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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 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
50 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
51 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
54 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
55 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
56 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
58 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
59 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
62 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
63 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
67 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
70 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
72 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
73 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
74 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
75 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
76 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
78 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
79 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
80 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
83 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
84 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
85 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
88 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
89 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
91 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
94 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
95 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
97 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
98 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
102 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
103 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
104 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
107 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
110 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
113 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
114 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
115 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
116 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
119 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
122 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
123 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
124 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
125 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
129 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
132 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
133 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
136 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
139 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
143 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
146 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
147 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
148 part of the form library.
151 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
152 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
155 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
156 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
157 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
158 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
159 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
160 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
161 a temporary variable.
162 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
163 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
164 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
165 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
166 with Charles Wilson).
167 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
168 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
169 > patches by Charles Wilson:
170 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
171 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
172 digits, after the final '.').
173 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
174 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
175 using that in the libtool link-commands.
176 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
177 from 2009031 changes.
178 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
179 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
180 termlib) is to be linked.
181 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
182 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
185 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
186 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
187 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
188 (report by Charles Wilson).
189 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
190 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
191 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
192 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
193 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
196 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
197 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
198 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
199 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
200 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
202 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
203 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
204 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
205 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
206 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
207 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
208 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
209 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
212 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
213 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
214 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
217 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
220 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
222 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
223 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
224 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
225 some internals work is needed to complete these).
226 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
229 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
230 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
231 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
232 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
233 + make it work with $DESTDIR
234 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
237 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
238 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
240 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
241 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
242 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
245 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
246 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
247 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
248 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
249 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
250 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
251 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
252 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
253 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
256 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
257 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
259 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
261 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
262 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
265 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
267 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
268 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
269 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
270 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
273 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
274 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
275 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
277 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
278 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
281 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
282 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
283 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
284 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
285 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
286 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
288 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
289 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
291 + update config.guess, config.sub from
292 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
295 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
296 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
297 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
300 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
301 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
302 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
304 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
305 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
308 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
310 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
311 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
312 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
314 + fixes from NetBSD port at
315 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
316 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
317 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
318 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
319 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
321 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
322 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
325 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
326 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
327 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
328 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
329 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
330 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
331 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
332 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
333 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
334 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
335 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
338 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
339 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
340 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
341 passing color or video attributes.
342 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
343 display meta-characters.
344 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
345 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
346 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
347 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
351 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
352 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
353 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
355 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
358 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
360 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
361 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
363 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
366 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
367 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
368 does not work well on that platform).
369 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
372 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
373 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
374 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
376 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
377 --disable-database is used.
378 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
379 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
380 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
381 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
385 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
386 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
387 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
388 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
389 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
390 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
391 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
395 + update html documentation.
396 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
397 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
398 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
399 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
400 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
401 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
402 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
403 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
406 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
407 works for C/C++ parts).
408 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
409 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
412 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
413 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
414 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
415 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
416 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
417 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
418 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
419 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
420 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
422 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
423 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
424 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
425 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
426 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
427 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
430 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
431 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
434 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
435 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
436 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
437 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
438 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
439 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
442 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
443 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
446 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
450 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
451 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
452 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
453 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
455 + update test/configure script.
456 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
457 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
458 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
459 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
460 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
463 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
464 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
466 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
468 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
469 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
470 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
471 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
472 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
473 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
474 + update config.guess, config.sub from
475 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
476 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
479 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
480 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
481 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
482 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
483 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
484 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
485 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
486 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
487 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
488 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
489 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
493 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
494 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
495 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
496 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
497 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
499 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
500 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
501 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
502 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
503 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
506 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
507 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
508 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
509 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
510 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
511 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
512 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
515 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
519 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
522 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
525 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
526 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
528 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
529 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
530 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
534 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
535 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
537 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
538 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
539 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
540 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
543 + regenerated html documentation.
544 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
545 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
546 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
547 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
548 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
551 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
552 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
553 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
557 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
558 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
559 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
560 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
561 window which is being used in a wgetch().
562 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
565 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
566 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
568 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
569 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
570 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
571 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
572 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
573 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
574 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
575 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
576 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
579 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
580 screen which must be updated.
581 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
582 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
583 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
587 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
588 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
590 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
592 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
593 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
596 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
597 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
598 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
600 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
604 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
605 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
606 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
609 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
610 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
611 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
612 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
615 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
616 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
618 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
620 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
623 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
624 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
625 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
626 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
627 python-dev2 mailing list).
630 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
631 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
632 are not associated with a particular screen.
633 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
634 stdscr to the callback function.
635 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
636 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
637 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
638 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
639 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
640 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
641 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
645 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
646 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
647 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
648 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
650 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
651 wide-characters with extended-colors.
652 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
653 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
654 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
657 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
658 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
659 that the 'F' accepts.
660 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
661 are working concurrently.
