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Changes to the next version.

0.9.7 on 20080226

DflCompat added for compatibility.

• Fixed scrolling issue with display rectangle (and docked controls).
• Fixed label edit (in-place text editing) for ListView and TreeView.
• Now supports dfl.drawing.Picture with Tango.
• Added examples/tango/pictureviewer.d demonstrating Picture using Tango.
• Property Form.showInTaskbar now works correctly with all border styles.
• Key events bubble up the hierarchy if they are not handled.
• Form.dialogResult set to non-NONE now closes the form if shown with showDialog.
• Button click event now sets Form.dialogResult to the Button.dialogResult.
• Updated dfl.exe; now supports Tango.
• Fixed critical MDI issue.
• Control.onKeyPress and keyPress now take KeyPressEventArgs.
• Fixed MenuItem.radioCheck.
• Added function Control.disableVisualStyle to toggle visual style per control.
• Updated Tango support to Tango 0.99.4.
• Fixed mnemonics (control, menu); added Control.processMnemonic.
• Updated dfl.exe; bug fixes and more options.
• Added Tangobos support.
• Form.onLoad/load called at different time: before first show.
• Added Control.selectNextControl.
• Reimplemented tab ordering, mnemonics, and other dialog processing.
• Changed onVisibleChanged/visibleChanged.
• Changed MDI activation.
• Bug fixes.

0.9.6 on 20070806

More versions added for compatibility (SET_DFL_095).

• Added ability to custom sort and re-sort ListView.
• Added examples/listviewdirsort.d to demonstrate advanced ListView sorting.
• Added dfl/statusbar.d with StatusBar control.
• Added examples/status.d to demonstrate StatusBar.
• Added property Application.userAppDataBasePath.
• Added class Screen to dfl.drawing.
• Control handles now recreate automatically if a property change requires it.
• License updated in license.txt
• Minor changes to work with DMD v1.012.
• Added examples/regextester.d
• Updated support to Tango 0.96 beta2; or version=DFL_TANGO0951beta1 for 0.95.1 beta1.

0.9.5 on 20070304

There has been significant changes to menus and object collections in this release. Check out the links for more information.

• Better support for unicode internally.
• Fixed menu item index bug.
• Changed how radio buttons auto check (and uncheck).
• Changed how enter and escape key events are handled.
• Added class MemoryGraphics.
• Added copyTo() functions to Graphics.
• Added property Application.autoCollect, enabled by default, to invoke GC when idle.
• Added property Splitter.movingGrip.
• Changed how the default Control font is obtained.
• Fixed click event bug when hidden controls were involved.
• Implemented Form's maximumSize and minimumSize properties.
• Fixed bug in Control.visible/show changing the z-order.
• Changed Control layout code; dock and onLayout affected.
• Fixed bug in Application.doEvents() returning incorrect value in some cases.
• Many changes to how controls are shown and hidden; onVisibleChanged affected.
• Label text can alpha blend with the background color.
• License updated in license.txt
• Form properly fires closing and closed events for modal dialogs.
• Started support for control/form scaling. autoScale is default disabled but may change.
• Added class ProgressBar.
• Added examples/progress.d to demonstrate ProgressBar.
• Panel now derives from ContainerControl instead of ScrollableControl.
• Event handler parameter type contravariance; trial feature.
• Added SystemIcons to dfl/drawing.d.
• Added property Application.resources and module dfl.resources.
• Added examples/rctest.d to demonstrate resource loading.
• Updated dfl.exe; now performs version checks and expands file name wildcards.
• Fixed Form system/window menus; used to show items not applicable to the styles.
• String/text clipboard/Data formats are able to be converted automatically.
• Moved dfl.winapi, dfl.utf, dfl.com and dfl.wincom to internal directory.
• Directory structure now excludes dmd directory. Drop files in compiler directory.
• Updated all "object collections"; changes include renaming count to length.
• Adding items to menus has been modified. Menu.setDFL092() added for compatibility.
• Added examples/dirlist.d to demonstrate FolderBrowserDialog.
• Added support for Tango (http://dsource.org/projects/tango).
• Implemented DataFormats.fileDrop.
• Added examples/filedrop.d to demonstrate dragging and dropping files.
• Splitter updated; now gives visual cues.
• Finishing up Unicode/UTF support.
• Added scrolling support.
• Added examples/scroller.d to demonstrate scrolling.
• Updated dfl.exe; will handle rebuilding DFL lib files for you.
• Removed lib directory and default DFL lib files as they cause versioning issues.
• Created a simple DFL installer.

