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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1092 2007/02/25 00:45:56 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.
+20070331
+ + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
+ global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
+ + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
+ to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
+ + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
+ structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
+ + improved install-sh's quoting.
+ + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
+ other programs.
+
+20070324
+ + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
+ + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
+ --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
+ + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
+ NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
+ an opaque pointer.
+
+20070317
+ + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
+ the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
+ + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
+ in the configure script to an error.
+ + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
+ such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
+ + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
+ + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
+ + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
+ Vidiassov).
+ + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
+ of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
+
+20070311
+ + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
+ changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+
+20070310
+ + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
+ properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
+ Santoro).
+ + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
+ implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
+ + libraries are suffixed with "t"
+ + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
+ COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
+ functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
+ + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
+ i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
+
+20070303
+ + regenerated html documentation.
+ + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
+ opaque in selected configurations.
+ + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
+ running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
+ _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
+ identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
+ outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
+ only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
+ dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
+ installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
+ case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
+ Chua).
+ + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
+ (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
+
20070224
+ change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
+ remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
- (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+ (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+ add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
fixes.
20070203
+ modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
- from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
+ from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
Ricardo Cantu).
no longer relies on it.
+ disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
--enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
- + remove tack from ncurses tree.
+ + remove tack from ncurses tree.
20070128
+ fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
+ review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
its license consistent with ncurses.
+ use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
- the c++ binding for scanw() methods.
+ the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
+ eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
20070120
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