ncurses 5.6 - patch 20080712

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1237 2008/05/24 22:23:07 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1254 2008/07/12 21:23:18 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,63 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 
+20080712
+       + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
+
+20080705
+       + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
+         make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
+         (cf: 20050205).
+       + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
+       + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
+         -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
+         not link.
+
+20080628
+       + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
+       + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
+         interface.
+       + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
+         by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
+       + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
+       + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
+
+20080621
+       + regenerated html documentation.
+       + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
+         menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
+       + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
+         def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
+       + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
+
+20080614
+       + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
+       + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
+       + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
+         by Poor Yorick).
+
+20080607
+       + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
+         window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr().  That
+         allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
+         some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
+         window which is being used in a wgetch().
+       + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
+
+20080531
+       + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
+         parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
+         use SP internally.
+       + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
+       + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
+         particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
+       + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
+         particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
+       + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
+         its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
+       + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
+         preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
+
 20080524
        + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
          screen which must be updated.