X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=18df484e8cd44dfc73daac8b8dec1702c2acaf5f;hp=df7d7a8e39c214a8fb2589a1005cb78ce8fb9dcb;hb=c7bc3019ea01faeaf2baf5b6a9efaf65c5ebe0aa;hpb=b17ff3673e886e3cbb6b523341aa10b0c26b3903 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index df7d7a8e..18df484e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1181 2007/11/03 21:08:20 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1184 2007/11/25 00:04:31 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,28 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names. Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions; it is not possible to add this information. +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). @@ -80,7 +102,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + 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). @@ -219,7 +241,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. (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). @@ -289,7 +311,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 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).