and writing of custom property types added. + * Support for getting return arguments in remote method invocation + via QMetaMethod::invokeMethod. + + - The QtScript module is now based on the 3rdparty JavaScriptCore library. It + is only available under the LGPL or a compatible license. + +Optimizations +------------- + + - Optimized rendering strategy in QGraphicsView + * See list of Important Behavior Changes below + + - Improved delivery of posted events on Windows + + +**************************************************************************** +* Library * +**************************************************************************** + +QtCore +------ + - QAbstractItemModel + * [MR#972] Added API to move items + * [MR#1072] Added function beginResetModel() / endResetModel() + + + - QByteArray + * New overloads for QByteArray::insert() and QByteArray::prepend(). + * [MR#1286] Added value_type typedef for STL compatibility + + - QEventDispatcherGlib (internal class) + * Fix a regression introduced in 4.5.3 that would cause timers to not + be delivered. + + - QEventDispatcherUNIX (internal class) + * Improve detection of monotonic clock support to include + non-POSIX.1-2001 compliant systems. + * [250681] Fix time change detection on UNIX systems without monotonic + timers. + + - QEventDispatcherWin32 (internal class) + * Changed the threshold for using multimedia timers to 20ms (was 10ms). + * Changed the way Qt's posted events are sent by the event + dispatcher. They are now driven on top of a Windows message + instead of an explicit call in processEvents(). This means that + posted events are sent even when a Windows modal message loop is + running (for example, when the user is moving a window or when a + native modal dialog is visible). + * Fixed a bug that would allow the same timer id to be used by multiple + QTimer instances. + + - QFile + * Make QFile::resize() more robust when operating on buffered files. + + - QObject + * [259514] fixed a possible dead-lock in the destructor. + * 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. + + - QProcessEnvironment + * New class; support for easy access to key/value pairs in the process + environment. + + - QRegExp + * New pattern syntax "QRegExp::WildcardUnix" with wildcard character + escaping. + + - QScopedPointer + * New pointer class for cleaning up objects when leaving the current + scope. + + - QSharedPointer + * Added support for creating the object along with the internal private + data in one single memory allocation. (QSharedPointer::create) + * Fixed a bug where, in a race condition, QSharedPointer could track a + pointer that was being deleted. + + - QTextCodec + * Instantiate the CP949 codec when building with -no-iconv. + + - 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. + + - QThread + * [249997] Document that QThread priority has no effect on Linux. + + - QUrl + * Made QUrl hostname parser a lot stricter, requiring compliance + to STD3 to validate, thus preventing invalid hostnames from + being accepted. See below in "Important Behavior Changes". + + - QUuid + * [QTBUG-3543] Fixed a bug in createUuid() which caused multiple + threads to generate the identical UUID sequences. + + - QVariant + * Many optimisations. + * Added QVariant::toFloat() and QVariant::toReal(). + * Added QVariant(float) constructor. + * qvariant_cast<QVariant> and QVariant::fromValue<QVariant> are now + identity functions. + * Added support for math3d types. + + - QWeakPointer + * Added support for tracking QObject-derived classes that aren't + attached to a QSharedPointer. + * Added QWeakPointer::data which allows you to obtain the pointer + being tracked (without protection). + * Added operator-> like the above data(), but requires a #define. + + - QXmlStreamWriter + * [256468] Fixed comment indentation. + +QtGui +----- + + - Qt::escape + * Now escape the double quote ("). + + - QAbstractItemView + * [256502] Fixes selectionModel::hasSelection return value after + model::reset. + * [MR#1426] Fixes some issues with Shift-selection + * [MR#1668] New QAbstractItemView::setDefaultDropAction + + - QApplication + * [QTBUG-739] Removed internal widgets from QApplication::topLevelWidgets(). + + - QCalendarWidget + * [252943] QCalendarWidget::setDateTextFormat() reset the format if the + date is invalid. + + - QColumnView + * [246999] Fixed view not updating when the model changed dynamically. + + - QComboBox + * [220195] Fixed keyboard search when current index is -1. + + - QCompleter + * [246056] Fixed a possible assertion when setting the completer prefix. + + - QEvent + * Introduced RequestSoftwareInputPanel and CloseSoftwareInputPanel events. + + - QFontDialog + * [256466] Fixed the dialog not always returning the selected style. + + - QFontEngine + * [QTBUG-2354] Support certain 'Microsoft' platform symbol fonts which + also contain a regular unicode table for exactly the symbol range of + code points. + + - 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. + + - QFontMetrics + * [176401] Account for right bearing in bounding rect. + + - QGraphicsAnchorLayout + * Support for expanding size policy has been removed. (The Qt 4.6 Beta + had support for it). + + - 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. + + - QGraphicsItem + * Many optimizations. + * Fixed bug and improved accuracy of QGraphicsItem::childrenBoundingRect(). + * 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 modality support for QGraphicsItem panels. + * Introduced activation support. + * Introduced QGraphicsItem::stackBefore(). + * Cached items are now always invalidated when update() is called. + * Added input hints. + * Added a new set of properties to set a transformation on an item. + + - 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 + * Many optimizations. + * [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. + * 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 + * Many optimizations. + * Fix mapToScene(QRect) to avoid extra unnecessary adjustments. + * 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. + * Reduced memory footprint. + + - QHeaderView + * [208320] Make sure the sort indicator is taken into account for the size + hint. + * [255574] Make sure the size hint for the section depends on visible + sections. + + - QImageReader + * [255627] Fix floating point exception in + QImageReader::setScaledSize(QSize(0, 0)). + + - QLineEdit + * [248948] Clear selection when redoing a delete operation. + * [QTBUG-5261] Fixed bug where erasing characters from a textedit did not + update the text. + + - QListView + * [243335] Fixed the visualRect to return correct values when the widget is + not yet shown. + * [MR#666] Fixed selection with Shift-Arrow/Shift-Click in QListView's IconMode + + - QMainWindow + * [226060] Adding actions to a toolbar would always make the next toolbar + move. + + - QMenu + * [252610] Fixed position of the shortcut text while setting a stylesheet + on menu items + + - QMenuBar + * [260873] Fix mouse interaction while undocking a widget from the main + window + * Dock areas didn't get a splitter if their dock widgets were not + resizable. + + - QPaintDevice + * New qt_paint_device_metric() function to replace the friend declarations + for window surface classes that need to access metric(). + + - QPainter + * [QTBUG-1666] Made QPainter::drawText() respect Qt::TextDontClip flag + also in vertical direction. + * [254658] Improved clipping performance in OpenGL paint engine. + + - QPainterPath + * [QTBUG-1537] Fixed bug where the points of a rounded rectangle were added + in counter-clockwise order instead of clockwise order like other shapes. + + - QPen + * [QTBUG-2738] Made QPen::setDashOffset() work with non-custom dashed lines. + + - QPixmap + * Optimized width(), height(), isNull() and depth(). + * [QTBUG-2832] Fixed bug where calling fill on pixmap with active painter + could crash. + + - QPlainTextEdit + * Fixed crash when clicking on a text edit which was smaller than the + height of the font used. + + - QPlastiqueStyle + * [QTBUG-3555] Fixed a bug in the Plastique style that would cause an + ASSERT failure in QFont when the application font has a pixel size set. + + - QPrinter + * [QTBUG-4497] Removed redundant SetPen command in the postscript code when + reusing a QPrinter object. + + - QPrintPreviewDialog now uses a QMainWindow with a proper QToolBar, instead + of a plain layout. + + - QPushButton + * [255581] Fixed sizeHint recalculation bug. + + - QRasterPaintEngine + * [QTBUG-4210] Fixed bug where bitmaps were painted black instead of in pen + colour. + + - QRegion + * Minor optimizations. + + - QSortFilterProxyModel + * [251296] Fixed bugs in which filtered items could not be filtered. + + - QSplitter + * [206494] Added ability to style pressed slider with stylesheet. + + - QSpinBox + * [259226] Fixed setting a stylesheet on a QSpinBox to change the arrow + position. + * [255051] Fixed sizeHint update bug. + + - QStandardItemModel + * [255652] Fixed crash while using takeRow with a QSortFilterProxyModel. + + - QStroker + * [QTBUG-5212] Fixed bug where thick strokes around small shapes could + cause holes in the stroke. + + - QTabBar + * [196326] Fixed having a stylesheet on a QTabBar resulted in some tab + names being slightly clipped. + * [241383] Added ability to style the close tab button with style sheet + + - 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 + performance improvements, support for row/column insertioa and removal, + and better keyboard navigation. + + - QTableWidget + * [234641] Fixed takeItem to cause the view to be updated. + + - QTextDocument + * [207189] Support setting font size using short hand syntax in the + CSS "font" property. + * [201228] Remove implicit margin on bullet lists when exporting to HTML. + * [240086] Fixed bug which caused floating objects which span several + pages to float into the second page of the document even when it's + the only existing object, causing the document to contain a blank + first page. + * [240325] Even with wrap mode set to Qt::TextWordWrap, the layout + would sometimes break outside word boundaries when floating objects + affected the width available to the text. + * [MR#681] Added support for roman numbering for lists + * [MR#1753] Fixed escaping HTML attributes QTextDocument::toHtml() + + + - QTextLayout + * [QTBUG-4468] Count tabs as multiple characters when applying a fixed + column width. + * [176401] Take into account the negative right bearing of the last + character in an item of text if the glyph extends beyond its ascent. + + - QToolTip + * Fixed a bug where tooltips were not shown in popups (Windows only). + + - 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. + * [MR#1393] Use stable sorting. + + - QWidget + * Added inputMethodHints property. + * [201649] Added QWidget::previousInFocusChain. + * [254563] Fixed a crash when setting focus in a widget tree that + contains invisible widgets. + * [QTBUG-5012] Fixed uninitialized background when using QWidget::render + with Qt::WA_NoSystemBackground and window opacity set. + +QtDBus +------ + + - QDBusConnection + * Made sending of invalid/incomplete messages consistently fail with error + (no more assertions). + * [249528/QTBUG-3833] Added an overload of connect() that allows one to + specify strings for matching arguments. + + - QDBusServiceWatcher + * New class; supports efficiently watching for a service to be created, + deleted or to change owners. + +QtNetwork +--------- + + - QAbstractSocket + * Only disconnect from host when all bytes have been written. + * New setSocketOption method. + + - QHttp + * Do not buffer the complete POST data anymore when HTTPS is used. + * QHttp is now obsolete and replaced by QNetworkAccessManager. + + - QLocalServer + * Fix timeout when waiting for a connection on Unix. + + - QNativeSocketEngine + * Do not set the OS socket send and receive buffer size. The OS + should auto tune these values for us. + + - QNetworkAcessManager + * [242916] Add possibility to send HTTP DELETE requests. + * Connection count per HTTP server increased to 6 on Desktop, 3 on Symbian. + * Optional HTTP pipelining support. + * General HTTP performance improvements. + + - QNetworkReply + * [257322] Add possibility to ignore specific SSL errors. + * New isFinished() method. + + - QSslCertificate + * [251830] Fix version() and serialNumber() methods. + + - QSslSocket + * [257322] Add possibility to ignore specific SSL errors. + * Fix build with openssl 1.0.0 betas. + * Trigger a SSL transmission when reading from the socket. In certain + cases the connection stalled when a buffer limit was used. + +QtOpenGL +-------- + + - QGLColormap + * setEntry() was inserting entries instead of replacing them. + * Clarified documentation for isEmpty(). + + - QGLContext + * Fix RGB565 mode in bindTexture(). + * Map mipmaps work on OpenGL/ES 2.0 systems in bindTexture(). + * Improve performance of QGLContext::currentContext(). + + - 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. + + - 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. + + - QGLGradientCache + * [249919] Clean up the gradient cache in the right context. + + - OpenGL (ES) 2.0 Paint Engine + * Re-written the OpenGL (ES) 2.0 Paint Engine's shader manager to use new + shader API and to allow custom code from E.g. Pixmap Filters to be + instered into the fragment "pipeline". + * Fixed conical gradients. + + - Added a static function, QGL::setPreferredPaintEngine(), to allow users + to set the preferred GL paint engine. + + - Cleaned up usage of OpenGL extensions. QtOpenGL now uses the OpenGL 2.0 + names of methods rather than using the EXT postfix. However, when resolving + extensions, QtOpenGL will also try postfixing EXT if the OpenGL 2.0 name is + not found. + + - Fix QGLWidget::showFullscreen() on EGL platforms. + + - Added lots of OpenGL autotests. + +QtScript +-------- + + - Many optimizations. + - Improved ECMA script compliance. + - New method, QScriptString::toArrayIndex(), for converting QScriptString + to a QtScript array index. + +QtSql +----- + + - [QTBUG-3162] Views for Sql table models should not reset state on failed + queries. + - [QTBUG-5251] Fix retrieval of SQL 'TIME' information for PostgreSQL. + - Better error checking in case of failed