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- Changes between 1.4 and 1.3.3
- -------------------------------
-
- Aside from all the changes Guido made to the machine-independent part
- of Python (see NEWS for those)the following mac-specific changes have
- been made:
-
- - Preference file and other items in the System folder now have the
- version number in their name, so old and new python installations
- can coexist.
- - Fixed a GUSI crash when exiting with files open.
- - Fixed interference with some extensions that added resources that
- looked like ours.
- - Fixed slowness of Python in the background.
- - About box added (at last...).
- - New release of CWGUSI (1.8.0) incorporated. Note that for Tcl/Tk the
- 4.1p1 release is still used (4.2 was a little too late). Everything
- ported to CW10.
- - Applets can now turn off argc/argv processing (so they can do their
- own initial AppleEvent handling). Applets can also delay opening the
- console window until it is actually used (and, hence, not open it at
- all by refraining from using it).
- - MiniAEFrame: Preliminary AppleScript server support. Example code
- provided, including an initial stab at writing CGI scripts in Python.
- - macfs: FindApplication() locates application given 4-char creator
- code.
- - macfs: GetDates and SetDates get and set creation date, etc.
- - FrameWork: preferred method of ending mainloop() is calling _quit().
- - FrameWork: different menubar handling resulting in less flashing
- during menu creation.
- - FrameWork: added setarrowcursor and setwatchcursor functions.
- - findertools: new module that makes various finder features
- available.
- - macostools: copy file times too.
- - macostools: added touch() to tell finder about changes to a file.
- - macerrors: New module with symbolic names for all os-releated
- errors.
- - EasyDialogs: ProgressBar fixed.
- - aetools: start application if needed
- - aetools: use aetools.error for server-generated errors, MacOS.error
- for communication errors, etc.
- - Finder_7_0_Suite: New module with the "simple" finder scripting
- interface.
- - mac (aka os): xstat() returns resourcesize, creator, type in
- addition to stat() information.
- - MacOS: added DebugStr method to drop to low-level debugger.
- - MacOS: fixed splash() to actually draw the splash box:-)
- - Ctl: fixed very nasty bug in DisposeControl and object deletion.
- - Dlg: Added GetDialogWindow and other accessor functions
- - Waste: fixed bug with object hanlder installation
- - Waste: added tab support
- - time: added strftime
- - twit: a windowing debugger for Python (preliminary release)
- - BBPy: a BBEdit extension that send scripts to the Python interpreter,
- by Just van Rossum.
-
- The following set of changes were already in place for the 1.4b3
- release:
- - The standard 68K Python is built for CFM68K. This means that PPC and
- 68K Python are now largely compatible, both supporting dynamically
- loaded modules, python applets, etc.
- As a result of this there have been numerous subtle changes in
- filenames for PPC plugin modules and such, but these changes should
- be transparent to Python programs.
- The one missing module in cfm68k is Macspeech, for which no CFM68K
- interface library is available (yet?).
- - Raise MemoryError on stack overflow.
- - Python now always uses 8-byte doubles.
- - Removed mactcp, macdnr and stdwin modules from standard
- distribution.
- - New releases of Tcl/Tk (4.1p1), CWGUSI (1.7.2) and Waste (1.2f) have
- been incorporated.
- - Macfs.SetFolder method added, which sets initial folder for standard
- file dialogs.
- - New py_resource module to handle PYC resources.
- - List mgr objects "selFlags" and "listFlags" members now accessible.
- - QuickDraw got a few new symbolic constants.
- - Qt and Cm modules now live in a separate dynamically loadable
- module, so other toolbox modules work if you don't have QuickTime
- installed.
- - Old sound mgr calls {Set,Get}SoundVol removed, version number
- interface changed.
- - Added convenience routines setarrowcursor and setwatchcursor to
- FrameWork.
- - Bugfixes to time.sleep(), FrameWork, macostools,
- - Minor fixes/additions/updates to demos and documentation in the Demo
- folder.
- - Internal changes:
- - Ported to CW9
- - mwerks_????_config.h organization rationalized
- - Projects renamed to reflect architecture (ppc, cfm68k, 68k).
- - various defines (HAVE_CONFIG_H, USE_MAC_DYNAMIC_LOADING) no longer
- needed.
- - shared-library architecture made more conforming to metrowerks
- documentation. Check xx plugin projects if you have built your own
- dynamically loaded modules.
-
-
- Changes between 1.3.3 and 1.3.2
- --------------------------------
-
- A major change since 1.3.2 is in the organization of the files: The
- Mac folder has mac-specific demo programs, attempts at documentation and
- more. Browse the HTML files in Mac:Demo for more info.
