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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
42 They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
50 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
51 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
53 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
54 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
55 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
56 help work around weak-symbol issues.
59 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
60 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
61 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
62 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
63 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
64 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
65 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
66 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
67 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
68 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
69 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
72 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
73 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
75 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
76 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
77 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
78 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez):
81 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
82 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
83 as different types on some Unix systems.
84 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
85 function pointer passed to tputs().
86 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
87 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
88 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
89 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
92 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
93 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
94 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
95 + update config.guess, config.sub
98 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
100 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
101 some ncurses packages.
102 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
103 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
104 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
106 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
109 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
110 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
111 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
112 the in-tree build of sample programs.
113 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
114 needed for rpm script.
115 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
116 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
117 options if building a shared library with gnat.
120 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
121 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
122 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
124 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
125 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
126 which were added in 5.7 and later.
127 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
131 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
133 + regen Ada html documentation.
134 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
135 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
137 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
139 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
140 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
141 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
142 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
143 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
144 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
146 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
147 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
149 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
150 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
153 + regen Ada html documentation.
154 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
155 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
157 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
158 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
159 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
160 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
161 + modify configure script to add -g and/or -O3 to ADAFLAGS if the
162 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
163 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
164 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
165 thread in comp.lang.ada).
166 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
167 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
168 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
169 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
170 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
171 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
172 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
173 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
174 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
175 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
178 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
179 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
180 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
182 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
184 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
185 explain.txt is not found.
188 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
189 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
190 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
191 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
192 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
194 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
197 + update release notes, for 5.8.
198 + regenerated html manpages.
199 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
201 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
202 a new install of hashed database.
203 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
206 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
207 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
208 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
209 wide-character configuration.
210 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
211 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
214 + regenerated html manpages.
215 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
216 special case of trace configuration.
219 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
220 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
221 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
222 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
223 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
227 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
228 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
229 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
230 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
231 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
233 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
234 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
237 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
238 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
239 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
240 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
241 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
242 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
243 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
244 file configuration if that is used.
245 + update config.guess, config.sub
248 + regenerated html manpages.
249 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
251 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
252 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
255 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
256 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
259 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
260 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
261 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
264 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
266 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
267 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
268 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
269 wide-character configuration.
270 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
271 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
272 referred to quitting with 'q'.
275 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
276 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
277 version which works with termcap.
278 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
279 (request by Sven Joachim).
280 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
281 (report by Sven Joachim).
284 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
285 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
286 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
289 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
291 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
292 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
295 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
297 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
298 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
299 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
300 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
301 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
302 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
306 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
307 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
308 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
310 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
313 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
315 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
319 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
321 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
322 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
323 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
324 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
325 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
326 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
327 tree (report by Werner Fink).
328 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
329 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
330 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
331 (report by John P. Hartmann)
332 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
335 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
336 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
337 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
338 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
339 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
340 external package "cindent".
343 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
344 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
345 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
346 inconsistent printer-controls.
347 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
348 form is available -TD
349 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
351 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
353 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
354 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
355 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
356 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
357 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
359 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
360 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
364 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
365 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
366 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
367 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
368 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
370 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
373 + regenerated html manpages.
374 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
375 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
376 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
379 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
381 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
382 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
383 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
384 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
388 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
389 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
392 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
393 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
394 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
395 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
396 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
397 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
398 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
402 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
403 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
404 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
405 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
406 by Tim van der Molen).
407 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
408 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
409 library configuration.
410 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
411 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
412 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
415 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
417 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
418 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
419 e.g., for cross-compiling.
420 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
421 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
424 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
425 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
426 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
427 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
428 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
429 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
430 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
431 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
434 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
435 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
436 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
437 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
438 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
439 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
440 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
441 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
444 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
445 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
446 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
447 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
450 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
451 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
452 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
455 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
456 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
457 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
460 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
461 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
462 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
463 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
466 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
467 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
468 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
470 + update Ada95/configure.
471 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
472 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
473 of updating LIBS variable.
476 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
477 work with 64-bit compiles.
478 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
482 + regenerated html documentation.
483 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
485 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
486 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
487 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
488 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
491 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
492 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
494 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
495 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
496 build- and target-machines differ.