662 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
666 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
667 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
671 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
672 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
675 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
676 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
679 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
680 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
681 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
682 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
685 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
686 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
687 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
688 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
689 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
690 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
692 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
693 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
697 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
698 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
699 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
702 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
703 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
704 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
707 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
708 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
709 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
713 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
714 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
715 "link_test" builds properly.
716 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
717 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
718 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
719 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
720 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
721 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
722 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
724 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
727 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
731 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
732 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
735 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
737 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
738 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
739 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
742 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
743 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
745 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
746 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
747 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
748 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
752 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
753 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
754 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
755 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
756 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
758 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
759 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
760 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
764 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
765 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
768 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
770 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
772 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
776 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
777 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
779 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
780 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
781 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
782 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
783 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
785 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
786 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
789 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
790 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
791 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
792 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
795 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
796 calls within the ncurses library.
797 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
799 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
800 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
801 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
803 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
804 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
805 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
806 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
807 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
810 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
811 for threaded library (incomplete).
812 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
813 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
817 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
818 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
819 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
820 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
821 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
822 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
823 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
824 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
825 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
828 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
830 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
831 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
834 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
835 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
836 "\0" followed by a digit.
837 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
838 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
839 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
840 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
841 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
842 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
843 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
844 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
845 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
848 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
849 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
850 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
851 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
852 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
854 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
855 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
856 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
860 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
861 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
862 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
863 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
864 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
865 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
866 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
867 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
868 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
871 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
872 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
873 + add test/test_getstr.c
874 + add test/test_inwstr.c
875 + add test/test_instr.c
878 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
879 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
880 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
884 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
885 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
886 ".log" to the name and try again.
887 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
888 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
889 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
890 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
891 --disable-echo option is used.
892 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
893 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
894 + update config.guess, config.sub
897 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
898 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
899 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
903 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
904 problems with multi-column characters.
905 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
906 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
907 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
908 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
909 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
910 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
911 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
914 + add test/demo_panels.c
915 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
918 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
920 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
921 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
924 + add test/key_name.c
925 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
926 + update test/configure
927 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
928 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
929 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
933 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
934 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
935 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
936 illustrate how to use mvcur().
937 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
938 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
939 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
940 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
941 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
944 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
945 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
946 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
947 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
948 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
949 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
952 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
953 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
955 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
956 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
957 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
958 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
961 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
962 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
963 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
964 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
966 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
968 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
969 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
970 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
971 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
972 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
975 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
976 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
978 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
979 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
980 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
981 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
982 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
983 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
984 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
985 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
986 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
987 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
988 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
991 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
992 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
993 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
994 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
995 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
996 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
997 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
1000 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
1001 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
1002 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
1003 Ada95 tree is not built.
1006 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
1007 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
1008 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
1009 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
1010 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
1011 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
1013 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
1014 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
1015 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
1016 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
1017 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1018 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
1019 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
1020 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1021 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
1022 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
1023 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
1024 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
1025 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
1026 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
1027 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
1028 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
1029 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
1030 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
1031 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
1033 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
1034 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
1035 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1036 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
1037 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1038 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
1039 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
1040 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1041 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
1044 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
1045 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
1046 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
1047 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1048 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
1049 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1050 + improved install-sh's quoting.
1051 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
1055 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
1056 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
1057 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
1058 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
1059 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
1063 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
1064 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
1065 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
1066 in the configure script to an error.
1067 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
1068 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
1069 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
1070 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
1071 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
1073 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
1074 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
1077 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
1078 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1081 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
1082 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
1084 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
1085 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
1086 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
1087 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
1088 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
1089 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
1090 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
1091 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
1094 + regenerated html documentation.
1095 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
1096 opaque in selected configurations.
1097 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
1098 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
1099 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
1100 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1101 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
1102 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
1103 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
1104 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1105 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
1106 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
1107 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
1109 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
1110 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
1113 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
1114 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
1115 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
1116 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
1117 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1118 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
1119 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
1120 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
1121 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
1122 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
1123 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
1124 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
1127 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
1129 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
1130 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
1131 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
1133 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
1134 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1135 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
1136 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1137 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
1138 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1139 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
1140 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
1142 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
1143 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1146 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
1147 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
1149 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
1151 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
1152 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
1153 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
1156 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
1157 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
1158 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
1159 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
1161 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
1162 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
1163 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
1164 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
1165 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
1166 no longer relies on it.
1167 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
1168 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
1169 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
1172 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
1173 (report by Rong-En Fan).
1176 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
1177 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
1178 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
1179 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
1180 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1181 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1182 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
1183 its license consistent with ncurses.
1184 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
1185 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
1186 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
1189 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
1190 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
1191 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
1192 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
1196 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
1197 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
1198 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
1200 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
1201 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1204 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
1205 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
1206 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1209 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1210 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1211 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
1212 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
1213 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
1214 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
1215 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
1216 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
1217 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
1218 to manpages as needed.
1219 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
1220 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
1223 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
1224 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
1225 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
1226 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
1227 + update config.guess, config.sub
1229 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1232 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
1233 definitions in <wchar.h>.
