wxWidgets

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In the next few days the new version 3.1.5 of wxWidgets will be released. It has several updates and fixes several issues.

3.1.5: (released 2021-04-14)

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All:
- Add wxWebRequest with support for HTTPS and HTTP/2 (Tobias Taschner)
- Add wxGetCpuArchitectureName() (Lauri Nurmi).

- Add support for 64-bit integers to wxConfig.

- Add wxFileName::ResolveLink() (Ian McInerney).

- Add wxString::utf8_string().

- Use millisecond resolution for wxLog timestamps.

- Fix wrong FIFO/sockets detection in wxFileName (atbara46).

- Fix search in wxSortedArrayString with custom comparator (Pavel Tyunin).

- Allow translations for different versions to co-exist (Andriy Byelikov).

- Eliminate really all gcc warnings from wx headers.

- Avoid gcc -Wsuggest-override inside wx macros (Teodor Petrov).

- Bug fixes and improvements in wxConvAuto (Pavel Tyunin).
All (GUI):
- Add wxPersistentComboBox to save user input history easily.

- Add alpha blending support to wxImage::Paste() (Rachel Mark, Eric Raijmakers).

- Add wxImageDataObject for copying wxImage to/from clipboard (Artur Wieczorek).

- Add support for user script messages to wxWebView (Tobias Taschner).

- Add wxFileHistory::SetMenuPathStyle() (Ian McInerney).

- Add wxEVT_GRID_RANGE_SELECT{ING,ED} (Daniel Kulp).

- Add wxGrid::wxGridSelectNone selection mode (Gary Allen).

- Fix changing in wxGrid with multicells (Dimitri Schoolwerth).

- Fix custom date formats in wxGrid. - Improve wxGrid appearance in dark mode (Daniel Kulp).

- Optimize handling of attributes in wxGrid (Dimitri Schoolwerth).

- Fix infinite loop with auto-wrapped cells in wxGrid (Dimitri Schoolwerth).

- Apply data transfer to the window itself too (Ali Kettab).

- Add wxUpdateUIEvent::IsCheckable() (Ian McInerney).

- Fix wxCaret default ctor (Stefan Brüns).

- Improve tooltips handling in wxPropertyGrid (Pavel Tyunin).

- Allow extending rules and zebra in wxListCtrl to the whole window (Marcos).

- Implement new coordinates conversion functions in wxDC (Artur Wieczorek).

- Improve high DPI handling in wxHtmlWindow (Maarten Bent).

- Improve selection/focus event generation in wxGenericListCtrl (Ali Kettab).

- Improve wxComboCtrl popup positioning (Oleksandra Yushchenka, Maarten Bent).

- Add wxRIBBON_ART_PANEL_HOVER_BORDER_[GRADIENT_]COLOUR (Gary Allen).

- Add wxRibbonToolBar GetToolByPos() and GetToolRect() (Gary Allen).

- Improve tooltips behaviour in wxRibbon (Gary Allen).

- Fix resorting wxDataViewCtrl with custom sort order (Jorge Moraleda).

- Make combining alignment and centering in wxSizerFlags work in wxGridSizer.

- Restore support for loading XRC files from URLs.

- Improve support for using default system locale.
wxGTK:
- Implement EGL-based wxGLCanvas for Wayland (Scott Talbert).

- Support Wayland in wxMediaCtrl (Pierluigi Passaro).

- Improve wxDataViewCtrl item insertion performance (Sebastien Besombes).

- Return more reasonable value from wxSlider::GetBetSize().

- Avoid pixman debug warnings in wxGrid.
wxMSW:
- Fix infinite repaint loop in wxListCtrl with wxLC_HRULES.

- Add real support for monochrome bitmaps to wxMSW (Bill Su).

- Allow customizing invalid wxDatePickerCtrl text.

- Allow using lower quality but faster pens.

- Fix best size of wxDatePickerCtrl with wxDP_ALLOWNONE.

- Fix build after STL changes in MSVS 2019 16.6

- Fix using JS in wxWebViewIE with custom scheme (Maarten Bent).

- Handle exception in wxEVT_CHAR_HOOK correctly.

- Improve high DPI support and custom scheme handlers in IE-based wxWebView (michael).

- Preserve ampersands in toolbar tool tooltips.

- Support Ctrl-Backspace in non-rich text controls too.
wxOSX:
- Add wxFullScreenEvent (Tobias Taschner).

- Add support for underline and strike-through in markup labels.

- Implement wxBitmap ctor from wxCursor (Igor Korot, Maarten Bent).

- Improve text controls focus ring appearance.

- Improve wxPreferencesEditor appearance under macOS 11.

- Significantly speed up wxDataViewCtrl::SetSelections().

- Fix window background tinting on macOS 11 (Václav Slavík).

- Fix cosmetic problem in wxSplitterWindow appearance (Andreas Falkenhahn).

- Fix bug with double clicking on empty space in wxDataViewCtrl (kurisutsukato).

- Fix handling of standard edit commands in context menu.

- Fix key events codes for non-ASCII characters (Artur Sochirca).

- Fix of accelerators defined in wxAcceleratorTable.

- Fix selection after inserting items in wxListBox (Andreas Falkenhahn).

- Fix system UI font handling on macOS 11.

- Fix truncation of images in wxDataViewCtrl (Andreas Falkenhahn).

- Fix wxDataViewCtrl columns resizing (Andreas Falkenhahn).

- Generate wxEVT_DATAVIEW_ITEM_EDITING_DONE in wxDataViewCtrl (Andreas Falkenhahn).

- Make setting tooltips for non-native windows work again.

- Make wxCOL_WIDTH_AUTOSIZE work correctly in wxDataViewCtrl (Andreas Falkenhahn).

- Mark wxTextCtrl as dirty before calling the event handler (Hartwig Wiesmann).

- Send wxEVT_TEXT when wxComboBox selection changes (Andreas Falkenhahn).

- Set and update wxListBox horizontal scrollbar correctly (Andreas Falkenhahn).

- Switch to WKWebView for wxWebView implementation (Tobias Taschner).
wxQt:
- Implement gesture events support (bdbcat).

- Implement wxMenuItem::SetFont() (bdbcat).

At least for the macOS version of OCPN I suggest to wait for the beta 5.0.0 release until this wxWidgets version is published.