X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=6f5977409a14b188b818c5cb6c960854a55b3271;hp=a2177f8bac05c0a28f7799c015b720e9aac94def;hb=574a94bc3d70682bde48f7f10d3c12a58e581e27;hpb=7a27c7d49c2e8b4a1ecbe85b4423d647cbc75ea5 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a2177f8b..6f597740 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1118 2007/04/21 23:57:53 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1138 2007/06/23 21:28:00 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,7 +45,84 @@ 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. -20060421 +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). + + 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 + 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). + + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman). + +20070526 + + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or + if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via + initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604). + + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x + + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications + broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230). + +20070512 + + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a + problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of + a fullwidth cell. + + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to + ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted + from patch by Clive Nicolson). + + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x + +20070505 + + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to + become uninitialized in the "b" test. + + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent + movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the + generated html. + + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with + memory-checking. + + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value + from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout(). + + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with + Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options + --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib + +20070428 + + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to + quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from + 3.x to 4.x. + + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses + library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol. + + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that + an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is + reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms + (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney). + + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e., + + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming + + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of + SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries. + + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421). + +20070421 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage. + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding @@ -54,13 +131,13 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static to the libtool create- and link-operations. -20060414 +20070414 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro). + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when Ada95 tree is not built. -20060407 +20070407 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used. + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from