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[Fwd: RE: ANNOUNCE: GNOME Platform Bindings 2.5.6 (Beta 1)]

I put the wrong Java NEWS in the email announcement, but I'll get it
right in the gnomedesktop announcement.

-- 
Murray Cumming
www.murrayc.com
murrayc murrayc com
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The list of Java-gnome changes are:

Beta1  (3 March 2004)
- New Classes:
	gtk.event.CellEditableEvent  [Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.event.ColorSelectionEvent  [Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.event.ExpanderEvent  [Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.event.TreeModelEvent  [Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.event.UIManagerEvent  [Jeffrey Morgan]
-New Interfaces:
	gtk.event.CellEditableListener  [Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.event.ColorSelectionListener  [Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.event.ExpanderListener  [Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.event.TreeModelListener  [Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.event.TreeViewListener  [Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.event.UIManagerListener  [Jeffrey Morgan]
- Updated Classes:
	gdk.Pixmap - Changed constructor to take a Drawable instead of a
Window  [Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.AccelMap - added API:  [Jeffrey Morgan]
		added lockPath and unlockPath methods
  		added getAccelMap method
  	gtk.ActionGroup - fixed bug when adding RadioActionEntrys to
ActionGroup  [Jeffrey Morgan=
  	gtk.Adjustment - added changed event  [Jeffrey Morgan]
   	gtk.CellEditable - added missing methods and events  [Jeffrey
Morgan]
  	gtk.CellRenderer - changed from abstract to concrete class  [Jeffrey
Morgan]
  	gtk.Clipboard - added API: [Luca De Rugeriis]
  		added get method
  		added getForDisplay method
  		added getDisplay method
  		added getContents method
  		added isTextAvailable method
  	gtk.ColorSelection - added color_changed event  [Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.ComboBox - added popup and popdown methods  [Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.Expander - added activate event  [Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.ListStore - updated native layer and added missing methods
[Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.RadioButton - fixed problems with constructors  [Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.RadioMenuItem - added two new constructors to create from
existing widgets.  [Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.SelectionData - added missing methods and access to properties
[Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.TreeModel - updated native layer and added events.  [Jeffrey
Morgan]
	gtk.TreePath - added appendIndex, prependIndex, and getIndices
methods  [Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.TreeSelection - added missing methods  [Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.TreeStore - updated native layer and added several missing
methods  [Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.TreeView - updated native layer, added many method, added events
[Jeffrey Morgan]
  	gtk.TreeViewColumn - added missing methods  [Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.TreeViewEvent - added support for TreeView events.
	gtk.UIManager - added API:  [Jefffrey Morgan]
		added getToplevels method
		added all event handling
	gtk.Window - added API:  [Jeffrey Morgan]
		added get/setDefaultIconList methods
		added listToplevelWindows method
		added setDefaultIcon method
		added get/setAcceptFocus methods
	gtk.event.Adjustment = added CHANGED event Type  [Jeffrey Morgan]
	gtk.TreeIter - Added reference to treeModel; moved some methods from
    	TreeModel to TreeIter [Mark Howard]
	gtk.TreeViewColumn:  [Mark Howard]  
		changed setSortColumnID(int) to setSortColumn(DataColumn)
		removed int getSortColumnID()
		added API for focusCell(CellRenderer)
	gtk.SimpleList:  [Mark Howard]
		added String[] getSelected()
		added String[] getEntries()
	gtk.event.LifeCycleListener  [Mark Howard]
		added boolean lifeCycleQuery(LifeCycleEvent) to handle
delete and
		destroy events. Modified gtk.Widget to use this.
- Renamed DataBlock* classes to DataColumn*  [Jeffrey Morgan]
- Other
	Added fallback brute force locate for gcj.jar if usual locations
fail [Mark Howard]


Sorry for not getting this to you sooner.

-Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murray Cumming [mailto:murrayc murrayc com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 2:23 PM
> To: Gnome-Announce-List; language-bindings gnome org
> Subject: ANNOUNCE: GNOME Platform Bindings 2.5.6 (Beta 1)
> 
> 
> *** GNOME Platform Bindings
> 
> Please note that the GNOME Platform Bindings are now in API freeze, 
> so only very important API changes will be allowed before the 
> fully-frozen GNOME Platform Bindings 2.6.0 release, 2 weeks after 
> GNOME 2.6.0.
> 
> (See the big list of changes below if you've read this blurb before.) 
> 
> Here is another scheduled release of the GNOME Platform Bindings, 
> which provide a GNOME development platform for programming languages 
> other than C, in the style of those languages. We very much hope 
> that Linux distributions will distribute these bindings as a 
> supported 
> development platform.
> 
> For the GNOME 2.5/2.6 schedule, we have bindings for C++, 
> Java, and Perl:
> http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/modules.html
> 
> These bindings follow these rules:
> http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/bindings/rules.html
> and this schedule:
> http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/
> 
> Note that those rules do not guarantee 100% API coverage, but they do 
> guarantee API/ABI stability.
> 
> There are also "Beta Bindings" for C#, which are likely to be on the 
> full release schedule for GNOME 2.7/2.8, but they are not yet 
> following 
> the official schedule or rules for 2.5/2.6.
> 
> Note that other bindings also exist:
> http://www.gtk.org/bindings.html
> but they are not on this release schedule and they do not necessarily 
> follow the same rules.
> 
> If you have questions about the GNOME Platform Bindings 
> release set please 
> send email to language-bindings gnome org  If you have 
> questions about the 
> individual bindings, please send email to their own mailing 
> lists. You can 
> find links to the individual projects here:
>  http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/modules.html
> 
> *** Download
> 
> You can download source tarballs from
> ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/bindings/2.5/2.5.5/
> 
> *** Changes, for each binding:
> 
> ** C++ (gtkmm):
> 
> glibmm 2.3.6:
> 
> * Added i18n.h and i18n-lib.h, which include the relevant
>   glib headers, which declare internationalization 
>   macros such as _(). (Murray Cumming)
> * Added Glib::spawn_close_id(). (Murray Cumming)
> * Added Glib::MainLoop::depth(). (Murray Cumming)
> * Documentation: corrections to CHANGES (Martin Schulze).
> * gmmproc: Can now handle "const const_iterator& iter"
>   parameter names without getting confused by 2 consts.
>   (Murray Cumming)
>  
> gtkmm 2.3.5:
> 
> * Gtk:
>   - ComboBox: Added popup() and popdown(). (Murray Cumming)
>   - ComboBoxEntry: Added a set_text_column() overload that takes a
> 	ModelColumnBase instead of an int.
>   - Added ComboBoxEntryText, like ComboBoxText. (Murray Cumming)
>   - Entry: Added set/get_alignment().
>   - FileChooser:
>     - Removed set_folder_mode() and get_folder_mode(),
>       which are no longer in GTK+. (Bryan Forbes)
>     - Added set/get_preview_label(). (Murray Cumming)
>   - Added IconInfo, TargetList (Bryan Forbes)
>   - IconTheme: methods now use IconInfo. (Bryan Forbes)
>   - Added Gtk::Stock::DIALOG_AUTHENTICATION stock item.
>     (Bryan Forbes)
>   - Scale: Added get_layout() and get_layout_offsets().
>   - Toolbar
>     - Added append(), prepend(), insert() overloads which take
>       slots, so that signal connecting requires less code.
>     - Removed old STL-style API, because the APIs do not 
>       co-exist well together at the GTK+ level.
>     (Bryan Forbes)
>   - TreePath: Corrected template typo found by gcc 3.4
>     (Matthew Tuck)
>   - Widget: Added add_mnemonic_labels(), remove_mnemonic_label(), 
>     list_mnemonic_labels(), draw_insertion_cursor().
>     (Murray Cumming)
>   - Window: Added "role" property. (Bryan Forbes)
> 
>   - Several const corrections. (Murray Cumming)
>   - Fixes to the libsigc++2 port. (Martin Schulze, Bryan Forbes)
>   - Added --enable-examples configure option. (Bryan Forbes) 
> 
>   - Documentation:
>     - Added some TreeView reference documentation.
>       (Billy O'Connor)
> 
> * Gdk:
>   - Drawable::draw_glyphs() now takes a c++ Pango::GlyphString.
>     (Bryan Forbes)
>   - Window
>     - get_children() now returns a C++ container instead of a GList.
>       (Bryan Forbes)
>     - get_internal_paint_info() now takes C++ parameters.
>       (Bryan Forbes)
>     - removed peek_children() because it's the same as get_children().
>       (Murray Cumming)
> 
> * Pango:
>   - FontFace: Added list_sizes().
>   - AttrIter: Added get_attrs().
>   - FontFamily: Added is_monospace().
>   - FontSet: Added foreach()
>   - Language: Added includes_script().
>   - Layout: Added set/get_auto_dir().
> 
> gnome-vfsmm 2.5.2:
> 
