RELEASE.TXT

release 0.72

- updated tests to not use msg maps
- updated tests to include new style event handlers
- fixed bug in menu popup handler, now correctly enables/disables menus
- finished sampleapp
- added msg debugging support, added chain_msg_map back in for legacy support (still deprecated)
- fixed bugs, modified setting of coolbar/toolbar styles
- added setitemcount to listview
- refactored menu creation in form library
- implemented some more general window methods (IsIconic, IsWindowVisible)
- added shell module and tray icon library
- fixed window menu bug
- added supported for default menu's
- added tray icon support
- setting _window_class on a window no longer automatically assumes this is 
an existing window class that needs subclassing, instead it checks if the window 
class exists, ifso the new window will be subclassed.
otherwise a new windowclass will be created with the given name.
If no window class is given wtl will still generate a window class name itself
- LVITEM is no longer a MaskedStructure (which will be phased out)
- fixed menu builder bug
- addded item notification structure to comctl
- added nice helper method to Event to get event structure for notification
- added some more bitmap structures/constants/methods
- added tray icon example script (test_tray.py)
- Application now has Quit method to post WM_QUIT and exit the application

release 0.7

- fixed creation process, venster windows can now process WM_CREATE messages during window creation.
- refactored gdi stuff out of wtl.py
- refactored wtl.py, split into core functionality (wtl_core.py) extra function are added by decorators in wtl.py

- removed CHAINED msg maps. events now automatically bubble up to the parent class msg handlers

- THE BIG ONE: added function decorators for building the MSG_MAP (supports 2.4 decorator syntax)
	
	for most code, MSG_MAPS are now obsolete.
	use one of the new decorators 'msg_handler', 'cmd_handler' or 'ntf_handler' to map python handlers to windows events.
	for an example see test_decorator.py
	decorators work for python 2.3 and 2.4 but only 2.4 can use the '@' decorator syntax.
	
	please note that MSG_MAPS are still available in, you should however not normally need them anymore.
	
- WARNING! sanatized the class variable names used by Window and Form. This change is not backwards compatible, and you will 
probably need to update your code to use the new names.

- integrated patches. (mostly bug fixes and some more control wrapping).

- updated documentation (added a tutorial/hello world example).