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- PDCurses 2.3
- (Public Domain Curses for DOS, OS/2, X11 and Win32)
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- INTRODUCTION:
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- This release of PDCurses includes the following changes:
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- - the X11 port is now fully functional
- - the MS Visual C++ Win32 port now includes a DLL
- - both the X11 and Win32 ports support the mouse
- - the slk..() functions are now functional
- - support for scrollbars under X11 are experimental at this stage
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- 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.
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- BUGS FIXED:
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- some minor bugs were corrected in this release
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- NEW FUNCTIONS:
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- slk..() functions
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- NEW COMPILER SUPPORT:
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- - MS Visual C++ under Win95/NT
- - Watcom C++ under OS/2, Win32 and DOS
- - two EMX ports have been provided:
- - OS/2 only using OS/2 APIs
- - OS/2 and DOS using EMX video support routines
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- Makefiles for each platform/compiler option reside in the platform
- directory. These all have an extension of .mak.
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- EXTRA OPTIONS:
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- PDCurses recognises two environment variables which determines the
- initialisation and finalisation behaviour. These environment variables
- do not apply to the X11 port.
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- PDC_PRESERVE_SCREEN
- If this environment variable is set, PDCurses will not clear the screen
- to the default white on black on startup. This allows you to overlay
- a window over the top of the existing screen background.
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- PDC_RESTORE_SCREEN
- If this environment variable is set, PDCurses will take a copy of the
- contents of the screen at the time that PDCurses is started; initscr(),
- and when endwin() is called, the screen will be restored.
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- ACKNOWLEGEMENTS: (for this release)
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- Chris Szurgot for original Win32 port.
- Gurusamy Sarathy for some updates to the Win32 port.
- Kim Huron for the slk..() functions.
- Florian Grosse Coosmann for some bug fixes.
- Esa Peuha for reducing compiler warnings.
- Augustin Martin Domingo for patches to X11 port to enable accented
- characters.
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- Cheers, Mark
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- Mark Hessling Email: M.Hessling@qut.edu.au
- PO Box 203 http://www.lightlink.com/hessling/
- Bellara AUTHOR of | MAINTAINER of
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