Revision control
++ Qt 3.3.5 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward
++ compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 3.3.4, Qt 3.3.3, Qt 3.3.2,
++ Qt 3.3.1 and Qt 3.3.0.
++
++ ****************************************************************************
++ * General *
++ ****************************************************************************
++
++ Platforms
++ ---------
++
++ - Qt now supports Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
++
++ Compilers
++ ---------
++
++ - Added support for VS 2005
++ - Added support for GCC 4
++
++ Windows Installer
++ -----------------
++
++ - The environment variables no longer contain invalid paths.
++ - The user is warned if QTDIR is not set and the evaluation edition is
++ already installed, to avoid conflicts between the two packages.
++ - A bug was fixed where a '\0' was appended to the end of a path.
++ - Fixed the dependencies for image formats and styles.
++
++ Qt Designer
++ -----------
++
++ - Fixed a problem with long string literals on certain Visual Studio
++ C++ compilers.
++ - UIC now uses the include hints from the .ui file when generating
++ source files.
++ - The "paste" action is now enabled and disabled correctly.
++ - QWidgetFactory::supportsWidget() now returns true for QSplitter.
++ - Parse files with more than one '.' in the file name correctly.
++ - The project name is now displayed correctly also when the project is
++ created in a root directory.
++ - Fixed a bug where Windows end-of-line terminators would be included
++ in string literals, which broke translation.
++ - Several crashes were fixed related to cutting/copying/pasting menu
++ items.
++ - Fixed some problems with designer generating corrupted pro files.
++ - A crash was fixed for when designer loads a pro file with the same
++ file listed more than once.
++ - The action editor is now closed when there is no main window form.
++ - Stability fixes
++
++ Qt Linguist
++ -----------
++
++ - lupdate now understands strings longer than 16384 characters.
++ - Fixed escaping bugs for string that contain both ampersands and
++ double quotes.
++
++ Qt Assistant
++ ------------
++
++ - When printing, assistant now always uses the Active color group.
++ - Fixed a rendering bug for paragraphs that start with a line break.
++ - Support for setting the documentation root path, allowing
++ documentation files to be moved.
++ - When opening a link in a new window, assistant will now properly
++ scroll to the correct anchor after the window has been shown.
++ - Fixed full text search for documents not listed in the 'ref'
++ attribute of the <section> tag in the current .adp file.
++ - The state of the forward/backward buttons now work properly when the
++ tabs are changed.
++
++ ****************************************************************************
++ * Library *
++ ****************************************************************************
++
++ General Fixes
++ -------------
++
++ Added security patches for zlib: CAN-2005-1849, CAN-2005-2096
++ The FreeType library was upgraded from version 2.0.9 to 2.1.9
++
++ - Build system
++ Improved build keys for gcc 4 compilers, so plugins no longer
++ need rebuilding after upgrading gcc to a new patch release.
++
++ - QCanvas
++ Fixed wrong text scaling and cut-off text.
++ Fixed drawing with a brush when double buffering is enabled.
++
++ - QCommonStyle
++ Fixed the appearance of QSlider after setBackgroundOrigin has
++ been called.
++ Fixed an overflow in calculating the handle position for
++ QScrollBar.
++
++ - QCString
++ Fixed a crash in qUncompress() if the resulting QByteArray was
++ too large to fit in memory.
++ Fixed potential security problems by using vsnprintf() instead
++ of the less secure vsprintf().
++
++ - QDataStream
++ Fixed a data corruption bug when using stream version Qt_3_1 and using
++ operator<<(qint64).
++
++ - QDateTime
++ Fixed QDateTime::secsTo() when crossing daylight savings hours
++ boundaries.
++
++ - QDockWindow
++ Undocked windows now remember their size also if the user
++ changes it.
++
++ - QDom
++ The default constructor for QDocDocument now creates an empty
++ document that can be used to create elements.
++ A warning is now displayed when trying to construct or save an
++ invalid document.
++ Characters that are not allowed in XML are now escaped
++ properly when saving.
