The FLTK developer team is proud to announce the release of FLTK 1.3.0 FLTK is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX®/Linux® (X11), Microsoft® Windows®, and MacOS® X. FLTK provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat and supports 3D graphics via OpenGL® and its built-in GLUT emulation. FLTK is designed to be small and modular enough to be statically linked, but works fine as a shared library. FLTK also includes an excellent UI builder called FLUID that can be used to create applications in minutes.
FLTK 1.3.0 has been a huge step in the successful FLTK 1 series. All strings in FLTK are now handled in UTF-8 format and support the full range of Unicode character sets everywhere. International Input Methods are supported on all platforms. Two great new widgets were added, Fl_Tree and Fl_Table. Printing is now as easy as drawing into a window, and supports window printing of FLTK GUIs including OpenGL. Internally, FLTK has been upgrade to run on current Unices, MS Windows 7, and OS X via Cocoa. All graphics calls now use device abstraction. FLTK is provided under the terms of the GNU Library Public License, Version 2 with exceptions that allow for static linking. For a complete list of features, full documentation, and source code downloads, please visit http://fltk.org/ . This is the final FLTK 1.3.0 release. Enjoy! CHANGES IN FLTK 1.3.0 New Features - Added full 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 Fl_Device abstraction layer for all drawing functions - Moved OS X code base to the current 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 to allow more than 256 fonts - Changed font height to 32 bit to allow fonts taller than 256 pixels - 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() - Added Fl::screen_dpi API IDE support and command line build options - FLTK now support Apple Xcode 3, Xcode 4, MS VisualC 2008 and MS VisualC 2010. MS VisualC 6 support is maintained as a compatibility 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 - Added Table and Tree support to Fluid - Fixed internationalization 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... _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
