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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
42 They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
48 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
50 20081025
51 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
52 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
53 does not work well on that platform).
54 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
56 20081018
57 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
58 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
59 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
60 Nit Khair).
61 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
62 --disable-database is used.
63 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
64 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
65 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
66 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
67 CF_LIBUTF8.
69 20081012
70 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
71 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
72 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
73 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
74 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
75 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
76 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
77 overlooked til now.
79 20081011
80 + update html documentation.
81 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
82 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
83 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
84 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
85 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
86 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
87 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
88 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
90 20081004
91 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
92 works for C/C++ parts).
93 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
94 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
96 20080927
97 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
98 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
99 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
100 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
101 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
102 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
103 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
104 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
105 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
106 Miroslav Lichvar).
107 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
108 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
109 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
110 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
111 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
112 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
114 20080925
115 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
116 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
118 20080920
119 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
120 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
121 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
122 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
123 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
124 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
126 20080913
127 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
128 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
130 20080907
131 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
132 Meunier).
134 20080906
135 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
136 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
137 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
138 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
139 Meunier).
140 + update test/configure script.
141 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
142 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
143 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
144 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
145 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
147 20080830
148 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
149 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
150 C-version.
151 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
152 Mccreary).
153 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
154 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
155 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
156 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
157 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
158 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
159 + update config.guess, config.sub from
160 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
161 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
163 20080823
164 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
165 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
166 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
167 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
168 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
169 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
170 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
171 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
172 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
173 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
174 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
175 Debian #495815) -TD
177 20080816
178 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
179 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
180 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
181 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
182 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
183 Werner Fink).
184 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
185 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
186 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
187 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
188 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
190 20080804
191 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
192 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
193 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
194 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
195 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
196 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
197 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
199 20080726
200 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
201 thresholds).
203 20080713
204 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
206 20080712
207 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
209 20080705
210 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
211 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
212 (cf: 20050205).
213 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
214 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
215 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
216 not link.
218 20080628
219 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
220 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
221 interface.
222 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
223 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
224 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
225 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
227 20080621
228 + regenerated html documentation.
229 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
230 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
231 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
232 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
233 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
235 20080614
236 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
237 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
238 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
239 by Poor Yorick).
241 20080607
242 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
243 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
244 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
245 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
246 window which is being used in a wgetch().
247 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
249 20080531
250 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
251 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
252 use SP internally.
253 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
254 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
255 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
256 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
257 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
258 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
259 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
260 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
261 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
263 20080524
264 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
265 screen which must be updated.
266 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
267 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
268 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
269 Miroslav Lichvar)
271 20080517
272 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
273 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
274 the ncurses ABI 5.
275 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
276 Emanuele Giaquinta).
277 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
278 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
280 20080503
281 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
282 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
283 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
284 global SP.
285 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
286 each_ripoff().
288 20080426
289 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
290 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
291 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
293 20080419
294 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
295 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
296 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
297 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
299 20080412
300 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
301 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
302 window parameters.
303 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
304 pointer.
305 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
307 20080405
308 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
309 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
310 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
311 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
312 python-dev2 mailing list).
314 20080329
315 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
316 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
317 are not associated with a particular screen.
318 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
319 stdscr to the callback function.
320 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
321 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
322 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
323 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
324 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
325 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
326 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
327 thread library.
329 20080322
330 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
331 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
332 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
333 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
334 Sedeno).
335 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
336 wide-characters with extended-colors.
337 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
338 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
339 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
341 20080308
342 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
343 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
344 that the 'F' accepts.
345 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
346 are working concurrently.
347 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
348 window.
350 20080301
351 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
352 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
353 _nc_free_and_exit().
355 20080223
356 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
357 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
359 20080216
360 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
361 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
363 20080209
364 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
365 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
366 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
367 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
369 20080203
370 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
371 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
372 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
373 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
374 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
375 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
376 Chernov).
377 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
378 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
379 sequence.
381 20080126
382 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
383 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
384 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
386 20080119
387 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
388 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
389 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
391 20080112
392 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
393 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
394 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
395 softkeys were used.
397 20080105
398 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
399 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
400 "link_test" builds properly.
401 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
402 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
403 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
404 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
405 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
406 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
407 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
408 question).
409 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
411 20071222
412 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
413 for delwin().
415 20071215
416 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
417 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
419 20071201
420 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
421 INSTALL file.
422 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
423 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
424 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
426 20071124
427 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
428 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
429 pierre4d2 comments).
430 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
431 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
432 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
433 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
434 by Chris Lee).
436 20071117
437 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
438 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
439 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
440 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
441 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
442 filenames.
443 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
444 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
445 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
446 declared.
448 20071103
449 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
450 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
452 20071020
453 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
454 for use_window().
455 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
456 cursor keys -TD
457 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
458 Rong-En Fan).
460 20071013
461 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
462 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
463 that library.
464 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
465 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
466 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
467 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
468 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
469 Lichvar).
470 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
471 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
473 20071006
474 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
475 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
476 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
477 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
479 20070929
480 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
481 calls within the ncurses library.
482 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
483 the SCREEN.
484 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
485 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
486 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
487 20070915
488 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
489 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
490 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
491 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
492 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
494 20070908
495 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
496 for threaded library (incomplete).
497 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
498 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
499 Rong-En Fan).
501 20070901
502 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
503 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
504 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
505 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
506 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
507 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
508 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
509 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
510 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
512 20070825
513 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
514 (cf: 971004).
515 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
516 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
518 20070818
519 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
520 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
521 "\0" followed by a digit.
522 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
523 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
524 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
525 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
526 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
527 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
528 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
529 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
530 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
532 20070812
533 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
534 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
535 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
536 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
537 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
538 library.
539 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
540 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
541 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
542 library.
544 20070728
545 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
546 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
547 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
548 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
549 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
550 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
551 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
552 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
553 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
555 20070721
556 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
557 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
558 + add test/test_getstr.c
559 + add test/test_inwstr.c
560 + add test/test_instr.c
562 20070716
563 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
564 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
565 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
566 cf: 20070310).
568 20070714
569 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
570 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
571 ".log" to the name and try again.
572 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
573 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
574 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
575 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
576 --disable-echo option is used.
577 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
578 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
579 + update config.guess, config.sub
581 20070707
582 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
583 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
584 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
585 boundaries.
587 20070630
588 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
589 problems with multi-column characters.
590 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
591 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
592 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
593 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
594 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
595 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
596 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
598 20070623
599 + add test/demo_panels.c
600 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
602 20070612
603 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
604 #226 -TD
605 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
606 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
608 20070609
609 + add test/key_name.c
610 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
611 + update test/configure
612 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
613 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
614 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
615 cf: 20020901).
617 20070602
618 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
619 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
620 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
621 illustrate how to use mvcur().
622 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
623 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
624 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
625 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
626 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
628 20070526
629 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
630 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
631 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
632 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
633 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
634 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
636 20070512
637 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
638 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
639 a fullwidth cell.
640 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
641 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
642 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
643 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
645 20070505
646 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
647 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
648 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
649 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
650 generated html.
651 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
652 memory-checking.
653 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
654 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
655 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
656 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
657 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
659 20070428
660 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
661 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
662 3.x to 4.x.
663 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
664 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
665 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
666 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
667 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
668 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
669 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
670 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
671 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
672 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
673 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
675 20070421
676 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
677 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
678 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
679 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
680 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
681 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
682 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
684 20070414
685 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
686 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
687 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
688 Ada95 tree is not built.
690 20070407
691 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
692 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
693 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
694 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
695 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
696 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
697 (cf: 20061209).
698 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
699 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
700 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
701 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
702 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
703 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
704 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
705 > fixes based on Coverity report:
706 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
707 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
708 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
709 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
710 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
711 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
712 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
713 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
714 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
715 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
716 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
717 of V_BSD case.
718 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
719 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
720 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
721 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
722 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
723 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
724 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
725 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
726 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
728 20070331
729 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
730 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
731 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
732 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
733 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
734 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
735 + improved install-sh's quoting.
736 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
737 other programs.
739 20070324
740 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
741 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
742 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
743 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
744 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
745 an opaque pointer.
747 20070317
748 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
749 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
750 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
751 in the configure script to an error.
752 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
753 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
754 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
755 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
756 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
757 Vidiassov).
758 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
759 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
761 20070311
762 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
763 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
765 20070310
766 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
767 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
768 Santoro).
769 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
770 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
771 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
772 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
773 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
774 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
775 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
776 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
778 20070303
779 + regenerated html documentation.
780 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
781 opaque in selected configurations.
782 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
783 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
784 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
785 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
786 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
787 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
788 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
789 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
790 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
791 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
792 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
793 Chua).
794 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
795 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
797 20070224
798 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
799 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
800 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
801 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
802 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
803 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
804 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
805 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
806 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
807 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
808 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
809 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
811 20070217
812 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
813 Lichvar).
814 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
815 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
816 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
817 Adam J Richter).
818 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
819 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
820 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
821 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
822 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
823 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
824 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
825 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
826 fixes.
827 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
828 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
830 20070210
831 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
832 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
833 Lichvar).
834 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
835 Miroslav Lichvar).
836 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
837 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
838 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
840 20070203
841 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
842 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
843 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
844 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
845 Ricardo Cantu).
846 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
847 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
848 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
849 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
850 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
851 no longer relies on it.
852 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
853 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
854 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
856 20070128
857 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
858 (report by Rong-En Fan).
860 20070127
861 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
862 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
863 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
864 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
865 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
866 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
867 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
868 its license consistent with ncurses.
869 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
870 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
871 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
873 20070120
874 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
875 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
876 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
877 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
878 Lichvar).
880 20070113
881 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
882 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
883 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
884 ncurses build-tree.
885 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
886 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
888 20070106
889 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
890 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
891 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
893 20061230
894 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
895 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
896 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
897 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
898 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
899 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
900 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
901 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
902 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
903 to manpages as needed.
904 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
905 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
907 20061223
908 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
909 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
910 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
911 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
912 + update config.guess, config.sub
914 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
916 20061217
917 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
918 definitions in <wchar.h>.
919 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
920 correct nor portable.
921 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
922 rpath on Solaris.
923 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
924 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
925 support.
927 20061216
928 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
929 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
930 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
931 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
932 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
933 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
935 20061209
936 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
937 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
938 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
939 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
940 Solaris.
941 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
942 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
943 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
944 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
945 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
946 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
947 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
948 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
950 20061202
951 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
952 database configuration.
953 + updates for test/configure script.
954 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
955 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
956 cur_term in tic.c
957 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
958 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
959 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
960 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
961 of printw, etc.
962 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
963 _nc_printf_string().
964 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
965 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
967 20061125
968 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
969 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
970 Simon Sasburg).
971 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
972 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
973 match X/Open).
975 20061104
976 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
977 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
978 Gookin).
979 + add test/redraw.c
980 + add test/echochar.c
981 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
982 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
984 20061028
985 + add AUTHORS file -TD
986 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
987 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
988 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
990 20061021
991 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
992 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
993 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
994 contributors.
995 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
996 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
997 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
998 for rpath support in versions past 3.
999 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
1000 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
1001 Ralf S Engelschall).
1002 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
1003 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
1004 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
1005 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
1007 20061014
1008 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
1009 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
1010 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
1012 20061007
1013 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
1014 and status line (Alain Bench).
1015 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
1016 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
1017 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
1018 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
1020 20060930
1021 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
1022 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
1023 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
1024 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
1025 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
1027 20060923
1028 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
1029 + updated html documentation.
1030 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
1031 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
1033 20060916
1034 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
1035 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
1036 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1037 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
1038 option (from lynx changes) -TD
1039 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
1040 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
1041 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
1042 by report by Christopher Parker).
1043 + update config.sub
1045 20060909
1046 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
1047 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
1048 since it does not really do this -TD
1050 20060903
1051 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
1052 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
1053 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
1054 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
1056 20060902
1057 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
1058 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
1059 embedded into a termcap description.
1060 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
1061 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
1062 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
1063 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
1064 #202480)).
1065 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
1067 20060826
1068 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
1069 terminal (mgt) -TD
1070 + add test/foldkeys.c
1072 20060819
1073 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
1074 source output (Debian #378783).
1075 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
1076 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
1077 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
1078 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
1079 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
1080 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
1082 20060805
1083 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
1084 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
1085 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
1087 20060729
1088 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
1089 or as a text file if those are not available.
1090 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
1091 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
1092 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
1094 20060722
1095 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
1096 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
1097 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
1098 + update config.guess, config.sub
1100 20060715
1101 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
1102 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
1103 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
1104 + add test/chgat.c
1105 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
1106 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
1107 McBrine).
1108 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
1109 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
1110 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
1111 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
1112 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
1113 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
1114 Nigel Horne).
1115 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
1116 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
1117 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
1118 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1120 20060708
1121 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
1122 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
1123 checking of tic.
1125 20060701
1126 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
1127 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
1128 in color mode.
1129 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
1130 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
1131 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
1132 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
1133 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
1134 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
1136 20060625
1137 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
1138 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
1139 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
1140 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
1141 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
1142 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
1143 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1144 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
1145 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
1146 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1148 20060617
1149 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
1150 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1151 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
1152 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
1153 symbols.
1154 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
1156 20060603
1157 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
1158 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
1159 + minor copyright fixes.
1160 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
1162 20060527
1163 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
1164 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
1165 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
1166 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
1167 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
1168 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
1169 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
1170 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
1171 wgetbkgrnd().
1172 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
1173 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
1174 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
1175 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
1176 Stanislav Ievlev).
1177 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
1179 20060520
1180 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
1181 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
1182 for hpterm.
1183 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
1184 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
1185 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
1186 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
1187 Stanislav Ievlev).
1188 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
1189 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
1190 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
1191 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1193 20060513
1194 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
1195 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
1196 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
1197 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
1198 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
1199 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
1200 + update config.guess, config.sub
1201 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
1202 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
1203 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
1204 function is broken in that implementation.
1206 20060506
1207 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
1208 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
1210 20060422
1211 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
1212 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
1213 Taylor).
1214 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
1215 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
1216 by Bernd Rieke).
1217 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
1218 reported to implement this feature -TD
1220 20060416
1221 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
1222 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1224 20060415
1225 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
1226 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
1227 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
1228 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
1229 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
1230 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
1231 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
1232 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
1234 20060408
1235 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
1236 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
1237 Alain Bench).
1238 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
1239 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
1241 20060401
1242 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
1243 (report by Alain Bench).
1244 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
1245 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
1246 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
1247 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
1248 Bench).
1249 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
1250 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
1251 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
1252 McBrine).
1254 20060318
1255 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
1256 and/or video attributes.
1257 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
1258 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
1260 20060312
1261 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
1263 20060311
1264 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
1265 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
1266 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
1267 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
1268 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
1269 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
1270 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
1271 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
1272 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
1274 20060225
1275 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
1276 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1277 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
1279 20060218
1280 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
1281 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
1282 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
1283 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
1284 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
1285 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
1286 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
1287 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
1288 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
1289 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
1291 20060211
1292 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
1293 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
1294 rather than delayed.
1295 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
1296 screen.
1297 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
1298 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
1299 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
1301 20060204
1302 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
1303 vendor curses.
1304 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
1305 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
1307 20060128
1308 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
1309 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
1311 20060121
1312 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
1313 + suppress line-drawing
1314 + implement max_attributes
1315 tested with xterm.
