Interface changes:
- #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0 - #include <curses.h> -- -
use_legacy_coding() function to support
+ lynx's font-switching feature.
+
+ nofilter(), to cancel a prior
+ filter() call.
+
+ ncurses5-config or
+ ncursesw5-config, according to
+ configuration options.
+
+ NCURSES_NOMACROS which
+ suppresses most macro definitions from curses.h, i.e.,
+ where a macro is defined to override a function to improve
+ performance.
+
+ curses.h for the
+ extended colors so the header file can be used for the
+ normal curses library. The header file installed for
+ extended colors is a variation of the wide-character
+ configuration.
+
+ tgetstr() by making the return value
+ point into the user's buffer, if provided.
+
+ tparm() using either varargs (the existing
+ status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to match X/Open).
+
+ kmous a little to
+ allow for other
+ strings than "\E[M", e.g., for xterm-sco
+ functionality in xterm.
+
+ wgetnstr() to return
+ KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs.
+
+ _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined
+ without ensuring that <wchar.h> is included.
+
+ --with-rpath option work except with
+ $(DESTDIR).
+
+ --enable-xmc-glitch.
+
+ NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS and
+ NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables
+ to allow runtime suppression of the related hard-tabs and
+ xmc-glitch features.
+ cgetent()
+ functions, or as a text file if those are not available.
+
+ -f option formatting.
+
+ toe -a option, to show all databases.
+ This uses new private interfaces in the ncurses library for
+ iterating through the list of databases.
+
+ MKfallback.sh to use
+ tic -x when constructing fallback tables to
+ allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
+ --with-bool option for the
+ case where --without-cxx is used.
- ESCDELAY
+ from initscr() down to newterm() so the
+ environment variable affects timeouts for terminals opened with
+ newterm() as well.
- werase to clear multicolumn characters that
+ extend into a derived window.
- wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a
+ refresh will repaint those cells.
- wadd_wch() and
+ wecho_wch(), which did not guard against passing the
+ multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(), e.g.,
+ using data returned by win_wch()
- stdscr using
+ wredrawln() by touching the corresponding rows in
+ curscr.
- tgetent() by
+ remembering the last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold
+ the corresponding data and freeing that if the
+ tgetent() result buffer is the same as the previous
+ call.
- read_termtype() so the term_names
+ data is always allocated as part of the str_table, a
+ better fix for a memory leak.
- wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column
+ non-8bit codes.
- wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the
+ A_CHARTEXT attribute bits since those record the state
+ of multicolumn characters.
- SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect
+ during newterm(), etc., when allocating screens.
- mvwin().
- waddchnstr() and
+ wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when a null character
+ is found.
- dlsym() to load GPM dynamically.
- dlopen()
- symlink() in tic even when
+ link() does not work.
- CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
-SIGWINCH is
+ defined on platforms such as OS X which exclude that when
+ _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are defined
-Portability:
--search_paths_first option on Darwin
+ to work around odd search rules on that platform.
- _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to
+ work with Mac OS X.
- $(CFLAGS) variable is also used.
- ${CC} rather than ${LD} in
+ shared library rules for IRIX64, Solaris to help ensure
+ that initialization sections are provided for extra linkage
+ requirements, e.g., of C++ applications.
- --with-shlib-version work.
- names.c and
+ codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
+ work with parallel make.
- MKlib_gen.sh to change
+ preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to bool.
- progs/Makefile.in to make
+ tput init work properly with cygwin,
+ i.e., do not pass a .exe in the reference
+ string used in check_aliases.
+ wcwidth() claims are not one-column. This is
+ a workaround for Solaris' broken locale support.
- term.h by removing
+ #define's for HAVE_xxx symbols.
- #ifdef in c++/internal.h for
+ QNX 6.1
+ test/configure script
+ to allow building test programs with PDCurses/X11.
- test/configure to build test/ncurses
+ on HPUX 11 using the vendor curses.
- nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available.
- This replaces ad hoc tests of environment variables to
- check if the terminal is setup for UTF-8 encoding.
- Applications which do not call setlocale()
- should be corrected, to make them work properly with
- UTF-8 encoding.
- setlocale()) that
- Latin-1 codes are printable will no longer work in
- a UTF-8 locale since the ad hoc check of environment
- variables to see if the locale was UTF-8 is not used
- when nl_langinfo(CODESET) is available.
-
- test/Makefile from data file.
+ wresize() allows you to resize windows, preserving
their data.
@@ -357,7 +410,7 @@ and define_key() allow
you to better control the use of function keys,
e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE,
or by defining more than one control sequence to map to a given key code.
-+in the same file, and provides several user-definable extensions +beyond the X/Open specification.
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