| PDCurses 3.4 - 2008/09/08 |
| ========================= |
| |
| Nothing much new this time, but I've been sitting on some bug fixes for |
| almost a year, so it's overdue. Apart from bugs, the main changes are in |
| the documentation. |
| |
| New features: |
| |
| - setsyx() is now a function rather than a macro. |
| |
| Bug fixes and such: |
| |
| - In x11, the xc_atrtab table size was under-calculated by half, |
| resulting in crashes at (oddly) certain line counts. (It should've |
| crashed a lot more.) Reported by Mark Hessling. |
| |
| - Test for moved cursor was omitting the window origin offset. Reported |
| by Carey Evans. |
| |
| - Is DOS and OS/2, the value for max items in key_table was still wrong. |
| Reported by C.E. |
| |
| - Changed isendwin() so it won't crash after delscreen(). |
| |
| - Ensure zero-termination in PDC_mbstowcs() and PDC_wcstombs(). |
| |
| - Disable QuickEdit Mode when enabling mouse input for the Win32 |
| console; reported by "Zalapkrakna". |
| |
| - Fix for building under Innotek C (I hope). Report by Elbert Pol, fix |
| courtesy of Paul Smedley. |
| |
| - Unified exports list with no duplicates -- pdcurses.def is now built |
| from components at compile time. |
| |
| - Don't install curspriv.h, and don't include it with binary |
| distributions. |
| |
| - Building DLLs with LCC is no longer supported, due to the primitive |
| nature of its make.exe. |
| |
| - Export the terminfo stub functions from the DLLs, too. |
| |
| - Added support for Apple's ".dylib" in configure. Suggested by Marc |
| Vaillant (who says it's needed with OS 10.5.) |
| |
| - In sdl1/Makefile.mng, ensure that CC is set. |
| |
| - In the gcc makefiles, "$?" didn't really have the desired effect -- |
| _all_ the dependencies showed up on the command line, including |
| curses.h, and pdcurses.a twice. And apparently, this can mess up some |
| old version (?) of MinGW. So, revert to spelling out "tuidemo.o |
| tui.o". Reported by "Howard L." |
| |
| - Extensive documentation revision and reorganizing. More to do here. |
| For example, I moved the build instructions from INSTALL (which never |
| really described installation) to the platform-specific READMEs. |
| |
| - New indentation standard: four spaces, no tabs. |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| PDCurses 3.3 - 2007/07/11 |
| ========================= |
| |
| This release adds an SDL backend, refines the demos, and is faster in |
| some cases. |
| |
| New features: |
| |
| - SDL port. See INSTALL, doc/sdl.txt and sdl1/* for details. |
| |
| - Double-buffering -- minimize screen writes by checking, in doupdate() |
| and wnoutrefresh(), whether the changes to curscr are really changes. |
| In most cases, this makes no difference (writes were already limited |
| to areas marked as changed), but it can greatly reduce the overhead |
| from touchwin(). It also helps if you have small, separated updates on |
| the same line. |
| |
| - The PDC_RGB colors can now be used, or not, with any platform (as long |
| as the same options are used when compiling both the library and |
| apps). This may help if you have apps that are hardwired to assume |
| certain definitions. |
| |
| - Restored the use_default_colors() stuff from the ncurses versions of |
| the rain and worm demos, to make them "transparent" (this is useful |
| now, with the SDL port); added transparency to newdemo. |
| |
| - Added setlocale() to tuidemo, to make it easier to browse files with |
| non-ASCII characters. |
| |
| - Sped up firework demo by replacing unneeded clear() and init_pair() |
| calls. |
| |
| - Allow exit from ptest demo by typing 'q'. |
| |
| - New functions for implementors: PDC_pair_content() and PDC_init_pair() |
| (the old pdc_atrtab stuff was arguably the last remnant of code in the |
| pdcurses directory that was based on platform details). |
| |
| Bug fixes and such: |
| |
| - Implicit wrefresh() needs to be called from wgetch() when the window's |
