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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1171 2007/09/29 21:53:42 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1195 2008/01/06 00:01:08 tom Exp $
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This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
it is not possible to add this information.
+20080105
+ + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
+ "link_test" builds properly.
+ + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
+ + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
+ (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
+ + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
+ soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
+ + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
+ cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
+ question).
+ + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
+
+20071222
+ + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
+ for delwin().
+
+20071215
+ + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
+ pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
+
+20071201
+ + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
+ INSTALL file.
+ + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
+ + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
+ applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
+
+20071124
+ + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
+ is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
+ pierre4d2 comments).
+ + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
+ used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
+ by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
+ + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
+ by Chris Lee).
+
+20071117
+ + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
+ generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
+ filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
+ + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
+ configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
+ filenames.
+ + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
+ + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
+ it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
+ declared.
+
+20071103
+ + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
+ + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
+
+20071020
+ + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
+ for use_window().
+ + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
+ cursor keys -TD
+ + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
+ Rong-En Fan).
+
+20071013
+ + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
+ without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
+ that library.
+ + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
+ the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
+ + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
+ #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
+ Lichvar).
+ + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
+ the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
+
+20071006
+ + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
+ changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
+ cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
+ memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
20070929
+ add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
calls within the ncurses library.
+ for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
- the SCREEN.
+ the SCREEN.
+ start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
+ separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
(discussion with Clive Nicolson).
+ add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
illustrate how to use mvcur().
- + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
+ + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
+ correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
20070407
+ add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
- + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
+ + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
+ add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
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