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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2209 2014/05/24 21:40:16 tom Exp $
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This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
it is not possible to add this information.
+20140927
+ + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
+ + implement flash in win_driver.c
+ + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
+ focus.
+ + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
+ win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
+ window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
+ screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
+ + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
+ dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
+ for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
+ 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
+
+20140920
+ + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
+ + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
+ some older cross-compiler environments.
+ + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
+ (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
+ See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
+ which relates to the clarified guidelines.
+ + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
+ for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
+ + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
+ + update config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20140913
+ + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
+ C++ cross-compilers.
+ + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
+
+20140906
+ + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
+ NetBSD.
+ + minor compiler-warning fixes.
+
+20140831
+ + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
+ options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
+ a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
+
+20140823
+ + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
+ width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
+ cf: 20050813).
+
+20140816
+ + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
+ it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
+ + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
+
+20140809
+ + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
+ reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
+ in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+ + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
+ having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
+ which reverses cause/effect.
+ + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
+ have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
+ + fixes for win_driver.c:
+ + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
+ + implement beep().
+ + minor cleanup.
+
+20140802
+ + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
+ + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
+ + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
+ + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
+ "trace" feature:
+ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
+ + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
+ + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
+ typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
+ (cf: 20140726).
+
+20140726
+ + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
+ ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
+ discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
+ + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
+ + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
+ used to override the different treatment of justification for static
+ versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
+ + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
+ Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
+
+20140719
+ + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
+ + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
+ options, from xterm changes.
+
+20140712
+ + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
+ + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
+ without sp-funcs.
+
+20140705
+ + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
+ video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
+
+20140629
+ + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
+ NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
+ + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
+ subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
+ fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
+ + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
+ compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
+
+20140621
+ + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
+ conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
+ + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
+ upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
+ + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
+ total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
+ providing directly comparable screens.
+ + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
+
+20140614
+ + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
+ (cf: 20140524).
+ + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
+ reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
+ + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
+ + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
+ + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
+ + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
+ + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
+
+20140609
+ > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
+ Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
+ + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
+ + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
+ screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
+
+20140607
+ + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
+ overlap with sgr functionality.
+ + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
+ option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
+ + update xterm-new to patch #305 -TD
+ + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
+ packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
+ + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
+ older ncurses than 20131207.
+ + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
+ + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
+ + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
+ + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
+ + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
+
20140524
+ fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
environment variable.
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