1234 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
1235 correct nor portable.
1236 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
1238 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
1239 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
1243 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
1244 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
1245 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
1246 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
1247 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
1248 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
1251 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
1252 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
1253 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
1254 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
1256 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
1257 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
1258 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
1259 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
1260 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
1261 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
1262 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
1263 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
1266 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
1267 database configuration.
1268 + updates for test/configure script.
1269 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
1270 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
1272 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
1273 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
1274 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
1275 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
1277 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
1278 _nc_printf_string().
1279 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
1280 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
1283 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
1284 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
1286 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
1287 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
1291 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
1292 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
1295 + add test/echochar.c
1296 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
1297 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
1300 + add AUTHORS file -TD
1301 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
1302 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
1303 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
1306 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
1307 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
1308 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
1310 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
1311 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
1312 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
1313 for rpath support in versions past 3.
1314 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
1315 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
1316 Ralf S Engelschall).
1317 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
1318 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
1319 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
1320 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
1323 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
1324 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
1325 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
1328 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
1329 and status line (Alain Bench).
1330 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
1331 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
1332 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
1333 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
1336 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
1337 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
1338 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
1339 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
1340 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
1343 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
1344 + updated html documentation.
1345 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
1346 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
1349 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
1350 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
1351 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1352 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
1353 option (from lynx changes) -TD
1354 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
1355 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
1356 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
1357 by report by Christopher Parker).
1361 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
1362 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
1363 since it does not really do this -TD
1366 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
1367 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
1368 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
1369 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
1372 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
1373 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
1374 embedded into a termcap description.
1375 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
1376 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
1377 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
1378 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
1380 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
1383 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
1385 + add test/foldkeys.c
1388 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
1389 source output (Debian #378783).
1390 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
1391 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
1392 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
1393 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
1394 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
1395 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
1398 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
1399 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
1400 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
1403 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
1404 or as a text file if those are not available.
1405 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
1406 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
1407 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
1410 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
1411 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
1412 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
1413 + update config.guess, config.sub
1416 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
1417 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
1418 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
1420 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
1421 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
1423 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
1424 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
1425 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
1426 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
1427 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
1428 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
1430 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
1431 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
1432 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
1433 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1436 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
1437 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
1441 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
1442 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
1444 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
1445 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
1446 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
1447 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
1448 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
1449 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
1452 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
1453 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
1454 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
1455 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
1456 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
1457 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
1458 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1459 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
1460 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
1461 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1464 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
1465 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1466 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
1467 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
1469 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
1472 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
1473 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
1474 + minor copyright fixes.
1475 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
1478 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
1479 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
1480 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
1481 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
1482 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
1483 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
1484 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
1485 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
1487 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
1488 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
1489 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
1490 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
1492 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
1495 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
1496 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
1498 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
1499 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
1500 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
1501 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
1503 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
1504 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
1505 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
1506 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1509 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
1510 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
1511 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
1512 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
1513 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
1514 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
1515 + update config.guess, config.sub
1516 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
1517 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
1518 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
1519 function is broken in that implementation.
1522 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
1523 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
1526 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
1527 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
1529 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
1530 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
1532 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
1533 reported to implement this feature -TD
1536 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
1537 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1540 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
1541 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
1542 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
1543 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
1544 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
1545 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
1546 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
1547 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
1550 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
1551 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
1553 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
1554 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
1557 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
1558 (report by Alain Bench).
1559 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
1560 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
1561 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
1562 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
1564 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
1565 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
1566 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
1570 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
1571 and/or video attributes.
1572 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
1573 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
1576 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
1579 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
1580 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
1581 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
1582 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
1583 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
1584 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
1585 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
1586 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
1587 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
1590 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
1591 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1592 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
1595 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
1596 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
1597 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
1598 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
1599 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
1600 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
1601 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
1602 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
1603 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
1604 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
1607 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
1608 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
1609 rather than delayed.
1610 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
1612 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
1613 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
1614 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
1617 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
1619 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
1620 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
1623 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
1624 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
1627 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
1628 + suppress line-drawing
1629 + implement max_attributes
1631 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
1632 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
1636 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
1637 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
1639 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
1641 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
1642 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
1643 etc., when allocating screens.
1646 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
1647 this in test/filter.c
1648 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
1652 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
1653 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
1654 + add extension nofilter().
1655 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
1656 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
1657 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
1658 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
1659 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1662 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
1663 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
1664 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
1665 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
1666 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
1667 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
1668 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
1669 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
1670 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
1672 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
1673 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
1674 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
1676 + update config.guess and config.sub
1679 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
1680 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
1681 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
1683 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
1684 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
1685 that was never built in that directory).
1686 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
1689 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
1691 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
1692 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
1696 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
1697 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
1698 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
1699 effect of the different functions.