0.9.2 on 20060202:

• Better support for build (http://dsource.org/projects/build/).
• Updated dfl.exe; now sets version=DFL_EXE.
• Added classes AsyncSocket, AsyncTcpSocket and AsyncUdpSocket to dfl.socket.
• Added examples/dflhtmlget.d to demonstrate sockets, hosts, rich text, etc.
• Added property Button.image to show an image on the button instead of text.

0.9.1 on 20060106:

• Added examples/droplist.d to demonstrate advanced drag and drop.
• Application.doEvents() now returns false if the application should exit.
• Some support for DLLs. See examples/dlltest.d.
• Rewrote Label control and added features.
• Controls can inherit backColor, foreColor, leftToRight, font and cursor.
• Added onReflectedMessage() to process messages reflected from parent.
• Added class Picture which can load different image formats.
• Added debug and release lib files. dfl.exe uses either as appropriate.
• Form is now hidden by default and Application.run() shows the mainForm.
• Fixed up some of the examples.
• Added members to Font.
• Added class FontDialog.
• Updated examples/dnote.d to demonstrate FontDialog.
• Added "Windows hung" workaround.

0.9 on 20050606:

• Control.invoke() and Control.invokeRequired() are finished. See tips.txt/Other.
• Added examples/invoke.d to demonstrate Control.invoke() with multiple threads.
• Added class Cursors.
• Drag and drop works.
• Added examples/drop.d to demonstrate drag and drop.
• MDI works.
• Added examples/mdi.d to demonstrate MDI.
• Revised the directory layout. It is recommended to delete old DFL files first.
• Added examples/tiplist.d shows how to use different tooltip text for list items.
• Added class TabControl.
• Added examples/tabs.d to demonstrate TabControl.
• Added class ColorDialog.
• Updated examples/paint.d to demonstrate ColorDialog.
• Added class ListView.
• Added examples/listview.d to demonstrate ListView.

0.8 on 20050224:

• Started support for UTF-8.
• Updated examples/dnote.d to support UTF-8.
• Added Application.enableVisualStyles() to enable XP styles without a manifest file.
• Finished enum Keys.
• MessageBox.show() has been renamed to msgBox() to avoid future conflicts.
• TextBox and RichTextBox should now fully support UTF-8.
• Added Form.addShortcut() and Form.removeShortcut() for shortcut keys.
• Added examples/shortcut.d to demonstrate shortcut keys.
• Fixed a Control bounds (window rect) issue.
• Added class Bitmap to drawing.d.
• Added dfl/picturebox.d with PictureBox control.
• Added examples/pictureviewer.d, a simple bitmap viewer.
• Added class FolderBrowserDialog.
• Changed behavior of default exception dialog to pause message loop.
• Removed anchoring. It was always buggy. It's easy to do manually with the layout event.
• Modal dialog close button hides it and sets dialogResult to DialogResult.CANCEL.

0.7 on 20041215:

• Added SystemColors to dfl/drawing.d.
• Added dfl/combobox.d with ComboBox control.
• Added examples/combo.d to demonstrate ComboBox.
• XP styles should work better with Button.
• Added dfl/treeview.d with TreeView control.
• Added examples/treeview.d to demonstrate TreeView.
• Rectangle has been renamed to Rect to avoid conflicts.