497 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
498 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
500 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
501 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
504 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
505 new EINTR feature is enabled.
506 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
507 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
508 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
509 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
510 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
511 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
512 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
513 with the standard builds of ncurses.
514 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
515 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
516 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
517 found in predefined libraries.
518 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
521 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
522 (patch by David Benjamin).
523 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
524 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
525 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
526 may be defined by that route.
529 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
530 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
531 the predefined include directories.
532 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
533 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
534 where older versions would produce an error.
537 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
538 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
539 terminfo to termcap strings
540 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
541 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
542 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
543 directory was already added.
544 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
545 directories (which will be ignored).
548 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
549 + discard motion events
550 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
551 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
552 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
553 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
556 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
557 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
558 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
559 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
560 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
561 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
562 extended-colors configuration.
563 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
564 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
565 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
568 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
570 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
571 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
572 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
574 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
575 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
576 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
579 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
580 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
584 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
585 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
586 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
587 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
588 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
589 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
590 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
591 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
592 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
596 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
597 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
598 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
599 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
602 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
604 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
605 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
606 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
609 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
610 making those separately distributable.
611 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
612 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
616 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
619 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
620 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
621 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
622 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
626 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
627 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
628 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
629 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
632 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
633 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
634 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
635 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
637 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
638 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
640 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
644 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
645 that line-drawing works.
646 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
647 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
648 capabilities can run.
649 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
653 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
654 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
655 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
656 before older in the list.
657 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
658 + minor documentation cleanup.
659 + update config.guess, config.sub from
660 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
661 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
664 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
665 most common case of SGR 0.
666 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
667 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
668 events remain, it will return ERR.
671 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
672 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
673 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
674 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
675 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
678 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
679 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
680 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
683 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
684 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
685 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
686 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
687 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
688 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
691 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
692 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
693 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
694 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
695 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
697 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
699 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
701 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
702 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
703 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
705 + update config.guess, config.sub from
706 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
709 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
710 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
712 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
713 writing terminfo entries.
714 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
715 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
716 by Nicholas Marriott).
719 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
721 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
722 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
726 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
727 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
728 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
729 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
730 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
734 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
735 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
736 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
737 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
740 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
741 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
742 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
743 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
744 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
745 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
746 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
749 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
750 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
751 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
752 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
753 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
754 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
755 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
756 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
757 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
758 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
759 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
762 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
763 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
764 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
765 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
768 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
769 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
772 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
773 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
774 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
778 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
779 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
780 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
781 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
782 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
784 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
785 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
788 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
789 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
790 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
791 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
792 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
793 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
795 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
796 library (some work remains for forms library).
799 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
800 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
801 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
802 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
804 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
805 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
806 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
807 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
810 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
811 by sharing linedata.h functions):
815 test/test_add_wchstr.c
816 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
817 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
818 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
821 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
823 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
824 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
825 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
826 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
830 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
831 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
832 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
833 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
836 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
837 amd64 (Debian #542031).
838 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
841 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
844 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
845 broken in 20090509 merging.
846 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
847 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
848 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
849 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
850 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
851 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
852 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
853 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
855 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
858 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
859 implementation details of hash function.
862 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
863 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
864 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
867 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
868 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
869 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
871 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
872 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
875 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
876 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
880 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
883 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
885 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
886 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
887 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
888 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
889 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
891 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
892 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
893 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
896 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
897 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
898 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
901 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
902 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
904 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
907 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
908 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
910 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
911 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
915 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
916 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
917 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
920 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
923 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
926 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
927 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
928 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
929 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
932 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
935 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
936 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
937 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
938 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
942 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
945 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
946 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
949 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
952 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
956 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
959 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
960 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
961 part of the form library.
964 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
965 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
968 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
969 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
970 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
971 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
972 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
973 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
974 a temporary variable.
975 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
976 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
977 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
978 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
979 with Charles Wilson).
980 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
981 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
982 > patches by Charles Wilson:
983 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
984 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
985 digits, after the final '.').
986 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
987 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
988 using that in the libtool link-commands.
989 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
990 from 2009031 changes.
991 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
992 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
993 termlib) is to be linked.
994 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
995 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
998 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
999 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
1000 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
1001 (report by Charles Wilson).