1700 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
1704 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
1705 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
1707 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
1711 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
1712 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
1713 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
1715 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
1716 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
1720 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
1721 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
1722 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
1724 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
1725 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
1726 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
1729 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
1730 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
1731 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
1734 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
1735 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
1736 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
1738 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
1739 a derived window (Debian #316663).
1742 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
1743 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
1744 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
1745 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
1746 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
1747 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
1748 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
1751 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
1752 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
1753 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
1755 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
1756 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1757 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
1758 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
1759 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
1761 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1764 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
1767 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
1768 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
1772 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
1773 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1774 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
1775 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1776 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
1778 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1779 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1782 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
1783 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
1784 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
1785 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
1786 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
1787 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
1788 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
1789 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
1790 default if it is used.
1791 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
1792 --with-abi-version option was used.
1793 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
1794 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
1795 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
1798 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
1799 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
1800 handlers (Debian #326709).
1803 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
1804 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
1806 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
1809 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
1810 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
1811 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
1812 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
1814 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
1815 (report by Frank van Vugt).
1818 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
1819 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
1820 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
1821 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
1822 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
1823 + update llib-l* files.
1826 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
1827 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
1828 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
1829 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
1833 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
1834 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
1835 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
1836 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
1837 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
1838 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
1839 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
1840 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
1841 Konstantin Andreev).
1844 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
1845 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
1846 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
1847 several related cases -TD
1848 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
1849 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
1851 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
1852 resets line-drawing.
1855 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
1857 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
1858 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
1859 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
1860 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
1861 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
1862 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
1865 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
1866 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
1867 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
1869 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
1870 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
1873 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1874 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1875 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
1876 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
1877 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
1878 "make install.data" step.
1879 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
1880 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
1881 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
1882 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
1883 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
1884 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
1885 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
1886 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
1887 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
1888 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
1889 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
1890 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
1891 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
1892 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
1895 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1898 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
1899 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
1900 review of Debian package).
1901 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
1902 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
1903 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
1904 install using libtool 1.5.0):
1905 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
1907 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
1908 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
1909 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
1910 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
1911 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1914 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
1915 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
1916 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
1919 + fixes for termcap support:
1920 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
1921 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
1922 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
1923 extended names data will be freed consistently.
1924 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
1926 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
1927 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
1928 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
1929 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
1932 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
1933 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
1934 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
1935 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
1937 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
1941 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
1943 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
1944 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
1947 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
1948 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
1949 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
1950 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
1951 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1952 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
1953 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
1957 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
1958 shift-, control-cursor keys.
1959 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
1960 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
1961 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
1962 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
1963 it will automatically be treated as a key.
1964 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
1965 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
1966 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
1970 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
1971 + add configure option --enable-largefile
1972 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
1976 + update config.guess, config.sub
1977 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
1978 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
1979 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
1980 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
1981 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
1983 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
1984 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
1985 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
1988 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
1989 position the mouse to a particular item.
1990 + implement test/demo_menus.c
1991 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
1992 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
1993 --enable-const option.
1996 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
1997 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
1998 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
1999 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
2000 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
2001 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
2002 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
2003 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
2004 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
2005 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
2006 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
2009 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
2011 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
2012 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2015 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
2016 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
2017 anyone used that configuration.
2018 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
2020 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
2021 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2024 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
2025 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
2026 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
2028 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
2029 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
2030 WenRui, Debian #300512).
2033 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
2034 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
2035 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
2039 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
2040 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
2041 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
2042 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
2043 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
2046 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
2048 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
2050 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
2051 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2052 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
2055 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
2057 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
2058 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
2059 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
2060 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
2061 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
2062 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
2063 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
2064 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
2065 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
2066 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
2067 right (cf: 20040228).
2068 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
2069 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2072 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
2073 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
2074 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
2075 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
2076 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
2077 added (Debian #295083).
2078 + add traces to panel library.
2081 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
2082 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
2083 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
2084 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
2085 mouse events in this case.
2086 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
2087 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
2090 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
2091 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
2092 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
2093 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
2094 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
2095 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
2096 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
2097 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
2100 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
2101 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
2102 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
2103 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
2104 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
2105 already been started.
2106 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
2107 pair_content() and color_content().
2108 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
2109 if it corresponds to the default-color.
2110 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
2111 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
2112 color pairs which are allowed.
2113 + add a top-level tags rule.
2116 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
2117 first calling initscr().
2118 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
2119 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
2120 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
2121 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
2122 that are curses-specific.
2123 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
2124 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
2125 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
2126 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
2130 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
2131 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
2132 for leading whitespace.
2133 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
2134 where a following line begins in column 1.
2135 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
2136 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
2139 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2142 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2143 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
2144 + update config.guess, config.sub
2145 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
2146 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
2147 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
2148 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
2149 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
2150 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
2151 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
2154 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
2156 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
2157 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
2160 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
2161 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
2162 and attr_set functions.
2165 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
2166 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
2167 forms-demo to be one character short.
