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@@ -292,7 +292,9 @@ INTRODUCTION:
- fixes for panel library
- key modifiers pressed by themselves are now returned as keys
- key modifiers pressed by themselves are now returned as keys:
KEY_SHIFT_L KEY_SHIFT_R KEY_CONTROL_L KEY_CONTROL_R KEY_ALT_L KEY_ALT_R
This works on Win32 and X11 ports only
- Added X11 shared library support
@@ -310,7 +312,7 @@ BUGS FIXED:
NEW FUNCTIONS:
- PDC_getclipboard() and PDC_setclipboard() for accessing the native
clipboard.
clipboard (X11, Win32 and OS/2)
- PDC_set_title() for setting the title of the window (X11 and Win32
only)
@@ -320,7 +322,7 @@ NEW FUNCTIONS:
- PDC_get_key_modifiers() for getting the keyboard modifier settings at
the time of the last (w)getch()
- initscrX() (only for X11 port) which allows standard X11 switches to
- Xinitscr() (only for X11 port) which allows standard X11 switches to
be passed to the application
NEW COMPILER SUPPORT:
@@ -345,21 +347,6 @@ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: (for this release)
the fixes for panel library.
Matthias Burian for the lcc-win32 compiler support.
Key modifiers pressed by themselves are now returned as keys
KEY_SHIFT_L KEY_SHIFT_R
KEY_CONTROL_L KEY_CONTROL_R
KEY_ALT_L KEY_ALT_R
This works on Win32 and X11 ports only
Added support for lcc-win32, supplied by Matthias Burian
Added clipboard support for X11, Win32 and OS/2 ports
Added ability to get to the input file descriptor
New function for X11; Xinitscr() which allows standard X11 switches to
be passed to the application
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PDCurses 2.3 - 1998/07/09
@@ -369,6 +356,10 @@ INTRODUCTION:
This release of PDCurses includes the following changes:
- added more System V R4 functions
- added Win32 port
- the X11 port is now fully functional
- the MS Visual C++ Win32 port now includes a DLL
@@ -379,6 +370,8 @@ INTRODUCTION:
- support for scrollbars under X11 are experimental at this stage
- long chtype extended to non-Unix ports
The name of the statically built library is pdcurses.lib (or
pdcurses.a). The name of the DLL import library (where applicable) is
curses.lib.
@@ -429,18 +422,6 @@ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: (for this release)
Augustin Martin Domingo for patches to X11 port to enable accented
characters.
Added more System V R4 functions
Added Win32 port - original port by Chris Szurgot
some updates by Mark Hessling
some updates by Gurusamy Sarathy
slk() functions added by Kim Huron
Support for more and newer versions of compilers
Long chtype extended to non-Unix ports
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PDCurses 2.2 - 1995/02/12
@@ -464,6 +445,8 @@ INTRODUCTION:
This allows more attributes to be stored as well as increasing the
number of color-pairs from 32 to 64.
- Xwindows port (experimental at the moment).
BUGS FIXED:
- mvwin() checked the wrong coordinates
@@ -499,8 +482,6 @@ COMPILER SUPPORT:
- The "names" of a couple of the compilers in the makefile has changed;
CSET2 is now ICC and GO32 is now GCC.
- The Xwindows port is experimental at the moment.
EXTRA OPTIONS:
One difference between the behaviour of PDCurses and Unix curses is the
@@ -518,16 +499,6 @@ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: (for this release)
Wade Schauer and others who either alerted me to bugs or supplied
fixes.
Added more System V R4 functions
Added beta Xwindows port
Changed chtype to long
Incorporated panels library
Support for more and newer versions of compilers
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PDCurses 2.1 - 1993/06/20
@@ -579,6 +550,8 @@ OTHER NOTES:
Functional changes
------------------
Added OS/2 DLL support.
A few curses functions have been fixed to exhibit their correct
behaviour and make them more functionally portable with System V
curses. The functions that have changed are overlay(), overwrite() and
@@ -628,8 +601,6 @@ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: (in no particular order)
Apologies to anyone I may have left out.
Added OS/2 DLL support.
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PDCurses 2.0 - 1992/11/23
@@ -640,7 +611,8 @@ INTRODUCTION:
Well, here it finally is; PDCurses v2.0.
PDCurses v2.0 is an almost total rewrite of PCCurses 1.4 done by John
'Frotz' Fa'atuai, the previous maintainer.
'Frotz' Fa'atuai, the previous maintainer. It adds support for OS/2 as
well as DOS.
This version has been tested with Microsoft C v6.0, QuickC v2.0 and
Borland C++ 2.0 under DOS and Microsoft C v6.0 and TopSpeed c v3.02
@@ -727,6 +699,8 @@ OTHER NOTES:
This will then use cause PDCurses to write directly to the CGA video
memory.
Added System V colour support.
COMPILER-SPECIFIC NOTES:
Microsoft C
@@ -770,13 +744,6 @@ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
C library to be included with PDCurses.
Several others for their support, moral and actual.
Changed #if to #ifdef/#if defined to make it easier to add new
platforms/compilers.
Added System V colour support.
Added OS/2 port.
-- Mark Hessling
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