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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

  • Foundation (full details)
    • NSDateComponents supports leap months
    • NSNumberFormatter and NSDateFormatter default to 10.4 behavior by default (need to explicitly do this on 10.7)
    • NSUserNotification and NSUserNotificationCenter for Growl-style notifications
    • better linguistic triggers for Spanish and Italian
    • NSByteCountFormatter
  • AppKit (full details)
    • view-based NSTableView/NSOutlineView have expansion tooltips
    • NSScrollView magnification
    • Quick Look events; TODO see if they conflict with keyboard handling in Area
    • NSPageController (maybe useful?)
    • not useful for package UI, but may be useful for a new library (probably not by me): NSSharingService
    • 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
    • NSTextAlternatives
    • -[NSOpenGLContext setFullScreen] now ineffective
    • +[NSColor underPageBackgroundColor]

Mac OS X 10.9

  • Foundation (full details)
    • system-provided progress reporting/cancellation support
    • NSURLComponents
    • NSCalendar, NSDateFormatter, and NSNumberFormatter are now thread-safe
    • various NSCalendar and NSDateComponents improvements
  • AppKit (full details)
    • sheet handling is now block-based, queued, and in NSWindow; the delegate-based NSApplication API will still exist, except without the queue
    • similar changes to NSAlert
    • return value changes to NSAlert
    • window visibility APIs (occlusion)
    • NSApplicationActivationPolicyAccessory
    • fullscreen toolbar behavior changes
    • status items for multiple menu bars
    • better NSSharingService support
    • a special accelerated scrolling mode, Responsive Scrolling; won't matter for us since I plan to support the scroll wheel and it won't
    • NSScrollView live scrolling notifications
    • NSScrollView floating (anchored/non-scrolling) subviews
    • better multimonitor support
    • better key-value observing for NSOpenPanel/NSSavePanel (might want to look this up to see if we can override some other juicy details... TODO)
    • better accessory view key-view handling in NSOpenPanel/NSSavePanel
    • NSAppearance
    • -[NSTableView moveRowAtIndex:toIndex:] bug regarding first responders fixed
    • view-specific RTL overrides