2168 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
2169 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
2170 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
2171 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
2174 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
2175 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
2176 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
2177 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
2179 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
2180 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
2183 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
2184 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
2185 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
2186 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
2187 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
2188 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
2189 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
2191 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
2192 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2194 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
2195 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
2198 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
2199 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
2200 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
2201 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
2202 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
2203 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
2204 wide-character configuration.
2207 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
2208 or multicolumn characters.
2211 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
2212 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
2213 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
2214 use_default_colors() be called first.
2217 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
2218 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
2219 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
2220 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
2221 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
2222 must be wrapped to a new line.
2223 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
2224 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
2225 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
2226 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
2227 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
2231 + minor fixes for traces.
2232 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
2233 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
2234 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
2238 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
2239 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
2240 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
2241 and shift-out which seem to work.
2242 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
2243 at runtime (Debian #110586).
2246 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
2247 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2248 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
2249 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
2253 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
2254 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
2255 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
2256 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2259 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
2260 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
2261 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2262 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
2263 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2264 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
2265 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
2266 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
2267 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
2268 is no longer experimental.
2269 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
2270 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
2273 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
2276 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
2277 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
2278 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
2279 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
2280 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
2281 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
2282 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
2283 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
2286 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
2287 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
2288 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
2289 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
2290 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
2291 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
2292 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
2293 new ones do not require this change. -TD
2296 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
2297 and window managers (Debian #265631).
2298 > terminfo updates -TD
2299 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
2300 with the common usage of bce/ech
2301 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
2305 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
2306 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
2307 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
2308 a help window as well.
2309 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
2310 the -d option is set.
2311 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
2314 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
2316 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
2317 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
2321 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
2322 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
2323 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
2324 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
2325 patch by Hans de Goede)
2326 > terminfo updates -TD
2327 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
2328 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
2329 + add function-keys to decansi
2330 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
2331 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
2332 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
2335 > terminfo updates -TD
2336 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
2337 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
2339 + review/update konsole entries
2340 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
2341 + correct tsl string in kterm
2344 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
2347 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
2348 multibyte character.
2349 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
2351 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
2352 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
2353 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
2354 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
2355 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
2356 converting termcap to termcap format.
2357 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
2358 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
2359 > terminfo updates -TD
2360 + minor fixes for emu
2362 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
2367 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
2368 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
2369 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
2370 (report/patch by Tony Li).
2371 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
2372 > terminfo updates -TD
2373 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
2375 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
2376 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
2377 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
2380 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
2381 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
2383 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
2384 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
2385 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
2386 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
2387 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2388 + update config.guess, config.sub
2389 > terminfo updates -TD
2391 + add xterm-xf86-v44
2392 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
2393 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
2398 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
2399 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
2400 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
2403 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
2404 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
2405 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
2407 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
2411 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
2412 field_buffer() results.
2413 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
2416 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
2418 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
2419 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
2420 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
2421 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
2422 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
2425 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
2426 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
2427 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
2431 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
2432 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
2434 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
2437 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
2438 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
2439 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
2440 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
2441 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
2442 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
2443 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
2444 information without an option.
2445 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
2446 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
2449 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
2452 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
2453 + free some memory leaks in tic.
2454 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
2455 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
2456 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
2457 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
2458 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
2460 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
2463 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
2464 to an unsigned char.
2465 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
2466 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
2469 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
2472 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
2473 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
2474 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
2475 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
2476 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
2477 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
2478 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
2479 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
2480 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
2481 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
2482 20030802 (Debian #237629).
2485 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
2486 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
2487 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
2488 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
2491 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
2493 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
2494 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
2497 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
2498 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
2499 mode is shown in that test.
2500 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
2501 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
2502 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
2505 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
2507 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
2508 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
2509 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
2510 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
2512 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
2513 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
2514 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
2515 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
2518 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
2519 (request by Mike Aubury).
2520 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
2522 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
2524 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
2527 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
2528 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
2529 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
2530 with Stanislav Ievlev).
2531 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
2532 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
2533 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
2534 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
2535 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
2536 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
2538 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2541 20040207 pre-release
2542 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
2543 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
2544 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
2545 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
2546 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
2548 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
2549 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
2550 verified by Scott Corscadden).
2552 20040131 pre-release
2553 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
2554 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
2555 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
2556 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
2557 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
2558 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
2559 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
2560 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
2561 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
2562 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
2563 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
2565 20040125 pre-release
2566 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
2567 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
2568 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
2569 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
2570 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
2571 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
2572 modifying the displayed value.
2574 20040124 pre-release
2575 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
2576 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
2577 that works better for cross-compiling.
2579 20040117 pre-release
2580 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
2581 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
2582 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
2583 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
2584 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
2585 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
2586 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
2588 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
2589 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
2591 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
2592 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
2593 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
2594 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
2595 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2596 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
2597 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
2598 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
2599 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2600 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
2601 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2602 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
2604 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
2605 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
2606 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
2607 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
2608 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
2609 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
2610 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
2611 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
2613 20040110 pre-release
2614 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
2615 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
2617 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
2618 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
2620 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
2622 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
2623 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
2624 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2625 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
2626 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2629 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
2630 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
2631 + add pecho_wchar().
