The developer team is proud to announce the release of FLTK 1.3.0, Release
Candidate 3
• Improved UTF-8 output for X11 with better tollerance for malformed
strings
• Added Fl::screen_dpi API
• Some documentation corrections
• Changed HAVE_CAIRO macros to FLTK_HAVE_CAIRO
• Changes in the release procedure and scripts
• Renamed Fl_Device::type() to Fl_Device::class_name() to avoid
confusion w/Fl_Widget::type()
• Mac OS X: removed all uses of Carbon
• Added Table and Tree support to Fluid
Please download this version of FLTK and test it thoroughly. If you find bugs
or issues, please report them within a week. Another RC 4 will be released
around January 15th which includes the newest JPEG, PNG, and Z libraries. If
there are no more issues after RC 4, RC 4 will become 1.3.0 FINAL!
Thanks,
Matthias
Release notes for FLTK 1.3.0 vs. 1.1.10
New Features
• Added UTF-8 Unicode support throughout FLTK and Fluid
• Added Fl_Tree widget for hierarchical views
• Added Fl_Table widget for widget layout
• Added Fl_Native_Filechooser as a widget and global options
• Added printing support (Fl_Printer class and friends) for native
printing on Windows and Mac OS X, PostScript printing on X11 with CUPS or lp,
and PostScript file output on all platforms
• Added basic Fl_Device abstraction layer for all drawing functions
• Moved OS X code base to the more modern Cocoa toolkit thanks to the
awesome work of Manolo Gouy (STR #2221)
API and ABI compatibility to FLTK 1.1.x
• All strings are expected to be in UTF-8 Unicode encoding
• Replaced Fl_Scroll::position(int,int) with scroll_to(int,int) to
avoid overriding Fl_Widget::position(int,int) (STR #1303)
• Although FLTK 1.3 maintains source code compatibility as good as
possible, the binary interface changed considerably.
• Updated the bundled libpng to v1.2.40 (released Sep. 10, 2009)
• Update lib png access (STR #2442)
API enhancements and changes
• Changed font index to 32 bit
• Changed font size to 32 bit
• Changed widget coordinates to 32 bit
• Corrected const methods of Fl_Text_{Buffer|Display|Selection} to be
declared const, corrected an Fl_Text_Buffer attrib. typo
• All draw() methods of widgets are now protected (STR #2142).
• Changed Fl_Group::clip_children() to public (STR #2017)
• Changed socket library to winsock2 (ws2_32.dll) instead of
wsock32.dll for Windows. The dll is now loaded dynamically only if/when needed.
• Changed hide() and show() methods. They are now virtual from
Fl_Widget.
• Added new label and image alignments (STR #2269)
• Added global UI options (STR #2471)
• Added class Fl_Widget_Tracker to simplify safe handling of widget
deletion in callbacks. This is used in Fl_Widget::do_callback() to prevent
accessing widgets after deletion in the callback.
• Added sorting to Fl_Browser_ (STR #2113)
• Added new method client_area() for easier positioning of children in
Fl_Tabs (STR #2480)
• Added interface to set color chooser mode (STR #2407)
• Added Fl_Menu_::find_item by callback
• Added loading jpeg images from memory
• Added support for shortcuts for Fl_Input_, Fl_Value_Input, and
Fl_Text_Display derived widgets (STR #1770)
• Added Fl_Menu_ methods: insert(), find_index(), clear_submenu()
IDE support and command line build options
• FLTK now support Apple Xcode 3, MS VisualC 2008 and MS VisualC 2010.
MS VisualC 6 support is maintained as a compatibily base for VisualC.net, etc.
. FLTK continues to support configure/make and improved CMake build files.
• Added step by step README's for MSWindows, OS X, and four Linux
distros.
• Added "ide" subdirectory for all IDE support files
• Added template to generate new projects with Xcode.
• Added --enable-cairo and --enable-cairoext configure options.
• redesigned CMake files (STR #2317).
• The new configure option --enable-x11 (lowercase 'x') enables Cygwin
builds under Windows (with --enable-cygwin) to use X11 instead of GDI drawing
(STR #2147, #2183) and is ignored otherwise.
• Changed "fltk-config --post foo" to create an application bundle
rather than attaching a resource fork.
Fluid
• Added argument-less constructor in Fluid Widget Class
• Added jpeg support to Fluid image() element
• Added binary data type to Fluid
• Empty functions in Fluid no longer create an implementation (STR
#2259)
• Fixed internationalisation of menus using Fluid (STR #2246)
• Fixed menu item counting issue in Fluid (STR #2322)
• Fixed lost top item in Fluid's tree browser (STR #2233)
• Fixed Fluid dependency on X11 (STR #2261)
• Fixed Fluid textcolor output (STR #1992)
• Fixed wrong default value of Fl_Spinner in Fluid (STR #1991)
Documentation
• Added documentation for event delivery (STR #1983)
• Added Fl_Scroll::bbox() documentation (STR #1893)
• Updated documentation for Fl_Input_
• Updated Copyright dates to 2010 (STR #2036)
• Updated mirror sites in documentation (STR #2220)
• Fixed documentation for Fl_Progress (STR #2209)
• Fixed documentation (added missing COMCTL32.LIB dependency)
... and many many bug fixes...
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