| cursor position is changed, even if there are no other changes. |
| |
| - Set SP->audible on a per-platform basis, as was documented in |
| IMPLEMNT, but not actually being done. |
| |
| - Minor tweaks for efficiency and readability, notably with wscrl(). |
| |
| - tuidemo didn't work correctly on monochrome screens when A_COLOR was |
| defined -- the color pair numbers appeared as the corresponding |
| character; also, the input box was (I now realize) broken with ncurses |
| since our 2.7, and broke more subtly with PDCurses' new implicit |
| refresh handling; also, the path to the default file for the Browse |
| function was a bit off. |
| |
| - Assume in the demos that curs_set() is always available -- there's no |
| good test for this, and the existing tests were bogus. |
| |
| - Made the command-line parameter for ptest work. (If given an argument, |
| it delays that number of milliseconds between changes, instead of |
| waiting for a key, and automatically loops five times.) |
| |
| - Building the Win32 DLL with MinGW or Cygwin wouldn't work from outside |
| the platform directory. |
| |
| - Building the X11 port with Cygwin required manually editing the |
| Makefile after configuring; no longer. Reported by Warren W. Gay. |
| |
| - Minor tightening of configure and makefiles. |
| |
| - Bogus references to "ACS_BLCORNER" in the border man page. Reported by |
| "Walrii". |
| |
| - slk_wlabel() was not documented. |
| |
| - Spelling cleanup. |
| |
| - Changed RCSIDs to not end with a semicolon -- avoids warnings when |
| compiling with the -pedantic option. |
| |
| - Merged latin-1.txt into x11.txt. |
| |
| - Updated config.guess and config.sub to more recent versions. |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| PDCurses 3.2 - 2007/06/06 |
| ========================= |
| |
| This release mainly covers changes to the build process, along with a |
| few structural changes. |
| |
| New features: |
| |
| - The panel library has been folded into the main library. What this |
| means is that you no longer need to specify "-lpanel" or equivalent |
| when linking programs that use panel functionality with PDCurses; |
| however, panel.lib/.a is still provided (as a copy of pdcurses.lib/.a) |
| so that you can, optionally, build your projects with no changes. It |
| also means that panel functionality is available with the DLL or |
| shared library. Note that panel.h remains separate from curses.h. |
| |
| - Setting the PDCURSES_SRCDIR environment variable is no longer required |
| before building, unless you want to build in a location other than the |
| platform directory. (See INSTALL.) |
| |
| - MinGW and Cygwin makefiles support building DLLs, via the "DLL=Y" |
| option. Partly due to Timofei Shatrov. |
| |
| - Support for the Digital Mars compiler. |
| |
| - Watcom makefiles now use the "loaddll" feature. |
| |
| Bug fixes and such: |
| |
| - Eliminated the platform defines (DOS, WIN32, OS2, XCURSES) from |
| curses.h, except for X11-specific SCREEN elements and functions. |
| Dynamically-linked X11 apps built against an old version will have |
| their red and blue swapped until rebuilt. (You can define PDC_RGB to |
| build the library with the old color scheme, but it would also have to |
| be defined when building any new app.) Any app that depends on |
| PDCurses to determine the platform it's building on will have to make |
| other arrangements. |
| |
| - Documentation cleanup -- added more details; removed some content that |
| didn't apply to PDCurses; moved the doc-building tool to the doc |
| directory; changed *.man to *.txt. |
| |
| - The EMX makefile now accepts "DLL=Y", builds pdcurses.dll instead of |
| curses.dll, builds either the static library or the DLL (not both at |
| once), and links all the demos with the DLL when building it. |
| |
| - In Win32, read the registry only when needed: when init_color() or |
| color_content() is called, instead of at startup. |
| |
