Changelog

AVC 0.10.0 released 24-Apr-2015

• Added support for GTK3+.
• New full set of GTK3+ examples.
• New verbosity level 5 for debug: internal data structures printout.
• Fixed typo into examples/gtk_counter.py.

INTERNALS

• Refactored verbose printout: structured as functions.
• Added __str__ representation for internal structures.

AVC 0.9.0 released 12-Mar-2015

• Added support for calendar widget in GTK+, QT, Wx widgets toolkits.
• Added support for color selection widget in GTK+, Swing, QT, Wx widgets toolkits.
• New examples: calendar for widget each supporter toolkit.
• New examples: color selection widget for each supporter toolkit.
• Fixed Qt widget removal not working at widget destroy.
• Dropped Qt3 support

INTERNALS

• Added 1 sec wait between libreoffice launch and odt2pdf in manual pdf build.

AVC 0.8.3 released 15-Feb-2011

• Added printing of the widget toolk version to testing printout.
• Changed functions view_update and get_widget to be methods of class AVC
• Centralized version, author, license information: program and building scripts now read this info from reference strings defined in avccore.py .
• Updated instructions for pdf manual generation.

INTERNALS

• Centralized version, author, license information: program and building scripts now read this info from reference strings defined in avccore.py.
• Splitted dir structure into AVC source and debian binary build areas.
• Source build control from shell script to scons.
• All build shell scripts converted from shell to python.

AVC 0.8.2 released 24-Dec-2009

• Fixed wxWidgets ListCtrl not updating header on connected variable change.

AVC 0.8.1 released 1-Dec-2009

• Fixed wxWidgets TreeCtrl not updating on connected variable change.

AVC 0.8.0 released 20-Nov-2009

• Added support for java Swing widget toolkit, widgets: button, check box, combo box, label, progress bar, radio box, slider, spinner, table, text area, text field, toggle button, tree.
• Changed real widget mapping: substituted eval of widget string names with dictionary of abstract widget classes keyed by real widget classes.
• Added check for executed avc_init in avc_connect.
• Added dual install capability to setup to cope with both python and jython.

AVC 0.7.1 released 20-Apr-2009

• Cleanup of backup files in "examples" dir and restore of file "manual.pdf.readme" in "doc" dir.

AVC 0.7.0 released 26-Jan-2009

• Added support for advanced widgets: list view and tree view.
• Added support for progress bar widget.
• New examples: a list tree view example for each supported toolkit.
• Updated "showcase" examples to add progress bar.

AVC 0.6.1 released 26-Jan-2009

• Added PDF documentation sources (ODT file and images).

AVC 0.6.0 released 10-Jun-2008

• Added multiple matching namespaces: the attributes of each python object (class instance) can be matched against any given widget tree or subtree, independentely from all other objects.
• Added dynamic connections: widget-variable connections can be created at any run time and removed automatically at widget deletion.
• Changed importing: now AVC detect automatically the wanted widget toolkit, allowing the same import statement for all toolkits.
• Extended separation between application logic and GUI to all toolkits.
• Updated all examples programs to use the new api.
• Rewritten all "counter" examples to demonstrate AVC support to separation between application logic and GUI.
• New examples: a countdown example for each supported toolkit to demonstrate multiple matching namespaces and dynamic connections.
• Structure cleanup: removed all cross references between AVC core and each toolkit binding, now all references are from core to bindings.

AVC 0.5.0 released 4-Feb-2008

• Extended label widget output formatting to support generic python objects and to have a fallback to the standard python string representation (str()) when there is no formatting string or the formatting string is not valid.
• New examples: a label formatting example program for each supported toolkit.
• New examples: a programmatic version (GUI generated by program instructions) of the spin button/box/control example for each supported toolkit.
• Added testing capability: activity report printout with selectable verbosity level.
• Rewrited the widget abstraction layer: improved code structure, more compact, better separation among widget toolkit dependent code in AVC bindings and in AVC core code.
• Anticipated the test for supported widget from coget creation (Coget.__init__()) to connections detector (_bind()): more efficient.

AVC 0.4.0 released 15-Dec-2007

• Added support for wxWidgets widget toolkit, widgets: button, bitmap button, check button, choice, combo box, radio box, slider, spin control, static text, status bar, text control, toggle button.

AVC 0.3.0 released 30-Sep-2007

• Added support for TK widget toolkit, widgets: button, check button, entry, label, radio button, scale, spin box, text.
• Fixed input from Qt4 QdoubleSpinBox.
• Fixed wrong type of formatting string for Qt3 and Qt4 label widget.
• Added control type casting to string returned by entry widget.
• New web site structure, user documentation moved from one html page to "User Manual" in different formats: pdf, html.

AVC 0.2.0 released 30-Jan-2007

• Added new widgets: combo box, slider, status bar (GTK+ only), text view/edit.

AVC 0.1.0 released 10-Jan-2007

• First release.