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Thomas E. Dickey [Mon, 3 Nov 2008 02:13:51 +0000 (21:13 -0500)]
ncurses 5.7
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:07:21 +0000 (01:07 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20081025
+ add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
+ add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
does not work well on that platform).
+ build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:58:44 +0000 (00:58 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20081018
+ build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
+ modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
Nit Khair).
+ modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
--disable-database is used.
+ add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
(prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
+ change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
CF_LIBUTF8.
Thomas E. Dickey [Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:34:11 +0000 (00:34 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20081012
+ add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
original to teraterm2.3 -TD
+ update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
+ update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
+ add "aterm" terminfo -TD
+ add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
+ add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
overlooked til now.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:44:29 +0000 (23:44 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20081011
+ update html documentation.
+ add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
+ correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
+ document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
+ fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
+ add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 5 Oct 2008 00:17:19 +0000 (00:17 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20081004
+ some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
works for C/C++ parts).
+ improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:08:36 +0000 (01:08 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080927
+ fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
+ fix build for --disable-sigwinch
+ add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
+ disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
"linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
+ reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
Miroslav Lichvar).
+ fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
> patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
+ discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since
20080112).
+ move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
Thomas E. Dickey [Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:54:34 +0000 (23:54 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080925
+ fix bug in mouse code for GPM from
20080920 changes (reported in
Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:01:25 +0000 (01:01 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080920
+ fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
+ fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
+ correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
+ add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:09:37 +0000 (01:09 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080913
+ change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
+ build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 7 Sep 2008 17:49:37 +0000 (17:49 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080907
+ corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
Meunier).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 7 Sep 2008 01:02:23 +0000 (01:02 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080906
+ corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
+ add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
+ makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
Meunier).
+ update test/configure script.
+ adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
+ add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:08:33 +0000 (01:08 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080830
+ fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
+ modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
C-version.
+ modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
Mccreary).
+ add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
+ consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
+ filter #line's from lib_gen.c
+ change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
+ update config.guess, config.sub from
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
(caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:26:02 +0000 (00:26 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080823
+ modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
+ use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
+ fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf:
20080804).
+ modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
+ correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
+ add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
Debian #495815) -TD
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:51:55 +0000 (01:51 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080816
+ add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
+ add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
+ modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
Werner Fink).
+ add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
+ document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
by comments by Samuel Thibault).
+ fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
Thomas E. Dickey [Tue, 5 Aug 2008 01:06:16 +0000 (01:06 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080804
+ modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
+ fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
+ fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
+ modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
"dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
+ modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:24:31 +0000 (22:24 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080726
+ build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
thresholds).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:09:41 +0000 (11:09 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080713
+ build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:35:08 +0000 (00:35 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080712
+ compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 6 Jul 2008 00:36:01 +0000 (00:36 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080705
+ use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
(cf:
20050205).
+ improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
+ work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
-static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
not link.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:12:36 +0000 (00:12 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080628
+ correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
+ make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
interface.
+ make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
+ add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
+ improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:16:39 +0000 (00:16 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080621
+ regenerated html documentation.
+ expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
+ add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
+ fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:30:11 +0000 (00:30 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080614
+ modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
+ change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
+ add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
by Poor Yorick).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 8 Jun 2008 00:40:16 +0000 (00:40 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080607
+ finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
window which is being used in a wgetch().
+ simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 31 May 2008 23:49:39 +0000 (23:49 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080531
+ modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
use SP internally.
+ factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
+ add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
+ add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
+ add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
+ add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 25 May 2008 00:49:27 +0000 (00:49 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080524
+ modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
screen which must be updated.
+ wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
+ restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
Miroslav Lichvar)
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 18 May 2008 00:27:17 +0000 (00:27 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080517
+ modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
--enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
the ncurses ABI 5.
+ corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
Emanuele Giaquinta).
+ fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
(report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 4 May 2008 00:48:16 +0000 (00:48 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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().
+ 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).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:51:44 +0000 (23:51 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:03:15 +0000 (01:03 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 6 Apr 2008 00:59:00 +0000 (00:59 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:48:44 +0000 (23:48 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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 supports only static libraries
(report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
+ add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
thread library.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:02:37 +0000 (01:02 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 9 Mar 2008 00:57:07 +0000 (00:57 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 2 Mar 2008 00:28:54 +0000 (00:28 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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().
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:25:21 +0000 (01:25 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080223
+ fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
+ avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
is implemented to suspend the entire process.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:41:46 +0000 (00:41 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 3 Feb 2008 20:52:12 +0000 (20:52 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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.
+ 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.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:51:10 +0000 (00:51 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20080119
+ fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
+ add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
+ add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:05:47 +0000 (02:05 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 6 Jan 2008 02:04:59 +0000 (02:04 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:43:39 +0000 (01:43 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20071222
+ continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
for delwin().
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:40:08 +0000 (00:40 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20071217
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 2 Dec 2007 01:15:08 +0000 (01:15 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:05:21 +0000 (02:05 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:09:05 +0000 (02:09 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 4 Nov 2007 00:06:31 +0000 (00:06 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:21:19 +0000 (23:21 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:38:28 +0000 (00:38 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 6 Oct 2007 23:01:06 +0000 (23:01 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:30:37 +0000 (23:30 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 15 Sep 2007 22:30:31 +0000 (22:30 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 8 Sep 2007 22:25:05 +0000 (22:25 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070908
+ add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
for threaded library (incomplete).
+ fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
creating symbolic links to two aliases created in
20070818 (report by
Rong-En Fan).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 2 Sep 2007 00:20:31 +0000 (00:20 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070901
+ remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
+ start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
+ minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
+ expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
+ fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+ fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:38:10 +0000 (20:38 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:27:58 +0000 (00:27 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:31:21 +0000 (16:31 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:27:12 +0000 (00:27 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:58:49 +0000 (23:58 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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
Thomas E. Dickey [Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:24:03 +0000 (22:24 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:11:01 +0000 (00:11 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 7 Jul 2007 23:55:05 +0000 (23:55 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 1 Jul 2007 00:42:27 +0000 (00:42 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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,
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:14:41 +0000 (23:14 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070623
+ add test/demo_panels.c
+ implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
Thomas E. Dickey [Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:12:17 +0000 (23:12 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:41:32 +0000 (00:41 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 3 Jun 2007 00:04:38 +0000 (00:04 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 26 May 2007 23:44:27 +0000 (23:44 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 13 May 2007 00:52:59 +0000 (00:52 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 6 May 2007 00:26:41 +0000 (00:26 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:13:28 +0000 (00:13 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
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).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:57:08 +0000 (00:57 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070421
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:23:43 +0000 (23:23 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070414
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 8 Apr 2007 01:10:28 +0000 (01:10 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070407
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 1 Apr 2007 00:48:02 +0000 (00:48 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070331
+ modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
+ modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
+ add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
+ improved install-sh's quoting.
+ use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
other programs.
NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:28:09 +0000 (00:28 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070324
+ eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
+ fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
--enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
+ change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
NCURSES_OPAQUE defined, since we cannot pass a reference to
an opaque pointer.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:11:16 +0000 (21:11 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070317
+ ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
+ change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
in the configure script to an error.
+ tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
+ modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
+ set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
+ change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
Vidiassov).
+ corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:41:19 +0000 (14:41 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070311
+ fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in
20070224
changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:07:00 +0000 (01:07 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070310
+ increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
Santoro).
+ add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
+ libraries are suffixed with "t"
+ wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
+ move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 4 Mar 2007 00:18:45 +0000 (00:18 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070303
+ regenerated html documentation.
+ add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
opaque in selected configurations.
+ move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
_nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
Chua).
+ revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
(prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:57:04 +0000 (01:57 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070224
+ change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
+ fix static-library build broken in
20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
(report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
+ use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
+ use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
+ correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
+ correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf:
20011229).
+ correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:51:57 +0000 (01:51 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070217
+ fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
Lichvar).
+ modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
Adam J Richter).
+ fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
(report by Michail Vidiassov).
+ add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
fixes.
+ remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:34:24 +0000 (01:34 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070210
+ add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
+ remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
Lichvar).
+ fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
Miroslav Lichvar).
+ modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf:
20041023).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 4 Feb 2007 01:44:56 +0000 (01:44 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070203
+ modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
Ricardo Cantu).
+ improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
+ ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
+ add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
+ drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
no longer relies on it.
+ disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
--enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
+ remove tack from ncurses tree.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:23:09 +0000 (17:23 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070128
+ fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
(report by Rong-En Fan).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:56:00 +0000 (00:56 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070127
+ improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
+ update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
it is removed from the ncurses tree.
+ fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
(report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
+ review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
its license consistent with ncurses.
+ use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
the c++ binding for scanw() methods.
+ eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:25:57 +0000 (01:25 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070120
+ add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
+ fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
+ correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
Lichvar).
in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:43:23 +0000 (01:43 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070113
+ add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
_first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
+ add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
ncurses build-tree.
+ add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
in a separate library (suggestd by Miroslav Lichvar).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 7 Jan 2007 01:32:36 +0000 (01:32 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20070106
+ change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
+ change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
(patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 24 Dec 2006 02:11:39 +0000 (02:11 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20061230
+ modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
(report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
+ modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
+ eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
+ improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
+ used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
to manpages as needed.
+ fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
+ fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 24 Dec 2006 02:11:39 +0000 (02:11 +0000)]
ncurses 5.6 - patch
20061223
+ modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
+ modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
+ modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
+ update config.guess, config.sub
Thomas E. Dickey [Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:32:42 +0000 (23:32 -0500)]
ncurses 5.6
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 9 Oct 2005 18:41:57 +0000 (14:41 -0400)]
ncurses 5.5
Thomas E. Dickey [Mon, 9 Feb 2004 02:15:26 +0000 (21:15 -0500)]
ncurses 5.4
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 13 Oct 2002 03:35:53 +0000 (23:35 -0400)]
ncurses 5.3
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 21 Oct 2000 04:42:11 +0000 (00:42 -0400)]
ncurses 5.2
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 9 Jul 2000 02:46:08 +0000 (22:46 -0400)]
ncurses 5.1
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 24 Oct 1999 04:32:42 +0000 (00:32 -0400)]
ncurses 5.0
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 1 Mar 1998 04:21:12 +0000 (23:21 -0500)]
ncurses 4.2
Thomas E. Dickey [Thu, 15 May 1997 04:00:00 +0000 (23:00 -0500)]
ncurses 4.1