X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=c5126da03699bd0047554119eadfa91e861d00e4;hp=f9c3db4985e64ff240bf8e7b4ec48d887b9166d3;hb=ed530db2c5b10aa19d06104dfe82cf248a813860;hpb=aabbbcb7892fd946828a4170378b13b9d12435c6 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f9c3db49..c5126da0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2007,2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the -- @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1166 2007/09/08 21:55:19 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1233 2008/05/03 23:14:39 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,220 @@ 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. +20080503 + + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix + overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD + + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the + global SP. + + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and + each_ripoff(). + +20080426 + + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate + multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens. + + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran). + +20080419 + + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD + + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from + being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings. + + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout. + +20080412 + + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm. + + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their + window parameters. + + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN + pointer. + + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage. + +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 may use a different suffix for + the object files than ".o" (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 + "link_test" builds properly. + + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given. + + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728 + (report by Miroslav Lichvar) + + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the + soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova) + + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be + cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors + question). + + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE. + +20071222 + + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex + for delwin(). + +20071215 + + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that + pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee). + +20071201 + + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the + INSTALL file. + + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries. + + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no + applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124). + +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). + +20071020 + + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex + for use_window(). + + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified + cursor keys -TD + + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by + Rong-En Fan). + +20071013 + + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built + without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on + that library. + + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or + the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger). + + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla + #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar). + + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav + Lichvar). + + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for + the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD + +20071006 + + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which + changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing + cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked + memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + +20070929 + + 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. + + 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). +20070915 + + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building + shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support. + + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for + the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated. + + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example. + 20070908 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support for threaded library (incomplete). @@ -173,7 +387,7 @@ 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). @@ -243,7 +457,7 @@ 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).