++
++ - QFileDialog
++ Shortcuts now show the icons of what they point to.
++ Entry sorting is now locale-aware, as opposed to sorting based
++ on Unicode order.
++ You can now select files by pressing 'enter' when using
++ QFileDialog::getOpenFileNames().
++ Fixed a missing repaint in contents preview after selecting a
++ file, then a directory, then the same file again.
++ dirPath() no longer chops off the last directory in a path.
++
++ - QGVector
++ Fixed a bug that caused a memory leak and data corruption if
++ resize() failed.
++
++ - QHeader
++ The header text is now rendered correctly next to the icon in
++ reverse layout mode.
++
++ - QImage
++ Fixed comparison of images with alpha data, but with the alpha
++ channel disabled.
++
++ - QKeySequence
++ Key sequences that ended with a ',' now work properly.
++
++ - QLineEdit
++ Fixed the behavior of the delete key on the keypad.
++ Fixed support for transparent line edits.
++ Fixed a crash when opening the context menu in a QTextEdit
++ subclass that returns 0 for createPopupMenu().
++
++ - QListBox
++ Fixed a crash when removing the current item while selecting
++ items with a rubberband.
++
++ - QListView
++ Fixed the behavior of the Home and End keys when QListView
++ contains disabled and hidden items.
++ Fixed a problem with the QListView::...Clicked() signals were
++ emitted also when the root decorated section was not in the
++ left-most column.
++ HTML control characters in QListView's tool tip text are now
++ escaped properly.
++ sortChildren() now also sorts children of items with no
++ siblings.
++ Fixed a missing redraw after removing columns.
++ contentsWidth() now returns the correct value after
++ setContentsWidth() has been called.
++ Fixed a crash after a sequence of deleting and selecting
++ items.
++ Fixed the size of headers with multi-line text.
++ Fixed a lock-up and possible crash caused by an internal state
++ restore on controllers with no children.
++ Fixed keyboard navigation when jumping to entries by pressing
++ the key for the first character in the text of an item.
++
++ - QLocale
++ Fixed support for NaN, which failed on certain compilers.
++ Passing Q_LLONG to toString() now properly includes the group
++ symbols.
++ Fixed locale detection when locale environment variables are
++ not set.
++ Added workarounds for compiler optimization bugs when parsing
++ doubles.
++
++ - QLocalFS
++ Fixed a crash when canceling a QUrlOperator transfer before
++ completion.
++
++ - QMenuData
++ Fixed a crash when closing an MDI application while the menu
++ bar has Alt-focus.
++
++ - QMessageBox
++ Message boxes now work correctly in right-to-left mode.
++
++ - QPaintDevice
++ Fixed drawing errors when using bitBlt() on a printer.
++
++ - QPainter
++ Fixed drawing of rectangles with a negative (or 0) width.
++
++ - QPopupMenu
++ The height of new columns is now initialized properly when
++ menu items are shown in multiple columns.
++
++ - QProcess
++ Close socket connections properly when a
++ process is created after creating the socket connection.
++
++ - QPSPrinter
++ Generate PS font names correctly.
++
++ - QPushButton
++ Fixed a crash caused by deleting the button while the popup
++ menu is shown.
++
++ - QRichText
++ Tab stops are now adjusted correctly when printing in high
++ resolution mode.
++ Reduced the number of memory allocations when deleting large
++ blocks of text.
++ Fixed parsing of hexadecimal HTML entities
++ Fixed a bug where the font changed after calling setText()
++ repeatedly.
++
++ - QScriptEngine
++ Fixed an issue with shaping of Hebrew text, which lead to
++ layout problems in QTextLayout.
++ Fixed rendering of Hebrew text with punctuation.
++ Fixed bugs in Gurmukhi shaping.
++
++ - QScrollView
++ Fixed the size hint when scrollbars are set to be permanently
++ on.
++ Fixed a drawing error seen on certain graphics drivers when a
++ scroll view spans multiple screens.
++ Fixed a bug where wheel events' horizontal/vertical status
++ were not forwarded to viewportWheelEvent().