2632 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
2633 available) on older platforms.
2636 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
2637 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
2638 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
2639 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
2640 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
2641 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
2642 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
2643 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
2644 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
2647 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
2648 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
2649 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
2650 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
2651 work with Tru64 4.0d.
2652 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
2656 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
2657 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
2658 applications do not.
2659 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
2660 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
2661 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
2662 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
2663 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
2664 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
2668 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
2669 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
2670 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
2671 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
2672 <inger@altlinux.org>).
2673 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
2674 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
2675 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
2676 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
2677 awkward for some cases.
2678 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
2679 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
2681 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
2682 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
2683 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
2684 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
2685 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
2689 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
2690 values (Philippe Blain).
2691 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
2692 restarting (Philippe Blain).
2693 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
2697 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
2698 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
2699 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
2700 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
2701 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
2702 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
2706 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
2707 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
2708 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
2710 + update config.guess, config.sub
2713 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
2714 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
2715 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
2716 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
2717 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
2718 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
2719 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
2721 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
2722 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
2723 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
2724 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
2725 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
2728 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
2729 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
2730 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
2731 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
2732 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
2733 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
2734 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
2735 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
2737 + regenerated html documentation.
2738 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
2739 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
2740 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
2743 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
2744 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
2745 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
2746 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
2747 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
2748 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
2749 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
2750 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
2754 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
2755 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
2758 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
2759 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
2760 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
2761 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
2763 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
2764 (report by Philippe Blain).
2767 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
2768 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
2769 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
2770 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
2771 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
2772 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
2773 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2774 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
2775 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
2777 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
2779 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
2780 in the clr_bol logic.
2783 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2784 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2785 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
2786 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
2787 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
2788 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2789 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
2790 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
2791 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
2792 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
2793 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
2794 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
2797 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
2798 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
2799 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
2800 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
2803 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
2804 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
2805 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
2806 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
2807 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
2808 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
2809 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
2810 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
2811 --with-install-prefix is used.
2814 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2815 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
2816 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
2817 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
2820 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
2821 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
2822 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
2823 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
2824 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
2825 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
2826 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2827 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
2828 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
2831 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
2832 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
2833 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
2834 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
2835 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
2836 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
2837 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
2840 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
2842 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2843 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
2844 the size of the scroll-region.
2845 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
2848 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
2849 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
2850 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
2854 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
2855 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
2856 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
2857 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2858 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
2860 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
2861 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
2862 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
2863 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
2864 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
2865 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
2866 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
2867 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
2868 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
2869 usage and to prevent circular links.
2870 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
2871 (rxvt-color): new alias
2872 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
2873 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
2874 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
2875 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
2876 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
2877 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
2879 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
2883 + update config.guess, config.sub
2884 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
2885 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
2888 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
2889 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
2890 would not accept gcc warning options.
2891 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
2892 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
2893 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
2894 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
2895 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2896 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
2897 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
2899 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
2902 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
2903 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
2904 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
2905 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
2906 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
2907 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
2908 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
2909 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2912 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
2914 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
2915 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
2916 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
2917 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
2920 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
2922 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
2923 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
2924 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
2925 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2926 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
2927 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
2930 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
2931 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
2932 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
2933 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
2934 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
2935 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
2936 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
2937 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
2939 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
2940 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2941 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
2942 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2945 + regenerated html manpages.
2946 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
2947 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
2949 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
2950 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
2952 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
2953 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
2956 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
2957 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2958 + add tkterm entry -TD
2959 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
2960 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
2961 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
2962 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
2964 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
2965 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
2966 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
2968 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
2969 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
2970 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
2973 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
2974 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
2975 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
2976 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
2978 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
2979 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
2980 current test programs.
2981 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
2982 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
2983 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
2984 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
2986 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
2987 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
2988 mentioned in the terminfo.
2989 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
2990 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
2993 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
2994 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
2995 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
2996 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
2997 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
2998 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
2999 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
3000 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
3003 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
3004 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
3005 the editing position before making modifications.
3006 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
3007 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
3008 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
3011 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
3012 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
3013 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
3014 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
3016 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
3017 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
3018 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
3019 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
3020 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
3021 terminfo as is done in "screen".
3024 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
3025 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
3026 code, from recent rewrite.
3027 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
3029 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
3030 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
3033 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
3034 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
3035 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
3036 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
3039 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
3040 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
3042 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
3045 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
3047 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
3048 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
3050 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
3051 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
3052 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
3055 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
3056 a file when ^W is given.
3057 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
3061 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
3062 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
3063 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
3064 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
3065 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
3066 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
3067 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
3068 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
3072 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
3073 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
3074 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
3077 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
3078 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
3079 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
3080 baudrate was not known.
