andlabs-ui/compatibility.md

Useful things in newer versions

Windows

Windows Vista

http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/pdc2008/pc43 (end of video talks about passwords and LockSetForegroundWindow()?)

• buffered paintaing
• cross-fade animation functions
• list view tiles
• list view group expansions: collapsible, subtitles, footers, help links
  • video has more group issues (I had some with winiconview..)
• cue banners in combo boxes and list views ("empty markup")
  • links for the latter
• alpha-blended menu bitmaps
• 256x256 icons and smoother icon scaling algorithms involving scaling down from a larger size instead of scaling up to a larger size
  • SHDefExtractIcon() does this for you AND still works on XP
• TaskDialog
• cue banners actually work properly regardless of East Asian language support

Windows 7

http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/pdc2008/pc43

TODO look up PDC 2008 talk "new shell user interface"

• new animation and text engine
• ribbon control (didn't this have some additional license?)

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