1002 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
1003 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
1004 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
1005 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
1006 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
1009 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
1010 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
1011 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
1012 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
1013 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
1015 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
1016 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
1017 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
1018 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
1019 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
1020 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
1021 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
1022 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
1025 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1026 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
1027 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
1030 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1033 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
1035 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
1036 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
1037 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
1038 some internals work is needed to complete these).
1039 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
1042 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
1043 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
1044 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
1045 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1046 + make it work with $DESTDIR
1047 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
1050 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
1051 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
1053 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
1054 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
1055 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
1058 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
1059 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
1060 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
1061 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
1062 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
1063 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
1064 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
1065 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
1066 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
1069 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
1070 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
1072 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
1074 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
1075 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
1078 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
1080 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
1081 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
1082 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
1083 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1086 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
1087 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
1088 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
1090 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
1091 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
1094 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
1095 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
1096 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
1097 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
1098 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
1099 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
1101 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
1102 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
1104 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1105 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1108 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
1109 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
1110 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
1113 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
1114 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
1115 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
1117 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
1118 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
1121 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
1123 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
1124 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
1125 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
1127 + fixes from NetBSD port at
1128 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
1129 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
1130 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
1131 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
1132 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
1134 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
1135 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
1138 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
1139 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
1140 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
1141 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
1142 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
1143 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
1144 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
1145 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
1146 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
1147 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
1148 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
1151 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
1152 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
1153 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
1154 passing color or video attributes.
1155 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
1156 display meta-characters.
1157 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
1158 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
1159 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
1160 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
1164 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
1165 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1166 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
1168 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
1171 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
1173 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
1174 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
1176 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1179 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
1180 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
1181 does not work well on that platform).
1182 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
1185 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
1186 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
1187 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
1189 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
1190 --disable-database is used.
1191 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
1192 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
1193 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
1194 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
1198 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
1199 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
1200 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
1201 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
1202 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
1203 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
1204 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
1208 + regenerated html documentation.
1209 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
1210 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
1211 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
1212 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
1213 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
1214 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
1215 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
1216 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
1219 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
1220 works for C/C++ parts).
1221 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
1222 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
1225 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
1226 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
1227 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
1228 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
1229 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
1230 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
1231 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
1232 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
1233 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
1235 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
1236 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1237 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
1238 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
1239 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
1240 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
1243 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
1244 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
1247 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
1248 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
1249 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
1250 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
1251 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
1252 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
1255 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
1256 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
1259 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
1263 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
1264 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
1265 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
1266 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
1268 + update test/configure script.
1269 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
1270 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
1271 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
1272 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
1273 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
1276 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
1277 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
1279 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
1281 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
1282 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
1283 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
1284 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
1285 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
1286 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
1287 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1288 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1289 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
1292 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
1293 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
1294 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
1295 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
1296 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
1297 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
1298 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
1299 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
1300 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
1301 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
1302 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
1306 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
1307 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
1308 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
1309 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
1310 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
1312 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
1313 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
1314 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
1315 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
1316 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
1319 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
1320 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
1321 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
1322 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
1323 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
1324 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
1325 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
1328 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
1332 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
1335 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
1338 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
1339 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
1341 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
1342 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
1343 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
1347 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
1348 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
1350 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
1351 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
1352 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
1353 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
1356 + regenerated html documentation.
1357 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
1358 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
1359 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
1360 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
1361 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
1364 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
1365 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
1366 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
1370 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
1371 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
1372 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
1373 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
1374 window which is being used in a wgetch().
1375 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
1378 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
1379 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
1381 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
1382 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
1383 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
1384 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
1385 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
1386 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
1387 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
1388 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
1389 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
1392 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
1393 screen which must be updated.
1394 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
1395 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
1396 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
1400 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
1401 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
1403 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
1404 Emanuele Giaquinta).
1405 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
1406 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1409 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
1410 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
1411 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
1413 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
1417 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
1418 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
1419 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
1422 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
1423 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
1424 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
1425 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
1428 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
1429 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
1431 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
1433 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
1436 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
1437 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
1438 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
1439 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
1440 python-dev2 mailing list).
1443 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
1444 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
1445 are not associated with a particular screen.
1446 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
1447 stdscr to the callback function.
