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135 lines
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# Useful things in newer versions
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## Windows
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### Windows 7
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http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/pdc2008/pc43
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TODO look up PDC 2008 talk "new shell user interface"
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- new animation and text engine
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- ribbon control (didn't this have some additional license?)
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- LVITEM.piColFmt
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### Windows 8
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### Windows 8.1
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### Windows 10
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## GTK+
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TODO what ships with Ubuntu Quantal (12.10)?
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### GTK+ 3.6
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ships with: Ubuntu Raring (13.04)
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- GtkEntry and GtkTextView have input purposes and input hints for external input methods but do not change input themselves
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- according to Company, we connect to insert-text for that
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- GtkLevelBar
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- GtkMenuButton
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- **GtkSearchEntry**
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### GTK+ 3.8
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ships with: Ubuntu Saucy (13.10)
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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.
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### GTK+ 3.10
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ships with: Ubuntu Trusty (14.04 LTS)
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- tab character stops in GtkEntry
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- GtkHeaderBar
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- intended for titlebar overrides; GtkInfoBar is what I keep thinking GtkHeaderBar is
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- **GtkListBox**
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- GtkRevealer for smooth animations of disclosure triangles
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- GtkSearchBar for custom search popups
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- **GtkStack and GtkStackSwitcher**
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- titlebar overrides (seems to be the hot new thing)
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### GTK+ 3.12
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not yet in Ubuntu Utopic (14.10)
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- GtkActionBar (basically like the bottom-of-the-window toolbars in Mac programs)
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- gtk_get_locale_direction(), for internationalization
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- more control over GtkHeaderBar
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- **GtkPopover**
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- GtkPopovers on GtkMenuButtons
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- GtkStack signaling
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- **gtk_tree_path_new_from_indicesv()** (for when we add Table if we have trees too)
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### GTK+ 3.14
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- gestures
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- better GtkListbox selection handling
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- more style classes (TODO also prior?)
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- delayed switch changes on GtkSwitch
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### GTK+ 3.16
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- gtk_clipboard_get_default() (???)
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- **GtkGLArea**
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- proper xalign and yalign for GtkLabel; should get rid of runtime deprecation warnings
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- better control of GtkListBox model-based creation (probably not relevant but)
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- GtkModelButton (for GActions; probably not relevant?)
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- wide handles on GtkPaned
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- GtkPopoverMenu
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- IPP paper names in GtkPaperSize (TODO will this be important for printing?)
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- multiple matches in GtkSearchEntry (TODO evaluate priority)
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- **GtkStackSidebar**
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- GTK_STYLE_CLASS_LABEL, GTK_STYLE_CLASS_MONOSPACE, GTK_STYLE_CLASS_STATUSBAR, GTK_STYLE_CLASS_TOUCH_SELECTION, GTK_STYLE_CLASS_WIDE (TODO figure out which of these are useful)
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- GtkTextView: extend-selection
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- GtkTextView: font fallbacks
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### GTK+ 3.18
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### GTK+ 3.20
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## Cocoa
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### Mac OS X 10.8
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- Foundation ([full details](https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/Foundation/RN-FoundationOlderNotes/#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008080-TRANSLATED_CHAPTER_965-TRANSLATED_DEST_999B))
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- NSDateComponents supports leap months
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- NSNumberFormatter and NSDateFormatter default to 10.4 behavior by default (need to explicitly do this on 10.7)
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- **NSUserNotification and NSUserNotificationCenter for Growl-style notifications**
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- better linguistic triggers for Spanish and Italian
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- NSByteCountFormatter
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- AppKit ([full details](https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/AppKit/RN-AppKitOlderNotes/#X10_8Notes))
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- view-based NSTableView/NSOutlineView have expansion tooltips
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- NSScrollView magnification
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- Quick Look events; TODO see if they conflict with keyboard handling in Area
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- NSPageController (maybe useful?)
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- not useful for package UI, but may be useful for a new library (probably not by me): NSSharingService
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- NSOpenPanel and NSSavePanel are now longer NSPanels or NSWindows in sandboxed applications; this may be an issue should anyone dare to enable sandboxing on a program that uses package ui
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- NSTextAlternatives
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- -[NSOpenGLContext setFullScreen] now ineffective
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- +[NSColor underPageBackgroundColor]
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### Mac OS X 10.9
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- Foundation ([full details](https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/Foundation/RN-Foundation/))
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- system-provided progress reporting/cancellation support
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- NSURLComponents
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- **NSCalendar, NSDateFormatter, and NSNumberFormatter are now thread-safe**
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- various NSCalendar and NSDateComponents improvements
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- AppKit ([full details](https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/AppKit/RN-AppKit/))
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- sheet handling is now block-based, queued, and in NSWindow; the delegate-based NSApplication API will still exist, except without the queue
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- similar changes to NSAlert
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- **return value changes to NSAlert**
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- window visibility APIs (occlusion)
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- NSApplicationActivationPolicyAccessory
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- fullscreen toolbar behavior changes
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- status items for multiple menu bars
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- better NSSharingService support
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- a special accelerated scrolling mode, Responsive Scrolling; won't matter for us since I plan to support the scroll wheel and it won't
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- NSScrollView live scrolling notifications
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- NSScrollView floating (anchored/non-scrolling) subviews
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- better multimonitor support
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- better key-value observing for NSOpenPanel/NSSavePanel (might want to look this up to see if we can override some other juicy details... TODO)
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- better accessory view key-view handling in NSOpenPanel/NSSavePanel
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- NSAppearance
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- **-[NSTableView moveRowAtIndex:toIndex:] bug regarding first responders fixed**
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- view-specific RTL overrides
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### Mac OS X 10.10
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### Mac OS X 10.11
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