Changeset 1085 for trunk/CHANGES.OS2

Timestamp:

Sep 14, 2011, 10:40:15 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

Dmitry A. Kuminov

Message:

Readme/changes for 4.7.3.

File:

• trunk/CHANGES.OS2 (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/CHANGES.OS2

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 CHANGES
+
+
+4.7.3 (15-09-2011)
+
+  Improvements:
+
+  - general: Updated Qt codebase to version 4.7.3 (see the changes-4.7.3 file
+    for details). This version should be binary compatible with the previous
+    version of Qt for OS/2.
+
+  - general: Enable building the QtDeglarative and QtWebKit libraries by
+    default.
+
+  - corelib: QProcess: Implemented new I/O pipe notification mechanism that
+    fixes a number of issues such as hangs and truncated data during inter-
+    process communication using redirection of standard I/O channels.
+
+  - corelib: Make the native QFileSystemWatcher engine a singleton to reduce
+    the number of clients connecting to the server (part of XWP) that has a
+    limit on the number of connections.
+
+  - corelib: Make the native QFileSystemWatcher recognize file changes (i.e.
+    changes in file date/time/size) using a special poller thread. The original
+    OS/2 file notification mechanism (used by XWP) does not report such changes.
+
+  - corelib: QDir: Filter out "." and ".." from root directory listings to be
+    consistent across different IFSes and to match Windows behavior.
+
+  - gui: QSound: Use shared mode by default.
+
+  - gui: Include higher res pixmaps in icons returned by
+    QCommonStyle::standardIcon().
+
+  - gui: Make QFileSystemModel put "." and ".." entries first.
+
+  - gui: Take style icons for SP_FileIcon & SP_DirIcon from QFileIconProvider
+    by default.
+
+  - gui: Disable native window masking code as it is not complete (doesn't
+    work properly in DIVE mode).
+
+  - gui: Add support for short DLL names of QML plugins.
+
+  - gui: Enable linking to cups.dll at runtime (requires CUPS 1.4.8 and above).
+
+  - xsystray: Paint an empty box for NULL icons instead of leaving the old icon
+    if it was not NULL.
+
+  - xsystray: Fixed duplicate mouse click notifications.
+
+  - qmake: Make the shadow build mode work (both for Qt itself and for other
+    qmake-based applications).
+
+  - qmake: Do not shorten library names for DLLs when TARGET_SHORT is used.
+    This allows to use the same library name on all platforms.
+
+  - qmake: Added support for .SYM file generation on OS/2 (controlled by the
+    'sym' CONFIG option, which is present in release builds by default).
+
+  - qmake: Added replace functions 'fixpath_target' and 'fixpath_local'.
+
+  - qmake: Always add project directory to INCLUDEPATH. This makes individual
+    per-project 'INCLUDEPATH += .' statements unnecessary.
+
+  - qmake: Support FAST_BUILD make macro in generated Makefiles to disable slow
+    noncritical steps like .sym file generation.
+
+  - qmake: Recognize QMAKE_TARGET_VERSION in .pro which allows to embed the
+    version to EXE/DLL like VERSION but w/o appending the major version suffix
+    to the DLL name.
+
+  - qmake: Let INSTALL_ROOT override the dirve letter too to be able to redirect
+    make install to another drive.
+
+  - configure.cmd: Support build type options (-release, -debug,
+    -debug-and-release, -developer-build, -make and -nomake). Run with --help
+    or details.
+
+  - configure.cmd: Enable building examples by default.
+
+  Fixes:
+
+  - corelib: QProcess: Don't close the stdin pipe until the child reads it all.
+
+  - corelib: QProcess: Use dup()/dup2() instead of DosDupHandle() to make sure
+    the child process sees the correct state of stdin/out/err (e.g. isatty()).
+
+  - corelib: QProcess: Fixed the way how pipes are closed to makes sure that
+    feof() will return 1 and ferror() will not return 1 on the child end of the
+    pipe connected to its stdin. This fixes programs relying on these functions.
+
+  - corelib: QProcess: Fix possible hangs when using syncronous wait functions
+    in a GUI program.
+
+  - corelib: Fixed spontaneous failures to create native QFileSystemWatcher
+    objects.
+
+  - corelib: Don't eat drive letters in QDir::cleanPath() for paths like
+    "D:/../../mydir" (which would become "mydir").
+
+  - gui: Make sure that modal widgets never go behind the blocked widgets.
+
+  - gui: Make blocked widgets always follow the modal widget on Z-order change.
+    This makes sure that bringing the modal widget to front also raises all
+    widgets it blocks (keeping them right under it in the same Z-order).
+
+  - gui: Fixed the assertion in QPixmap::setMask() that could also lead to
+    creating pixmaps w/o masks.
+
+  - gui: Fixed creating HPOINTERs from QPixmaps with no mask. This fixes
+    setting PNG files with no mask as top-level window icnos.
+
+  - gui: Do not attempt to natively hide widgets with no handle and fix
+    hiding reparented child widgets with native handles.
+
+  - gui: Create native IDs (HWNDs) for all siblings and children of the widget
+    when its native ID is requested. This is for proper clipping and to be
+    compatible with other platforms.
+
+  - gui: Don't destroy widget's HWND on reparent until children are reparented,
+    otherwise all children with native HWNDs will be deleted.
+
+  - gui: Fix position errors on resize of child widgets during complex geometry
+    changes (e.g. manually changing the geometry of a layout-managed widget).
+
+  - gui: Fix Qt Assistant remote control which would only process
+    '\0'-terminated commands.
+
+  - gui: Fix signal recursion at Assistant startup in remote control mode that
+    could cause 100% CPU load.
+
+  - qmake: Fixed a hang when compiling .RC files with too long include paths.
+
+  - qmake: Don't call lxlite on phony targets.
+
+  - qmake: Make sure string quotes in DEFINES statements are processed
+    correctly (similar to other platforms).
+
+  - qmake: Several small fixes to path quoting and slashes that could cause
+    various build and install problems under certain conditions.
+
+  - uic: Fixed doubling EOLs (CRs) in pipe mode.