3081 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
3082 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
3083 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
3084 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
3085 corresponding capability might be
3087 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
3088 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
3089 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
3090 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
3093 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
3094 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
3095 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
3096 apparently typedef'd.
3097 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
3098 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
3101 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
3102 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
3103 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
3104 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
3105 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
3106 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
3107 cached for reallocating.
3110 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
3111 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
3112 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
3114 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
3115 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
3116 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
3117 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
3118 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
3119 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
3120 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
3121 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
3124 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
3125 emx-base to the latter -TD
3126 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
3127 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
3130 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
3131 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
3132 attributes, e.g., reverse.
3133 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
3134 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
3137 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
3138 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
3139 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
3140 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
3141 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
3142 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
3143 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
3145 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
3146 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
3147 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
3148 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
3149 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
3152 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
3153 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
3154 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
3155 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
3156 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
3157 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
3159 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3160 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
3161 is indeed a "blank".
3162 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
3163 sections as small as one line.
3164 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
3166 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
3167 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
3168 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
3171 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
3172 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
3175 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
3176 (report by Philippe Blain).
3177 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
3178 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
3179 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
3180 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
3181 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
3183 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
3184 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
3185 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
3186 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3187 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
3188 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
3191 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
3192 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
3194 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
3195 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
3197 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
3198 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
3199 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
3200 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
3203 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
3204 overridden from the environment.
3205 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
3206 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
3207 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
3208 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
3209 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
3210 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
3211 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
3212 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
3213 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
3214 by Sam Varshavchik).
3215 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
3216 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
3217 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
3218 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
3220 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
3221 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
3222 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
3223 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
3224 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
3227 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
3228 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
3229 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
3230 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
3231 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
3232 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
3233 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
3234 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
3235 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
3236 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
3237 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
3238 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
3239 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
3240 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
3241 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
3242 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
3243 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
3244 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
3245 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
3246 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
3247 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
3248 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
3249 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
3252 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
3253 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
3254 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
3255 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
3256 winsch() internal function.
3257 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
3258 more than one spacing character.
3261 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
3262 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
3263 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
3264 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
3265 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
3266 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
3267 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
3268 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
3269 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
3270 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
3273 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
3274 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
3275 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
3276 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
3277 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
3278 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
3279 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
3282 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
3283 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
3284 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
3285 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
3287 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
3288 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
3289 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
3290 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
3291 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
3294 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
3295 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
3296 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
3297 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
3298 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
3299 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
3300 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
3301 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
3302 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
3303 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
3304 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
3305 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
3306 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
3307 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
3308 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
3309 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
3310 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
3313 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
3314 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
3315 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
3316 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
3317 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
3318 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
3319 Frederic L W Meunier).
3321 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3322 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
3323 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
3324 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
3325 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
3326 the debug trace in that case.
3327 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
3328 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
3329 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
3330 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
3332 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
3333 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
3335 20021005 pre-release
3336 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
3337 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
3338 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
3339 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
3340 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
3341 formats such as "%.*s".
3342 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
3343 (report Floyd Davidson).
3344 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
3346 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
3347 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
3348 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
3350 20020928 pre-release
3351 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
3352 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
3353 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
3355 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
3356 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
3357 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
3358 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
3359 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
3360 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
3361 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
3362 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
3363 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
3364 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
3365 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
3366 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
3367 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
3368 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
3369 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
3370 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
3371 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
3372 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
3373 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
3375 20020921 pre-release
3376 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
3377 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
3378 result in core dump.
3379 + documented getbegx(), etc.
3380 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
3381 delimiter rather than '@'.
3382 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3383 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
3384 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
3385 to the lines given for the destination window.
3387 20020914 pre-release
3388 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
3389 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
3390 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
3391 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
3392 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
3393 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
3394 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
3395 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
3396 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3397 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
3398 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
3399 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
3401 20020907 pre-release
3402 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
3403 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
3404 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
3405 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
3406 html manpages on Debian.
3407 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
3408 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
3409 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
3410 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3411 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
3412 a variable from the stack.
3413 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
3415 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
3416 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
3417 _idcok window fields.
3418 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
3420 20020901 pre-release
3421 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
3422 + update config.guess, config.sub
3423 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
3424 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
3426 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
3427 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
3428 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
3429 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
3430 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
3431 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
3432 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
3433 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
3434 use in resizeterm().
3435 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
3436 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
3437 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
3438 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
3439 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3440 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
3441 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
3442 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
3443 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
3444 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
3445 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
3449 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
3450 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
3451 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
3452 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
3453 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
3454 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
3457 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
3458 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
3459 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
3460 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
3461 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
3462 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
3463 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
3464 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
3465 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
3467 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
3468 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
3472 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
3473 when translating to termcap.
3474 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
3475 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
3476 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
3478 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
3480 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
3481 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
3483 + document TABSIZE variable.
3484 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
3485 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
3486 assume_default_colors().