++ Fixed a crash when mouse wheel events were sent to a scroll
++ view with disabled scroll bars.
++
++ - QSettings
++ Fixed a bug when comparing keys with common prefixes.
++
++ - QSGIStyle
++ Fixed the size of QComboBox.
++
++ - QSizeGrip
++ Fixed a bug that caused the window to move when resizing to
++ the minimum size using the size grip.
++
++ - QSocketDevice
++ Improved error reporting when the connection is unexpectedly
++ closed.
++ Fixed a bug where the socket would be closed if 0 was passed
++ as maxlen to readBlock().
++
++ - QString
++ Fixed a lock-up in QString::section().
++ Let replace() behave as documented when the index is larger
++ than the length of the string.
++
++ - QTable
++ Fixed positioning of QComboTableItems that span several rows.
++
++ - QTextCodec
++ Fixed occasional crash in fromUnicode().
++ Fixed Big5 support to comply with the standards.
++
++ - QTextEdit
++ Fixed bug in undo/redo history when input methods are used.
++ Fixed a crash caused by inserting text with an input method
++ during a focus change.
++ Fixed the behavior of the delete key on the keypad.
++ Fixed setMaxLogLines() when there are already too many lines.
++ Fixed crash when clearing a QTextEdit when the IME is active.
++ Fixed crash when the text edit is deleted while dragging text.
++
++ - QTextLayout
++ Fixed layout of lines that are too long and do not contain a
++ possible break point.
++
++ - QTimeEdit
++ Fixed several issues with stepUp() and stepDown().
++
++ - QToolButton
++ Fixed a crash when assigning a tooltip to a tool button which
++ does not have QMainWindow as an ancestor.
++
++ - QToolTip
++ Fixed an occasional crash.
++
++ - QTranslator
++ Fixed a bug when calling messages() before tr() when using
++ compressed .qm files.
++
++ - QUrlOperator
++ Fixed a crash when accessing invalid paths on an FTP server
++ using QFileDialog.
++ Fixed a bug where the source would be removed if the source
++ and destination were the same.
++
++ - QVariant
++ Fixed a memory leak in clear().
++
++ - QWidget
++ Fixed excessive flicker when reparenting a widget that has
++ tool windows.
++
++ - QWorkspace
++ Fixed flickering when switching between maximized windows.
++ Fixed a lock-up when modal dialogs were created with
++ QWorkspace as parent.
++ Fixed a bug where modeless dialogs with QWorkspace as parent
++ would be drawn with no title bar.
++
++ - SQL, DB2 driver
++ Compile fixes.
++ Fixed a bug where QSqlCursor::insert() would fail to insert
++ two blob fields at the same time.
++
++ - SQL, MySQL driver
++ Fixed a crash when using empty database names.
++
++ - SQL, Oracle driver
++ Fixed truncation of numeric data types to 22 digits.
++ Fixed UTF-8 support by ensuring that there is enough space to
++ store the text.
++
++ - SQL, ODBC driver
++ Fixed problems with sorting and comparing strings larger than
++ 8192 characters.
++
++ - SQl, PostgreSQL driver
++ Temporary tables are now only visible for the connection that
++ created them.
++
++ - SQL, TDS driver
++ Fixed problems with compiling the plugin with later versions
++ of the TDS library.
++
++ - SVG support
++ Fixed support for SVG viewbox.
++ Added basic support for stroke-dasharray.
++
++
++ Platform-Specific Issues
++ ------------------------
++
++ Windows:
++
++ - ActiveQt
++ Unrelated types are no longer converted.
++ The control container is now only reset if the CLSID changes.
++ Fixed a bug where QAxObject::clear() did not reset the
++ metaobject when it was cached.
++ Fixed a memory leak.
++ Fixed a bug that caused flicker when navigating away from a
++ page embedding a control.
++ The VARIANT out-parameters in signals now map to "QVariant &"
++ and not "const QVariant &".
