X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=23a1806d056698fe56db406720092268339f5fd6;hp=dbc469b8c28b8f03a3b59af7242186a8a75cdd23;hb=9c9ca6d67ecb4d929b7239cadbd79db649bdf8c6;hpb=3853a8e97d7efa8cb6a3c93c696d2c52895d6a70 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index dbc469b8..23a1806d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1130 2007/06/02 22:39:42 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1157 2007/08/25 20:12:52 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,111 @@ 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. +20070825 + + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function + (cf: 971004). + + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings" + option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger). + +20070818 + + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD + + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null + "\0" followed by a digit. + + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings. + This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where + the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions. + + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection + which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file + which was introduced to fix "make -j". + + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c + + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it + when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ). + +20070812 + + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit + unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017). + + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings. + + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via + _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic + library. + + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE. + + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via + _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic + library. + +20070728 + + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via + _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c + + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c + + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether + unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may + use strings longer than supported by a given compiler. + + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of + internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols. + + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c + +20070721 + + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315). + + add test/test_get_wstr.c + + add test/test_getstr.c + + add test/test_inwstr.c + + add test/test_instr.c + +20070716 + + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which + is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm() + (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm, + cf: 20070310). + +20070714 + + add test/savescreen.c test-program + + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add + ".log" to the name and try again. + + add konsole-256color entry -TD + + add extra gcc warning options from xterm. + + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program. + + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the + --disable-echo option is used. + + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected, + writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493). + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20070707 + + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes. + + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters, + taking into account some split characters on left/right window + boundaries. + +20070630 + + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining + problems with multi-column characters. + + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters + which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury). + + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case + multi-column extension bits are passed there. + + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters. + + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug + report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET, + +20070623 + + add test/demo_panels.c + + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx(). + +20070612 + + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm + #226 -TD + + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon + wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan). + +20070609 + + add test/key_name.c + + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.c + + update test/configure + + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar(). + + null-terminate result of wunctrl(). + + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair, + cf: 20020901). + 20070602 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library (discussion with Clive Nicolson).