1316 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
1317 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
1318 Debian #348117).
1320 20060114
1321 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
1322 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
1323 databases.
1324 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
1325 $HOME/.terminfo
1326 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
1327 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
1328 etc., when allocating screens.
1330 20060111
1331 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
1332 this in test/filter.c
1333 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
1334 to fail.
1336 20060107
1337 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
1338 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
1339 + add extension nofilter().
1340 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
1341 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
1342 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
1343 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
1344 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1346 20051231
1347 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
1348 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
1349 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
1350 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
1351 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
1352 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
1353 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
1354 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
1355 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
1356 PDCurses/X11.
1357 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
1358 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
1359 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
1360 comparison.
1361 + update config.guess and config.sub
1363 20051224
1364 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
1365 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
1366 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
1367 TGETENT_YES, etc.
1368 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
1369 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
1370 that was never built in that directory).
1371 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
1373 20051217
1374 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
1375 feature.
1376 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
1377 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
1378 bool.
1380 20051210
1381 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
1382 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
1383 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
1384 effect of the different functions.
1385 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
1386 Victor Julien).
1388 20051203
1389 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
1390 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
1391 Setzer).
1392 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
1393 (Debian #341661).
1395 20051126
1396 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
1397 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
1398 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
1399 included.
1400 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
1401 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
1402 short equivalents.
1404 20051119
1405 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
1406 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
1407 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
1408 by Andrea Govoni).
1409 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
1410 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
1411 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
1413 20051112
1414 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
1415 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
1416 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
1418 20051029
1419 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
1420 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
1421 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
1422 #316663).
1423 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
1424 a derived window (Debian #316663).
1426 20051022
1427 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
1428 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
1429 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
1430 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
1431 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
1432 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
1433 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
1435 20051015
1436 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
1437 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
1438 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
1439 found.
1440 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
1441 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1442 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
1443 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
1444 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
1446 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1448 20051008
1449 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
1451 20051001
1452 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
1453 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
1454 overlay mode work.
1456 20050924
1457 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
1458 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1459 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
1460 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1461 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
1462 NetBSD.
1463 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1464 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1466 20050917
1467 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
1468 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
1469 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
1470 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
1471 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
1472 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
1473 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
1474 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
1475 default if it is used.
1476 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
1477 --with-abi-version option was used.
1478 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
1479 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
1480 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
1482 20050910
1483 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
1484 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
1485 handlers (Debian #326709).
1487 20050903
1488 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
1489 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
1490 Vugt).
1491 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
1493 20050827
1494 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
1495 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
1496 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
1497 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
1498 message, e.g.,
1499 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
1500 (report by Frank van Vugt).
1502 20050820
1503 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
1504 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
1505 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
1506 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
1507 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
1508 + update llib-l* files.
1510 20050813
1511 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
1512 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
1513 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
1514 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
1515 #316663).
1517 20050806
1518 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
1519 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
1520 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
1521 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
1522 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
1523 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
1524 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
1525 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
1526 Konstantin Andreev).
1528 20050723
1529 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
1530 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
1531 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
1532 several related cases -TD
1533 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
1534 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
1535 Thomas Klausner).
1536 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
1537 resets line-drawing.
1539 20050716
1540 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
1541 #318621).
1542 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
1543 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
1544 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
1545 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
1546 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
1547 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
1549 20050702
1550 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
1551 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
1552 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
1553 on Linux.
1554 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
1555 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
1557 20050625
1558 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1559 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1560 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
1561 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
1562 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
1563 "make install.data" step.
1564 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
1565 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
1566 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
1567 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
1568 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
1569 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
1570 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
1571 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
1572 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
1573 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
1574 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
1575 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
1576 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
1577 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
1579 20050619
1580 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1582 20050618
1583 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
1584 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
1585 review of Debian package).
1586 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
1587 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
1588 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
1589 install using libtool 1.5.0):
1590 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
1591 program.
1592 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
1593 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
1594 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
1595 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
1596 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1598 20050611
1599 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
1600 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
1601 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
1603 20050604
1604 + fixes for termcap support:
1605 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
1606 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
1607 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
1608 extended names data will be freed consistently.
1609 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
1610 its callers.
1611 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
1612 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
1613 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
1614 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
1616 20050528
1617 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
1618 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
1619 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
1620 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
1621 from vile -TD
1622 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
1623 Ada95 tree.
1625 20050515
1626 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
1627 Stanislav Ievlev).
1628 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
1629 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
1631 20050507
1632 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
1633 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
1634 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
1635 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
1636 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1637 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
1638 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
1639 capability names.
1641 20050430
1642 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
1643 shift-, control-cursor keys.
1644 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
1645 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
1646 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
1647 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
1648 it will automatically be treated as a key.
1649 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
1650 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
1651 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
1652 termcap interface.
1654 20050423
1655 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
1656 + add configure option --enable-largefile
1657 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
1658 gcc 4.0.0.
1660 20050416
1661 + update config.guess, config.sub
1662 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
1663 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
1664 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
1665 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
1666 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
1667 characters.
1668 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
1669 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
1670 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
1672 20050409
1673 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
1674 position the mouse to a particular item.
1675 + implement test/demo_menus.c
1676 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
1677 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
1678 --enable-const option.
1680 20050403
1681 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
1682 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
1683 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
1684 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
1685 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
1686 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
1687 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
1688 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
1689 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
1690 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
1691 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
1693 20050327
1694 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
1695 valid locale.
1696 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
1697 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1699 20050326
1700 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
1701 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
1702 anyone used that configuration.
1703 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
1704 Vidiassov).
1705 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
1706 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1708 20050320
1709 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
1710 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
1711 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
1712 #300419).
1713 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
1714 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
1715 WenRui, Debian #300512).
1717 20050319
1718 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
1719 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
1720 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
1721 configuration.
1723 20050312
1724 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
1725 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
1726 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
1727 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
1728 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
1730 20050305
1731 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
1732 Steve Beal).
1733 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
1734 Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1735 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
1736 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1737 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
1739 20050226
1740 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
1741 from lynx.
1742 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
1743 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
1744 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
1745 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
1746 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
1747 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
1748 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
1749 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
1750 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
1751 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
1752 right (cf: 20040228).
1753 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
1754 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1756 20050219
1757 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
1758 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
1759 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
1760 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
1761 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
1762 added (Debian #295083).
1763 + add traces to panel library.
1765 20050212
1766 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
1767 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
1768 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
1769 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
1770 mouse events in this case.
1771 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
1772 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1774 20050205
1775 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
1776 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
1777 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
1778 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
1779 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
1780 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
1781 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
1782 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
1784 20050129
1785 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
1786 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
1787 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
1788 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
1789 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
1790 already been started.
1791 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
1792 pair_content() and color_content().
1793 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
1794 if it corresponds to the default-color.
1795 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
1796 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
1797 color pairs which are allowed.
1798 + add a top-level tags rule.
1800 20050122
1801 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
1802 first calling initscr().
1803 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
1804 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
1805 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
1806 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
1807 that are curses-specific.
1808 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
1809 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
1810 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
1811 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
1812 Stanislav Ievlev).
1814 20050115
1815 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
1816 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
1817 for leading whitespace.
1818 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
1819 where a following line begins in column 1.
1820 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
1821 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
1823 20050108
1824 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1826 20050101
1827 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1828 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
1829 + update config.guess, config.sub
1830 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
1831 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
1832 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
1833 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
1834 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
1835 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
1836 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
1838 20041225
1839 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
1840 libraries.
1841 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
1842 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
1844 20041218
1845 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
1846 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
1847 and attr_set functions.
1849 20041211
1850 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
1851 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
1852 forms-demo to be one character short.
1853 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
1854 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
1855 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
1856 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
1858 20041204
1859 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
1860 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
1861 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
1862 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
1863 field_buffer().
1864 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
1865 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
1867 20041127
1868 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
1869 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
1870 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
1871 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
1872 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
1873 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
1874 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
1875 Campo).
1876 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
1877 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1878 updates from lynx).
1879 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
1880 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
1882 20041120
1883 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
1884 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
1885 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
1886 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
1887 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
1888 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
1889 wide-character configuration.
1891 20041106
1892 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
1893 or multicolumn characters.
1895 20041030
1896 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
1897 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
1898 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
1899 use_default_colors() be called first.
1901 20041023
1902 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
1903 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
1904 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
1905 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
1906 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
1907 must be wrapped to a new line.
1908 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
1909 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
1910 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
1911 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
1912 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
1913 attribute.
1915 20041016
1916 + minor fixes for traces.
1917 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
1918 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
1919 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
1920 same as ACS_BTEE.
1922 20041009
1923 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
1924 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
1925 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
1926 and shift-out which seem to work.
1927 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
1928 at runtime (Debian #110586).
1930 20041002
1931 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
1932 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1933 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
1934 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
1935 background color.
1937 20040925
1938 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
1939 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
1940 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
1941 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1943 20040918
1944 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
1945 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
1946 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1947 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
1948 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1949 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
1950 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
1951 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
1952 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
1953 is no longer experimental.
1954 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
1955 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
1957 20040911
1958 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
1960 20040828
1961 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
1962 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
1963 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
1964 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
1965 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
1966 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
1967 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
1968 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
1970 20040821
1971 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
1972 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
1973 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
1974 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
1975 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
1976 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
1977 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
1978 new ones do not require this change. -TD
1980 20040814
1981 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
1982 and window managers (Debian #265631).
1983 > terminfo updates -TD
1984 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
1985 with the common usage of bce/ech
1986 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
1987 + add rxvt+pcfkeys
1989 20040807
1990 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
1991 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
1992 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
1993 a help window as well.
1994 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
1995 the -d option is set.
1996 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
1998 20040731
1999 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
2000 displayed.
2001 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
2002 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
2003 Chris Share).
2005 20040724
2006 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
2007 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
2008 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
2009 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
2010 patch by Hans de Goede)
2011 > terminfo updates -TD
2012 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
2013 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
2014 + add function-keys to decansi
2015 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
2016 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
2017 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
2019 20040717
2020 > terminfo updates -TD
2021 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
2022 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
2023 Bugzilla #122815).
2024 + review/update konsole entries
2025 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
2026 + correct tsl string in kterm
2028 20040711
2029 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
2031 20040710
2032 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
2033 multibyte character.
2034 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
2035 attributes.
2036 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
2037 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
2038 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
2039 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
2040 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
2041 converting termcap to termcap format.
2042 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
2043 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
2044 > terminfo updates -TD
2045 + minor fixes for emu
2046 + add emu-220
2047 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
2048 + fixes for avatar0
2049 + fixes for vp3a+
2051 20040703
2052 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
2053 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
2054 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
2055 (report/patch by Tony Li).
2056 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
2057 > terminfo updates -TD
2058 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
2059 xterm-basic -TD
2060 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
2061 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
2062 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
2064 20040626
2065 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
2066 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
2067 Dan Engel).
2068 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
2069 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
2070 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
2071 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
2072 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2073 + update config.guess, config.sub
2074 > terminfo updates -TD
2075 + add mlterm
2076 + add xterm-xf86-v44
2077 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
2078 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
2079 Juliusz Chroboczek)
2080 + add 'hurd' entry
2082 20040619
2083 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
2084 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
2085 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
2087 20040605
2088 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
2089 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
2090 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
2091 by Tony Li).
2092 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
2093 define_key().
2095 20040529
2096 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
2097 field_buffer() results.
2098 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
2100 20040522
2101 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
2102 by Arne Thomassen).
2103 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
2104 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
2105 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
2106 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
2107 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
2109 20040516
2110 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
2111 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
2112 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
2113 one cell.
2115 20040508
2116 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
2117 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
2118 changes.
2119 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
2121 20040501
2122 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
2123 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
2124 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
2125 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
2126 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
2127 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
2128 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
2129 information without an option.
2130 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
2131 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
2133 20040424
2134 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
2136 20040417
2137 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
2138 + free some memory leaks in tic.
2139 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
2140 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
2141 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
2142 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
2143 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
2144 curses.
2145 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
2147 20040403
2148 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
2149 to an unsigned char.
2150 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
2151 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
2153 20040328
2154 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
2156 20040327
2157 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
2158 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
2159 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
2160 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
2161 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
2162 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
2163 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
2164 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
2165 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
2166 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
2167 20030802 (Debian #237629).
2169 20040320
2170 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
2171 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
2172 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
2173 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
2175 20040313
2176 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
2177 by Jim Idle).
2178 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
2179 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
2181 20040306
2182 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
2183 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
2184 mode is shown in that test.
2185 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
2186 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
2187 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
2189 20040228
2190 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
2191 multibyte string.
2192 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
2193 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
2194 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
2195 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
2196 Stanislav Ievlev).
2197 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
2198 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
2199 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
2200 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
2202 20040221
2203 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
2204 (request by Mike Aubury).
2205 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
2206 stdbool.h, e.g.,
2207 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
2208 #include <curses.h>
2209 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
2211 20040214
2212 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
2213 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
2214 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
2215 with Stanislav Ievlev).
2216 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
2217 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
2218 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
2219 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
2220 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
2221 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
2223 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2224 + update TO-DO.
2226 20040207 pre-release
2227 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
2228 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
2229 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
2230 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
2231 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
2232 did.
2233 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
2234 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
2235 verified by Scott Corscadden).
2237 20040131 pre-release
2238 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
2239 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
2240 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
2241 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
2242 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
2243 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
2244 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
2245 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
2246 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
2247 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
2248 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
2250 20040125 pre-release
2251 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
2252 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
2253 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
2254 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
2255 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
2256 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
2257 modifying the displayed value.
2259 20040124 pre-release
2260 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
2261 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
2262 that works better for cross-compiling.
2264 20040117 pre-release
2265 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
2266 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
2267 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
2268 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
2269 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
2270 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
2271 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
2272 Bianchi).
2273 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
2274 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
2275 #227586)).
2276 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
2277 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
2278 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
2279 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
2280 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2281 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
2282 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
2283 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
2284 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2285 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
2286 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2287 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
2288 HPUX .so/.sl case.
2289 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
2290 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
2291 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
2292 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
2293 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
2294 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
2295 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
2296 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
2298 20040110 pre-release
2299 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
2300 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
2301 Sittler).
2302 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
2303 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
2304 Ievlev).
2305 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
2306 Ievlev).
2307 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
2308 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
2309 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2310 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
2311 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2313 20040103
2314 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
2315 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
2316 + add pecho_wchar().
2317 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
2318 available) on older platforms.
2320 20031227
2321 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
2322 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
2323 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
2324 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
2325 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
2326 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
2327 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
2328 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
2329 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
2331 20031220
2332 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
2333 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
2334 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
2335 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
2336 work with Tru64 4.0d.
2337 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
2338 list).
2340 20031213
2341 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
2342 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
2343 applications do not.
2344 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
2345 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
2346 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
2347 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
2348 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
2349 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
2350 Mike Castle).
2352 20031206
2353 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
2354 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
2355 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
2356 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
2357 <inger@altlinux.org>).
2358 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
2359 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
2360 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
2361 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
2362 awkward for some cases.
2363 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
2364 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
2365 20000101).
2366 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
2367 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
2368 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
2369 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
2370 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
2371 (cf: 20031101).
2373 20031129
2374 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
2375 values (Philippe Blain).
2376 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
2377 restarting (Philippe Blain).
2378 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
2379 <mooz@welho.com>).
