X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=b8875b55cee5bc5bf6fec26f58c99140d4f4472d;hp=f3d12bb221bfefbcb64c4eaa3f729ee2954518ae;hb=e3509ece56de67169d250c040b36309f72e13292;hpb=4f84dbbd027e85fc88e2c6be466b3237141e027e diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f3d12bb2..b8875b55 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2161 2014/02/01 22:30:45 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2183 2014/03/22 23:03:23 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,55 @@ 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. +20140322 + + use types from in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc. + + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified + using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in + + add terminology entry -TD + + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD + + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD + +20140315 + + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's + top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is + on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer). + + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to + be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by + Soren Brinkmann). + +20140308 + + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where + NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li). + + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li). + + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not + allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215). + +20140301 + + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin). + +20140222 + + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c + + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD + + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm" + console -TD + +20140215 + + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without + allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment + variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by + discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs + when reading in an allocated console-buffer). + + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the + scrolling-stages. + + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken + html emitted by docbook. + +20140209 + + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if + _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10 + has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol + (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796). + 20140201 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.