1448 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
1449 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
1450 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1451 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
1452 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
1453 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1454 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
1458 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
1459 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
1460 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
1461 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
1463 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
1464 wide-characters with extended-colors.
1465 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
1466 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
1467 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
1470 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
1471 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
1472 that the 'F' accepts.
1473 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
1474 are working concurrently.
1475 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
1479 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
1480 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
1481 _nc_free_and_exit().
1484 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
1485 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
1488 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
1489 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
1492 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
1493 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
1494 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
1495 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
1498 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
1499 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
1500 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
1501 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
1502 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
1503 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
1505 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
1506 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
1510 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
1511 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
1512 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
1515 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
1516 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
1517 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
1520 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
1521 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
1522 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
1526 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
1527 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
1528 "link_test" builds properly.
1529 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
1530 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
1531 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
1532 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
1533 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
1534 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
1535 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
1537 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
1540 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
1544 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
1545 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
1548 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
1550 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
1551 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
1552 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
1555 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
1556 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
1557 pierre4d2 comments).
1558 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
1559 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
1560 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
1561 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
1565 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
1566 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
1567 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
1568 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
1569 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
1571 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
1572 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
1573 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
1577 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
1578 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
1581 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
1583 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
1585 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
1589 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
1590 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
1592 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
1593 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
1594 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
1595 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
1596 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
1598 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
1599 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
1602 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
1603 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
1604 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
1605 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1608 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
1609 calls within the ncurses library.
1610 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
1612 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
1613 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
1614 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
1616 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
1617 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
1618 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
1619 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
1620 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
1623 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
1624 for threaded library (incomplete).
1625 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
1626 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
1630 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
1631 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
1632 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
1633 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
1634 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
1635 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
1636 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
1637 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1638 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1641 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
1643 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
1644 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1647 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
1648 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
1649 "\0" followed by a digit.
1650 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
1651 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
1652 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
1653 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
1654 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
1655 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
1656 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
1657 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
1658 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
1661 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
1662 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
1663 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
1664 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
1665 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
1667 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
1668 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
1669 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
1673 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
1674 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
1675 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
1676 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
1677 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
1678 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
1679 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
1680 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
1681 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
1684 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
1685 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
1686 + add test/test_getstr.c
1687 + add test/test_inwstr.c
1688 + add test/test_instr.c
1691 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
1692 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
1693 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
1697 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
1698 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
1699 ".log" to the name and try again.
1700 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
1701 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
1702 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
1703 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
1704 --disable-echo option is used.
1705 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
1706 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
1707 + update config.guess, config.sub
1710 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
1711 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
1712 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
1716 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
1717 problems with multi-column characters.
1718 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
1719 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
1720 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
1721 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
1722 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
1723 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
1724 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
1727 + add test/demo_panels.c
1728 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
1731 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
1733 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
1734 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
1737 + add test/key_name.c
1738 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
1739 + update test/configure
1740 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
1741 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
1742 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
1746 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
1747 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
1748 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
1749 illustrate how to use mvcur().
1750 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
1751 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
1752 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
1753 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
1754 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
1757 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
1758 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
1759 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
1760 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
1761 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
1762 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
1765 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
1766 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
1768 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
1769 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
1770 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
1771 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
1774 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
1775 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
1776 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
1777 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
1779 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
1781 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
1782 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
1783 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
1784 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
1785 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
1788 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
1789 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
1791 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
1792 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
1793 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
1794 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
1795 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
1796 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
1797 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
1798 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
1799 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
1800 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
1801 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
1804 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
1805 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
1806 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
1807 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
1808 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
1809 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
1810 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
1813 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
1814 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
1815 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
1816 Ada95 tree is not built.
1819 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
1820 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
1821 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
1822 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
1823 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
1824 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
1826 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
1827 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
1828 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
1829 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
1830 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1831 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
1832 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
1833 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1834 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
1835 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
1836 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
1837 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
1838 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
1839 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
1840 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
1841 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
1842 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
1843 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
1844 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
1846 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
1847 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
1848 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1849 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
1850 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1851 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
1852 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
1853 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1854 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
1857 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
1858 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
1859 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
1860 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1861 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
1862 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1863 + improved install-sh's quoting.
1864 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
1868 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
1869 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
1870 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
1871 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
1872 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
1876 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
1877 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
1878 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
1879 in the configure script to an error.