| - A few additional consts in declarations. |
| |
| - The Win32 compilers that build DLLs now use common .def files. |
| |
| - panel.h functions sorted by name, as with other .h files; curses.h is |
| no longer included by repeated inclusions of panel.h or term.h. |
| |
| - Simplified Borland makefiles. |
| |
| - Makefile.aix.in depended on a file, xcurses.exp, that was never there. |
| This problem was fixed as part of the change to common .def files; |
| however, I still haven't been able to test building on AIX. |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| PDCurses 3.1 - 2007/05/03 |
| ========================= |
| |
| Primarily clipboard-related fixes, and special UTF-8 support. |
| |
| New features: |
| |
| - "Force UTF-8" mode, a compile-time option to force the use of UTF-8 |
| for multibyte strings, instead of the system locale. (Mainly for |
| Windows, where UTF-8 doesn't work well in the console.) See INSTALL. |
| |
| - Multibyte string support in PDC_*clipboard() functions, and in Win32's |
| PDC_set_title(). |
| |
| - Added the global string "ttytype", per other curses implementations, |
| for compatibility with old BSD curses. |
| |
| - Real functions for the "quasi-standard aliases" -- crmode(), |
| nocrmode(), draino(), resetterm(), fixterm() and saveterm(). |
| (Corresponding macros removed.) |
| |
| Bug fixes and such: |
| |
| - In Win32, under NT-family OSes, the scrollback buffer would be |
| restored by endwin(), but would not be turned off again when resuming |
| curses after an endwin(). The result was an odd, partly-scrolled-up |
| display. Now, the buffer is toggled by PDC_reset_prog_mode() and |
| PDC_reset_shell_mode(), so it's properly turned off when returning |
| from an endwin(). |
| |
| - In 3.0, selection in X11 didn't work. (Well, the selecting worked, but |
| the pasting elsewhere didn't.) This was due to the attempted fix |
| "don't return selection start as a press event," so that's been |
| reverted for now. |
| |
| - PDC_setclipboard() was locking up in X11. Reported by Mark Hessling. |
| |
| - Missing underscore in the declaration of XC_say() prevented |
| compilation with PDCDEBUG defined. Reported by M.H. |
| |
| - Off-by-one error in copywin() -- the maximum coordinates for the |
| destination window should be inclusive. Reported by Tiago Dionizio. |
| |
| - Start in echo mode, per X/Open. Reported by T.D. |
| |
| - Strip leading and trailing spaces from slk labels, per a literal |
| reading of X/Open. Suggested by Alexey Miheev (about ncurses, but it |
| also applies here). |
| |
| - The #endif for __PDCURSES__ needs to come _after_ the closing of the |
| extern "C". This has been broken since June 2005. Fortunately (?), it |
| only shows up if the file is included multiple times, and then only in |
| C++. Reported on the DOSBox forums. |
| |
| - Use CF_OEMTEXT instead of CF_TEXT in the narrow versions of the |
| clipboard functions in Win32, to match the console. |
| |
| - Changed the format of the string returned from longname(). |
| |
| - In the clipboard test in the testcurs demo, use a single mvprintw() to |
| display the return from PDC_getclipboard(), instead of a loop of |
| addch(), which was incompatible with multibyte strings. |
| |
| - Moved has_key() into the keyname module, and documented it. |
| |
| - Moved RIPPEDOFFLINE to curspriv.h. |
| |
| - Typos in IMPLEMNT. |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| PDCurses 3.0 - 2007/04/01 |
| ========================= |
| |
| The focuses for this release are X/Open conformance, i18n, better color |
| support, cleaner code, and more consistency across platforms. |
| |
| This is only a brief summary of the changes. For more details, consult |
| the CVS log. |
| |
| New features: |
| |
| - An almost complete implementation of X/Open curses, including the |
| wide-character and attr_t functions (but excluding terminfo). The |
| wide-character functions work only in Win32 and X11, for now, and |