2381 20031122
2382 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
2383 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
2384 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
2385 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
2386 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
2387 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
2388 $BROKEN_LINKER
2390 20031108
2391 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
2392 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
2393 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
2394 Gray).
2395 + update config.guess, config.sub
2397 20031101
2398 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
2399 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
2400 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
2401 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
2402 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
2403 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
2404 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
2405 <ps.m@gmx.net>).
2406 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
2407 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
2408 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
2409 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
2410 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
2412 20031025
2413 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
2414 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
2415 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
2416 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
2417 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
2418 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
2419 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
2420 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
2421 Bienia).
2422 + regenerated html documentation.
2423 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
2424 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
2425 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
2427 20031018
2428 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
2429 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
2430 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
2431 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
2432 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
2433 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
2434 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
2435 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
2436 Koblinger Egmont).
2438 20031004
2439 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
2440 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
2442 20030927
2443 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
2444 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
2445 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
2446 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
2447 on white.
2448 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
2449 (report by Philippe Blain).
2451 20030920
2452 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
2453 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
2454 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
2455 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
2456 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
2457 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
2458 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2459 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
2460 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
2461 range.
2462 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
2463 change is found.
2464 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
2465 in the clr_bol logic.
2467 20030913
2468 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2469 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2470 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
2471 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
2472 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
2473 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2474 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
2475 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
2476 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
2477 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
2478 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
2479 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
2481 20030906
2482 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
2483 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
2484 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
2485 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
2487 20030830
2488 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
2489 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
2490 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
2491 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
2492 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
2493 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
2494 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
2495 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
2496 --with-install-prefix is used.
2498 20030823
2499 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2500 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
2501 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
2502 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
2504 20030816
2505 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
2506 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
2507 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
2508 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
2509 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
2510 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
2511 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2512 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
2513 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
2515 20030809
2516 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
2517 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
2518 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
2519 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
2520 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
2521 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
2522 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
2524 20030802
2525 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
2526 Daniel Jacobowitz).
2527 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2528 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
2529 the size of the scroll-region.
2530 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
2532 20030726
2533 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
2534 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
2535 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
2536 _GNU_SOURCE check.
2538 20030719
2539 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
2540 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
2541 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
2542 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2543 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
2544 Wilson).
2545 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
2546 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
2547 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
2548 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
2549 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
2550 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
2551 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
2552 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
2553 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
2554 usage and to prevent circular links.
2555 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
2556 (rxvt-color): new alias
2557 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
2558 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
2559 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
2560 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
2561 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
2562 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
2563 (cygwinDBG): ditto.
2564 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
2565 and static libs.
2567 20030712
2568 + update config.guess, config.sub
2569 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
2570 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
2572 20030705
2573 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
2574 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
2575 would not accept gcc warning options.
2576 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
2577 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
2578 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
2579 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
2580 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2581 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
2582 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
2583 Gabor Z Papp).
2584 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
2586 20030628
2587 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
2588 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
2589 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
2590 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
2591 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
2592 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
2593 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
2594 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2596 20030621
2597 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
2598 getcurx(), etc.
2599 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
2600 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
2601 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
2602 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
2604 20030614
2605 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
2606 two cells.
2607 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
2608 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
2609 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
2610 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2611 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
2612 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
2614 20030607
2615 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
2616 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
2617 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
2618 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
2619 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
2620 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
2621 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
2622 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
2623 <beren@mac.com>).
2624 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
2625 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2626 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
2627 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2629 20030531
2630 + regenerated html manpages.
2631 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
2632 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
2633 (Debian #195230).
2634 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
2635 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
2636 name.
2637 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
2638 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
2640 20030524
2641 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
2642 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2643 + add tkterm entry -TD
2644 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
2645 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
2646 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
2647 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
2648 tell().
2649 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
2650 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
2651 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
2652 feature is broken.
2653 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
2654 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
2655 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
2657 20030517
2658 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
2659 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
2660 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
2661 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
2662 by Debian #192860).
2663 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
2664 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
2665 current test programs.
2666 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
2667 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
2668 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
2669 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
2670 failed.
2671 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
2672 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
2673 mentioned in the terminfo.
2674 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
2675 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
2677 20030510
2678 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
2679 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
2680 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
2681 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
2682 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
2683 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
2684 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
2685 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
2687 20030503
2688 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
2689 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
2690 the editing position before making modifications.
2691 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
2692 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
2693 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
2695 20030419
2696 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
2697 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
2698 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
2699 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
2700 string.
2701 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
2702 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
2703 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
2704 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
2705 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
2706 terminfo as is done in "screen".
2708 20030412
2709 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
2710 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
2711 code, from recent rewrite.
2712 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
2713 as in 'e' test.
2714 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
2715 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
2717 20030405
2718 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
2719 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
2720 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
2721 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
2723 20030329
2724 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
2725 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
2726 slk_wset().
2727 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
2729 20030322
2730 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
2731 1023-byte limit.
2732 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
2733 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
2734 calls.
2735 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
2736 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
2737 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
2739 20030315
2740 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
2741 a file when ^W is given.
2742 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
2743 trace code.
2745 20030308
2746 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
2747 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
2748 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
2749 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
2750 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
2751 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
2752 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
2753 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
2754 for errors.
2756 20030301
2757 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
2758 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
2759 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
2761 20030222
2762 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
2763 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
2764 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
2765 baudrate was not known.
2766 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
2767 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
2768 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
2769 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
2770 corresponding capability might be
2771 title=\E]2;%p1%s^G,
2772 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
2773 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
2774 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
2775 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
2777 20030215
2778 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
2779 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
2780 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
2781 apparently typedef'd.
2782 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
2783 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
2785 20030208
2786 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
2787 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
2788 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
2789 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
2790 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
2791 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
2792 cached for reallocating.
2794 20030201
2795 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
2796 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
2797 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
2798 <wr6@uni.de>).
2799 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
2800 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
2801 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
2802 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
2803 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
2804 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
2805 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
2806 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
2808 20030125
2809 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
2810 emx-base to the latter -TD
2811 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
2812 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
2814 20030118
2815 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
2816 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
2817 attributes, e.g., reverse.
2818 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
2819 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
2821 20030111
2822 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
2823 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
2824 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
2825 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
2826 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
2827 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
2828 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
2829 Polterak).
2830 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
2831 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
2832 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
2833 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
2834 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
2836 20030105
2837 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
2838 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
2839 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
2840 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
2841 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
2842 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
2843 of sed 4.0
2844 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2845 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
2846 is indeed a "blank".
2847 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
2848 sections as small as one line.
2849 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
2850 to use it.
2851 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
2852 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
2853 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
2855 20021231
2856 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
2857 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
2859 20021228
2860 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
2861 (report by Philippe Blain).
2862 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
2863 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
2864 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
2865 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
2866 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
2867 locale.
2868 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
2869 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
2870 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
2871 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2872 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
2873 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
2875 20021221
2876 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
2877 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
2878 Philippe Blain).
2879 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
2880 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
2881 Polterak).
2882 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
2883 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
2884 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
2885 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
2887 20021214
2888 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
2889 overridden from the environment.
2890 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
2891 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
2892 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
2893 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
2894 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
2895 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
2896 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
2897 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
2898 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
2899 by Sam Varshavchik).
2900 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
2901 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
2902 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
2903 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
2904 compiling.
2905 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
2906 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
2907 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
2908 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
2909 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
2911 20021206
2912 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
2913 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
2914 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
2915 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
2916 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
2917 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
2918 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
2919 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
2920 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
2921 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
2922 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
2923 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
2924 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
2925 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
2926 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
2927 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
2928 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
2929 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
2930 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
2931 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
2932 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
2933 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
2934 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
2936 20021123
2937 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
2938 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
2939 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
2940 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
2941 winsch() internal function.
2942 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
2943 more than one spacing character.
2945 20021116
2946 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
2947 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
2948 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
2949 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
2950 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
2951 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
2952 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
2953 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
2954 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
2955 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
2957 20021109
2958 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
2959 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
2960 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
2961 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
2962 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
2963 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
2964 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
2966 20021102
2967 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
2968 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
2969 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
2970 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
2971 Blain).
2972 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
2973 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
2974 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
2975 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
2976 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
2978 20021026
2979 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
2980 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
2981 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
2982 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
2983 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
2984 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
2985 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
2986 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
2987 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
2988 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
2989 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
2990 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
2991 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
2992 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
2993 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
2994 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
2995 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
2997 20021019
2998 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
2999 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
3000 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
3001 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
3002 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
3003 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
3004 Frederic L W Meunier).
3006 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3007 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
3008 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
3009 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
3010 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
3011 the debug trace in that case.
3012 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
3013 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
3014 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
3015 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
3016 the two.
3017 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
3018 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
3020 20021005 pre-release
3021 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
3022 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
3023 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
3024 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
3025 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
3026 formats such as "%.*s".
3027 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
3028 (report Floyd Davidson).
3029 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
3030 consistency.
3031 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
3032 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
3033 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
3035 20020928 pre-release
3036 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
3037 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
3038 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
3039 Chernov).
3040 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
3041 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
3042 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
3043 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
3044 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
3045 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
3046 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
3047 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
3048 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
3049 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
3050 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
3051 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
3052 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
3053 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
3054 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
3055 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
3056 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
3057 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
3058 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
3060 20020921 pre-release
3061 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
3062 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
3063 result in core dump.
3064 + documented getbegx(), etc.
3065 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
3066 delimiter rather than '@'.
3067 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3068 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
3069 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
3070 to the lines given for the destination window.
3072 20020914 pre-release
3073 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
3074 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
3075 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
3076 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
3077 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
3078 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
3079 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
3080 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
3081 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3082 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
3083 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
3084 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
3086 20020907 pre-release
3087 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
3088 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
3089 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
3090 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
3091 html manpages on Debian.
3092 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
3093 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
3094 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
3095 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3096 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
3097 a variable from the stack.
3098 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
3099 confusion.
3100 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
3101 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
3102 _idcok window fields.
3103 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
3105 20020901 pre-release
3106 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
3107 + update config.guess, config.sub
3108 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
3109 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
3110 match XSI.
3111 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
3112 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
3113 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
3114 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
3115 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
3116 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
3117 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
3118 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
3119 use in resizeterm().
3120 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
3121 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
3122 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
3123 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
3124 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3125 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
3126 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
3127 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
3128 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
3129 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
3130 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
3131 _nc_doalloc().
3133 20020824
3134 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
3135 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
3136 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
3137 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
3138 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
3139 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
3141 20020817
3142 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
3143 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
3144 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
3145 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
3146 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
3147 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
3148 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
3149 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
3150 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
3151 rather than comma.
3152 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
3153 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
3154 unsatisfactory.
3156 20020810
3157 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
3158 when translating to termcap.
3159 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
3160 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
3161 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
3162 tc clauses.
3163 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
3164 Philippe Blain).
3165 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
3166 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
3167 Philippe Blain).
3168 + document TABSIZE variable.
3169 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
3170 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
3171 assume_default_colors().
3172 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
3173 logic.
3174 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
3175 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
3176 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
3177 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
3178 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
3180 20020803
3181 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
3182 Philippe Blain).
3183 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
3184 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
3185 Philippe Blain)
3186 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
3187 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
3188 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
3190 20020727
3191 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
3192 to resizeterm().
3193 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
3195 20020720
3196 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
3197 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
3198 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
3199 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
3200 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
3201 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
3202 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
3203 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
3204 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
3205 configure definitions.
3206 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
3207 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
3208 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
3209 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
3210 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
3211 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
3212 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
3213 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
3214 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
3215 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
3216 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
3218 20020713
3219 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
3220 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
3221 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
3222 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
3223 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
3224 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
3225 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
3226 filesystems.
3227 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
3228 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
3229 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
3230 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3232 20020706
3233 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
3234 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
3235 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
3236 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
3237 the Caps file.
3238 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
3239 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
3240 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
3242 20020629
3243 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
3244 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
3245 only ones).
3246 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
3247 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
3248 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
3249 Blain).
3250 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
3251 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
3252 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
3253 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
3254 gnat 3.14
3255 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
3256 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
3257 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
3258 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
3259 match.
3261 20020622
3262 + add charset to generated html.
3263 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
3264 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
3265 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
3266 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
3267 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
3268 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
3269 INSTALL notes.
3271 20020615
3272 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
3273 key code in get_wch().
3274 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
3275 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
3276 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
3277 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
3278 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
3279 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
3281 20020601
3282 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
3283 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
3284 hds200 fit.
3285 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
3286 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
3287 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
3288 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
3290 20020525
3291 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
3292 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
3293 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
3294 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
3295 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
3296 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
3297 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
3298 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
3299 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
3300 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
3302 20020523
3303 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
3304 by Mike Castle).
3306 20020518
3307 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
3308 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
3309 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
3310 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
3311 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
3312 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
3313 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
3315 20020511
3316 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
3317 character versions as well.
3318 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
3319 killchar().
3320 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
3321 VDISABLE.
3322 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
3323 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
3324 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
3325 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
3326 if gettimeofday() is available.
3328 20020429
3329 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
3330 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
3332 20020427
3333 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
3334 Solaris and Tru64.
3335 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
3336 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
3337 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
3338 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
3339 + update config.guess, config.sub
3341 20020421
3342 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
3343 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
3344 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
3345 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
3346 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
3347 alias for 'function'.
3349 20020420
3350 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
3351 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
3352 can be linked.
3354 20020413
3355 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
3356 + implement wgetn_wstr().
3357 + implement win_wchnstr().
3358 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
3359 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
3361 20020406
3362 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
3363 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
3365 20020323
3366 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
3367 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
3369 20020317
3370 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
3371 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
3372 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
3373 functions.
3374 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
3375 + implement unget_wch().
3376 + implement wget_wch().
3378 20020310
3379 + regenerated html manpages.
3380 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
3381 + implement wins_wch().
3382 + implement win_wch().
3383 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
3385 20020309
3386 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
3387 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
3389 20020223
3390 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
3391 + document wunctrl, key_name.
3392 + implement key_name().
3393 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
3394 lib_box_set.c
3395 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
3396 these.
3398 20020218
3399 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
3400 in spurious symlinks on install.
3402 20020216
3403 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
3404 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
3405 box() and box_set() functions.
3406 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
3407 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
3408 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
3409 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
3410 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
3411 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3412 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
3413 --with-ospeed.
3414 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
3415 options.
3416 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
3417 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
3418 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
3419 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
3420 mvwaddwstr.
3421 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
3422 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
3424 20020209
3425 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
3426 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
3427 to demonstrate.
3428 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
3429 list item).
3431 20020202
3432 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
3433 format.
3434 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
3435 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
3436 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3437 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
3438 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
3439 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3440 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
3441 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
3442 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
3443 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
3444 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
3445 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
3446 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
3447 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
3448 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
3450 20020127
3451 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
3452 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
3454 20020126
3455 + update config.guess, config.sub
3456 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3457 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
3459 20020119
3460 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3461 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
3462 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
3463 #78866).
3464 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
3465 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
3466 <gniibe@m17n.org>).
3467 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
3468 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
3469 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3470 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3472 20020112a
3473 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
3475 20020112
3476 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
3477 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
3478 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
3479 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
3480 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
3481 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
3482 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
3483 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
3484 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
3485 configuration.
3486 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
3487 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
3488 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
3489 would be found.
3490 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
3491 changes.
3492 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
3493 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
3494 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
3495 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
3496 work with SunOS nawk.
