Re: WX Widgets Version

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Datatone Mail List <lists(at)datatone(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: pgAdmin Support <pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WX Widgets Version
Date: 2015-03-03 08:37:01
Message-ID: CA+OCxoxE_v0phJCMm92kBb7haxBBXT3Q2Ngcqxt1+S5Lqrs8vA@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Datatone Mail List
<lists(at)datatone(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
> Thank you both for your feedback.
> I am assuming that I should be able to pick up the development sources from
> GIT or similar and make it work (as well as it does at the moment).
> Thanks again.
> David

1.20.x should also be appropriate, as it also has the wx3.0 updates.

> On Friday 27 February 2015 15:04:35 you wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Richard PALO <richard(at)netbsd(dot)org> wrote:
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>> > Le 26/02/15 17:47, Dave Page a écrit :
>> >> Hi
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Datatone Mail List
>> >>
>> >> <lists(at)datatone(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
>> >>> I have WX Widgets 3.0.2, which includes WX Widgets 2.8 compatibility.
>> >>>
>> >>> My PGAdmin3 compilation (configuration) fails with:
>> >>>
>> >>> configure: error: The version of wxWidgets required (2.8) is not
>> >>> supported by the installations in /usr.
>> >>>
>> >>> My WX Widgets configuration is:
>> >>>
>> >>> ======
>> >>> Configured wxWidgets 3.0.2 for `x86_64-dt-linux-gnu'
>> >>>
>> >>> Which GUI toolkit should wxWidgets use? GTK+ 2 with
>> >>> support
>> >>>
>> >>> for GTK+ printing libnotify
>> >>>
>> >>> Should wxWidgets be compiled into single library? no
>> >>> Should wxWidgets be linked as a shared library? yes
>> >>> Should wxWidgets support Unicode? yes (using
>> >>> wchar_t)
>> >>> What level of wxWidgets compatibility should be enabled?
>> >>>
>> >>> wxWidgets 2.6 no
>> >>> wxWidgets 2.8 yes
>> >>>
>> >>> Which libraries should wxWidgets use?
>> >>>
>> >>> STL no
>> >>> jpeg sys
>> >>> png sys
>> >>> regex builtin
>> >>> tiff sys
>> >>> zlib sys
>> >>> expat sys
>> >>> libmspack no
>> >>> sdl no
>> >>>
>> >>> =======
>> >>>
>> >>> So that you can see that wxWidgets 2.8 IS supported (as a compatibility
>> >>> mode).
>> >>>
>> >>> Is it the case that PGAdmin3 SHOULD compile and work with the latest WX
>> >>> Widgets, provided that 2.8 compatibility is enabled?
>> >>
>> >> This has never been tested as far as I'm aware. It does work with 3.0
>> >> in general, though there are a few glitches.
>> >>
>> >>> If so, is there a problem with the configuration that fails to detect
>> >>> this
>> >>> support?
>> >>
>> >> The config script certainly doesn't know how to use 3.0 in 2.8
>> >> compatibility mode.
>> >
>> > I believe there are a few things to verify and test enabling this to be
>> > possible: http://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/overview_changes_since28.html
>> >
>> > It *would* be nice to migrate to the new wx Widgets code base, though.
>>
>> The vast majority of the work to support 3.0 (in non-compatibility
>> mode) has been done. It just needs some tweaks. I tried it a couple of
>> days ago as it happens, and the only issue I saw in a quick test was
>> that the "Connecting to server" busy panel now sits on top of the
>> "Enter password" dialogue, instead of the other way round. Patches
>> welcome :-)
>
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