| require building the library with the appropriate options (see |
| INSTALL). Note that this is a simplistic implementation, with exactly |
| one wchar_t per cchar_t; the only characters it handles properly are |
| those that are one column wide. |
| |
| - Support for X Input Methods in the X11 port (see INSTALL). When built |
| this way, the internal compose key support is disabled in favor of |
| XIM's, which is a lot more complete, although you lose the box cursor. |
| |
| - Multibyte character support in the non-wide string handling functions, |
| per X/Open. This only works when the library is built with wide- |
| character support enabled. |
| |
| - Mouse support for DOS and OS/2. The DOS version includes untested |
| support for scroll wheels, via the "CuteMouse" driver. |
| |
| - An ncurses-compatible mouse interface, which can work in parallel with |
| the traditional PDCurses mouse interface. See the man page (or |
| mouse.c) for details. |
| |
| - DOS and OS/2 can now return modifiers as keys, as in Win32 and X11. |
| |
| - COLORS, which had been fixed at 8, is now either 8 or 16, depending on |
| the terminal -- usually 16. When it's 8, blinking mode is enabled |
| (controlled as before by the A_BLINK attribute); when it's 16, bright |
| background colors are used instead. On platforms where it can be |
| changed, the mode is toggled by the new function PDC_set_blink(). |
| PDCurses tries to set PDC_set_blink(FALSE) at startup. (In Win32, it's |
| always set to FALSE; in DOS, with other than an EGA or VGA card, it |
| can't be.) Also, COLORS is now set to 0 until start_color() is called. |
| |
| - Corresponding to the change in COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS is now 256. |
| |
| - Working init_color() and color_content(). The OS/2 version of |
| init_color() works only in a full-screen session; the Win32 version |
| works only in windowed mode, and only in NT-family OSes; the DOS |
| version works only with VGA adapters (real or simulated). The Win32 |
| version is based mostly on James Brown's setconsoleinfo.c |
| (www.catch22.net). |
| |
| - use_default_colors(), assume_default_colors(), and curses_version(), |
| after ncurses. |
| |
| - Added global int TABSIZE, after ncurses and Solaris curses; removed |
| window-specific _tabsize. |
| |
| - Logical extension to the wide-character slk_ funcs: slk_wlabel(), for |
| retrieving the label as a wide-character string. |
| |
| - A non-macro implementation of ncurses' wresize(). |
| |
| - Working putwin(), getwin(), scr_dump() and scr_restore(). |
| |
| - A working acs_map[]. Characters from the ACS are now stored in window |
| structures as a regular character plus the A_ALTCHARSET attribute, and |
| rendered to the ACS only when displayed. (This allows, for example, |
| the correct display on one platform of windows saved from another.) |
| |
| - In X11, allow selection and paste of UTF8_STRING. |
| |
| - The testcurs demo now includes a color chart and init_color() test, a |
| wide character input test, a display of wide ACS characters with |
| sample Unicode text, a specific test of flash(), more info in the |
| resize test, and attempts to change the width as well as the height. |
| |
| - Command-line option for MSVC to build DLLs (see INSTALL). Also, the |
| naming distinction for DLLs ("curses" vs. "pdcurses") is abandoned, |
| and either the static lib or DLL is built, not both at once (except |
| for X11). |
| |
| - For backwards compatibility, a special module just for deprecated |
| functions -- currently PDC_check_bios_key(), PDC_get_bios_key(), |
| PDC_get_ctrl_break() and PDC_set_ctrl_break(). These shouldn't be used |
| in applications, but currently are... in fact, all the "private" |
| functions (in curspriv.h) are subject to change and should be avoided. |
| |
| - A new document, IMPLEMNT, describing PDCurses' internal functions for |
| those wishing to port it to new platforms. |
| |
