ANNOUNCE: GTK+ 0.99.4 Released

["Shawn T. Amundson" <amundson gimp org>]

GTK+ 0.99.4 is now on the ftp site: 
ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gtk/v0.99/gtk+-0.99.4.tar.gz

A lot of things have changed since GTK+ 0.99.3.  The patch file
created between the two version is 61991 lines long.  (Much larger
than last revision.)  Due to these large amount of changes, programs 
compiled with a previous version of GTK+ will not work once this 
version is installed.

If you use GIMP, you will need to obtain GIMP 0.99.19.

We are expecting to release GTK+ 1.0 soon.  Changes between GTK+ 0.99.4
and GTK+ 1.0 will probably be much less than the following list.  Please
report compile and other problems with GTK+ 0.99.4 to the GTK+ mailing 
list.

Overview of Changes in GTK+ 0.99.4:

* Reference counting revolution integrated.
  Refer to docs/refcounting.txt on this issue.
* Implementation of a decent debugging system, you would want
  to export GTK_DEBUG=objects if you are going to develop gtk applications,
  refer to docs/debugging.txt for further information.
* Additions on the signal code for querying information about certain signals,
  and pending handlers of signals.
* Support for user signals, and major changes to internal signal handler
  handling for proper signal removal and invokation of after signals.
* Additional signals for various widgets e.g, GtkHandleBox::child_attached,
  GtkHandleBox::child_detached, GtkWidget::style_set, GtkWidget::parent_set.
* GtkTooltips became a true descendant of GtkObject via derivation from
  GtkData and facilitates an extra tip string which can be used as e.g. an
  index into context help.
* Split up of the widget/object flags into a private and a public portion,
  consult docs/widget_system.txt on this.
* Support for hot keys on gtk programs via gtk_key_snooper_install().
* Reimplementation of the *_interp functions as *_full functions to provide
  simple callback functions as well.
* Idle functions are now prioritized.
* Many enhancements to GtkNotebook.
* New widget GtkSpinButton, check out testgtk.
* New widget GtkTipsQuery for letting the user query tooltips of widgets.
* Addition of GtkEditable base widget to encapsulate selection and
  clipboard handling. (GtkEntry and GtkText use this)
* Text widget more complete.
* Additions to GtkStatusBar to make it complete.
* Gdk now supports regions.
* Access masks for widget arguments (GTK_ARG_READABLE/GTK_ARG_WRITABLE).
* Function replacements:
  g_string_hash() -> g_str_hash()
  g_string_equal() -> g_str_equal()
  gtk_tooltips_set_tips() -> gtk_tooltips_set_tip()
* Support for quit handlers in gtk_main().
* Motif window mangaer hints support.
* Widget arguments are now flagged for readability/writability.
* Additions to documentation.
* Various FAQ updates. (FAQ now included)
* Clean ups and many many bug fixes by a lot of people all over the place.
* New, long and descriptive ChangeLog entries for bored readers ;)

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Shawn T. Amundson               
amundson@gimp.org               http://www.gimp.org/~amundson

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