3497 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
3498 warnings for mblen
3499 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
3500 case it uses multiple tokens.
3502 20011229
3503 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
3504 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
3505 interrupted by that signal.
3506 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
3507 not needed with autoconf 2.52
3508 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
3509 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
3510 from
3511 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3512 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
3513 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
3514 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
3515 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
3517 20011222
3518 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
3519 term.h
3520 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
3521 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
3522 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
3523 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
3524 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
3525 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
3526 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
3527 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
3529 20011218
3530 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
3531 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
3532 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
3533 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
3534 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
3535 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
3536 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
3537 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
3538 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
3540 20011215
3541 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
3542 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
3543 may have different keypad() settings.
3544 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
3545 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
3546 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
3547 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
3548 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
3549 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
3550 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
3551 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
3552 at
3553 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3554 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3555 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3556 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
3557 with autoconf 2.52
3559 20011208
3560 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
3561 them independent.
3562 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
3563 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
3564 implementation in cygwin package).
3565 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
3566 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
3567 for ncurses).
3568 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
3569 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
3570 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
3571 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
3572 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
3573 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
3574 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
3575 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
3576 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
3577 in the C++ runtime.
3578 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
3579 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
3580 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
3581 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
3582 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
3583 <jevans@apple.com>).
3584 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
3585 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
3586 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
3587 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
3588 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
3589 AmigaOS.
3591 20011201
3592 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
3593 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
3594 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
3595 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
3596 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
3597 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
3598 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
3599 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
3600 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
3601 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
3603 20011124
3604 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
3606 20011117
3607 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3608 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3609 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
3610 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
3611 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
3613 20011110
3614 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
3615 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
3617 20011103
3618 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
3619 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
3620 + implement wecho_wchar()
3621 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
3622 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
3623 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
3624 the results.
3625 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
3626 in a trace by using curly braces.
3627 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
3628 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
3629 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
3630 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
3632 20011027
3633 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
3634 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
3635 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
3636 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
3637 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
3638 titles.
3640 20011020
3641 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
3642 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
3643 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
3644 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
3645 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
3646 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
3647 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
3648 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
3649 Castle).
3651 20011013
3652 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
3653 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
3654 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
3655 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
3656 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
3657 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
3658 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
3659 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
3660 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
3662 20011001
3663 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
3664 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
3666 20010929
3667 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
3668 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
3669 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
3670 <bbraun@synack.net>).
3671 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
3672 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
3673 with write().
3674 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
3675 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
3676 Larry Virden).
3677 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
3678 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
3680 20010922
3681 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
3682 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
3683 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3684 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
3685 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
3686 in test/view.c
3687 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
3688 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
3689 allocated buffers.
3690 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
3691 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
3692 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
3693 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
3694 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
3696 20010915
3697 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
3698 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
3699 does this.
3700 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
3701 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
3702 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
3703 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
3705 20010908
3706 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
3707 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
3708 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
3709 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
3710 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
3711 Michael Schroeder).
3713 20010901
3714 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
3715 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
3716 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
3717 mouse_trafo().
3718 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
3719 sigwinch handler:
3720 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
3721 sigwinch handler.
3722 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
3723 handler.
3724 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
3725 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
3726 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
3727 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
3728 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
3729 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
3730 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
3731 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
3732 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
3733 the last field.
3735 20010825
3736 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
3737 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
3738 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
3739 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
3740 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
3741 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
3742 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
3743 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
3744 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
3745 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
3746 Blain).
3747 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
3748 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
3749 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3750 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
3751 supports xterm mouse controls.
3752 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
3753 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
3754 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
3755 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
3756 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
3757 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
3758 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
3759 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
3760 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
3761 AX in a color xterm.
3762 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
3763 option is given.
3765 20010811
3766 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
3767 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
3768 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
3769 + added llib-ncursesw.
3771 20010804
3772 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
3773 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
3774 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
3775 header files (report by William P Setzer).
3776 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
3777 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
3778 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
3779 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3780 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
3781 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
3782 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
3783 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3784 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
3785 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3786 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
3787 obsolete with QNX RTP.
3788 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
3789 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
3790 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
3791 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
3793 20010728
3794 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
3795 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
3796 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
3798 20010721
3799 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
3800 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3801 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3802 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
3803 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
3804 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
3805 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
3806 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
3807 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
3808 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
3809 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
3810 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
3811 configuration.
3813 20010714
3814 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
3815 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
3816 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
3817 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
3818 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
3819 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
3820 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3822 20010707
3823 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
3824 new wide-character structures.
3825 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
3826 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
3827 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
3828 compiling for wide-character configuration.
3829 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
3830 Verdoolaege).
3832 20010630
3833 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
3834 header files.
3835 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
3836 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
3837 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
3838 file.
3839 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
3840 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
3841 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3843 20010623
3844 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
3845 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
3846 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
3848 20010618
3849 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
3850 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3851 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
3852 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
3853 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
3854 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
3855 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
3857 20010616
3858 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
3859 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
3860 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
3861 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
3862 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
3863 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
3864 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
3865 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
3866 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
3868 20010609
3869 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
3870 which may be in libutf8.
3871 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
3872 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
3873 links (Debian bug report #99550).
3874 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
3875 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
3876 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3877 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
3878 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
3879 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
3880 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
3881 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
3883 20010603
3884 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
3885 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
3887 20010602
3888 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
3889 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
3890 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
3891 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
3892 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
3893 2.8.4) -TD
3894 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
3895 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
3896 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
3897 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
3898 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
3899 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
3900 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
3901 are used to manipulate attributes.
3902 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
3903 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
3904 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
3905 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
3906 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
3907 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
3908 chtype's.
3909 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
3910 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
3911 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
3912 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
3913 we are using chtype data.
3914 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
3915 and SetAttr().
3916 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
3917 attributes.
3918 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
3919 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
3920 where a pointer would be more useful.
3921 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
3922 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
3923 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
3924 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
3925 passing cchar_t's by address.
3926 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
3927 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
3928 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3929 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
3930 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
3931 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
3932 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
3933 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
3935 20010526
3936 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
3937 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
3938 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
3939 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
3940 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
3941 and curses.h
3942 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
3943 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
3944 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
3946 20010519
3947 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
3948 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
3949 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
3950 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
3951 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
3952 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
3953 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
3954 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
3955 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
3956 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
3957 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
3958 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
3960 20010512
3961 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
3962 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
3963 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
3965 20010505
3966 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
3967 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
3969 20010421
3970 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
3971 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3972 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
3973 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
3974 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
3976 20010414
3977 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
3978 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
3979 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
3980 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
3981 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
3982 <bsittler@iname.com>).
3983 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
3984 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
3985 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
3986 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
3987 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3989 20010407
3990 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
3991 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
3992 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
3993 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
3994 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
3995 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
3996 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
3997 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3998 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
3999 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
4000 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
4001 any shots there, but the computer did.
4002 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
4003 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
4004 player.
4006 20010331
4007 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
4008 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
4009 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
4010 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
4011 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
4012 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4014 20010324
4015 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
4016 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
4017 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
4018 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
4019 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
4020 compiled-in.
4021 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
4022 debugging.
4023 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
4024 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
4025 bug #89939).
4026 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
4027 given.
4028 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
4029 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
4031 20010310
4032 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
4033 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
4034 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
4035 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
4036 interface from C++ binding.
4037 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
4038 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
4039 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
4040 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
4041 ifdef.
4042 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
4043 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
4044 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
4045 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
4047 20010303
4048 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
4049 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
4050 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
4051 (patch by Todd C Miller).
4053 20010224
4054 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
4056 20010210
4057 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
4058 mouse controls -TD
4060 20010203
4061 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
4062 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
4063 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
4064 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
4065 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
4066 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
4067 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
4068 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
4069 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
4070 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
4071 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
4072 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
4074 20010127
4075 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
4076 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
4077 program.
4078 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
4079 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
4080 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
4081 did not do this already.
4082 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
4083 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4084 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
4085 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
4086 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
4087 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
4088 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
4089 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
4091 20010114
4092 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
4093 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
4095 20010113
4096 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
4097 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
4098 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
4099 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
4100 nodelay().
4101 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
4102 --disable-hashmap.
4103 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
4104 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
4105 Tom Riddle).
4106 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
4107 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
4108 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
4109 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
4110 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
4112 20001230
4113 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
4114 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
4115 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
4116 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
4118 20001216
4119 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
4120 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
4121 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
4123 20001209
4124 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
4125 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
4126 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
4127 work with 'indent') -TD
4129 20001202
4130 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
4131 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
4132 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4133 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
4134 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
4135 patch includes
4136 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
4137 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
4138 termcap and terminfo functions
4139 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
4140 written in C.
4142 20001125
4143 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
4144 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
4145 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
4146 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
4147 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
4148 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
4149 freebsd-bugs).
4150 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
4151 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
4152 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
4153 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
4154 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
4155 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
4156 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
4157 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
4159 20001118
4160 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
4161 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
4162 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
4163 /usr rather than /usr/local.
4165 20001111
4166 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
4167 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
4168 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
4169 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
4170 <solar@false.com>).
4171 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
4172 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
4173 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
4174 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
4175 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
4176 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
4177 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
4178 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
4180 20001104
4181 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
4182 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
4183 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
4184 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
4185 + change trace output to binary format.
4186 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
4187 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
4188 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
4189 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
4190 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
4191 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
4192 the overwrite logic.
4194 20001028
4195 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
4196 + resync config.guess, config.sub
4197 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
4198 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
4199 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
4200 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
4201 work).
4202 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
4203 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
4204 commands.
4206 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4207 + update generated html files from manpages.
4208 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
4209 in html manpages.
4210 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
4211 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
4212 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
4213 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
4214 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4215 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
4216 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
4217 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
4219 20001014
4220 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
4221 wrapping at the right margin.
4222 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
4223 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
4224 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
4225 gcc).
4226 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
4227 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
4228 understands how to run tbl automatically.
4229 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
4230 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
4231 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
4232 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
4233 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
4234 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
4235 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
4236 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
4237 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
4238 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
4239 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
4240 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
4241 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
4242 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
4243 option --with-libtool.
4244 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
4245 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
4246 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
4247 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
4248 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
4250 20001009
4251 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
4252 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
4253 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
4254 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
4255 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
4256 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
4257 > patch by Todd C Miller:
4258 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
4259 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
4260 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
4261 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
4262 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
4263 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
4264 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
4265 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
4266 to set up a 3-button mouse.
4267 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
4268 replace select() call.
4270 20001007
4271 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
4272 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
4273 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
4274 Albert Chin-A-Young).
4275 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
4276 cursor report before decoding.
4277 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
4278 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
4279 (see assume_default_colors()).
4280 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
4281 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
4282 development
4283 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
4284 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
4285 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
4286 several people).
4287 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
4288 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
4289 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
4290 for that capability.
4291 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
4292 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
4293 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
4294 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
4295 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
4296 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
4298 20000930
4299 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
4300 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
4301 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
4302 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
4303 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
4304 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
4305 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
4306 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
4307 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
4308 man-page.
4309 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
4310 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
4311 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
4312 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
4313 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
4314 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
4315 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4317 20000923
4318 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
4319 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
4320 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
4321 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
4322 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
4323 terminfo.src -TD
4324 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
4325 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
4326 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
4327 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
4328 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
4329 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
4330 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
4331 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
4332 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
4333 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
4334 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
4335 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
4336 the expected number of parameters.
4337 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
4338 the option value is indeed a number.
4339 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
4340 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
4341 from the other signals.
4343 20000917
4344 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
4345 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
4346 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
4348 20000916
4349 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
4350 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
4351 <eric@ale.org>).
4352 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
4353 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
4354 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
4355 no symbolic links.
4356 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
4357 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
4358 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
4359 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
4360 character set attribute from the displayed text.
4361 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
4362 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
4363 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
4364 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
4365 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
4366 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4368 20000909
4369 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
4370 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
4371 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
4372 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
4373 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
4374 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
4375 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4376 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
4377 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
4378 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
4379 an empty string.
4380 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
4381 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
4382 init'.
4383 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
4384 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
4385 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
4386 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
4387 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
4388 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
4390 20000902
4391 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
4392 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
4393 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
4394 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
4395 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
4396 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
4397 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
4398 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
4399 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
4400 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4401 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
4402 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
4403 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
4404 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
4405 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
4406 <proski@gnu.org>).
4407 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
4408 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
4409 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
4411 20000826
4412 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
4413 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
4414 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
4415 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
4416 misc/emx.src
4417 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
4418 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
4419 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
4420 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
4421 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
4422 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
4423 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
4424 rules in makefiles.
4425 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
4426 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
4427 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
4428 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
4429 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
4430 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
4431 a default program-prefix.
4432 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
4433 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
4435 20000819
4436 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
4437 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
4438 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
4439 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
4440 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
4441 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
4442 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
4443 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
4444 although the name is misleading).
4445 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
4446 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
4447 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
4448 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
4450 20000812
4451 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
4452 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
4453 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
4454 2.8.4dev.7).
4455 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
4456 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
4457 Chin-A-Young).
4458 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
4459 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
4460 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
4461 <rsk@gsp.org>).
4462 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
4463 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
4464 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
4465 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
4466 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
4467 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
4468 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
4469 test/configure script.
4470 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
4471 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
4472 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
4474 20000730
4475 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
4477 20000729
4478 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
4479 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
4480 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
4481 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
4482 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
4483 getbkgd().
4484 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
4485 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
4486 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
4487 returnChar().
4488 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
4489 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
4491 20000722
4492 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
4493 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4494 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
4495 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
4496 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
4497 there's still the explicit configure option).
4498 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
4499 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
4500 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
4501 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
4502 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
4503 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
4504 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
4505 simplify working around implementations that define random
4506 combinations of the related macros to zero.
4507 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
4508 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
4509 > patches by Bruno Haible:
4510 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
4511 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
4512 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
4513 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
4514 out-of-range value.
4516 20000715
4517 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
4518 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4519 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
4520 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
4521 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
4522 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
4523 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
4524 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
4525 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
4526 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
4527 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
4528 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
4529 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
4530 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
4531 work).
4533 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4534 + document configure options in INSTALL.
4535 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
4536 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
4537 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
4538 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
4539 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
4540 list of generated functions.
4541 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
4542 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
4543 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
4544 Miller).
4545 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
4546 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
4547 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
4548 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
4549 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
4550 for testing.
4551 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
4552 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
4553 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
4554 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
4555 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
4556 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
4557 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
4558 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
4559 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
4560 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
4561 examples cited in announce.html
4562 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
4563 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
4564 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
4565 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
4566 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
4567 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
4568 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
4569 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
4570 (cf: 960428).
4572 20000701 pre-release
4573 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
4574 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
4575 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
4576 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
4577 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
4578 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
4579 symbolic links.
4580 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
4581 capabilities.
4582 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
4583 it as a warning.
4584 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
4585 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
4586 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
4587 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
4588 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
4590 20000624 pre-release
4591 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
4592 that happen to render the same display colors.
4593 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
4594 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
4595 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
4596 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
4597 normalized value for cursor_address.
4598 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
4600 20000617
4601 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
4602 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
4603 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
4604 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
4605 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
4606 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
4607 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
4608 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
4609 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
4610 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
4611 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
4612 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
4613 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
4614 <pok@nbsp.nsk.su>)
4616 20000610
4617 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
4618 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
4619 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
4620 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
4621 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
4622 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
4623 allows larger symbol tables.