| - Mark Hessling has released the X11 port to the public domain. |
| (However, x11/ScrollBox* retain their separate copyright and MIT-like |
| license.) |
| |
| Bug fixes and such: |
| |
| - Most of the macros have been removed (along with the NOMACROS ifdef). |
| The only remaining ones are those which have to be macros to work, and |
| those that are required by X/Open to be macros. There were numerous |
| problems with the macros, and no apparent reason to keep them, except |
| tradition -- although it was PCcurses 1.x that first omitted them. |
| |
| - Clean separation of platform-specific code from the rest. Outside of |
| the platform directories, there remain only a few ifdefs in curses.h |
| and curspriv.h. |
| |
| - General reorganization and simplification. |
| |
| - Documentation revisions. |
| |
| - When expanding control characters in addch() or insch(), retain the |
| attributes from the chtype. |
| |
| - Preserve the A_ALTCHARSET attribute in addch() and insch(). |
| |
| - Per X/Open, beep() should always return OK. |
| |
| - On platforms with a controlling terminal (i.e., not X11), curs_set(1) |
| now sets the cursor to the shape it had at the time of initscr(), |
| rather than always making it small. (Exception for DOS: If the video |
| mode has been changed by PDC_resize_screen(), curs_set(1) reverts to |
| line 6/7.) The shape is taken from SP->orig_cursor (the meaning of |
| which is platform-specific). |
| |
| - Stop updating the cursor position when the cursor is invisible (this |
| gives a huge performance boost in Win 9x); update the cursor position |
| from curs_set() if changing from invisible to visible. |
| |
| - Some tweaking of the behavior of def_prog_mode(), def_shell_mode(), |
| savetty(), reset_prog_mode(), reset_shell_mode() and resetty()... |
| still not quite right. |
| |
| - flash() was not implemented for Win32 or X. A portable implementation |
| is now used for all platforms. Note that it's much slower than the |
| old (DOS and OS/2) version, but this is only apparent on an extremely |
| slow machine, such as an XT. |
| |
| - In getstr(), backspacing on high-bit characters caused a double |
| backspace. |
| |
| - hline() and vline() used an incorrect (off by one) interpretation of |
| _maxx and _maxy. If values of n greater than the max were specified, |
| these functions could access unallocated memory. |
| |
| - innstr() is supposed to return the number of characters read, not just |
| OK or ERR. Reported by Mike Aubury. |
| |
| - A proper implementation of insch() -- the PDC_chadd()-based version |
| wasn't handling the control characters correctly. |
| |
| - Return ASCII and control key names from keyname() (problem revealed by |
| ncurses' movewindow test); also, per X/Open, return "UNKNOWN KEY" when |
| appropriate, rather than "NO KEY NAME". |
| |
| - Turn off the cursor from leaveok(TRUE), even in X11; leaveok(FALSE) |
| now calls curs_set(1), regardless of the previous state of the cursor. |
| |
| - In the slk area, BUTTON_CLICKED events now translate to function keys, |
| along with the previously recognized BUTTON_PRESSED events. Of course, |
| it should really be checking the events specified by map_button(), |
| which still doesn't work. |
| |
| - napms(0) now returns immediately. |
| |
| - A unified napms() implementation for DOS -- no longer throttles the |
| CPU when built with any compiler. |
| |
| - Allow backspace editing of the nocbreak() buffer. |
| |
| - pair_content(0, ...) is valid. |
| |
| - There was no check to ensure that the pnoutrefresh() window fit within |
| the screen. It now returns an ERR if it doesn't. |
| |
| - In X11, resize_term() must be called with parameters (0, 0), and only |
| when SP->resized is set, else it returns ERR. |
| |
| - Copy _bkgd in resize_window(). Patch found on Frederic L. W. Meunier's |
| web site. |
| |
| - slk_clear() now removes the buttons completely, as in ncurses. |
| |
| - Use the current foreground color for the line attributes (underline, |