query. + - [QTBUG-5179] Fixed floating point number truncation in qsqlpsql plugin. + - [QTBUG-551] Fixed Oracle batchExec using strings as out params. + - Updated sqlite to 3.6.19 + readded our patches. + - [QTBUG-3736] ODBC: Retrieved in ascii, should be stored in ascii. + - Fixed issue with multiple lookups to same table/field in + QSqlRelationalTableModel. + - Updated documentation of setForwardOnly. + - [QT-754] TDS: Fixed improper formatting of date values. + - TDS: Fixed missing field/table name escaping. + - ODBC: Fixed setForwardOnly not being reset on when the query is reset. + - [QTBUG-4510] Add reconnection option to the mysql driver. + - [222678] Fixed QSqlTableModel: trying to delete the wrong row. + - Interbase: Fixed crash when calling numRows on unknown query type. + - DB2: Don't return an error when the table is just empty. + - [17327] Added OCI support for synonyms to tables created by another user. + - [176267] Fixed mysql driver not knowing the difference between tables and + views. + - Fixed determination of end of ODBC string on deficient drivers. + - Added ability to open sqlite databases readonly. + - Fixed race condition on reopening an ODBC connection. + - Fixed invalid use of statics in the defaultCasing code. + - Fixed proper quoting under odbc. + - [252450 & 246125] Fixed failed queries due to MySql driver auto-preparing. + - QSqlDatabase now has a database level precisionPolicy. Queries now default + to this. + - Add proper iODBC linking support. + +QtSvg +----- + + - QSvgHandler + * [245602] [204686] Fixed gradient and solid-color referencing. + * [202426] Made attribute inheritance work with 'use' tags. + * [250618] Fixed gradient on strokes. + * [254040] Added support for 'vector-effect'. + + - QSvgPaintEngine + * [257052] Changed drawImage() to ignore aspect ratio. + +QtWebKit +-------- + + - Many bug fixes. + + - QWebElement + * New class; introduced to implement DOM like operations on a web page. + + - QWebFrame + * New properties for an URL and a focus management. + * New signals delivering current loading status. + + - QWebInspector + * New class for embedding the WebInspector as a QWidget + + - QWebHistory + * Streaming operators for saving and restoring QWebHistory's state. + + - QWebPage + * New property; preferredContentsSize for setting layout of the page in the + viewport. + * New slot; shouldInterruptJavaScript, called when JavaScript program is + running too long. + + - QWebSecurityOrigin: + * New functions for defining local URL schemes. + + - QWebSettings + * New options for text encoding and off-line web application cache (HTML5). + + - QWebView + * Support for render hints. + +QtXml +----- + + - QDomDocument + * Set the codec to UTF-8 if codec not present or unknown. + +QtXmlPatterns +------------- + + - QXmlQuery + * [245219] Added QXmlQuery::setFocus(const QString &focus). + +Qt Plugins +---------- + + - Tiff plugin + * [258526] Rotate the image if the tiff file contains an orientation tag. + * [254317] Add support for mono and indexed format + +Third party components +---------------------- + + - Updated FreeType to version 2.3.9. + + - Updated harfbuzz to the latest version from fd.org. + + - Updated sqlite to version 3.6.19. + + - Updated libpng to version 1.2.40 + + +**************************************************************************** +* Platform Specific Changes * +**************************************************************************** + + - Added support for the Symbian platform with integration for the S60 + framework. + + - Added community supported Qt ports for QNX and VxWorks. See platform + notes in the Qt documentation for details. + + - Improved support for AIX using IBM's Visual Age C/C++ compiler + version 7 (xlC). + + - Improved support for Solaris using Sun Studio 12 (CC 5.9). + +Qt for Unix (X11 and Mac OS X) +------------------------------ + + - Added support for thread-safe FD_CLOEXEC file-descriptor creation + where supported by the operating system (currently only Linux). + + - Ensured that system calls where EINTR is a possible result are + properly restarted. + +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. + + - 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 for 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. + + - [QTBUG-3620] Fixed bug on X11 that caused bitmap fonts to become so small + it was unreadable when printed or presented in a print preview widget. + + - Improved EGL integration on X11 (including better visual selection). + + - Made Qt::WA_TranslucentBackground work in combination with native + child widgets. + + - Support Qt::WA_TranslucentBackground on top-level QGLWidgets on X11, both + (EGL & glX). This allows OpenGL (& ES) rendering to semi-transparent widgets + if a compositing