andlabs-ui/compatibility.md

Useful things in newer versions

Windows

Windows Vista

Windows 7

Windows 8

Windows 8.1

GTK+

TODO what ships with Ubuntu Quantal (12.10)?

GTK+ 3.6

ships with: Ubuntu Raring (13.04)

• GtkEntry and GtkTextView have input purposes and input hints for external input methods but do not change input themselves
  • according to Company, we connect to insert-text for that
• GtkLevelBar
• GtkMenuButton
• GtkSearchEntry

GTK+ 3.8

ships with: Ubuntu Saucy (13.10)

Not many interesting new things to us here, unless you count widget-internal tickers and single-click instead of double-click to select list items (a la KDE)... and oh yeah, also widget opacity.

GTK+ 3.10

ships with: Ubuntu Trusty (14.04 LTS)

• tab character stops in GtkEntry
• GtkHeaderBar
  • intended for titlebar overrides; GtkInfoBar is what I keep thinking GtkHeaderBar is
• GtkListBox
• GtkRevealer for smooth animations of disclosure triangles
• GtkSearchBar for custom search popups
• GtkStack and GtkStackSwitcher
• titlebar overrides (seems to be the hot new thing)

GTK+ 3.12

not yet in Ubuntu Utopic (14.10)

• GtkActionBar (basically like the bottom-of-the-window toolbars in Mac programs)
• gtk_get_locale_direction(), for internationalization
• more control over GtkHeaderBar
• GtkPopover
  • GtkPopovers on GtkMenuButtons
• GtkStack signaling
• gtk_tree_path_new_from_indicesv() (for when we add Table if we have trees too)

Cocoa

Mac OS X 10.7+

• Foundation (full details)
  • can use [ClassName class] == nil to test for feature existence at class level
  • NSUserDefaults is now thread-safe and respects user IDs
  • NSProcessInfo is now thread-safe
  • NSProcessInfo has automatic termination; might want to watch for this
  • NSLinguisticTrigger
  • NSCalendar changes (important for date/time pickers)
• AppKit (full details
  • Cocoa decides when to draw focus rings
  • lots of resolution independence stuff
  • window edge resize/live resize
  • restorable state
  • toolbar versioning
  • better scroll wheel management
  • multi-image dragging (TODO didn't GTK+ add this too)
  • built-in full screen (TODO what was fullscreen like before?)
  • NSTextFinder for a standard search for text bar
  • NSPasteboard: no longer need to invoke -[NSPasteboard types]
  • NSPasteboards use UTIs for type information
  • NOTE FROM LEOPARD: full-width cells, source lists
  • view-based NSTableViews and NSOutlineViews
  • URLs returned may not be file:// anymore! TODO note in futureplans.md
  • NSPopover
  • vertical text support improved
  • placeholder text in NSTextField now shown when focused
  • NSTextView now has an optional formatting bar

Mac OS X 10.8+

Mac OS X 10.9+