-
- Also, Toolbox:bgen is not needed anymore for normal use: the relevant
- python modules have been moved to Mac:Lib:toolbox.
-
- Other changes:
- - Uses final Tk 4.1 and Tcl 7.5 distributions.
- - Override preferences (stored in the interpreter/applet application)
- allow overriding of system-wide preferences. Explained in
- "using.html".
- - New functionality in FrameWork.py:
- - ScrolledWindow class
- - enable(), settext(), setitem(), setmark(), seticon(),
- checkmenu() and delete() methods for menu entries.
- - event parameter added to idle() method
- - windowbounds() function helps programmer with staggering windows.
- - Erase only visRgn on an update event.
- - TextEdit interface module added
- - Waste interface module added
- - Demos for waste, including skeleton for html editor
- - Scrap manager interface added
- - Ctl.FindControl() could return reference to deleted object. Fixed.
- - GrafPorts have an _id attribute (address of grafport) allowing them
- to be compared (since a new python object is created each time).
- - Standard File folder no longer changed on chdir() (this was
- introduced in 1.3.2).
- - sys.argv can now be set if you option-drag or option-click a python
- source.
- - Various dialogs now have sensible defaults.
- - binhextree is now a bit more intelligent about when to binhex.
- - gensuitemodule fixed to hand '****' type arguments.
-
- Changes between 1.3.2 and 1.3.1
- -------------------------------
-
- The main reason for the 1.3.2 distribution is the availability of Tk
- for the mac. The Tk port and its integration in Python is definitely
- not bug-free, hence this distribution should be treated as beta
- software at best.
-
- Another major change in this release is that the Python I/O system is
- now based on the GUSI library. This is an I/O library that attempts to
- mimic a Posix I/O system. Hence, modules like socket and select are
- now available in MacPython. If you build dynamically loaded modules
- and you use any unix-like feature such as stat() calls you should
- compile using the GUSI include files.
-
- A third major change is that the MacOS creator code has been changed
- from 'PYTH' to 'Pyth', due to a conflict. This means that you will
- have to change the creator of all your old python programs. The
- distribution contains a script "FixCreator.py" that does this
- recursively for a whole folder.
-
- Here are all the changes since 1.3.1, in no particular order:
- - complex number support added
- - cmath module added
- - startup options ("option-drag" dialog) can be retrieved from the
- preferences file. EditPythonPrefs hasn't been updated yet, though.
- - Creator changed from PYTH to Pyth
- - {mac,os}.unlink is now also called {mac,os}.remove
- - {mac,os}.mkdir second arg optional
- - dup and fdopen calls added
- - select module added
- - socket module added
- - open(file, '*r') for opening resource forks has been removed. It is
- replaced by MacOS.openrf(file, 'r'), which returns a simple
- file-like object to read (or write) resource forks.
- - Added AppleEvent URL suite
- - Added AppleEvent netscape suite
- - QuickDraw globals are now all accessible, as Qd.qd.xxxx
-
-
- Mac-specific changes between 1.3 and 1.3.1
- --------------------------------------
-
- Aside from the changes mentioned here there have also been some
- changes in the core python, but these are not documented here.
- However, these changes are mainly bugfixes, so there shouldn't be any
- incompatabilities.
-
- - imgsgi and imgpbm modules added
- - Various hooks installed to allow integration with MacTk (currently
- disabled)
- - Added support for MacOS Fixed type in toolbox arguments (represented
- as floats in python)
- - Added option to keep output window open on normal termination
- - Decreased minimum heapsize to run interpreter
- - Added progress-bar to EasyDialogs
- - Fixed socket.getportname()
- - Renamed MACTCP.py to MACTCPconst.py
-
- - Many fixes to FrameWork.py:
- - Added window.SetPort() method
- - Added optional bounds and resid parameters to Window.open()
- - Fixed apple-menu DA handling
- - Fixed activate-event handling
- - Added default Application.makeusermenus() (File:Quit only)
- - Fixed bug with keyboard input handling
- - added idle() method, called from event loop if there are no events
- pending
-
- Toolbox modules:
- - component manager module added
- - quicktime module added
- - font manager module added
- - Added color window support
- - Added support to obtain pixmap from a window
- - Added BitMap type
- - Added GrafPort type
- - Added support for PenState, Patterns, FontInfo, RGB colors,
- - Fixed GetPen and SetPt arguments
- - Added read access to members of {C}GrafPort objects
- - Added support for cursors
- - Provide access to some QuickDraw globals
- - Fixed InsetRect, OffsetRect, MapRect
- - Added support for various handles such as PatHandle, CursHandle
- - Added functions to access members of Window objects
-
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