++ Signal parameters of type "bool" are marshalled to the bool
++ slot also when the control sends an integer parameter.
++
++ - Drag & drop
++ Fixed a bug with sending single-color pixmaps.
++ Fixed a crash caused by reading a drag object after it has
++ been deleted (before the drop event).
++ Dragged pixmaps are now cleaned up before drawn to avoid
++ problems with broken alpha values and resetting masked pixels.
++
++ - QApplication
++ Fixed a lockup caused by showing a dialog while resizing a
++ window.
++ QWidget::grabKeyboard() now also grabs the menu button.
++ Fixed a bug where mouse events were sent to the wrong widget
++ after calling QEventLoop::processEvents() with
++ ExcludeUserInput.
++ Windows Server 2003 can now also use the Windows XP style.
++ Fixed a memory leak in QEventLoop.
++
++ - QColor
++ Fixed failed initialization of the Qt colors (e.g., Qt::red) when
++ using the MinGW compiler.
++
++ - QFile
++ Fixed a bug where a read error was not handled properly.
++
++ - QFileInfo
++ permission() now uses the correct file name on Windows 9x.
++
++ - QFontDataBase
++ Added support for scalable fonts.
++
++ - QFontEngine
++ Fixed a problem with symbol fonts.
++ Fixed support for user defined characters.
++
++ - QLibrary
++ Fixed the directory separators.
++ Fixed some library loading errors.
++
++ - QLocale
++ The locale() function now returns the correct ISO name instead
++ of a number.
++
++ - QNPWidget (NPAPI)
++ Fixed a bug where the widget was not clipped properly by the
++ browser.
++
++ - QPainter
++ Fixed a bug where QPainter failed to fill ellipses of size
++ 2x2.
++ Fixed a potential lock-up after failed GDI allocations.
++
++ - QPrinter
++ Rich text tables are now printed correctly when the table
++ spans pages.
++ Fixed text printing errors on page 2 and out caused by the
++ background mode being reset to OPAQUE.
++
++ - QProcess
++ The directory separators for the current working directory are
++ now converted properly, so that a UNC path can be used on
++ Windows.
++
++ - QTranslator
++ Fixed an issue with isReadable() on NTFS.
++
++ - QWindowsXPStyle
++ XP style now works when compiled as a plugin.
++ Fixed menu bar placement.
++ Fixed a bug in setting the background color of QTabWidget.
++ Fixed the position of the size grip in large QSizeGrip
++ widgets.
++ QGroupBox now uses the correct colors.
++
++ - QWorkspace
++ Fixed bug where hidden windows would be shown after restoring
++ from maximized mode.
++
++ - qmake
++ The Makefile generator now only searches for the latest
++ version of the Qt library, as opposed to searching all
++ libraries.
++ Dependency checking for pre-compiled headers were fixed.
++ Fixed support for listing .pro files in SUBDIRS in subdir .pro
++ files.
++ Fixed support for multiple -L and -I entries in QMAKE_LIBS.
++
++ Mac:
++
++ - Build system
++ When using Xcode, the optimization level is set to 0 in debug
++ mode.
++ Added support for Xcode 2.1 and up.
++ Fixed copying of target files when DESTDIR is set.
++
++ - Drag & drop
++ Fixed a crash when deleting the drag object before dropping.
++
++ - QApplication
++ The default font is now only set if the user has not set one.
++ Fixed a problem where popup menus would not go away after
++ releasing the mouse button outside the popup.
++ Added support for dual axis mouse wheels.
++ Fixed a bug in tablet identification.
++ Added support for tablet erasers.
++ Fixed a deadlock in postEvent() when there was contention for
++ a wakeup.
++ Fixed a crash when switching displays at the same time as
++ QApplication is destroyed.
++ Stability fixes.
++
++ - QColorDialog
++ Fixed modality support.
++
++ - QFileDialog
++ Let the file dialog remember the previous directory.
++ Fixed keyboard navigation when jumping to entries using the
++ first letter of a file name.
++ Fixed a memory leak.
