PDCurses 2.7
(Public Domain Curses for DOS, OS/2, X11 and Win32)
http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/
INTRODUCTION:
Hello all. As of a few weeks ago, I'm the new maintainer for PDCurses.
Here's a brief summary of changes in this release. (More details are
available in the CVS log and trackers on SourceForge.)
NEW FEATURES:
- Functions: delscreen(), getattrs(), has_key(), slk_color(),
wcolor_set(), wtimeout().
- Macros: color_set(), mvhline(), mvvline(), mvwgetnstr(), mvwhline(),
mvwvline(), timeout(), wresize().
- Stub implementations of terminfo functions (including a term.h).
- More stubs for compatibility: filter(), getwin(), putwin(),
noqiflush(), qiflush(), scr_dump(), scr_init(), scr_restore(),
scr_set(), use_env(), vidattr(), vidputs().
- The terminal's default colors are used as curses' default colors when
the environment variable "PDC_ORIGINAL_COLORS" is set to any value
(Win32 only at the moment).
- Simplified build system.
- Replaced PDC_STATIC_BUILD with its opposite, PDC_DLL_BUILD (see .mak
files for more info).
- Minimal implementation of color_content() -- no longer a stub.
- Added the remaining ACS defines (ACS_S3, ACS_BBSS, etc.) for
DOS/OS2/Win; "enhanced" versions of existing ACS characters used.
- Support for scroll wheels.
- Support for Pacific C.
BUGS FIXED:
- Builds correctly (including demos) on all tested platforms (see
below); nearly all compiler warnings have been cleaned up; the ptest
demo is built on all platforms; "clean" targets are improved.
- The ability to build ncurses_tests has been restored (see demos dir).
- Line-breakout optimization now defaults to off (equivalent to
"typeahead(-1)"), so output is not interrupted by keystrokes (it's
supposed to resume on the next refresh(), which wasn't working).
- Implicit wrefresh() in wgetch() was not being invoked in nodelay mode.
- subpad() was erroneously offsetting from the origin coordinates of the
parent pad (which are always -1,-1).
- In wborder(), whline(), and wvline(), the current (wattrset) attribute
was being used, but not the current background (wbkgd).
- Allow Russian 'r' character ASCII 0xe0 to be returned.
- termattrs() now also returns A_UNDERLINE, A_REVERSE.
- In Win32, with large scrollback buffers set, there was an unwanted
"scrollup" effect on startup.
- Revamped keyboard handling for Win32.
- New screen resize method for Win32.
- napms(), delay_output(), etc. now work with Cygwin.
- curs_set(0) wasn't working in Win32 in full-screen (ALT-ENTER) mode --
the cursor stayed on.
- The A_REVERSE attribute was broken in XCurses.
- On 64-bit systems, XCurses was ignoring every other keystroke.
- Added focus hints for XCurses.
- Demos (except for tuidemo) once again have their proper titles in
XCurses (using Xinitscr() instead of the obsolete XCursesProgramName).
- The 16-bit chtype is a working option again (by removing #define
CHTYPE_LONG from curses.h), except in XCurses. It's not recommended;
but if your needs are limited, it still works.
- Reset screen size in resetty() under DOS, as in Win32 and OS/2.
- Changes for cursor size under DOS.
- Automatic setting of BIOS mode for CGA under DOS now works.
- The cursor is now always updated in PDC_gotoxy(); this fixes the
problem of missing characters in BIOS mode.
- Macros nocbreak(), cbreak(), nocrmode(), crmode(), nodelay(),
nl() and nonl() now return OK.
- ERR and OK are now defined as -1 and 0, respectively, for
compatibility with other curses implementations -- note that this
change is not binary compatible; you'll have to rebuild programs that
use shared/dynamic libraries.
- Added "const" to prototypes where appropriate.
- Miscellaneous code cleanup.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Walter Briscoe
Jean-Pierre Demailly
Ruslan Fedyarov
Warren Gay
Florian Grosse-Coosmann
Vladimir Kokovic
Matt Maloy
K.H. Man
Michael Ryazanov
Ron Thibodeau
Alexandr Zamaraev
and of course, MARK HESSLING, for his over 13 years of service as the
maintainer of PDCurses. Plus, thanks to all who've reported bugs or
requested features. Apologies to anyone I've forgotten.
I've tested this version on Turbo C++ 3.0 and Borland C++ 3.1 for DOS;
DJGPP 2.X; Open Watcom 1.3 for DOS (16 and 32-bit), Windows and OS/2;
EMX 0.9d and the "newgcc" version of EMX; Borland C++ 5.5 for Windows;
recent versions of MinGW, Cygwin, LCC-Win32 and Microsoft Visual C++;
and gcc under several flavors of Linux, Mac OS X, *BSD and Solaris.
--
William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
