Incompatible Changes from GTK+-1.0 to GTK+-1.2: * GtkAcceleratorTable has been replaced with GtkAccelGroup * GtkMenuFactory has been replaced with GtkItemFactory, although a version of GtkMenuFactory is provided to ease compatibility. * GtkButton has been changed to derive from GtkBin. To access a button's child, use GTK_BIN (button)->child, instead of the old GTK_BUTTON (button)->child. * The selection API has been slightly modified: gtk_selection_add_handler() and gtk_selection_add_handler_full() have been removed. To supply the selection, one now register the targets one is interested in with: void gtk_selection_add_target (GtkWidget *widget, GdkAtom selection, GdkAtom target, guint info); or: void gtk_selection_add_targets (GtkWidget *widget, GdkAtom selection, GtkTargetEntry *targets, guint ntargets); When a request for a selection is received, the new "selection_get" signal will be called: void "selection_get" (GtkWidget *widget, GtkSelectionData *selection_data, guint info, guint time); A "time" parameter has also been added to the "selection_received" signal. void "selection_received" (GtkWidget *widget, GtkSelectionData *selection_data, guint time); * The old drag and drop API has been completely removed and replaced. See the reference documentation for details on the new API. * Support for Themes has been added. In general, this does not affect application code, however, a few new rules should be observed: - To set a shape for a window, you must use gtk_widget_shape_combine_mask() instead of gdk_window_shape_combine_mask(), or the shape will be reset when switching themes. - It is no longer permissable to draw directly on an arbitrary widget, or to set an arbitrary widget's background pixmap. If you need to do that, use a GtkDrawingArea or (for a toplevel) the new GtkDrawWindow widget. * The ScrolledWindow widget no longer creates a Viewport automatically. Instead, it has been generalized to accept any "self-scrolling" widget. The self-scrolling widgets in the Gtk+ core are GtkViewport, GtkCList, GtkCTree, GtkText, and GtkLayout. All of these widgets can be added to a scrolled window as normal children with gtk_container_add() and scrollbars will be set up automatically. To add scrollbars to a non self-scrolling widget, (such as a GtkList), first add it to a viewport, then add the viewport to a scrolled window. The scrolled window code provides a convenience function to do this: void gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport (GtkScrolledWindow *scrollwin, GtkWidget *child); This does exactly what it says - it creates a Viewport, adds the child widget to it, then adds the Viewport to the scrolled window. The scrollbars have been removed from the GtkCList and GtkCTree, because they are now scrolled by simply adding them to a Scrolled Window. The scrollbar policy is set on the scrolled window with gtk_scrolled_window_set_policy() and not on the child widgets (e.g. GtkCList's gtk_clist_set_policy() was removed). * The "main loop" of GTK+ has been moved to GLib. This should not affect existing programs, since compatibility functions have been provided. However, you may want to consider migrating your code to use the GLib main loop directly. Minor known incompatibilities: - gtk_idle_remove_by_data() and gtk_timeout_remove_by_data() now work from a common pool of "input sources", so gtk_idle_remove_by_data() will remove timeouts and vice-versa. * the GTK_BASIC flag was removed, and with it the corresponding macro and function GTK_WIDGET_BASIC() and gtk_widget_basic(). * All freeze/thaw methods are now recursive - that is, if you freeze a widget n times, you must also thaw it n times. Therefore, if you have code like: gboolean frozen; frozen = GTK_CLIST_FROZEN (clist); gtk_clist_freeze (clist); [...] if (!frozen) gtk_clist_thaw (clist); it will not work anymore. It must be, simply: gtk_clist_freeze (clist); [...] gtk_clist_thaw (clist); * The thread safety in GTK+ 1.2 is slightly different than that which appeared in early versions in the 1.1 development track. The main difference is that it relies on the thread primitives in GLib, and on the thread-safe GLib main loop. This means: - You must call g_thread_init(), then gtk_thread_init() in a threaded GTK+ program. - Idles, timeouts, and input functions are executed outside of the main GTK+ lock. So, if you need to call GTK+ inside of such a callback, you must surround the callback with a gtk_thread_enter()/gtk_thread_leave() pair. [ However, signals are still executed within the main GTK+ lock ] In particular, this means, if you are writing widgets that might be used in threaded programs, you _must_ surround timeouts and idle functions in this matter. - There is no longer a special --with-threads configure option for GTK+. To use threads in a GTK+ program, you must: a) If you want to use the native thread implementation, make sure GLib found this in configuration, otherwise, call you must provide a thread implementation to g_thread_init(). b) Link with the libraries returned by: gtk-config --libs gthread * All functions matching g_message* are deprecated * Functions *_interp are deprecated, *_full variants are available instead