++
++ - QFontDatabase
++ Fall back to the "Geneva" font, which is guaranteed to be
++ available, instead of "Helvetica".
++
++ - QFontEngine
++ Fixed a memory leak.
++ Fixed rendering of glyphs that modify previous glyphs,
++ including Indic text.
++
++ - QMacStyle
++ Title bars are now shown as deactivated when the window is
++ deactivated.
++ Fixed a bug where buttons in button groups inside a container
++ would look like they were pressed.
++ Fixed a crash caused by drawing onto a non-pixmap background.
++ Fixed the width of QComboBox.
++ Improved drawing of size grips.
++ Improved drawing of sliders, and made QSlider slightly wider
++ by default.
++
++ - QMenuBar
++ Fixed a lockup caused by menu items ending with an '&'.
++ Menu items with disabled popups are now also disabled.
++
++ - QMessageBox
++ The resize handle is now shown.
++
++ - QPainter
++ Fixed double transformation of ellipses with a transformed
++ width or height of 1.
++
++ - QPixmap
++ Fixed a crash when loading a cursor from an embedded image.
++ The color depth is now set properly when converting a QBitmap.
++
++ - QPrinter
++ Fixed a crash when using bitBlt() to copy a QBitmap onto a
++ printer.
++
++ - QProcess
++ Fixed support for launching bundles.
++
++ - QPushButton
++ Icons are now drawn properly.
++
++ - QTextBrowser
++ Fixed a bug where a text browser popup triggered by a
++ hyperlink would pop up again when the user clicks inside the
++ first popup.
++
++ - QToolButton
++ Fixed a painting problem when the button was pressed.
++
++ - QWidget
++ Menubar popups no longer steal focus from QTextEdit.
++ Fixed collapsing of windows with no title bar decorations.
++ Several window activation bugs have been fixed.
++ Fixed a bug where modal dialogs would be modal to its own
++ children.
++ Fixed tablet support for multiple screens.
++ Fixed a memory leak.
++
++ X11:
++
++ - Build system
++ Removed aliasing/redefinitions of the 'which' command to fix
++ failures in the configure script on certain Unix systems.
++ Added some missing flags for the yacc tool on 64-bit Linux.
++ The -fn application command line option, which selects the
++ default application font, works again.
++ Fixed copying of target files when DESTDIR is set.
++
++ - Drag and drop
++ Fixed a crash in the dragging application when the drop target
++ crashes.
++ Fixed a bug in finding the widget under the cursor while
++ dragging.
++ Some problems were fixed with the internal timestamp in the
++ drop event.
++
++ - OpenGL
++ Fixed colors when rendering using glColor() onto an 8 bit
++ pixmap.
++
++ - QApplication
++ Support the F11 and F12 keys on Sun keyboards.
++
++ - QCanvasView
++ Support multiple shared views of a single canvas on multiple X11
++ screens.
++
++ - QClipboard
++ Fixed a rare crash related to cut & paste with the Motif
++ extension.
++
++ - QFontDatabase
++ Fixed a bug where QFontInfo would return an empty family and
++ point size after trying to select a font that was not
++ installed on the system.
++
++ - QFontEngine
++ Fixed a bug where scaling italic fonts would sometimes cut
++ overhangs.
++
++ - QInputContext
++ Fixed a bug that led to a corrupted display in QLineEdit and
++ QTextEdit when using Japanese input methods with very long
++ input selections.
++
++ - QPainter
++ Fixed a crash when setting a pen on an inactive painter.
++
++ - QPrinter
++ Fixed printing on Tru64 by removing the -o argument to the lp
++ command.
++
++ - QScriptEngine
++ Added support for Khmer fonts.
++ Fixed shaping of Telugu text.
++ Fixed a crash when scaling Japanese XLFD fonts by a factor of
++ 1000.
++
++ Embedded:
++
++ - QApplication
++ Fixed a memory leak.
++
++ - VNC driver
++ Fixed a memory leak.
++
++ - QWidget
++ Fixed a potential crash when reparenting widgets.