4624 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
4625 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
4626 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
4627 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
4628 is an extension.
4630 20000527
4631 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
4632 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
4633 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
4634 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
4635 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
4636 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
4637 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
4638 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
4639 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
4640 + add a "make libs" rule.
4641 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
4642 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
4643 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
4644 with existing ncurses libraries.
4646 20000520
4647 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
4648 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
4649 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
4650 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
4651 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
4652 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
4653 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
4654 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
4655 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
4656 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
4657 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
4658 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
4659 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
4660 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
4662 20000513
4663 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
4664 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
4665 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
4666 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
4667 terminfo entry.
4669 20000506
4670 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
4671 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
4672 <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>).
4673 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
4674 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
4675 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
4677 20000429
4678 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
4679 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
4680 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
4681 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
4682 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
4683 default colors.
4684 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
4685 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
4686 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
4687 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
4688 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
4689 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
4690 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
4691 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
4693 20000422
4694 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
4695 aixterm entries -TD
4696 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
4697 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
4698 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
4699 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
4700 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
4701 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
4702 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
4703 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
4704 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
4705 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
4706 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
4707 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
4709 20000415
4710 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
4711 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
4712 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
4713 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
4714 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
4715 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
4716 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
4717 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
4718 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
4719 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
4720 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
4721 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
4722 means that it will not recur for that special case.
4723 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
4724 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
4725 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
4726 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4728 20000408
4729 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
4730 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
4731 bg300-rv in esr's version.
4732 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
4733 (fixes Debian bug report #61088).
4734 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
4735 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
4736 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
4738 20000401
4739 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
4740 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
4741 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
4742 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
4743 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
4745 20000325
4746 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
4747 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
4748 improvement in setting default colors.
4749 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
4750 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
4751 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
4752 V Lukyanov).
4753 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
4754 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
4755 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
4756 check for buffer overflow.
4757 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
4758 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
4759 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
4760 such as "infocmp -Fa".
4762 20000319
4763 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
4764 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
4765 is not permitted in termcap.
4766 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
4767 integrating 20000318.
4769 20000318
4770 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
4771 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
4772 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
4773 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
4774 and infotocap.
4775 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
4776 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
4777 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
4778 result for OS/2 EMX.
4779 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
4780 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
4781 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
4782 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
4783 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
4784 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
4786 20000311
4787 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
4788 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
4789 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
4790 tparm() as 0's.
4791 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
4792 displaying string capabilities.
4793 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
4794 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
4795 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
4796 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
4797 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
4798 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
4799 itself.
4800 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
4801 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
4802 properly)
4803 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
4804 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
4805 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
4806 may not produce the same result as before.
4807 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
4808 _nc_resolve_uses().
4809 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
4810 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
4811 termcap.
4812 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
4813 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
4814 not good).
4815 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
4816 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4817 + drop support for gnat 3.10
4818 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
4819 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
4821 20000304
4822 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
4823 made it check only one entry at a time.
4824 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
4825 Raggett's tidy.
4826 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
4827 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
4828 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
4829 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
4830 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
4831 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
4832 address out of bounds.
4833 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
4834 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
4835 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
4836 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
4837 which I removed.
4838 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
4839 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
4840 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
4841 configurations.
4842 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
4844 20000226
4845 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
4846 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
4847 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
4848 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
4849 (Debian #58530).
4850 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
4851 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
4852 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
4853 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
4854 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
4855 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
4856 Debian #53962).
4857 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
4858 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
4859 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
4860 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
4861 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
4862 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
4863 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
4864 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
4866 20000219
4867 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
4868 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
4869 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
4870 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
4871 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
4872 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
4873 simpler to read.
4875 20000212
4876 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
4877 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
4878 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
4879 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
4880 colors are white on black.
4881 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
4882 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
4883 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
4884 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
4885 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
4887 20000205
4888 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
4889 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
4890 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
4891 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
4892 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
4893 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
4894 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
4895 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
4896 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
4897 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
4898 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
4900 20000122
4901 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
4902 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
4903 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
4904 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
4905 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
4906 to wait indefinitely.
4908 20000115
4909 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
4910 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
4911 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
4912 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
4913 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
4914 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
4915 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
4916 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
4917 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
4918 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4919 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
4920 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
4921 Miller).
4923 20000108
4924 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
4925 programs build with c++/g++.
4926 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
4927 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
4928 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
4929 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
4930 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
4931 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
4932 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
4933 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
4935 20000101
4936 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
4937 for ncurses 5.0 -TD
4938 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
4939 terminfo entries -TD
4940 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
4941 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
4942 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
4943 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
4944 applied.
4945 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
4946 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
4947 introduced).
4948 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
4949 permissions.
4950 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
4951 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
4952 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
4953 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
4954 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
4955 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
4956 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
4957 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
4958 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
4959 tin) -TD
4961 19991218
4962 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
4963 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
4964 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
4965 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
4966 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
4967 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
4968 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
4969 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
4970 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
4971 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
4972 use_extended_names().
4974 19991211
4975 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
4976 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
4977 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
4978 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
4979 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
4980 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
4981 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
4982 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
4983 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
4984 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
4985 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
4986 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
4987 + add manpage for infotocap
4989 19991204
4990 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
4991 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
4992 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
4993 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
4994 than terminfo only.
4995 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
4996 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
4997 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
4998 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
4999 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
5000 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
5001 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
5002 initc for xterm-88color.
5003 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
5004 arrays.
5006 19991127
5007 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
5008 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
5009 not specified.
5010 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
5011 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
5012 SP, since it is part of that struct.
5013 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
5014 in 970927.
5015 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
5016 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
5017 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
5018 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
5019 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
5020 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
5021 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
5022 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
5023 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
5024 than 8.
5025 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
5026 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
5027 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5028 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
5029 Philippe Blain.
5030 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
5032 19991113
5033 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
5034 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
5035 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
5036 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
5037 over the use of default colors.
5038 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
5039 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
5040 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
5041 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
5042 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
5043 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
5044 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
5045 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
5047 19991106
5048 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
5049 <robert@progplus.com>)
5050 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
5051 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
5052 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
5054 19991030
5055 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
5056 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
5057 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
5058 in CSI's -TD
5059 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
5060 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
5061 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
5062 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
5063 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
5064 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
5065 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
5066 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
5067 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
5068 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
5069 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
5070 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
5071 Beebe).
5072 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
5073 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
5074 Juergen Pfeifer).
5076 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5077 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
5078 4-digit year.
5079 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
5080 (request by Bob van der Poel).
5081 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
5082 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
5083 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
5084 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
5085 libraries by default.
5086 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
5087 not return 1.0
5088 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
5089 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
5090 wrapping.
5091 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
5092 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
5093 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
5094 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
5095 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
5096 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
5097 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
5098 OpenServer.
5099 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
5100 OpenServer.
5101 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
5102 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
5103 advice from Bela Lubkin).
5104 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
5105 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5106 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
5107 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
5108 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
5109 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
5111 991016 pre-release
5112 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
5114 991009 pre-release
5115 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
5116 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
5117 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
5118 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
5119 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
5120 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
5121 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
5122 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
5123 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
5124 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
5126 991002 pre-release
5127 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
5128 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
5129 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5130 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
5131 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
5132 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
5133 <bledp@voila.fr>)).
5134 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
5135 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
5136 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
5137 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
5138 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
5139 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
5140 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
5141 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
5142 is used), and in color.
5143 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
5144 shared library rules.
5146 990925 pre-release
5147 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
5148 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
5149 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
5150 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
5151 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
5152 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
5153 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
5154 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
5155 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
5156 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
5157 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
5158 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
5159 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
5160 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
5161 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
5162 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
5163 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5165 990918 pre-release
5166 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
5167 <j@interface-business.de>).
5168 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
5169 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
5170 that hard-links work on Unix again.
5171 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
5172 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
5173 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
5175 990911 pre-release
5176 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
5177 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
5178 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
5179 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
5180 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
5181 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
5182 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
5183 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
5184 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
5185 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
5186 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
5187 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
5188 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
5190 990904 pre-release
5191 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
5192 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
5193 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
5194 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
5195 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
5196 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
5197 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
5198 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
5199 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
5200 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
5201 function works only for sockets.
5202 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
5203 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
5204 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
5205 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
5206 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
5207 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
5208 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
5209 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
5210 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
5211 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
5213 990828 pre-release
5214 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
5215 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
5216 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
5217 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
5218 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
5219 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
5220 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
5222 990821 pre-release
5223 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
5224 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
5225 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
5226 them.
5227 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
5228 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
5229 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
5230 nonfunctional link().
5231 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
5232 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
5234 990814 pre-release
5235 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
5236 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
5237 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
5239 990731 pre-release
5240 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
5241 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
5242 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
5243 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
5244 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
5245 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
5246 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5247 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
5248 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
5249 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
5250 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
5251 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
5252 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
5253 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
5254 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
5255 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
5256 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
5257 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
5258 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
5259 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
5261 990724 pre-release
5262 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
5263 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
5264 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
5265 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
5266 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
5267 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
5268 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
5269 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
5270 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
5271 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
5272 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
5273 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
5274 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
5275 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
5276 short-circuit expression evaluation.
5277 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
5278 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
5279 i.e., "(NCV)".
5280 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
5281 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
5282 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
5283 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
5284 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
5285 Ilya Zakharevich).
5287 990710 pre-release
5288 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
5289 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
5290 contents.
5291 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
5292 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
5293 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
5295 990703 pre-release
5296 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
5297 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
5298 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
5299 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
5300 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
5301 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
5302 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
5303 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
5304 not.
5305 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
5306 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
5307 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5309 990626 pre-release
5310 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
5311 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
5312 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
5313 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
5314 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
5315 --with-rcs-ids option.
5317 990619 pre-release
5318 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
5319 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
5320 Muyter).
5321 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
5322 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
5323 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
5324 `short' instead.
5326 990616 pre-release
5327 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
5328 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
5329 BeOS predefines a bool type.
5330 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
5331 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
5332 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
5333 option to infocmp -TD
5334 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5335 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
5336 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
5337 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
5338 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
5339 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
5340 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
5342 990614 pre-release
5343 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5344 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
5345 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
5346 + change interface version-number to 1.0
5347 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
5349 990612 pre-release
5350 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
5351 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
5352 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
5353 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
5354 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
5355 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
5356 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
5357 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
5358 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
5359 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
5360 for magic cookies.
5361 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
5362 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
5363 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
5365 990605 pre-release
5366 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
5367 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
5368 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
5369 e.g., perl.
5370 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
5371 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
5373 990516 pre-release
5374 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
5375 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5376 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
5377 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
5378 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
5380 990509 pre-release
5381 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
5382 A. Tomei Torres).
5384 990417 pre-release
5385 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
5386 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
5387 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
5388 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
5389 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
5390 omitted, however.
5391 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
5392 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
5393 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
5394 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
5396 990410 pre-release
5397 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
5398 fields, and showing forms within panels.
5399 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
5400 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
5401 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
5402 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
5403 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
5404 ownership may change).
5406 990403 pre-release
5407 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
5408 lib_freeall.c
5409 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
5410 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
5411 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5412 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
5413 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
5414 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
5415 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
5417 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
5418 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
5419 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
5420 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
5421 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
5422 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
5424 990318 pre-release
5425 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
5426 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
5427 Torres).
5428 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
5429 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
5430 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
5431 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5433 990316 pre-release
5434 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
5435 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
5436 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
5437 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
5438 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
5439 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
5440 C Honig).
5442 990314 pre-release
5443 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
5444 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5445 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
5446 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
5447 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
5448 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
5449 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
5450 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
5452 990313 pre-release
5453 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
5454 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
5455 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
5456 Alexander V Lukyanov).
5458 990307 pre-release
5459 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
5460 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
5462 990306 pre-release
5463 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the -g option.
5464 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
5465 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
5466 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
5467 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5468 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
5469 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
5470 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
5471 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
5472 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
5473 reset for the next newterm.
5474 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
5475 terminal has true SLKs.
5476 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
5478 990301 pre-release
5479 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
5480 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
5481 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
5482 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
5483 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
5484 read of the extended capabilities.
5485 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
5486 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
5487 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
5488 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
5489 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
5490 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
5491 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
5492 throughout ncurses library.
5493 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
5494 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
5495 same keycode.
5496 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
5497 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
5498 + regenerate some of the html documentation
5499 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
5501 990220 pre-release
5502 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
5503 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
5504 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
5505 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
5506 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
5507 a given keycode.
5508 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
5509 given.
5510 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
5511 defined for a keycode.
5512 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
5513 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
5514 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
5515 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
5516 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
5517 recognized.
5518 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5519 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
5520 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
5521 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
5522 no longer required.
5523 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
5524 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
5525 zero.
5526 + modify configuration scripts to
5527 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
5528 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
5529 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
5530 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
5531 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
5532 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
5533 + rename ada_include directory to src.
5535 990213
5536 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
5537 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
5538 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
5539 once.
5541 990206
5542 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
5543 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
5544 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
5545 though the problem is more general.
5546 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
5547 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
5548 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
5549 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
5550 inconsistent use.
5551 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
5552 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
5553 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
5555 990130
5556 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
5557 Alexander V Lukyanov).
5558 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
5559 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
5560 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
5561 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5562 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
5563 be any substring rather than the prefix.
5564 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
5565 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
5566 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
5567 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
5568 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
5569 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
5570 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
5571 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
5572 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
5573 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
5574 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
5575 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
5576 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
5577 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
5578 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
5579 --with-shlib-version option.
5581 990123
5582 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
5583 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
5584 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
5585 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
5586 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
5587 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
5588 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
5589 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
5590 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
5591 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
5592 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
5593 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
5594 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
5595 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
5596 source distribution.
5598 990116
5599 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
5600 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
5601 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
5602 debug library.
5603 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
5604 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
5605 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
5606 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
5607 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
5609 990110
5610 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
5612 990109
5613 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
5614 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
5615 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
5616 Alexander V Lukyanov).
5617 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
5618 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
5619 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
5620 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
5621 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5622 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
5623 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
5624 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
5625 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
5626 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
5627 old name.
5628 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
5629 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
5630 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
5631 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
5633 990102
5634 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
5635 V Lukyanov).
5636 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
5637 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
5638 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
5639 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
5640 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
5641 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
5642 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
5643 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
5644 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
5645 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
5646 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
5647 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
5648 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
5649 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
5650 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
5651 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
5652 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
5653 work with color
5655 981226
5656 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
5657 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
5658 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
5659 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
5660 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
5661 running screen built with ncurses.
5662 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
5663 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
5664 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
5666 981220
5667 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
5669 981219
5670 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
5671 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
5672 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
5673 by a Debian bug report).
5674 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
5675 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
5676 changes
5677 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
5678 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
5679 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
5680 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
5681 <uch@nop.or.jp>)
5683 981212
5684 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
5685 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
5686 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
5687 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
5688 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
5689 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
5690 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
5691 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
5692 (reported by H.J.Lu).
5694 981205
5695 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
5696 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
5697 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
5698 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
5699 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
5700 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
5701 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
5702 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
5703 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
5704 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
5705 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5706 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
5707 handling.
5708 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
5709 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
5710 support
5711 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
5712 with spacing.
5713 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
5714 rework.
5715 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
5716 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
5717 transformation.
