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- PDCurses 2.4
- (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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- - full support of X11 selection handling
- - removed the need for the cursos2.h file
- - enabled the "shifted" key on the numeric keypad
- - added native clipboard support for X11, Win32 and OS/2
- - added extra functions for obtaining internal PDCUrses status
- - added clipboard and key modifier tests in testcurs.c
- - fixes for panel library
- - key modifiers pressed by themselves are now returned as keys
- - Added X11 shared library support
- - Added extra slk formats supported by ncurses
- - Fixed bug with resizing the terminal when slk were on.
- - Changed behaviour of slk_attrset(), slk_attron() alk_attroff()
- functions to work more like ncurses.
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- BUGS FIXED:
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- some minor bug and portability fixes were included in this release
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- NEW FUNCTIONS:
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- PDC_getclipboard() and PDC_setclipboard() for accessing the native
- clipboard.
- PDC_set_title() for setting the title of the window (X11 and Win32 only)
- PDC_get_input_fd() for getting the file handle of the PDCurses input
- 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
- be passed to the application
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- NEW COMPILER SUPPORT:
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- - MingW32 GNU compiler under Win95/NT
- - Cygnus Win32 GNU compiler under Win95/NT
- - Borland C++ for OS/2 1.0+
- - lcc-win32 compiler under Win95/NT
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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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- ACKNOWLEGEMENTS: (for this release)
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- Georg Fuchs for various changes.
- Juan David Palomar for pointing out getnstr() was not implemented.
- William McBrine for fix to allow black/black as valid color pair.
- Peter Preus for pointing out the missing bccos2.mak file.
- Laura Michaels for a couple of bug fixes and changes required to support
- Mingw32 compiler.
- Frank Heckenbach for PDC_get_input_fd() and some portability fixes and
- the fixes for panel library.
- Matthias Burian for the lcc-win32 compiler support.
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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/
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