X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=f38adef03296d07c7bcc9bd605a70cf541027f79;hp=a5bbbead56de6a6373ace66ad4c7eb8775a0ebcb;hb=e6f4ffe150c7d919792f29a70b4f031cfab5ef06;hpb=bfe753d2dbaed1587556f1dc89bb14066d075c8c diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a5bbbead..f38adef0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2035 2013/03/17 01:01:39 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2069 2013/06/08 21:00:03 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,97 @@ 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. +20130608 + + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well + as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback + function pointer. + + add test/dots_termcap.c + + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c + + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used. + + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths + into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later + expansion to free-format input/out demo. + + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file. + + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various + terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD + + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134, + cf: 20121117). + + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and + --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe). + +20130525 + + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses + library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content + of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated + it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in + the left margin of the display. + + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c + + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as + NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent + use of these symbols in term_entry.h + +20130518 + + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse + interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316). + + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since + 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056). + + regenerated html manpages. + + update doctype used for html documentation. + +20130511 + + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more + plausible "ansi consoles" -TD + + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD + + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix + prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data + (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534). + +20130504 + + fixes for issues found by Coverity: + + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to + display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets. + + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c + + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype(). + +20130427 + + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c + + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later. + +20130413 + + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr + (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira). + + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar). + + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for + type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri + Gribenko). + + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2 + (report by Dmitri Gribenko). + + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in + c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko). + +20130406 + + improve parameter checking in copywin(). + + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to + choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro + to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use + in cross-compiling. + + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program + (Redhat #911540) + + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner + Fink). + + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script. + +20130324 + + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira + and Roumen Petrov). + +20130323 + + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature + (report by Christian Ebert). + + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency + with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD + + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler) + 20130316 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space. + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in @@ -72,7 +163,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build - configuration (Redhat 911540). + configuration (Redhat #911540). + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily shown in curses.h (Debian #689131). @@ -2667,7 +2758,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + 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). + writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493). + update config.guess, config.sub 20070707 @@ -5233,7 +5324,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore() modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat - #68199 dated 2002-07-07. + #68199. + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would