1880 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
1881 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
1882 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
1883 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
1884 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
1886 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
1887 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
1890 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
1891 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1894 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
1895 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
1897 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
1898 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
1899 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
1900 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
1901 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
1902 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
1903 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
1904 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
1907 + regenerated html documentation.
1908 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
1909 opaque in selected configurations.
1910 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
1911 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
1912 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
1913 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1914 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
1915 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
1916 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
1917 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1918 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
1919 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
1920 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
1922 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
1923 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
1926 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
1927 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
1928 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
1929 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
1930 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1931 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
1932 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
1933 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
1934 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
1935 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
1936 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
1937 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
1940 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
1942 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
1943 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
1944 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
1946 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
1947 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1948 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
1949 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1950 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
1951 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1952 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
1953 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
1955 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
1956 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1959 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
1960 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
1962 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
1964 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
1965 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
1966 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
1969 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
1970 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
1971 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
1972 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
1974 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
1975 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
1976 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
1977 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
1978 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
1979 no longer relies on it.
1980 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
1981 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
1982 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
1985 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
1986 (report by Rong-En Fan).
1989 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
1990 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
1991 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
1992 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
1993 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1994 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1995 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
1996 its license consistent with ncurses.
1997 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
1998 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
1999 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
2002 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
2003 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
2004 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
2005 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
2009 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
2010 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
2011 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
2013 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
2014 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
2017 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
2018 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
2019 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2022 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
2023 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
2024 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
2025 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
2026 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
2027 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
2028 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
2029 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
2030 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
2031 to manpages as needed.
2032 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
2033 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
2036 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
2037 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
2038 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
2039 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
2040 + update config.guess, config.sub
2042 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2045 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
2046 definitions in <wchar.h>.
2047 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
2048 correct nor portable.
2049 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
2051 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
2052 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
2056 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
2057 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
2058 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
2059 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
2060 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
2061 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
2064 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
2065 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
2066 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
2067 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
2069 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
2070 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
2071 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
2072 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
2073 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
2074 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
2075 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
2076 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
2079 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
2080 database configuration.
2081 + updates for test/configure script.
2082 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
2083 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
2085 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
2086 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
2087 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
2088 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
2090 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
2091 _nc_printf_string().
2092 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
2093 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
2096 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
2097 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
2099 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
2100 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
2104 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
2105 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
2108 + add test/echochar.c
2109 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
2110 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
2113 + add AUTHORS file -TD
2114 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
2115 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
2116 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
2119 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
2120 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
2121 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
2123 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
2124 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
2125 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
2126 for rpath support in versions past 3.
2127 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
2128 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
2129 Ralf S Engelschall).
2130 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
2131 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
2132 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
2133 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
2136 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
2137 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
2138 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
2141 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
2142 and status line (Alain Bench).
2143 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
2144 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
2145 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
2146 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
2149 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
2150 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
2151 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
2152 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
2153 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
2156 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
2157 + updated html documentation.
2158 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
2159 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
2162 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
2163 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
2164 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2165 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
2166 option (from lynx changes) -TD
2167 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
2168 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
2169 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
2170 by report by Christopher Parker).
2174 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
2175 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
2176 since it does not really do this -TD
2179 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
2180 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
2181 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
2182 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
2185 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
2186 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
2187 embedded into a termcap description.
2188 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
2189 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
2190 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
2191 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
2193 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
2196 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
2198 + add test/foldkeys.c
2201 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
2202 source output (Debian #378783).
2203 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
2204 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
2205 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
2206 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
2207 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
2208 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
2211 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
2212 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
2213 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
2216 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
2217 or as a text file if those are not available.
2218 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
2219 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
2220 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
2223 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
2224 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
2225 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
2226 + update config.guess, config.sub
2229 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
2230 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
2231 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
2233 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
2234 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
2236 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
2237 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
2238 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
2239 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
2240 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
2241 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
2243 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
2244 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
2245 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
2246 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2249 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
2250 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
2254 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
2255 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
2257 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
2258 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
2259 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
2260 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
2261 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
2262 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
2265 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
2266 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
2267 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
2268 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
2269 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
2270 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
2271 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
2272 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
2273 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
2274 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
2277 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
2278 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
2279 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
2280 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
2282 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
2285 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
2286 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
2287 + minor copyright fixes.
