ncurses 5.6 - patch 20080614

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1233 2008/05/03 23:14:39 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1245 2008/06/14 23:08:10 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,51 @@ 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.
 
+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.
+       + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
+         always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
+       + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
+         Miroslav Lichvar)
+
+20080517
+       + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
+         --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
+         the ncurses ABI 5.
+       + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
+         Emanuele Giaquinta).
+       + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
+         (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
 20080503
        + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
          overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD