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PDCurses 4.0.2 - 2017/09/12

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@Bill-Gray Bill-Gray released this 09 Sep 16:06
· 1786 commits to master since this release
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Note - new maintainer: Bill Gray (based on PDCurses 3.4 from William McBrine)
This is only a brief summary of the changes. For more details, consult the VCS log.

Major new features:

  • New Win32a(Windows GUI) and SDL2 backends.
    SDL1 is still supported, but may eventually go away.

  • Bold, italic, underlined, overlined, dimmed, 'strikeout', blinking text, 256 colors and color pairs, and full RGB colors.
    These are all supported in Win32a and mostly supported in X11, SDL1 and SDL2.

  • In Win32a, one can choose a font, and both programmatic and user resizing are supported.
    (Recompiling is necessary to change the font in X11.)

  • (Win32a only) Support of SMP Unicode (points beyond 64K) and combining characters.
    This may be extended to X11 and SDL2 eventually.

  • Demos corrected to be buildable and testable with ncurses.

Minor new features:

(note that not all of these are available on all backends)

  • Support for up to nine mouse buttons and wheel and tilt-wheel mice, and double and triple mouse clicks.

  • (X11, Win32a, Win32) Extended range of keys that are recognized.
    This now includes most of the "oddball" keys such as 'browser back' and 'favorites' found on some keyboards.

  • Blinking cursors in Win32a and X11 of various shapes (this could be extended to SDLx eventually).

  • In X11 and Win32a, one can call resize_term( ) before initscr( ) to set the initial window size.

  • Soft Label Keys (SLKs) are considerably more flexible, with the ability to set arbitrary numbers of keys and groupings.
    See slk.c for details. This applies to all backends.

  • Many changes to testcurs to test all these new features, and newtest added to test still more features.

  • Option to get detailed version information of the used PDCurses library at run time with new exported PDC_version as PDC_version_info structure.

  • ACS_x and WACS_x #defines extended to include a lot of "alternative characters" that overlap in Unicode and CP-437: double-line box chars, card suits, vulgar fractions, etc.
    This applies to all backends. See acs_defs.h for the full list.

  • Cleaned up some makefiles for Win32 and Win32a.
    On both platforms, vcwin32.mak can now be used with the Intel(R) compiler, and mingwin32.mak can be used to cross-compile from Linux, or in command.com under Windows, or with Cygwin/MSYS.
    Also added a makefile for Digital Mars for the DOS version.

  • The "def" files that were needed before to create PDCurses on Windows are removed as they are no longer necessary.

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