[Chandler-dev] new wx tarball r100

[Robin Dunn]

Robin Dunn wrote:
> When you next do an update and "make install" in your chandler dir 
> you'll get a new wx tarball based on revision 100 from the wx 
> repository.  No changes in chandler are required to use this tarball. 
> New features in this tarball include the following:
> 
> *  New factory functions for creating wx.Bitmaps directly from Python 
> buffer objects, without needing to create a wx.Image first. Common 
> buffer objects are strings, arrays, NumPy arrays, etc.
> 
> * Added wx.NativePixelBuffer, wx.AlphPixelBuffer and related iterator 
> and accessor classes. They allow platform independent direct access to 
> the platform specific pixel buffer inside of a wx.Bitmap object.
> 
> * Added wx.App.DisplayAvailable() which can be used to determine if a 
> GUI can be created in the current environment. (Still need an 
> implementation for wxMSW...)
> 
> * wx.Colour now includes an alpha component, which defaults to 
> wx.ALPHA_OPAQUE. This is in preparation for allowing various new alpha 
> blening functionality using wx.Colour objects, such as drawing with pens 
> and brushes on a wx.DC. Use of the alpha component with wx.DC has been 
> implemented so far on OS X.
> 

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that the issues related to the native 
toolbar on OS X are all fixed.  (WooHoo!)


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