window manager is running. + + - Support OpenGL texture_from_pixmap extension on X11 (EGL & glX) when + calling QPainter::drawPixmap() with the OpenGL paint engine, or calling + QGLContext::bindTexture() on an X11 QPixmap. If the + GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap or EGL_NOKIA_texture_from_pixmap extensions are + present, Qt will attempt to use glXBindTexImageEXT or eglBindTexImage to + bind the pixmap to a texture, rather than copying the pixel data. + + - Add new experimental QX11GLPixmapData backend for QPixmap. This pixmap + backend uses regular X11 pixmaps to store the image data, however it uses + OpenGL to render into them. + + - Tablet: Disable event compression of events of type QTabletEvent when the + current event is accepted by the receiver. + + - [QTBUG-4242] Fixed a bug that allowed the user to close a window + event though the program is using the QEventLoop::ExcludeUserInputEvents + flag. + + - [255559] Fixed generation of XdndLeave events to include the correct + source id. + + - [258319] Avoid division by zero on some Xlib/Xserver implementations. + + - Fixed the default QWidget size on X servers with Xinerama to give widgets + a default size that should fit on a single screen. + + - Support _NET_WORKAREA on X servers with Xinerama (previously this property + was ignored). + +Qt for Windows +-------------- + + - Significant external contribution from Milan Burda for planned removal + of (non-unicode) Windows 9x/ME support. + + - QRegion is no longer a GDI object by default. This means it is no + longer subject to gui-thread only nor does it potentially impact + the 10.000 GDI object limit per process. By explicitly calling + .handle() a GDI object will be created and memory managed by + QRegion. The native handle is for reading out only. Any GDI calls + made on the HRGN handle will not affect the QRegion. + + - The reading code of QLocalSocket on Windows has been rewritten to improve + reading performance. + + - On Windows when a file cannot be accessed (stat()ed), we are now restoring + the error mode to the original value. + + - [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. + + - 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-4445] Fixed bug on Windows that caused problems when printing + text where several characters were represented by a single glyph, e.g. + a double 't' with the Calibri font. + + - Added QSysInfo::WV_WINDOWS7 and QSysInfo::WV_6_1. + + - Changed QPrintDialog under Windows to use PrintDlgEx, instead of the old + deprecated PrintDlg call. + +Qt for Mac OS X +--------------- + + - General changes on Mac OS X: + * Mac OS X version support: Support for 10.3(Panther) has been dropped and + 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. + * Added support for GetURL events on Mac OS X. + + - General bug fixes: + * [123740] Fixed an issue with dead keys on Mac (cocoa) on French keyboard + layout. + * [258438] Enabled Emacs style keyboard shortcuts. + * [QTBUG-4418] Fixed maximizing and restoring a window. + + - Cocoa bug fixes: + * [252088] Drag Leave events will be delivered correctly on Cocoa. + * [257661] Cocoa now uses the correct line ending for clipboard plain text. + * [258173] Fixed an issue which caused "whatsthis" pointer to flicker. + * Fixed some warnings that might get printed when reparenting QGLWidget. + * Fixed stacking order of modal dialogs so that they never rearrange level, + or hide in the background. + * Fixed problem with plugins written with Qt that closes down the native + application when hiding a modal dialog. + * Fixed problem that native applications cannot quit when using plugins + written with Qt from a native application. + * Fixed problem that the menubar is not restored correctly when using + plugins written with Qt from a native application. + * The event dispatcher now integrates better with native applications that + spin the event loop themselves. + * Using Qt::AA_MacPluginApplication will now disable the use of native + menubars on Mac. + * Sliders and scroll views in Qt now use pixel scrolling for mouse devices + that support this. + * Wheel events can now contain a delta with a value as low as 1 for mouse + devices that use pixel scrolling. + +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. + + - 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-3620] Fixed bug on X11 that caused bitmap fonts to become so small + it was unreadable when printed or presented in a print preview widget. + + - [QTBUG-4445] Fixed bug on Windows that caused problems when printing + text where several characters were represented by a single glyph, e.g. + a double 't' with the Calibri font. + + - 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. + + - Mouse and keyboard drivers + * Removed obsolete drivers (vr41xx, yopy, sl5000, bus mouse). + * Added a new LinuxInput driver for both mouse and keyboard. + * Added keymap support for QWS via standard Linux .kmap files. + (complete with dead-keys, compose-key and LED handling). + + - Remove obsolete OpenGL/ES screen drivers: hybrid, ahigl. + + - Send enter/leave events also to child widgets. + + - Fix crash when instantiating multiple QApplications. + + - Optimize software cursor by using native image format instead of 8-bit. + + - [255828] Avoid window decoration flicker on show. + + - [255495] Fix blend function crash on AVR32. + + - Fix qconfig configurations. + + - Add powerpc mkspec and remove "empty" ppc mkspec . + +DirectFB +-------- + + - When running Qt/DirectFB the DirectFB window id of a top level QWidget can + be queried using property("_q_DirectFBWindowID") + + - Allow setting the background color of the primary layer in DirectFB with + connect options. QWS_DISPLAY=directfb:bgcolor=red or + QWS_DISPLAY=directfb:bgcolor=\#aabbccdd + + - Add support for rendering mouse cursor using a top level window when cursor + support is not working in IDirectFBDisplayLayer. Define + QT_DIRECTFB_WINDOW_AS_CURSOR to enable. + + - Add experimental support for optimized locking/unlocking of surfaces. Enable + by defining QT_DIRECTFB_SUBSURFACE. + + - Fix a bug to conceptually allow using QDirectFBScreen as a subscreen of a + proxy screen. Don't make QDirectFBScreen::instance() assume that + QScreen::instance() is a QDirectFBScreen. + + - Optimize move/resize operations with DirectFB. With a properly configured + DirectFB these operations are handled for us and we don't need to force a + repaint of the window. + + - Support top level window opacity in DirectFB + + - Fix a bug when loading RGB32 images that would lead to rendering issues. + + - Fix a bug when painting with invalid pens/brushes. + + - Fix a bug that would show up when QWidget::scroll is called. + + - Implement support for loading pixmaps using IDirectFBImageProvider. + + - Disable color table support by default. This seems to work incorrectly on + most boards and loading these images will generally require an image + conversion anyway. + + - Fix a crash when resizing windows. + + - Compile with versions < 1.0. We still recommend using newer versions. + + - Considerable code cleanup + + - Various optimizations regarding painting, loading of images and creation of + surfaces. + + - Allow forcibly falling back to raster engine for painting operations by + exporting QT_DIRECTFB_FORCE_RASTER=1 + + - Reenable support for RGB32 primary surface. + + +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. + - Fixed the hardcoded GL library names for Windows CE. + +**************************************************************************** +* 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. + + - uic + * [260784] Generated code for retranslateUi doesn't cause compiler warnings + anymore. + + - uic3 + * [128859] Fixed code generation of QLabel's wordWrap property. + + - qdoc3 + * Changed qdoc3 binary to be in bin/ instead of a platform specific location. + + - Linguist + * Linguist GUI: Experimental support for editing multi-length strings. + * lupdate is now again the only tool which can parse program code. + * lupdate + - Actually guess the target language from the file name. + - Make -{source,target}-language actually override values from files. + - C++ parser + * Properly support "using namespace", etc. + * Remove the obsolete TRANSLATOR hack relating to "using namespace". + * Support attaching meta data to translatable message. + * Actually use the argument of Q_DECLARE_TR_FUNCTION. + * Optimization. + * Bug fixes and robustness improvements. + * lrelease + - Add -markuntranslated <prefix> option. + * Both lupdate & lrelease + - Accuracy improvements of the qmake .pro file parser. + - Support for ID-based translations. Somewhat experimental. + * lconvert + - Add --sort-contexts option. + - Add --locations option (complementing lupdate). + - Add --no-ui-lines option (complementing lupdate). + + +**************************************************************************** +* Important Behavior Changes * +**************************************************************************** + + - The experimental Direct3D paint engine has been removed. The reason for + this is that Nokia focuses on OpenGL for desktop hardware accelerated + rendering. + + - The default engine used to draw onto OpenGL buffers has changed in + Qt 4.6. The QPaintEngine::OpenGL2 engine is now used as the default + engine. This *may* cause compatibility problems for applications + that use a mix of QPainter and native OpenGL calls to draw into a GL + buffer. Use the QGL::setPreferredPaintEngine() function