> * Added asynchronous versions of the API,
>   with sigc::slot callbacks.
>   (Bryan Forbes)
> * Added new gnome-vfs API: Drive, Volume,
>   VolumeMonitor.
>   (Bryan Forbes)
> 
> 
> ** Java (java-gnome):
> 
> 2.5.2 (5 January 2004)
>  - New Classes:
>  	Action (glue code and JNI)
>  	ActionGroup (glue code and JNI)
>  	Expander (glue code and JNI)
>  	UIManager(glue code and JNI)
>  	ComboBoxEvent
>  	ColorButtonEvent
>  	EntryCompletionEvent
>  	UIManagerItemType
>  - New Interfaces:
>  	ComboBoxListener
>  	ColorButtonListener
>  	EntryCompletionListener
>  - Deprecated the following Classes/Interfaces:
>  	ColorPickerEvent
>  	ColorPickerListener
>  - Added Event Handling for the following Classes:
>  	ComboBox
>  	ColorButton
>  	EntryCompletion
>  - Tree and Text Widgets updated 
>  - Fixed problem with wrong version of gtkjava library being loaded.
>  - Various build system improvements and fixes
> 
> 
> ** Perl (gtk2-perl):
> 
> Overview of Changes in Glib 1.038
> =================================
> 
> * The API is frozen at this release for the 1.04x series.
> * g_main_depth (new in glib 2.3.5) bound as Glib::main_depth.  [Ross]
> * Glib::GenPod now works with strict, no user-visible changes.  [Ross]
> * POD updates.  [muppet]
> 
> Overview of Changes in Gtk2 1.038
> =================================
> 
> * Despite the warning from Makefile.PL, this release marks an API
>   freeze.
> * Code sweep removed many FIXMEs and fixed lots of problems, and
>   uncovered a large handful of missing trivial functions.
> * Cleanup on examples.  [Ross]
> * New bindings, with tests, for things new in gtk+ in the latest
>   unstable release, and for things we found at the last minute while
>   auditing the code  [mostly Torsten]:
>    Gtk2::ComboBoxEntry::new_text (new in 2.3.5)
>    Gtk2::Entry::[gs]et_alignment
>    Gtk2::FileChooser::[gs]et_use_preview_label (new in gtk+ 2.3.5)
>    Gtk2::FileChooser::new_with_backend (new in gtk+ 2.3.5)
>    Gtk2::Gdk::Event::handler_set
>    Gtk2::Gdk::Event::set_state (and added setter capability 
> to state())
>    Gtk2::Gdk::Event::set_time (and added setter capability to time())
>    Gtk2::MenuItem::toggle_size_allocate
>    Gtk2::MenuItem::toggle_size_request
>    Gtk2::Pango::Layout::[sg]et_auto_dir (new in pango 1.3.5)
>    Gtk2::Rc::reset_styles
>    Gtk2::TreeModel::ref_node
>    Gtk2::TreeModel::unref_node
>    Gtk2::TreeViewColumn::cell_get_size
>    Gtk2::TreeViewColumn::cell_set_cell_data
>    Gtk2::Widget::add_mnemonic_label
>    Gtk2::Widget::can_activate_accel (new in gtk+ 2.3.5)
>    Gtk2::Widget::child_focus
>    Gtk2::Widget::drag_source_[sg]et_target_list
>    Gtk2::Widget::list_mnemonic_labels
>    Gtk2::Widget::region_intersect
>    Gtk2::Widget::remove_mnemonic_label
>    Gtk2::Widget::requisition
>    Gtk2::Widget::saved_state
>    Gtk2::Widget::size_allocate
>    Gtk2::Window::activate_key
>    Gtk2::Window::propagate_key_event
>    Gtk2::draw_insertion_cursor
>    Gtk2::main_do_event
>   Removed API:
>    Gtk2::FileChooser::[gs]et_folder_mode (removed from gtk+ in 2.3.5)
>    Gtk2::Allocations have been replaced by Gtk2::Gdk::Rectangles; they
>    were just reblessed rectangles anyway.
> * Test fixes.  [muppet, Torsten, Ross]
> * Random pod updates all over the place.  [muppet]
> * Gtk2::CellRenderer now hides "this api is deprecated!" 
> warnings unless
>   env var GTK2PERL_DEBUG is set and true.  [muppet]
> * Finally fixed Gtk2::Gdk::DragContext::find_window and friends.  
>   [muppet]
> * New regression test for custom TreeModel interface implementations.
>   There are several TODO tests that fail, as a reminder to 
> muppet to fix
>   them properly.  [Torsten]
> * Build GdkX11.xs (and the associated Gtk2::Gdk::X11 namespace) only
>   when linking against the x11 gtk+ target.  [muppet]
> * Numerous bugfixes.  It was a busy weekend.  Some features important
>   for deriving containers in Perl code have been punted for the 1.060
>   API freeze.
> 
> Overview of Changes in Gnome2 0.93
> ==================================
> 
> * Changed the binding of gnome_popup_menu_append from 
> Gtk2::Menu::append
>   to Gtk2::Menu::append_from.  This is API breakage.  Any existing
>   application using Gtk2::Menu::append and expecting to get
>   gnome_popup_menu_append needs to be changed.
> * Added new GnomePasswordDialog methods.
> * Switched to the new version information policy introduced 
> by Glib and
>   Gtk2.
> * Made minor bug fixes and improvements.
> * In accordance with the GNOME Bindings release plan, Gnome2 
> froze API.
> 
> Overview of Changes in Gnome2::VFS 0.96
> =======================================
> 
> * This is a timed release.  No interesting changes have been made.
> Overview of changes in Gnome2::GConf 0.92
> ==============================
> 
> * Require Glib 1.037 [Emmanuele]
> * Use the new Glib::Error exception handling. [Emmanuele]
> * Updated documentation. [muppet]
> -- 
> Murray Cumming
> www.murrayc.com
> murrayc murrayc com
> 
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