5719 981128
5720 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
5721 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
5722 address rather than its length.
5723 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
5724 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
5725 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
5726 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
5727 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
5728 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
5729 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
5730 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
5731 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
5732 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
5734 981121
5735 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
5736 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
5737 reverse.
5738 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
5739 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
5740 for an older version of ncurses.
5741 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
5742 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
5743 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
5744 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
5745 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
5746 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
5747 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
5748 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
5749 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5750 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
5751 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
5752 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
5753 panel destructor.
5754 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
5755 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
5757 981114
5758 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
5759 (request by Larry Virden).
5760 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5761 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
5762 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
5763 changes to ncurses library.
5764 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
5765 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
5766 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
5767 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5768 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
5769 + some Ada95 cosmetics
5770 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
5771 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
5772 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
5774 981107
5775 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
5776 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
5777 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
5778 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
5779 proposed changes to ncurses library.
5780 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
5781 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
5782 broken configure scripts.
5784 981031
5785 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
5786 like Solaris.
5787 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
5788 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
5789 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
5790 effect).
5791 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
5792 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
5793 Pfeifer).
5795 981017
5796 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
5797 with --srcdir option.
5798 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
5799 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
5800 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
5801 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
5802 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
5803 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5805 981010
5806 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
5807 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
5808 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
5809 script.
5810 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
5811 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
5812 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
5813 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
5814 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
5815 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
5816 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
5817 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
5819 981003
5820 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
5821 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5823 980926
5824 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
5825 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
5826 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
5827 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
5828 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
5829 some older entries - TD
5830 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
5831 since that is a little more efficient.
5832 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
5833 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
5834 + add -g option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
5835 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
5836 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
5837 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
5838 tic, infocmp).
5839 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
5840 to termcap format.
5841 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5842 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
5843 profiling worm.
5844 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
5845 + use format string for printing strings.
5846 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
5848 980919
5849 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
5850 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
5851 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
5852 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
5853 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
5854 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
5855 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
5856 > patches by Todd C Miller:
5857 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
5858 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
5859 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
5860 dealing with env variables again.
5861 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
5862 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
5863 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
5864 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
5865 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
5866 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5867 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
5868 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
5869 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
5870 newhash data to SP struct.
5871 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
5872 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
5873 function's parameter which is deleted.
5874 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
5875 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
5876 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
5877 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
5878 to the SP struct.
5880 980912
5881 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
5882 consistent treatment.
5883 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
5884 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
5885 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
5886 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
5888 980905
5889 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
5890 capability name, as in SVr4.
5891 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
5892 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
5893 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
5895 980829
5896 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
5897 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
5898 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
5899 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
5900 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
5901 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
5902 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
5903 > from esr's terminfo version:
5904 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
5905 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
5906 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
5908 980822
5909 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
5910 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
5911 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
5912 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
5913 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
5914 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
5915 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
5916 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
5917 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
5918 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
5919 Jaeger).
5921 980815
5922 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
5923 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
5924 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
5925 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
5926 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
5928 980809
5929 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
5930 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
5931 Daia).
5933 980808
5934 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
5935 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
5936 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
5937 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
5938 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
5939 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
5940 as obtained via ioctl.
5942 980801
5943 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
5944 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
5945 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
5946 turning attributes off.
5947 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
5948 initializing multiple screens.
5949 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
5950 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
5951 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
5953 980725
5954 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
5955 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
5956 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
5957 with Solaris curses).
5958 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
5959 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
5960 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
5961 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
5962 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
5963 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
5964 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
5965 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
5967 980718
5968 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
5969 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
5970 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
5971 (request by QingLong).
5972 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
5973 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
5974 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
5975 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
5976 terminfo.
5977 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
5978 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
5979 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
5980 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
5981 otherwise simply exit with an error.
5983 980711
5984 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
5985 "_g" for a debug build).
5986 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
5987 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
5988 compile/link working Ada95 program.
5989 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
5990 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
5991 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
5992 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
5993 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
5994 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
5995 Nelson).
5997 980704
5998 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
5999 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
6000 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
6001 corresponds to vt100.
6002 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
6003 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
6005 980627
6006 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
6007 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
6008 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
6009 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
6010 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
6011 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
6012 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
6013 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
6014 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
6015 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6017 980620
6018 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
6019 several minor errors/omissions.
6020 + implement tparm %l format.
6021 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
6022 as per XSI.
6023 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
6025 980613
6026 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
6027 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
6028 to be written to large screens.
6029 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
6030 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
6031 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
6032 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
6033 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
6034 Pfeifer).
6035 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
6036 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6037 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
6038 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
6040 980606
6041 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
6042 other headers.
6043 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
6044 time by 10%.
6045 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
6046 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
6047 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
6048 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
6049 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
6050 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
6051 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
6052 _nc_timed_wait.
6053 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
6054 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
6055 assignment.
6056 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
6058 980530
6059 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
6060 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
6061 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
6062 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
6063 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
6064 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
6065 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
6066 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
6067 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
6068 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
6070 980523
6071 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
6072 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6073 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
6074 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
6075 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
6076 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
6077 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
6078 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
6079 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
6080 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
6081 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
6082 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
6083 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
6085 980516
6086 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
6087 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
6088 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
6089 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
6090 which contains a colon in the description field.
6091 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
6092 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
6093 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
6094 Lukyanov).
6095 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
6096 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
6098 980509
6099 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
6100 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
6101 color pair numbers.
6102 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
6103 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
6104 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
6105 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
6106 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
6107 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
6108 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
6109 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
6110 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
6111 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
6112 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
6113 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
6114 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
6115 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
6116 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
6117 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
6118 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
6119 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
6120 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
6121 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
6122 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
6123 comparisons out of inner loop.
6125 980425
6126 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
6127 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
6128 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
6129 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
6130 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
6131 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
6132 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
6133 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
6134 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
6135 Hildebrandt).
6136 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
6137 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
6138 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
6140 980418
6141 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
6142 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
6143 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
6144 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
6145 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
6146 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
6147 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
6148 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
6149 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
6150 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
6152 980411
6153 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
6154 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
6155 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
6156 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
6157 H.J.Lu).
6158 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
6159 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
6160 by Juergen Pfeifer).
6162 980404
6163 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
6164 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
6166 980328
6167 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
6168 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
6169 uses them when they are available.
6170 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
6171 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
6172 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
6173 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
6174 tabs).
6175 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
6177 980321
6178 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
6179 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
6180 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
6181 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
6182 Lukyanov).
6183 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6184 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
6185 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
6186 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
6187 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
6188 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
6189 use --disable-overwrite).
6190 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
6191 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
6192 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
6193 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
6194 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
6195 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
6196 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
6197 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
6198 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
6199 Zimmerman).
6201 980314
6202 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
6203 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6204 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
6205 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
6206 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
6207 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
6208 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
6209 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
6210 <itz@rahul.net>).
6211 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
6212 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
6213 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
6214 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
6215 attr_t.
6216 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
6217 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
6218 parameter according to XSI.
6219 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
6220 reflect above enhancements.
6222 980307
6223 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
6224 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
6225 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
6226 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
6227 Juergen Pfeifer).
6228 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
6229 by 4.3 release.
6230 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
6232 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
6233 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
6234 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
6236 980228 pre-release
6237 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
6238 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
6239 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6240 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
6241 <claesg@algonet.se>).
6242 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
6243 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
6245 980221 pre-release
6246 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
6247 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
6248 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
6249 Juergen Pfeifer).
6250 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
6251 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
6252 by Florian La Roche).
6253 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
6254 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
6255 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
6256 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6258 980214 pre-release
6259 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
6260 distributions, though it is retained in development.
6261 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
6262 by Jeremy Buhler).
6263 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
6264 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
6265 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
6266 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
6267 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
6269 980207
6270 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
6271 CF_SIZECHANGE
6272 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
6273 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
6274 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
6275 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
6276 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
6277 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
6278 for nanosleep().
6279 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
6280 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
6281 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
6282 lib_scrollok.c.
6283 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
6284 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
6285 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
6287 980131
6288 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
6289 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
6290 (patch by H.J.Lu).
6291 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
6292 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
6293 is not available.
6294 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
6295 2.1.5
6296 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
6297 work with color.
6298 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
6299 sys/select.h
6300 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
6301 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
6302 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
6303 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
6304 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
6305 test/ncurses_cfg.h
6306 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
6307 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
6308 programs.
6309 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
6310 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
6311 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
6312 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
6313 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
6314 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
6315 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
6316 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
6317 turn off attributes inconsistently.
6319 980124
6320 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
6321 test for no_color_video.
6322 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
6323 and 'k' tests.
6324 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
6325 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
6326 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
6327 <brett@xylan.com>).
6328 > from reports by Fred Fish:
6329 + add configure-test for isascii
6330 + add configure-test for -lm library.
6331 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
6332 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
6333 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
6334 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
6335 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
6336 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
6337 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
6338 directory.
6339 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
6340 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
6341 files.
6342 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
6343 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
6344 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
6345 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
6346 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
6348 980117
6349 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
6350 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
6351 J.J.G.Ripoll).
6352 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
6353 with XFree86.
6354 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
6355 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
6356 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
6357 hard reset.
6358 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
6359 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
6360 implemented.
6361 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
6362 from parameters.
6363 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
6364 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
6365 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
6366 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6367 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
6368 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
6369 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6370 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
6371 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
6372 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
6373 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
6374 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
6375 fields are also always inactive.
6376 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
6377 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
6379 980110
6380 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
6381 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
6382 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
6383 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
6384 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
6385 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
6386 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
6387 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
6388 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
6390 980103
6391 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
6392 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
6393 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
6394 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
6395 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
6396 J.J.G.Ripoll).
6397 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
6398 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
6399 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
6400 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
6401 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
6402 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
6403 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
6404 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
6405 cross-platform compatibility.
6406 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
6407 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
6408 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6409 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
6410 ncurses.
6411 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
6412 the Ada95 binding.
6414 971227
6415 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
6416 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
6417 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
6418 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
6419 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
6420 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
6421 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
6422 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
6423 that simply cannot scroll.
6424 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
6425 embedded \200 characters are matched.
6426 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
6427 entries.
6429 971220
6430 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
6431 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
6432 functions from the build.
6433 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
6434 functions as a separate library.
6435 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
6436 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
6437 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
6438 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
6439 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
6440 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
6441 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
6442 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
6443 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
6444 <cls@seawood.org>)
6445 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6446 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
6447 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
6449 971213
6450 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
6451 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
6452 to tic, etc.
6453 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
6454 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
6455 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
6456 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
6458 971206
6459 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
6460 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
6461 + add configure check for 'tack'.
6462 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
6463 for Debian configuration.
6464 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
6465 Daniel Weaver).
6466 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
6467 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
6468 characters.
6469 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
6470 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
6471 case of wide characters in chtype.
6472 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
6473 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
6474 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
6476 971129
6477 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
6478 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
6479 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
6480 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
6481 have set root's umask to 077.
6482 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
6483 end of output when they had embedded comments.
6484 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
6485 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
6486 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
6487 correct logic for handling backslashes.
6488 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
6489 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
6490 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
6491 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
6492 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
6493 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
6494 Lukyanov)
6495 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6496 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
6497 binding
6498 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
6499 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
6500 version.
6501 + resync of the html version of the manpages
6503 971122
6504 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
6505 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
6506 version.
6507 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
6508 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
6509 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
6510 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
6511 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6512 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
6513 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
6514 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
6515 (pautet@gnat.com)
6517 971115
6518 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
6519 in HP-UX terminfo.
6520 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
6521 comments from Daniel Weaver.
6522 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
6523 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
6524 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
6525 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
6526 Juergen Fluk)
6527 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
6528 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
6529 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
6530 Juergen Fluk).
6531 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
6532 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
6534 971112
6535 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
6536 Juergen Fluk).
6538 971108
6539 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
6540 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
6541 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
6542 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
6543 in call to delay_output().
6544 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
6545 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
6546 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
6547 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
6548 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
6549 for success.
6550 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
6551 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
6552 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
6553 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
6554 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
6555 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
6556 so that will work on NeXT.
6557 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
6558 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
6560 971101
6561 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
6562 XSI.
6563 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
6564 by Daniel Weaver).
6565 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
6566 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
6567 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
6568 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
6569 when that feature is not configured.
6570 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
6571 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
6572 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
6573 (this dates back to 951102, in 1.9.7a).
6574 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
6575 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
6576 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
6577 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
6579 971026
6580 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
6581 to compile on SCO.
6582 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
6583 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
6584 length() function.
6585 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
6586 trailing null.
6587 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
6588 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
6590 971025
6591 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
6592 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
6593 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
6594 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
6595 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
6596 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
6597 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
6598 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
6599 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
6600 by Juergen Fluk).
6601 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
6602 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
6603 tputs() if called from that function.
6604 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
6605 tputs works when SP is not set.
6606 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6607 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
6608 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
6609 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
6610 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
6611 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
6613 971018
6614 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
6615 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
6616 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
6617 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
6618 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
6619 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
6620 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
6621 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
6622 _nc_update_screensize().
6623 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
6624 Beebe).
6625 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
6626 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
6627 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
6628 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6629 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
6630 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6631 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
6632 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
6633 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
6634 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
6635 screens.
6636 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
6637 ripped-off lines.
6639 971011
6640 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
6641 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
6642 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
6643 0.5k on Linux).
6644 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
6645 click-interval without modifying it.
6646 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
6647 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
6648 Lukyanov).
6649 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
6650 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
6651 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
6652 other ncurses headers.
6653 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
6654 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
6655 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
6656 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
6657 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
6658 characters output in delay_output().
6659 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
6660 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
6661 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
6662 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6663 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
6664 to erase.
6665 + typo in configure --help.
6666 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
6667 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
6668 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
6669 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
6671 971005
6672 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6673 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
6675 971004
6676 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
6677 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
6678 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
6679 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
6680 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
6681 work).
6682 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
6683 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
6684 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
6685 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
6686 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
6687 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
6688 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
6689 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
6690 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
6691 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
6692 form (sorted, unique mapping).
6693 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
6694 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
6695 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6696 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
6697 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6698 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6699 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
6700 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
6701 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
6702 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
6703 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
6704 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
6705 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6706 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
6707 NCursesPanel class.
6708 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
6709 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
6710 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
6711 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
6712 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
6713 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
6714 WINDOW* argument.
6716 970927
6717 + add 'deinstall' rules.
6718 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
6719 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
6720 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
6721 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
6722 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
6723 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
6724 macro.
6725 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
6726 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6727 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
6728 binding
6729 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
6730 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
6731 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
6732 scripts are also provided.
6734 970920
6735 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
6736 Horner):
6737 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
6738 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
6739 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
6740 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
6741 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
6742 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
6743 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
6744 generating lint library.
6745 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
6746 expressions.
6747 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
6748 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
6749 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
6750 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
6751 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
6752 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
6753 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
6754 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
6755 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
6756 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
6757 (patch by H.J.Lu).
6758 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6759 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
6760 ncurses library.
6761 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
6762 by Ward Horner):
6763 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
6764 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
6765 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
6766 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
6767 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
6768 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
6769 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6770 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
6771 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
6772 lib_doupdate.o
6774 970913
6775 + modify rain.c to use color.
6776 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
6777 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
6778 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
6779 of configure cache variables in 970906.