| left, right), unless PDC_set_line_color() is explicitly called. After |
| setting the line color, you can reset it to this mode via |
| "PDC_set_line_color(-1)". |
| |
| - Removed non-macro implementations of COLOR_PAIR() and PAIR_NUMBER(). |
| |
| - Dispensed with PDC_chadd() and PDC_chins() -- waddch() and winsch() |
| are now (again) the core functions. |
| |
| - Dropped or made static many obsolete, unused, and/or broken functions, |
| including PDC_chg_attrs(), PDC_cursor_on() and _off(), |
| PDC_fix_cursor(), PDC_get_attribute(), PDC_get_cur_col() and _row(), |
| PDC_set_80x25(), PDC_set_cursor_mode(), PDC_set_rows(), |
| PDC_wunderline(), PDC_wleftline(), PDC_wrightline(), |
| XCursesModifierPress() and XCurses_refresh_scrollbar(). |
| |
| - Obsolete/unused defines: _BCHAR, _GOCHAR, _STOPCHAR, _PRINTCHAR |
| _ENDLINE, _FULLWIN and _SCROLLWIN. |
| |
| - Obsolete/unused elements of the WINDOW struct: _pmax*, _lastp*, |
| _lasts*. |
| |
| - Obsolete/unused elements of the SCREEN struct: orgcbr, visible_cursor, |
| sizeable, shell, blank, cursor, orig_emulation, font, orig_font, |
| tahead, adapter, scrnmode, kbdinfo, direct_video, video_page, |
| video_seg, video_ofs, bogus_adapter. (Some of these persist outside |
| the SCREEN struct, in the platform directories.) Added mouse_wait and |
| key_code. |
| |
| - Removed all the EMALLOC stuff. Straight malloc calls were used |
| elsewhere; it was undocumented outside of comments in curspriv.h; and |
| there are better ways to use a substitute malloc(). |
| |
| - Single mouse clicks are now reportable on all platforms (not just |
| double-clicks). And in general, mouse event reporting is more |
| consistent across platforms. |
| |
| - The mouse cursor no longer appears in full-screen mode in Win32 unless |
| a nonzero mouse event mask is used. |
| |
| - ALT-keypad input now works in Win32. |
| |
| - In Win32, SetConsoleMode(ENABLE_WINDOW_INPUT) is not useful, and |
| appears to be the source of a four-year-old bug report (hanging in |
| THE) by Phil Smith. |
| |
| - Removed the PDC_THREAD_BUILD stuff, which has never worked. For the |
| record: PDCurses is not thread-safe. Neither is ncurses; and the |
| X/Open curses spec explicitly makes it a non-requirement. |
| |
| - With the internal compose key system in the X11 port, modifier keys |
| were breaking out of the compose state, making it impossible to type |
| accented capitals, etc. Also, Multi_key is now the default compose |
| key, instead of leaving it undefined by default; and a few more combos |
| are supported. |
| |
| - In X11, the first reported mouse event after startup always read as a |
| double-click at position 0, 0. (This bug was introduced in 2.8.) |
| |
| - In X11, don't return selection start as a press event. (Shift-click on |
| button 1 is still returned.) |
| |
| - In X11, properly handle pasting of high-bit chars. (It was doing an |
| unwanted sign extension.) |
| |
| - In X11, BUTTON_MOVED was never returned, although PDC_MOUSE_MOVED was |
| set. |
| |
| - The fix in 2.8 for the scroll wheel in X11 wasn't very good -- it did |
| report the events as scroll wheel events, but it doubled them. Here's |
| a proper fix. |
| |
| - Changed mouse handling in X11: Simpler translation table, with |
| XCursesPasteSelection() called from XCursesButton() instead of the |
| translation table; require shift with button 1 or 2 for select or |
| paste when mouse events are being reported (as with ncurses), allowing |
| passthrough of simple button 2 events. This fixes the previously |
| unreliable button 2 behavior. |
| |
| - Modifier keys are now returned on key up in X11, as in Win32. And in |
| general, modifier key reporting is more consistent across platforms. |
| |
| - Modifiers are not returned as keys when a mouse click has occurred |
| since the key press. |
| |
| - In BIOS mode (in DOS), count successive identical output bytes, and |