to enforce + usage of the old GL paint engine. + + - When mixing OpenGL and QPainter calls you need to surround your + custom OpenGL calls with QPainter::beginNativePainting() and + QPainter::endNativePainting(). + This is to ensure that the paint engine flushes any pending drawing and sets + up the GL modelview/projection matrices properly before you can issue custom + OpenGL calls, and to let the paint engine synchronize to the painter state + before resuming regular QPainter based drawing. + + - Graphics View has undergone heavy optimization work, and as a result of + this work, the following behavior changes were introduced. + + a) QStyleOptionGraphicsItem::exposedRect now contains the item's bounding + rectangle, and QStyleOptionGraphicsItem::matrix is uninitialized by + default. You can enable an exact exposed rectangle and a correct matrix + by enabling the flag QGraphicsItem::ItemUsesExtendedStyleOptions. + + b) QStyleOptionGraphicsItem::levelOfDetails is obsoleted and its value is + always initialized to 1. Instead you can call + QStyleOptionGraphicsItem::levelOfDetailFromTransform(const QTransform &) + to determine the level of detail. + + c) QGraphicsView no longer calls QGraphicsView::drawItems(), and in turn + QGraphicsScene::drawItems(), by default. You can get the old behavior + back by enabling QGraphicsView::IndirectPainting. + + d) QGraphicsItem no longer calls itemChange() for position and + transformation changes. If you want to receive notifications for changes + to the item's position and transformation, you can set the flag + QGraphicsItem::ItemSendsGeometryChanges (which is enabled by default by + QGraphicsWidget and QGraphicsProxyWidget). + + - QDesktopWidget on X11 no longer emits the resized(int) signal when screens + are added or removed. This was not done on other platforms. Use the + screenCountChanged signal instead. + + - QUrl's parser is more strict when for hostnames in URLs. QUrl now + enforces STD 3 rules: + + * each individual hostname section (between dots) must be at most + 63 ASCII characters in length; + + * only letters, digits, and the hyphen character are allowed in the + ASCII range; letters outside the ASCII range follow the normal + IDN rules + + That means QUrl no longer accepts some URLs that were invalid + before, but weren't interpreted as such. + + - The Unix configure-time check for STL is stricter now in Qt + 4.6. This means some legacy STL implementations may fail to pass + the test and, therefore, Qt will automatically disable STL support. + + This is a binary-compatible change: existing code will continue to + work without being recompiled. However, it affects the source code, + since some STL-compatibility API will not be enabled. + + Platforms affected by this change: + * solaris-cc-* with the default (Cstd) C++ STL library + recommendation: use -library=stlport4 + See Sun Studio's documentation for the effects of this option + + - QVariant has now a new implicit constructor that takes a float. This + means that code that assigned a float to a variant would create a + variant with userType QMetaType::Float, instead of QVariant::Double. + + - QDataStream will now read and write all floating point numbers with the + same precision, regardless of whether it's streamed into or out from a + float or double. This is to maintain compatibility across platforms with + a different default precision for qreal. The default is 64-bit precision + for all floating point numbers, and this can be changed using the new + 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 renamed to clear(). + * QAnimationGroup::insertAnimationAt() has been renamed to + insertAnimation(). + * QAnimationGroup::takeAnimationAt() has been renamed to takeAnimation(). + * QSequentialAnimationGroup::insertPauseAt() has been renamed to + insertPause(). + * [QT-941] Avoids timer ticks when there are only pause animations running. + +- 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. + +- Changed QWebFrame::setHtml() and setContent() to not affect the back/forward + and the session history. + +- qmake no longer adds Qt internal dependencies to the linker when Qt + is built in shared mode (not static). This means that applications + that made use of platform-specific API may need to adjust the LIBS + variable in their .pro files to match: + + X11: LIBS += -lX11 + Mac: LIBS += -framework AppKit -framework Carbon + +- QtScript: Behavior changes due to using JavaScriptCore in the back-end: + * QDateTime is no longer used for date parsing and string conversion of + Date objects; instead the (more compliant) date processing from + JavaScriptCore is used. + * RegExp objects are no longer thin wrappers around QRegExp; they are now + "proper" JavaScript RegExp objects. + |