6780 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
6781 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
6782 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
6783 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
6784 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
6785 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
6786 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
6787 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
6788 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
6789 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6790 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
6791 fieldtype.
6792 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
6793 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
6794 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
6795 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
6796 NCursesPanel class.
6797 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
6798 NCursesWindow class.
6799 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
6800 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
6801 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
6802 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
6803 functionality.
6804 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
6805 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
6806 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
6807 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
6808 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
6809 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
6810 + Enhanced demo.
6811 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
6812 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
6813 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
6814 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
6815 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
6816 already disconnected.
6817 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
6818 navigation requests.
6819 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
6820 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
6821 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
6822 forms field by index.
6823 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
6824 item by index.
6825 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
6826 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
6827 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
6828 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
6829 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
6830 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
6831 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
6832 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
6833 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
6834 windows.
6835 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
6836 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
6837 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
6838 dupwin().
6839 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
6840 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6841 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
6842 know that auto_right_margin is true.
6843 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
6844 shifting character to LR corner.
6845 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
6846 terminal right margin mode is known.
6847 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
6848 _nc_scroll_window().
6849 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
6850 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
6851 scrolling region.
6852 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
6853 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
6854 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
6855 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
6856 ability.
6857 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
6858 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
6859 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
6860 the terminal window is resized.
6862 970906
6863 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
6864 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
6865 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
6866 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
6867 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
6868 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
6869 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
6870 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
6871 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6872 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
6873 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
6874 doupdate().
6875 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
6876 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
6877 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
6878 initialized.
6879 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
6880 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
6881 that structure.
6882 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
6883 scroll (970831).
6885 970831
6886 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
6887 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
6888 lib_printw.c functions.
6889 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
6890 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
6891 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
6892 force the screen to scroll.
6894 970830
6895 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
6896 not do this.
6897 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
6898 scroll.
6899 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
6900 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
6901 scanw is done.
6902 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
6903 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
6904 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6905 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
6906 was in the wrong order.
6907 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
6908 wechochar().
6909 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
6910 in waddch().
6911 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
6912 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
6913 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
6914 invoke wechochar() instead.
6915 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
6917 970823
6918 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
6919 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
6920 work properly when we add calls to that function.
6921 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
6922 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
6923 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6924 + several fixes to getch:
6925 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
6926 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
6927 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
6928 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
6929 keys
6930 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
6931 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
6932 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
6933 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
6934 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
6935 support in 961229.
6936 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
6937 line-breakout optimization
6938 + improve hashmap.c by
6939 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
6940 2. not marking lines with offset 0
6941 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
6942 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
6943 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
6944 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
6945 direction.
6946 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
6947 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
6948 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
6949 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
6950 function.
6951 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
6952 _nc_screen_wrap().
6953 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
6954 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
6955 stored/retrieved via set_term().
6956 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
6957 structure.
6959 970816
6960 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
6961 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
6962 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
6963 Lukyanov).
6964 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
6965 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
6966 before looking for (n)curses library.
6967 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
6968 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
6969 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
6970 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
6971 include ncurses_cfg.h
6972 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
6973 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
6974 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6975 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
6976 example firstlast.c
6977 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
6978 common subexpressions.
6979 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
6980 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
6981 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
6982 against the background character.
6983 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
6984 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
6985 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
6986 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
6987 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
6988 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
6989 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
6990 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
6991 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
6993 970809
6994 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
6995 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
6996 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
6997 terminal type ncr7900).
6998 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
6999 package is built with an install-prefix.
7000 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
7001 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
7002 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
7003 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
7004 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
7005 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
7006 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
7007 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
7008 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
7009 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7010 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
7011 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
7012 by Juergen Pfeifer).
7014 970802
7015 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
7016 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
7017 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
7018 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
7019 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
7020 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
7021 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
7022 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
7023 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
7024 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
7025 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
7027 970726
7028 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
7029 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
7030 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
7031 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
7032 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
7033 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
7034 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
7035 configuration of wide-characters.
7036 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
7037 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
7038 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
7039 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
7040 does not have getttynam().
7041 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
7042 + add table entries for 230400 and 460800 bd to baudrate() function.
7043 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
7044 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7045 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
7046 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7047 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
7048 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
7049 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
7050 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
7051 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
7052 pointer.
7054 970719
7055 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
7056 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7057 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
7058 options should be accompanied by a message.
7059 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
7060 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
7061 SVr4.
7062 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
7063 experimental).
7064 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7065 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
7066 better when csr is not available.
7067 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
7068 after failure to scroll one.
7069 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
7070 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
7071 case and wrong string in TRACE.
7072 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7073 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
7074 compiler.
7076 970712
7077 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
7078 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
7079 switching.
7080 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
7081 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
7082 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
7083 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
7084 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
7086 970706
7087 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
7088 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
7089 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
7090 TransformLine().
7091 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
7093 970705
7094 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
7095 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
7096 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
7097 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
7098 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
7099 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
7100 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
7101 (reported by Larry Virden).
7102 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
7103 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
7104 USE_HARD_TABS.
7105 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7106 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
7107 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
7108 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
7109 changes.
7111 970628
7112 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
7113 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
7114 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
7115 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
7116 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
7117 Juergen Pfeifer).
7118 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
7119 terminfo description to the stored strings.
7120 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
7121 terminfo descriptions.
7122 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
7123 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
7124 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
7125 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
7126 option is a stopgap.
7127 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
7128 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
7130 970621
7131 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
7132 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
7133 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
7134 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
7135 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
7136 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
7137 Lukyanov).
7139 970615
7140 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
7141 lines in curscr that are shifted.
7142 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
7143 than a series of function calls.
7144 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
7145 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
7146 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
7147 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
7148 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
7149 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
7150 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
7151 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7152 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7154 970614
7155 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
7156 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
7157 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
7158 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
7159 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
7160 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
7161 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
7162 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
7163 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
7164 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
7165 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
7166 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
7167 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
7168 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
7169 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7170 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
7171 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7172 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
7173 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7175 970531
7176 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
7177 use only the fallback data.
7178 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
7179 terminal descriptions.
7180 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
7181 still assume there's an ncurses.h
7182 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
7183 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
7184 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
7185 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
7186 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
7187 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
7188 handler.
7189 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
7190 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
7191 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
7192 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
7193 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
7194 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
7195 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
7196 people.
7197 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
7198 Daniel).
7199 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
7200 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
7201 by Hugh Daniel)
7202 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
7203 Florian La Roche).
7204 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
7205 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
7206 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
7207 original implementation (1.9.6).
7208 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
7209 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
7210 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
7211 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
7212 by J T Conklin).
7213 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
7214 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
7215 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
7216 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
7217 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
7218 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7219 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
7220 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
7221 been applied).
7222 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
7223 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
7224 field is not possible.
7225 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
7226 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
7227 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
7228 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
7229 initialization.
7230 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
7231 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
7232 in forms/menus libraries.
7234 970524
7235 + add description of xterm-16color.
7236 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
7237 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
7238 (cf: 960713).
7239 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
7240 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
7241 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
7242 works properly w/o first doing "make".
7243 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
7244 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
7245 pressed.
7246 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
7247 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
7248 bounding box without tidying up).
7249 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
7250 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
7251 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
7252 8 colors.
7253 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
7254 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7255 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
7256 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
7257 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7259 970517
7260 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
7261 option is specified.
7262 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
7263 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
7264 makefiles.
7265 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
7266 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
7267 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
7268 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
7269 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
7270 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
7271 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
7272 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
7273 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
7274 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
7275 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
7276 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
7277 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
7278 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
7279 Lukyanov).
7280 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
7281 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
7282 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7283 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
7284 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
7285 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7286 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
7287 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
7288 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7289 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
7290 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
7291 Lukyanov).
7292 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
7293 (Juergen Pfeifer)
7294 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
7296 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
7297 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
7299 970510
7300 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
7301 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
7302 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
7303 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
7304 warnings).
7305 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
7306 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
7307 during a call to newwin.
7308 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
7309 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
7310 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
7311 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
7312 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
7313 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7314 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
7315 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
7317 970506
7318 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
7319 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
7320 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
7321 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
7322 (H.J.Lu).
7323 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
7324 <hjl@lucon.org>)
7326 970505 4.1 pre-release
7327 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
7328 is not useful.
7329 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
7330 unnecessary recompiles.
7331 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
7332 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
7333 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
7334 overwrite of symbolic links.
7335 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
7336 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
7337 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
7338 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
7339 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
7340 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
7341 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
7342 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
7343 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
7344 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
7345 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
7346 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
7347 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
7348 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
7349 Pfeifer).
7351 970503
7352 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
7353 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
7354 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
7355 directory.
7356 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
7357 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
7358 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
7359 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
7360 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
7361 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
7362 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
7363 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
7364 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
7365 capabilities.
7366 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
7367 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
7368 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
7369 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
7370 Peter Wemm).
7371 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
7372 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
7373 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7374 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
7375 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7376 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
7377 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7378 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
7379 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
7380 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
7381 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7383 970426
7384 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
7385 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
7386 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
7387 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
7388 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
7389 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
7390 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
7391 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
7392 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
7393 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
7394 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
7395 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
7396 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
7397 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
7398 or redefinition within an acsc string.
7399 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
7400 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
7401 regression testing.
7402 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
7403 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
7405 970419
7406 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
7407 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
7408 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
7409 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
7410 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
7411 match SVr4 documentation.
7412 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
7413 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
7414 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
7416 970412
7417 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
7418 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
7419 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
7420 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
7421 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
7422 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
7423 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
7424 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
7426 970405
7427 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
7428 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
7429 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
7430 compatibility.
7431 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
7432 --enable/--with values.
7433 + add configure option --enable-big-core
7434 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
7435 + check for C++ builtin.h header
7436 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
7437 parameter from the expression.
7438 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
7439 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
7440 H.J.Lu for libc).
7441 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
7442 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
7443 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
7444 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
7445 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
7446 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
7448 970328
7449 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
7450 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
7451 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
7452 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
7453 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
7455 970321
7456 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
7457 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
7458 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
7459 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
7460 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
7461 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
7462 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
7463 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
7464 (reported by Ward Horner).
7465 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
7466 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
7468 970315
7469 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
7470 even if "make all" is not done first.
7471 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
7472 expanded functions with ATAC.
7473 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
7474 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
7475 line.
7477 970308
7478 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
7479 return.
7480 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
7481 lib_gen.c
7482 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
7484 970301
7485 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
7486 addressing request by Ward Horner.
7487 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
7488 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
7489 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
7490 a pointer-increment.
7491 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
7492 Florian La Roche).
7494 970215
7495 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
7496 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
7497 with ATAC.
7498 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
7499 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
7500 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
7501 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
7502 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
7503 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
7504 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
7505 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
7506 by Ward Horner)
7507 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
7508 (reported by Ward Horner)
7509 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
7510 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
7511 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
7512 (reported by Gary Johnson).
7513 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
7514 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
7515 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
7516 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
7517 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
7518 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
7519 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
7520 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
7521 test/Makefile.in
7523 970208
7524 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
7525 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
7526 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
7527 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
7528 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
7529 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7530 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
7531 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
7532 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
7533 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
7535 970201
7536 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
7537 for test scripts.
7538 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
7539 the returned buffer.
7540 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
7541 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
7542 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
7543 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
7544 symbol.
7545 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
7546 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
7548 970125
7549 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
7550 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
7551 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
7552 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
7553 Andreas Schwab)
7554 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
7555 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
7557 970118
7558 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
7559 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
7560 demonstrate.
7561 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
7562 worm.
7563 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
7564 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
7565 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
7566 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
7567 Solaris curses.
7568 + modify _tracedump() to pad pad colors & attrs lines to match change
7569 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
7570 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
7571 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
7573 970111
7574 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
7575 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
7576 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
7577 that machine - T.Dickey.
7578 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
7579 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
7580 linking against static libraries.
7581 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
7582 Buhler)
7583 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
7584 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
7585 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
7586 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
7587 <lvirden@cas.org>)
7588 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
7589 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
7590 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
7591 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
7592 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
7594 970104
7595 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
7596 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
7597 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
7598 by Jesse Thilo).
7599 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
7600 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
7601 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
7602 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
7603 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
7604 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
7606 970101
7607 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
7608 from Peter Wemm:
7609 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
7610 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
7611 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
7612 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
7613 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
7614 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
7615 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
7616 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
7617 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
7618 insert/delete line method.
7619 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
7620 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
7621 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
7622 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
7624 961229 (internal alpha)
7625 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
7626 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
7627 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
7628 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
7629 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
7630 there is data on stdin.
7631 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
7632 descriptors, needed for GPM.
7633 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
7634 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
7635 prevented patch from working properly -TD
7636 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
7637 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
7638 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
7639 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
7641 961224 4.0 release
7642 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
7643 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
7644 lynx 2.5
7645 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
7647 961221 - snapshot
7648 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
7649 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
7650 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
7651 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
7652 Roche).
7653 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
7654 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
7655 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
7656 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
7657 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
7658 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
7659 use of dbmalloc.
7660 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
7661 i.e., set current directory before linking.
7662 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
7663 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
7664 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
7665 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
7666 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
7667 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
7668 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
7669 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
7671 961215
7672 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
7673 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
7674 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
7675 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
7676 Solaris curses, which does this.
7678 961214 - snapshot
7679 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
7680 work with wider range of screen sizes.
7681 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
7682 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
7683 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
7684 test.
7685 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
7686 resize between endwin/refresh.
7687 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
7688 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
7689 terminal modes in 960907.
7690 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
7691 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
7692 for subwindows.
7693 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
7694 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
7695 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
7696 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
7697 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
7698 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
7699 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
7700 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
7701 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
7702 Florian La Roche).
7703 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
7704 (requested by Florian La Roche).
7705 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
7706 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
7707 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
7708 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
7709 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7711 961208
7712 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
7714 961207 - snapshot
7715 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
7716 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
7717 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
7718 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
7719 data used in ncurses library.
7720 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
7721 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
7722 Alexander V Lukyanov).
7723 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
7724 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
7725 beta may not be interchangeable).
7726 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
7728 961130 1.9.9g release
7729 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
7730 Dickey).
7732 961127
7733 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
7734 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
7735 to avoid warning messages.
7736 + the panel overlap detection was broken
7737 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
7738 + Some inlining...
7739 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
7740 -DTRACE).
7742 961126
7743 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7744 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
7745 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
7746 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
7747 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
7749 961120
7750 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
7751 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
7752 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
7753 (Juergen Pfeifer)
7755 961119
7756 + change ABI to 3.4
7757 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
7758 (Juergen Pfeifer)
7759 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
7760 (Juergen Pfeifer)
7761 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
7762 Pfeifer).
7763 > patch #324 (ESR):
7764 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
7765 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
7766 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
7767 + add entry for color_xterm
7769 961116 - snapshot
7770 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
7771 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
7772 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
7773 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
7774 CANCELLED_STRING values.
7775 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
7776 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
7777 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
7778 delays when in autoplay mode.
7779 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
7780 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
7781 > patch #322 (ESR):
7782 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
7784 961109 - snapshot
7785 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
7786 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
7787 a spurious clear-screen.
7788 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
7789 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
7790 Pfeifer).
7791 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
7792 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
7793 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
7794 <perf@efd.lth.se>).
7796 961102 - snapshot
7797 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
7798 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
7799 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
7800 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
7801 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
7802 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
7803 sleep().