3487 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
3489 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
3490 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
3491 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
3492 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
3493 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
3496 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
3498 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
3499 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
3501 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
3502 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
3503 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
3506 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
3508 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
3511 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
3512 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
3513 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
3514 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
3515 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
3516 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
3517 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
3518 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
3519 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
3520 configure definitions.
3521 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
3522 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
3523 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
3524 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
3525 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
3526 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
3527 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
3528 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
3529 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
3530 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
3531 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
3534 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
3535 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
3536 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
3537 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
3538 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
3539 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
3540 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
3542 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
3543 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
3544 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
3545 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3548 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
3549 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
3550 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
3551 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
3553 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
3554 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
3555 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
3558 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
3559 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
3561 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
3562 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
3563 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
3565 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
3566 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
3567 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
3568 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
3570 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
3571 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
3572 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
3573 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
3577 + add charset to generated html.
3578 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
3579 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
3580 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
3581 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
3582 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
3583 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
3587 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
3588 key code in get_wch().
3589 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
3590 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
3591 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
3592 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
3593 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
3594 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
3597 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
3598 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
3600 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
3601 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
3602 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
3603 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
3606 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
3607 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
3608 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
3609 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
3610 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
3611 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
3612 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
3613 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
3614 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
3615 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
3618 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
3622 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
3623 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
3624 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
3625 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
3626 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
3627 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
3628 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
3631 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
3632 character versions as well.
3633 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
3635 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
3637 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
3638 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
3639 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
3640 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
3641 if gettimeofday() is available.
3644 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
3645 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
3648 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
3650 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
3651 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
3652 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
3653 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
3654 + update config.guess, config.sub
3657 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
3658 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
3659 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
3660 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
3661 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
3662 alias for 'function'.
3665 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
3666 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
3670 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
3671 + implement wgetn_wstr().
3672 + implement win_wchnstr().
3673 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
3674 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
3677 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
3678 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
3681 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
3682 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
3685 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
3686 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
3687 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
3689 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
3690 + implement unget_wch().
3691 + implement wget_wch().
3694 + regenerated html manpages.
3695 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
3696 + implement wins_wch().
3697 + implement win_wch().
3698 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
3701 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
3702 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
3705 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
3706 + document wunctrl, key_name.
3707 + implement key_name().
3708 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
3710 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
3714 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
3715 in spurious symlinks on install.
3718 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
3719 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
3720 box() and box_set() functions.
3721 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
3722 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
3723 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
3724 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
3725 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
3726 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3727 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
3729 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
3731 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
3732 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
3733 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
3734 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
3736 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
3737 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
3740 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
3741 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
3743 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
3747 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
3749 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
3750 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
3751 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3752 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
3753 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
3754 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3755 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
3756 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
3757 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
3758 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
3759 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
3760 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
3761 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
3762 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
3763 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
3766 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
3767 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
3770 + update config.guess, config.sub
3771 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3772 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
3775 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3776 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
3777 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
3779 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
3780 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
3782 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
3783 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
3784 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3785 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3788 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
3791 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
3792 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
3793 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
3794 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
3795 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
3796 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
3797 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
3798 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
3799 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
3801 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
3802 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
3803 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
3805 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
3807 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
3808 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
3809 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
3810 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
3811 work with SunOS nawk.
3812 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
3814 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
3815 case it uses multiple tokens.
3818 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
3819 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
3820 interrupted by that signal.
3821 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
3822 not needed with autoconf 2.52
3823 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
3824 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
3826 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3827 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
3828 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
3829 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
3830 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
3833 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
3835 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
3836 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
3837 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
3838 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
3839 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
3840 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
3841 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
3842 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
3845 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
3846 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
3847 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
3848 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
3849 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
3850 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
3851 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
3852 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
3853 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
3856 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
3857 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
3858 may have different keypad() settings.
3859 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
3860 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
3861 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
3862 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
3863 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
3864 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
3865 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
3866 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
3868 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3869 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3870 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3871 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
3875 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
3877 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
3878 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
3879 implementation in cygwin package).
3880 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
3881 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
3883 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
3884 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
3885 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
3886 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
3887 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
3888 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
3889 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
3890 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
3891 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
3893 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
3894 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
3895 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
3896 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
3897 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
3898 <jevans@apple.com>).
3899 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
3900 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
3901 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
3902 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
3903 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
3907 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
3908 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
3909 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
3910 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
3911 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
3912 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
3913 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
3914 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
3915 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
3916 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
3919 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
3922 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3923 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3924 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
3925 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
3926 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
3929 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
3930 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
3933 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
3934 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
3935 + implement wecho_wchar()
3936 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
3937 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
3938 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
3940 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
3941 in a trace by using curly braces.
3942 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
3943 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
3944 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
3945 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
3948 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
3949 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
3950 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
3951 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
3952 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
3956 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
3957 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
3958 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
3959 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
3960 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
3961 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
3962 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
3963 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
3967 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
3968 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
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