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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1104 2007/03/17 20:43:25 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1143 2007/07/14 23:19:06 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.
+20070714
+ + add test/savescreen.c test-program
+ + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
+ ".log" to the name and try again.
+ + add konsole-256color entry -TD
+ + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
+ + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
+ + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
+ --disable-echo option is used.
+ + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
+ writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20070707
+ + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
+ + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
+ taking into account some split characters on left/right window
+ boundaries.
+
+20070630
+ + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
+ problems with multi-column characters.
+ + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
+ which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
+ + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
+ multi-column extension bits are passed there.
+ + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
+ + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
+ report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
+
+20070623
+ + add test/demo_panels.c
+ + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
+
+20070612
+ + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
+ #226 -TD
+ + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
+ wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
+
+20070609
+ + add test/key_name.c
+ + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.c
+ + update test/configure
+ + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
+ + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
+ + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
+ cf: 20020901).
+
+20070602
+ + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
+ (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
+ + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
+ illustrate how to use mvcur().
+ + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
+ WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
+ is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
+ + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
+ + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
+
+20070526
+ + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
+ if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
+ initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
+ + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
+ + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
+ broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
+
+20070512
+ + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
+ problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
+ a fullwidth cell.
+ + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
+ ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
+ from patch by Clive Nicolson).
+ + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
+
+20070505
+ + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
+ become uninitialized in the "b" test.
+ + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
+ movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
+ generated html.
+ + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
+ memory-checking.
+ + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
+ from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
+ + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
+ Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
+ --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
+
+20070428
+ + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
+ quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
+ 3.x to 4.x.
+ + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
+ library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
+ + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
+ an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
+ reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
+ (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
+ + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
+ + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
+ + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
+ SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
+ + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
+
+20070421
+ + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
+ _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
+ + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
+ type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
+ in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
+ + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
+ to the libtool create- and link-operations.
+
+20070414
+ + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
+ the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
+ + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
+ Ada95 tree is not built.
+
+20070407
+ + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
+ + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
+ + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
+ FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
+ comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
+ + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
+ (cf: 20061209).
+ + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
+ > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
+ + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
+ + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
+ + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
+ + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
+ progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
+ > fixes based on Coverity report:
+ + remove dead code in test/bs.c
+ + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
+ + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
+ + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
+ + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
+ tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
+ + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
+ + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
+ + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
+ + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
+ + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
+ of V_BSD case.
+ + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
+ + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
+ + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
+ + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
+ + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
+ + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
+ + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
+ + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
+ + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
+
+20070331
+ + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
+ global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
+ + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
+ to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
+ + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
+ structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
+ + improved install-sh's quoting.
+ + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
+ other programs.
+
+20070324
+ + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
+ + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
+ --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
+ + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
+ NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
+ an opaque pointer.
+
20070317
+ ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
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