2288 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
2291 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
2292 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
2293 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
2294 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
2295 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
2296 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
2297 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
2298 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
2300 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
2301 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
2302 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
2303 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
2305 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
2308 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
2309 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
2311 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
2312 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
2313 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
2314 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
2316 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
2317 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
2318 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
2319 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
2322 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
2323 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
2324 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
2325 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
2326 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
2327 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
2328 + update config.guess, config.sub
2329 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
2330 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
2331 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
2332 function is broken in that implementation.
2335 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
2336 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
2339 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
2340 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
2342 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
2343 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
2345 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
2346 reported to implement this feature -TD
2349 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
2350 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2353 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
2354 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
2355 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
2356 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
2357 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
2358 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
2359 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
2360 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
2363 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
2364 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
2366 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
2367 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
2370 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
2371 (report by Alain Bench).
2372 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
2373 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
2374 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
2375 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
2377 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
2378 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
2379 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
2383 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
2384 and/or video attributes.
2385 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
2386 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
2389 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
2392 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
2393 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
2394 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
2395 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
2396 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
2397 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
2398 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
2399 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
2400 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
2403 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
2404 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
2405 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
2408 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
2409 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
2410 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
2411 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
2412 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
2413 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
2414 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
2415 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
2416 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
2417 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
2420 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
2421 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
2422 rather than delayed.
2423 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
2425 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
2426 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
2427 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
2430 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
2432 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
2433 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
2436 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
2437 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
2440 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
2441 + suppress line-drawing
2442 + implement max_attributes
2444 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
2445 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
2449 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
2450 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
2452 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
2454 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
2455 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
2456 etc., when allocating screens.
2459 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
2460 this in test/filter.c
2461 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
2465 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
2466 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
2467 + add extension nofilter().
2468 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
2469 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
2470 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
2471 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
2472 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2475 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
2476 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
2477 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
2478 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
2479 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
2480 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
2481 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
2482 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
2483 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
2485 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
2486 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
2487 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
2489 + update config.guess and config.sub
2492 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
2493 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
2494 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
2496 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
2497 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
2498 that was never built in that directory).
2499 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
2502 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
2504 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
2505 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
2509 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
2510 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
2511 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
2512 effect of the different functions.
2513 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
2517 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
2518 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
2520 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
2524 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
2525 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
2526 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
2528 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
2529 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
2533 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
2534 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
2535 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
2537 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
2538 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
2539 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
2542 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
2543 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
2544 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
2547 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
2548 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
2549 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
2551 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
2552 a derived window (Debian #316663).
2555 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
2556 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
2557 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
2558 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
2559 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
2560 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
2561 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
2564 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
2565 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
2566 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
2568 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
2569 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2570 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
2571 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
2572 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
2574 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2577 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
2580 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
2581 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
2585 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
2586 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2587 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
2588 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2589 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
2591 + update config.guess and config.sub from
2592 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
2595 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
2596 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
2597 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
2598 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
2599 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
2600 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
2601 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
2602 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
2603 default if it is used.
2604 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
2605 --with-abi-version option was used.
2606 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
2607 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
2608 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
2611 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
2612 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
2613 handlers (Debian #326709).
2616 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
2617 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
2619 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
2622 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
2623 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
2624 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
2625 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
2627 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
2628 (report by Frank van Vugt).
2631 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
2632 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
2633 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
2634 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
2635 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
2636 + update llib-l* files.
2639 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
2640 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
2641 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
2642 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
2646 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
2647 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
2648 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
2649 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
2650 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
2651 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
2652 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
2653 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
2654 Konstantin Andreev).
2657 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
2658 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
2659 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
2660 several related cases -TD
2661 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
2662 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
2664 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
2665 resets line-drawing.
2668 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
2670 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
2671 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
2672 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
2673 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
2674 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
2675 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
2678 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
2679 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
2680 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
2682 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
2683 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
2686 + update config.guess and config.sub from
2687 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
2688 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
2689 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
2690 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
2691 "make install.data" step.
2692 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
2693 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
2694 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
2695 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
2696 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
2697 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
2698 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
2699 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
2700 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
2701 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
2702 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
2703 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
2704 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
2705 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
2708 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2711 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
2712 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
2713 review of Debian package).
2714 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
2715 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
2716 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
2717 install using libtool 1.5.0):
2718 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
2720 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
2721 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
2722 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
2723 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
2724 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2727 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
2728 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
2729 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
2732 + fixes for termcap support:
2733 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
2734 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
2735 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
2736 extended names data will be freed consistently.
2737 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
2739 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
2740 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
2741 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
2742 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
2745 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
2746 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
2747 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
2748 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
2750 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
2754 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
2756 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
2757 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
2760 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
2761 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
2762 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
2763 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
2764 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2765 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
2766 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
2770 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
2771 shift-, control-cursor keys.
2772 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
2773 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
2774 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
2775 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
2776 it will automatically be treated as a key.
2777 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
2778 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
2779 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
2783 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
2784 + add configure option --enable-largefile
2785 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
2789 + update config.guess, config.sub
2790 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
2791 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
2792 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
2793 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
2794 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
2796 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
2797 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
2798 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
2801 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
2802 position the mouse to a particular item.
2803 + implement test/demo_menus.c
2804 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
2805 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
2806 --enable-const option.
2809 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
2810 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
2811 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
2812 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
2813 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
2814 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
2815 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
2816 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
2817 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
2818 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
2819 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
2822 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
2824 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
2825 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2828 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
2829 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
2830 anyone used that configuration.
2831 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
2833 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
2834 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2837 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
2838 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
2839 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
2841 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
2842 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
2843 WenRui, Debian #300512).
2846 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
2847 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
2848 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
2852 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
2853 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
2854 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
2855 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
2856 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
2859 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
2861 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
2863 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
2864 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2865 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
2868 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
2870 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
2871 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
2872 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
2873 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
2874 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
2875 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
2876 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
2877 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
2878 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
2879 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
2880 right (cf: 20040228).
2881 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
2882 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2885 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
2886 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
2887 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
2888 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
2889 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
2890 added (Debian #295083).
2891 + add traces to panel library.
2894 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
2895 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
2896 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
2897 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
2898 mouse events in this case.
2899 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
2900 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
2903 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
2904 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
2905 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
2906 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
2907 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
2908 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
2909 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
2910 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
2913 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
2914 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
2915 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
2916 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
2917 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
2918 already been started.
2919 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
2920 pair_content() and color_content().
2921 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
2922 if it corresponds to the default-color.
2923 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
2924 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
2925 color pairs which are allowed.
2926 + add a top-level tags rule.
2929 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
2930 first calling initscr().
2931 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
2932 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
2933 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
2934 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
2935 that are curses-specific.
2936 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
2937 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
2938 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
2939 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
2943 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
2944 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
2945 for leading whitespace.
2946 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
2947 where a following line begins in column 1.
2948 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
2949 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
2952 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2955 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2956 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
2957 + update config.guess, config.sub
2958 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
2959 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
2960 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
2961 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
2962 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
2963 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
2964 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
2967 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
2969 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
2970 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
2973 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
2974 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
2975 and attr_set functions.
2978 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
2979 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
2980 forms-demo to be one character short.
2981 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
2982 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
2983 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
2984 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
2987 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
2988 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
2989 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
2990 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
2992 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
2993 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
2996 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
2997 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
2998 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
2999 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
3000 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
3001 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
3002 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
3004 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
3005 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3007 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
3008 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
3011 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
3012 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
3013 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
3014 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
3015 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
3016 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
3017 wide-character configuration.
3020 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
3021 or multicolumn characters.
3024 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
3025 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
3026 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
3027 use_default_colors() be called first.
3030 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
3031 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
3032 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
3033 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
3034 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
3035 must be wrapped to a new line.
3036 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
3037 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
3038 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
3039 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
3040 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
3044 + minor fixes for traces.
3045 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
3046 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
3047 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
3051 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
3052 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
3053 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
3054 and shift-out which seem to work.
3055 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
3056 at runtime (Debian #110586).
3059 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
3060 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
3061 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
3062 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
3066 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
3067 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
3068 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
3069 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
3072 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
3073 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
3074 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
3075 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
3076 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
3077 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
3078 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
3079 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
3080 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
3081 is no longer experimental.
3082 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
3083 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
3086 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
3089 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
3090 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
3091 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
3092 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
3093 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
3094 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
3095 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
3096 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
3099 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
3100 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
3101 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
3102 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
3103 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
3104 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
3105 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
3106 new ones do not require this change. -TD
3109 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
3110 and window managers (Debian #265631).
3111 > terminfo updates -TD
3112 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
3113 with the common usage of bce/ech
3114 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
3118 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
3119 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
3120 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
3121 a help window as well.
3122 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
3123 the -d option is set.
3124 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
3127 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
3129 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
3130 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
3134 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
3135 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
3136 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
3137 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
3138 patch by Hans de Goede)
3139 > terminfo updates -TD
3140 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
3141 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
3142 + add function-keys to decansi
3143 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
3144 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
3145 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
3148 > terminfo updates -TD
3149 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
3150 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
3152 + review/update konsole entries
3153 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
3154 + correct tsl string in kterm
3157 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
3160 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
3161 multibyte character.
3162 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
3164 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
3165 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
3166 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
3167 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
3168 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
3169 converting termcap to termcap format.
3170 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
3171 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
3172 > terminfo updates -TD
3173 + minor fixes for emu
3175 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
3180 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
3181 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
3182 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
3183 (report/patch by Tony Li).
3184 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
3185 > terminfo updates -TD
3186 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
3188 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
3189 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
3190 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
3193 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
3194 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
3196 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
3197 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
3198 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
3199 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
3200 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
3201 + update config.guess, config.sub
3202 > terminfo updates -TD
3204 + add xterm-xf86-v44
3205 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
3206 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
3211 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
3212 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
3213 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
3216 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
3217 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
3218 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
3220 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
3224 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
3225 field_buffer() results.
3226 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
3229 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
3231 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
3232 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
3233 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
3234 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
3235 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
3238 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
3239 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
3240 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
3244 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
3245 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
3247 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
3250 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
3251 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
3252 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
3253 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
3254 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
3255 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
3256 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
3257 information without an option.
3258 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
3259 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
3262 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
3265 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
3266 + free some memory leaks in tic.
3267 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
3268 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
3269 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
3270 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
3271 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
3273 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
3276 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
3277 to an unsigned char.
3278 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
3279 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
3282 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
3285 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
3286 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
3287 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
3288 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
3289 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
3290 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
3291 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
3292 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
3293 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
3294 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
3295 20030802 (Debian #237629).
3298 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
3299 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
3300 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
3301 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
3304 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
3306 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
3307 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
3310 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
3311 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
3312 mode is shown in that test.
3313 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
3314 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
3315 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
3318 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
3320 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
3321 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
3322 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
3323 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
3325 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
3326 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
3327 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
3328 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
3331 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
3332 (request by Mike Aubury).
3333 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
3335 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
3337 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
3340 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
3341 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
3342 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
3343 with Stanislav Ievlev).
3344 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
3345 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
3346 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
3347 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
3348 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
3349 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
3351 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3354 20040207 pre-release
3355 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
3356 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
3357 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
3358 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
3359 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
3361 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
3362 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
3363 verified by Scott Corscadden).
3365 20040131 pre-release
3366 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
3367 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
3368 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
3369 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
3370 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
3371 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
3372 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
3373 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
3374 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
3375 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
3376 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
3378 20040125 pre-release
3379 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
3380 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
3381 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
3382 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
3383 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
3384 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
3385 modifying the displayed value.
3387 20040124 pre-release
3388 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
3389 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
3390 that works better for cross-compiling.
3392 20040117 pre-release
3393 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
3394 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
3395 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
3396 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
3397 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
3398 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
3399 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
3401 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
3402 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
3404 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
3405 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
3406 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
3407 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
3408 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
3409 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
3410 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
3411 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
3412 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
3413 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
3414 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
3415 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
3417 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
3418 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
3419 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
3420 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
3421 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
3422 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
3423 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
3424 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
3426 20040110 pre-release
3427 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
3428 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
3430 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
3431 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
3433 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
3435 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
3436 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
3437 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
3438 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
3439 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
3442 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
3443 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
3444 + add pecho_wchar().
3445 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
3446 available) on older platforms.