X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=c%2B%2B%2FNEWS;h=998e5ff3c0bfc7debaf68bfb7d29b11cacced47e;hb=refs%2Ftags%2Fv6.3;hp=17488a41f4c373730ee27b7897123d9e12b7e9a2;hpb=027ae42953e3186daed8f3882da73de48291b606;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/c++/NEWS b/c++/NEWS index 17488a41..998e5ff3 100644 --- a/c++/NEWS +++ b/c++/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright 2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey -- +-- Copyright 1998-1999,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the -- @@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.4 2006/04/22 22:19:37 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.6 2021/06/17 21:20:30 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that the ncurses C++ binding has gone through starting with the integration of menu and forms integration @@ -36,19 +37,19 @@ into the binding. to view the pad. 970908 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to - cover more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and + cover more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh() virtual members to allow different implementation in the NCursesPanel class. + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of NCursesWindow class. + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a - reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added + reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel. + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform functionality. + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h - + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration + + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines and Soft-Label-Keys for an application. + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menus fieldlist. @@ -62,10 +63,10 @@ into the binding. + Added the NCursesMenu class to support libmenu functionality. + The inheritace relation between NCursesWindow and NCursesColorWindow was kind of brain damage. Monochrome is a special case of colored, so - the relation should be just the opposite. This would allow all - derived classes like NCursesPanel, NCursesMenu or NCursesForm to + the relation should be just the opposite. This would allow all + derived classes like NCursesPanel, NCursesMenu or NCursesForm to have colors. - To resolve that design flaw I put the color functionality into the + To resolve that design flaw I put the color functionality into the NCursesWindow class and it can be switched on by the static member useColors(). NCursesColorWindow is still there for compatibility reasons.