7804 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
7805 distribution, as stated)
7806 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
7807 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
7808 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
7809 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
7810 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
7811 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
7812 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
7813 <fehr@suse.de>).
7814 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
7815 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
7816 Marshall).
7818 961026 - snapshot
7819 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
7820 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
7821 file (lib_screen.c).
7822 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
7823 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
7824 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
7825 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
7826 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
7827 rendered as octal constants.
7828 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
7829 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
7830 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
7831 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
7832 in the top-level command-parser.
7833 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
7834 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
7835 (Juergen Pfeifer).
7836 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
7837 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
7838 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
7840 961019 - snapshot
7841 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
7842 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
7843 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
7844 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
7845 (reported by Tim Mooney).
7846 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
7847 curses.h
7848 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
7849 a default.
7851 961013
7852 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
7853 that are available.
7854 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
7855 the pointer was -1.
7857 961005 - snapshot
7858 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
7859 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
7860 lower-right corner.
7861 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
7862 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
7863 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
7864 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
7865 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
7866 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
7867 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
7868 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
7869 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
7870 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
7871 Pfeifer)
7872 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
7873 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
7874 > patch #321 (ESR):
7875 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
7876 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
7877 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
7878 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
7880 960928 - snapshot
7881 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
7882 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
7883 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
7884 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
7885 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
7886 relative moves.
7887 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
7888 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
7889 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
7890 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
7891 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
7892 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
7893 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
7894 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
7895 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
7896 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
7897 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
7898 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
7899 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
7900 > patch 320 (ESR):
7901 + change ABI to 3.3
7902 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
7903 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
7904 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
7905 > patch 319 (ESR):
7906 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
7907 Michael Elkins) - untested
7908 > patch 318 (ESR):
7909 + correction to #317.
7910 > patch 317 (ESR):
7911 + re-add _nc_hash_map
7912 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design.
7913 + add hashtest.c, program to time the hashmap optimization.
7914 > patch 316 (ESR):
7915 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
7916 (lib_doupdate.c).
7917 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
7918 > patch 315 (ESR):
7919 + merged Alexander V Lukyanov's patch to use ech and rep - untested
7920 (lib_doupdate.c).
7921 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
7922 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
7923 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
7924 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
7926 960914 - snapshot
7927 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
7928 test.
7929 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
7930 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
7931 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
7932 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
7933 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
7934 either ;-)
7935 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
7936 Pfeifer)
7937 > patch 314 (ESR):
7938 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
7939 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7940 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
7941 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7942 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
7943 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
7945 960907 - snapshot
7946 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
7947 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
7948 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
7949 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
7950 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
7951 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
7952 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
7953 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
7954 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
7955 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
7956 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
7957 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
7958 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
7959 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
7960 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
7961 work).
7963 960831 - snapshot
7964 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7965 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
7966 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
7967 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
7968 Muyter)
7969 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
7970 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
7971 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
7973 960824 - snapshot
7974 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
7975 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
7976 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
7978 960820
7979 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
7980 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7981 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
7982 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7984 960817 - snapshot
7985 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
7986 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
7987 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
7988 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
7989 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
7990 > patch 313 (ESR):
7991 + add dtterm description
7992 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop vscanf subtest)
7994 960810 - snapshot
7995 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
7996 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
7997 + refine configure-test for -g option (Tim Mooney).
7998 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
7999 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
8001 960804
8002 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
8003 > patch 312 (ESR):
8004 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
8005 > patch 311 (ESR):
8006 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch.
8008 960803 - snapshot
8009 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
8010 (reported by William P Setzer)
8011 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
8012 (reported by Tim Mooney).
8013 > patch 310 (ESR):
8014 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
8015 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
8016 + updated qnx terminfo entry (by Michael Hunter)
8018 960730
8019 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
8020 is included first.
8021 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
8022 by Tim Mooney).
8024 960727 - snapshot
8025 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
8026 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
8027 > patch 309 (ESR):
8028 + terminfo changes (9.3.10), from BRL
8029 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
8030 + add more symbols to infocmp.
8032 960720 - snapshot
8033 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
8034 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
8035 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
8036 as per XSI.
8037 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
8038 null), and tests that use it.
8039 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
8040 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
8041 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
8042 include therein).
8043 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
8044 > patch 308 (ESR):
8045 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
8046 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
8048 960713 - snapshot
8049 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
8050 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
8051 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
8052 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
8053 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
8054 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
8055 + terminfo patches #306/307 (ESR).
8056 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
8057 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
8059 960707
8060 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
8061 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
8062 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
8063 preformatted.
8064 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
8065 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
8066 Philippe De Muyter).
8068 960706 - snapshot
8069 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
8070 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
8071 descriptions.
8072 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes (ESR).
8073 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
8074 (reported by Zeyd).
8075 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
8076 (reported by David MacKenzie).
8077 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
8078 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
8079 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
8080 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
8081 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
8082 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
8083 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
8084 of the screen.
8086 960629 - snapshot
8087 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
8088 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
8089 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
8090 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
8091 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
8092 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
8093 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
8094 than function keys in 'g' test.
8095 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
8096 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
8097 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
8098 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
8099 David MacKenzie).
8100 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
8101 delete_character).
8102 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
8103 msgwin needed scrollok set.
8104 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
8105 between PutRange and InsStr
8106 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
8107 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
8108 set.
8109 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
8111 960622 - snapshot
8112 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
8113 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
8114 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
8115 actual semantics.
8116 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
8117 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
8118 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
8119 _yoffset to WINDOW).
8120 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
8121 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
8122 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
8123 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
8124 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
8125 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
8126 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
8127 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
8128 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
8130 960617
8131 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
8132 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
8133 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
8134 first entry in a list).
8135 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
8136 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
8138 960615 - snapshot
8139 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
8140 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
8141 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
8142 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
8143 with a shared-library configuration.
8144 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
8145 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
8146 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
8147 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
8148 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
8149 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
8150 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
8151 as "man_db".
8152 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
8153 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
8154 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
8155 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
8156 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
8157 attributes).
8158 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
8159 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
8160 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
8161 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8162 > patch 303 (ESR):
8163 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
8164 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
8165 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
8166 (Werner Fleck).
8168 960601 - snapshot
8169 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
8170 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
8171 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
8172 + added rules for lintlib, lint
8173 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
8174 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
8175 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
8176 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
8177 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
8178 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
8179 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
8180 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
8181 + typos, don't use inline with -g (Philippe De Muyter)
8182 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
8184 960526 - snapshot
8185 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
8186 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
8187 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
8188 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
8189 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
8190 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
8191 in wrefresh().
8192 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
8193 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
8194 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
8195 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
8197 960518 - snapshot
8198 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
8199 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
8200 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
8201 <lav@yars.free.net>).
8202 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
8203 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
8204 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
8205 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
8206 directory.
8207 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
8208 + added hashmap.c
8209 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
8210 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
8211 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
8212 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
8214 960512
8215 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
8216 list from a file.
8218 960511
8219 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
8220 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
8221 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
8222 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
8223 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
8224 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
8225 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
8226 + added TRACE_IEVENT
8227 + removed boolean version of 'getm'
8228 + added lib_print.c (for Rick Marshall)
8229 + added has_key()
8230 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
8231 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
8232 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
8233 is not part of X/Open Curses).
8234 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
8236 960504 - snapshot
8237 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
8238 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
8239 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
8240 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
8241 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
8242 "#include" if needed.
8244 960430
8245 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
8246 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
8248 960428 - snapshot
8249 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
8250 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
8251 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
8252 possible)
8254 960426 - snapshot
8255 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
8256 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
8257 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
8258 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
8259 + new "-e" option of tic.
8260 + fix for "infocmp -e".
8261 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c
8262 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
8263 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
8265 960418 - snapshot
8266 + use autoconf 2.9
8267 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
8268 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
8269 K&R-style substitution)
8270 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
8271 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode
8272 + corrected askuser() logic in tset
8273 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing
8274 + added trace support for TTY flags
8276 960406
8277 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
8278 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
8279 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
8280 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
8281 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
8282 output
8283 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
8284 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
8286 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
8288 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
8289 copy-changed-lines behavior.
8290 * added and documented wresize() function.
8291 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
8292 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
8293 emitted before the first check.
8294 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
8295 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
8296 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
8297 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
8298 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
8299 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
8300 behaves like SVR4.
8301 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
8302 * support for ESCDELAY.
8303 * small fixes for menu/form code.
8304 * the test directory has its own configure.
8305 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
8306 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
8307 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
8308 behavior.
8310 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
8312 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
8313 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
8314 * support infocmp -RBSD.
8315 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
8316 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
8317 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
8318 catastrophies or acts of God.
8319 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
8320 requirements.
8321 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
8322 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
8323 off.
8325 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
8327 * corrected return values of setupterm()
8328 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
8329 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
8330 one `use' capability.
8331 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
8332 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
8333 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
8334 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
8335 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
8336 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
8337 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
8338 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
8339 * added -h option to toe(1).
8340 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
8341 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
8342 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
8343 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
8345 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
8347 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
8348 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
8349 * tset(1) added
8350 * mouse support for xterm.
8351 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
8352 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
8353 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
8354 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
8355 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
8356 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
8357 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
8358 * infocmp -T option added.
8359 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
8361 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
8363 * menus library is now included with documentation.
8364 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
8365 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
8366 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
8367 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
8368 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
8369 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
8370 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
8371 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
8373 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
8375 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
8376 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
8377 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
8378 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
8380 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
8382 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
8383 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
8384 * added tracemunch to the test tools
8385 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
8387 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
8389 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
8390 profile and shared object models.
8392 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
8394 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
8395 * panels support added
8396 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
8397 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
8399 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
8401 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
8402 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
8403 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
8404 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
8405 operations.
8406 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
8407 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
8408 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
8409 are consistent (they weren't).
8410 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
8411 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
8412 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
8413 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
8414 warnings from gcc).
8415 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
8416 * more spelling fixes
8417 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
8418 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
8419 core in init_acs()).
8420 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
8421 in that file).
8423 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
8425 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
8426 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
8427 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
8428 as a long).
8429 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
8430 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
8431 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
8432 resolution of traces.
8433 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
8434 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
8435 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
8436 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
8437 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
8438 is much less flaky.
8439 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
8440 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
8441 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
8442 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
8444 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
8445 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
8446 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
8447 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
8448 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
8449 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
8450 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
8451 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
8452 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
8453 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
8454 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
8455 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
8456 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
8457 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
8458 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
8459 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
8461 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
8462 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
8463 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
8464 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
8465 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
8466 the correct alternate character set.
8467 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
8468 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
8469 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
8470 a terminal is undefined.
8471 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
8472 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
8473 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
8474 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
8475 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
8476 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
8478 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
8479 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
8480 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
8481 if other attributes are turned off.
8482 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
8483 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
8484 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
8485 is started.
8486 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
8487 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
8488 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
8489 as follows:
8491 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
8492 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
8493 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
8494 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
8496 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
8497 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
8498 been improved.
8499 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
8500 of emulators.
8501 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
8502 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
8503 break operation with any emulators.
8504 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
8505 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
8506 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
8507 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
8508 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
8509 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
8510 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
8511 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
8513 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
8514 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
8515 fixed.
8516 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
8517 unpredictable results.
8518 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
8519 parm_char.
8520 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
8521 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
8522 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
8523 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
8524 take note of the terminfo directory.
8525 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
8526 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
8527 stock awk.
8529 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
8530 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
8531 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
8532 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
8533 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
8534 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
8535 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
8536 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
8537 performs more testing.
8538 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
8539 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
8540 how it works.
8541 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
8542 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
8544 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
8545 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
8546 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
8548 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
8549 MAJOR CHANGES:
8550 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
8551 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
8552 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
8553 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
8554 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
8555 will probably continue to work ok.
8557 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
8558 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
8559 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
8560 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
8561 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
8563 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
8564 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
8565 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
8567 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
8568 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
8569 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
8570 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
8571 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
8572 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
8573 changed accordingly.
8574 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
8575 bottom-right corner.
8576 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
8577 pads I'd love a copy.
8578 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
8579 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
8580 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
8581 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
8582 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
8583 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
8584 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
8585 features.
8586 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
8587 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
8588 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
8589 is now fixed.
8590 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
8591 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
8592 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
8593 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
8594 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
8595 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
8596 * See src/README for porting notes.
8597 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
8598 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
8599 rows instead of lines, etc.)
8600 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
8601 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
8602 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
8603 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
8604 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
8605 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
8606 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
8607 with SVR4.
8608 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
8609 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
8610 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
8611 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
8612 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
8613 fact was exposed by hanoi.
8614 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
8615 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
8616 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
8617 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
8618 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
8619 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
8621 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
8623 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
8624 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
8625 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
8626 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
8627 Config.* files through an awk script.
8628 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
8629 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
8630 * a few minor cleanups.
8631 * added more prototypes in curses.h
8633 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
8635 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
8636 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
8637 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
8638 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
8639 * a couple of bug fixes.
8640 * a few code cleanups.
8642 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
8644 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
8645 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
8646 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
8647 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
8648 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
8649 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
8650 * Cleaner Makefile.
8651 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
8652 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
8653 console driver(s).
8654 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
8655 (doesn't work on Linux)
8656 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
8657 screen before working.
8658 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
8659 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
8660 restarted.
8661 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
8662 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
8663 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
8664 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
8665 * several minor bug fixes.
8667 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
8669 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
8670 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
8671 * changes related to Config
8673 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
8675 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
8676 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
8677 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
8678 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
8679 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
8680 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
8681 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
8682 * added halfdelay()
8683 * fixed problems with asc_init()
8684 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
8685 * cleaned up vidputs()
8686 * general cleanup of the code
8687 * more attention to portability to other systems
8688 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
8689 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
8691 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
8692 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
8694 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
8695 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
8696 the rationale drop me a line.
8698 Included are several test programs in test/.
8699 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
8700 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
8702 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
8703 level.
8704 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
8705 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
8706 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
8707 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
8708 * keyname() is added.
8709 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
8710 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
8711 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
8712 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
8713 * included fixes from 0.6.1
8714 * added a few more missing functions.
8715 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
8716 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
8717 features).
8719 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
8721 1) Included the missing data/console.
8723 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
8725 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
8727 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
8728 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
8729 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
8731 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
8732 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
8733 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
8734 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
8735 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
8736 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
8737 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
8738 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
8739 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
8740 * added notimeout().
8741 * added timeout() define in curses.h
8742 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
8743 * added use_env().
8744 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
8745 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
8746 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
8747 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
8748 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
8749 * added slk_* support.
8750 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
8751 * added PANEL library.
8752 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
8753 * terminfo.h is really term.h
8755 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
8756 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
8757 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
8758 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
8759 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
8760 another key is pressed.
8761 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
8762 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
8763 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
8764 or not.
8765 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
8766 * fixed bug in wvline().
8767 * added curs_set().
8768 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
8769 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
8771 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
8772 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
8773 * Addition of function prototypes.
8774 * Addition of several missing functions.
8775 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
8776 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
8777 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
8778 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
8779 * New scrolling code.
8780 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
8782 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
8783 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
8784 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
8785 * more fixes for updates.
8786 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
8787 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
8788 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
8789 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
8791 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
8792 * support for color.
8793 * support for PC graphic characters.
8794 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
8795 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
8797 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
8798 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
8799 * ANSIfication of some functions.
8800 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
8801 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.
8803 -- vile:txtmode: