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--- $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.
+20080405
+ + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
+ used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
+ + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
+ discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
+ python-dev2 mailing list).
+
+20080329
+ + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
+ + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
+ are not associated with a particular screen.
+ + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
+ stdscr to the callback function.
+ + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
+ e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
+ (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
+ + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
+ platforms such as AIX where libtool supports only static libraries
+ (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
+ + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
+ thread library.
+
+20080322
+ + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
+ waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
+ + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
+ for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
+ Sedeno).
+ + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
+ wide-characters with extended-colors.
+ + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
+ + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
+ + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
+
+20080308
+ + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
+ + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
+ that the 'F' accepts.
+ + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
+ are working concurrently.
+ + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
+ window.
+
+20080301
+ + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
+ recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
+ _nc_free_and_exit().
+
+20080223
+ + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
+ lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
+
+20080216
+ + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
+ is implemented to suspend the entire process.
+
+20080209
+ + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
+ comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
+ that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
+ implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
+
+20080203
+ + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
+ for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
+ but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
+ + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
+ using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
+ further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
+ Chernov).
+ + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
+ If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
+ sequence.
+
+20080126
+ + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
+ handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
+ or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
+
+20080119
+ + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
+ + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
+ + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
+
+20080112
+ + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
+ + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
+ adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
+ softkeys were used.
+
20080105
+ several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
+ modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
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