| make only one BIOS call for all of them. This dramatically improves |
| performance. |
| |
| - The cursor position was not always updated correctly in BIOS mode. |
| |
| - In testcurs, the way the ACS test was written, it would really only |
| work with a) PDCurses (with any compiler), or b) gcc (with any |
| curses). Here's a more portable implementation. |
| |
| - Better reporting of mouse events in testcurs. |
| |
| - Blank out buffer and num before the scanw() test in testcurs, in case |
| the user just hits enter or etc.; clear the screen after resizing. |
| |
| - Allow tuidemo to use the last line. |
| |
| - Separate left/right modifier keys are now reported properly in Win32. |
| (Everything was being reported as _R.) |
| |
| - Attempts to redirect input in Win32 now cause program exit and an |
| error message, instead of hanging. |
| |
| - Dropped support for the Microway NDP compiler. |
| |
| - Some modules renamed, rearranged. |
| |
| - Fixes for errors and warnings when building with Visual C++ 2005. |
| |
| - In MSVC, the panel library didn't work with the DLL. |
| |
| - Complete export lists for DLLs. |
| |
| - Simplified makefiles; moved common elements to .mif files; better |
| optimization; strip demos when possible. |
| |
| - Changed makefile targets of "pdcurses.a/lib" and "panel.a/lib" to |
| $(LIBCURSES) and $(LIBPANEL). Suggestion of Doug Kaufman. |
| |
| - Changed "install" target in the makefile to a double-colon rule, to |
| get around a conflict with INSTALL on non-case-sensitive filesystems, |
| such as Mac OS X's HFS+. Reported by Douglas Godfrey et al. |
| |
| - Make PDCurses.man dependent on manext. Suggestion of Tiziano Mueller. |
| |
| - Set up configure.ac so autoheader works; removed some obsolescent |
| macros. Partly the suggestion of T.M. |
| |
| - The X11 port now builds in the x11 directory (including the demos), as |
| with other ports. |
| |
| - The X11 port should now build on more 64-bit systems. Partly due to |
| M.H. |
| |
| - The default window title and icons for the X11 port are now "PDCurses" |
| instead of "XCurses". |
| |
| - Internal functions and variables made static where possible. |
| |
| - Adopted a somewhat more consistent naming style: Internal functions |
| with external linkage, and only those, have the prefix "PDC_"; |
| external variables that aren't part of the API use "pdc_"; static |
| functions use "_"; and "XC_" and "xc_" prefixes are used for functions |
| and variables, respectively, that are shared between both processes in |
| the X11 port. Also eliminated camel casing, where possible. |
| |
| - Changed the encoding for non-ASCII characters in comments and |
| documentation from Latin-1 to UTF-8. |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| PDCurses 2.8 - 2006/04/01 |
| ========================= |
| |
| As with the previous version, you should assume that apps linked against |
| older dynamic versions of the library won't work with this one until |
| recompiled. |
| |
| New features: |
| |
| - Simpler, faster. |
| |
| - Declarations for all supported, standard functions, per the X/Open |
| Curses 4.2 spec, with the notable exception of getch() and ungetch(). |
| You can disable the use of the macro versions by defining NOMACROS |
| before including curses.h (see xmas.c for an example). NOMACROS yields |
| smaller but theoretically slower executables. |
| |
| - New functions: vwprintw(), vwscanw(), vw_printw() and vw_scanw(). This |
| completes the list of X/Open 4.2 functions, except for those concerned |
| with attr_t and wide characters. Some (especially the terminfo/termcap |
| functions) aren't yet fully fleshed out, though. |
| |
| - Non-macro implementations for COLOR_PAIR(), PAIR_NUMBER(), getbkgd(), |
| mvgetnstr(), mvwgetnstr(), mvhline(), mvvline(), mvwhline(), and |
| mvwvline(). (The macros are still available, too.) |
| |
| - newterm() works now, in a limited way -- the parameters are ignored, |
| and only the first invocation will work (i.e., only one SCREEN can be |
| used). |
| |
| - start_color() works now -- which is to say, if you _don't_ call it, |
| you'll only get monochrome output. Also, without calling it, the |
| terminal's default colors will be used, where supported (currently |
| only in Win32). This is equivalent to the PDC_ORIGINAL_COLORS behavior |
| introduced in 2.7, except that _only_ the default colors will be used. |
| (PDC_ORIGINAL_COLORS is still available, if you want to combine the |
| use of specific colors and the default colors.) |
| |
| - New logic for termname() and longname(): termname() always returns |
| "pdcurses"; longname() returns "PDCurses for [platform] [adapter] |
| [COLOR/MONO]-YxX" (adapter is only defined for DOS and OS/2). This is |
| the first time these functions return _anything_ in Win32. |
| |
| - New installation method for XCurses: the header files are placed in a |
| subdirectory "xcurses" within the include directory, rather than being |
| renamed. (But the renamed xcurses.h and xpanel.h are also installed, |
| for backwards compatibility.) curspriv.h and term.h are now available, |
| and existing curses-based code need no longer be edited to use |
| XCurses' curses.h. And with no more need for explicit XCursesExit() |
| calls (see below), your code need not be changed at all to move from |
| another curses implementation to XCurses. It can be as simple as "gcc |
| -I/usr/local/include/xcurses -lXCurses -oprogname progname.c". |
| |
| - Combined readme.* into this HISTORY file, and incorporated the old 1.x |
| (PCcurses) history. |
| |
| - New functionality for the testcurs demo: ACS character display; menu |
| support for PgUp, PgDn, Home and End; centered menu; and it can now |
| be resized in X. |
| |
| - Added modified versions of the rain and worm demos from ncurses. |
| |
| Bug fixes and such: |
| |
| - Big cleanup of dead and redundant code, including unneeded defines, |
| ifdefs, and structure elements. |
| |
| - flushinp() was not implemented for Win32. |
| |
| - resetty() was not restoring LINES and COLS. |
| |
| - nonl() made '\n' print a line feed without carriage return. This was |
| incorrect. |
| |
| - Removed bogus implementation of intrflush(). |
| |
| - The line-breakout optimization system, disabled by default in 2.7, is |
| removed in 2.8. It simply didn't work, and never has. (The typeahead() |
| function remains, for compatibility, but does nothing.) |
| |
| - The declarations for the printw() and scanw() function families were |
| erroneously ifdef'd. |
| |
| - Safer printw() calls on platforms that support vsnprintf(). |
| |
| - Use the native vsscanf() in DJGPP, MinGW and Cygwin. |
| |
| - ACS_BLOCK now works in X. |
| |
| - Explicit calls to XCursesExit() are no longer needed. |
| |
| - XCURSES is now defined automatically if not DOS, OS2 or WIN32. |
| |
| - The default icon for XCurses wasn't working (had to remove the focus |
| hint code to fix this). Also, the default title is now "XCurses" |
| instead of "main". |
| |
| - Incorrect dimensions (undercounting by two in each direction) were |
| shown while resizing in X. |
| |
| - Scroll wheel events were not always correctly reported in X. |
| |
| - 32 bits are enough for the "long" chtype, but 64 bits were used on a |
| 64-bit system, wasting memory. Now conditioned on _LP64. This could be |
| faster, too. |
| |
| - The short, 16-bit chtype now works with XCurses. |
| |
| - Corrected return value for is_linetouched(), is_wintouched(), |
| can_change_color() and isendwin() (bool instead of int). |
| |
| - timeout(), wtimeout(), idcok() and immedok() return void. |
| |
| - pair_content() takes a short. |
| |
| - Replaced incorrect usages of attr_t with chtype. attr_t is still |
| typedef'd, for backwards compatibility. (It's supposed to be used for |
| the WA_*-style functions, which PDCurses doesn't yet support.) |
| |
| - Added const where required by the spec, and in other appropriate |
| places. |
| |
| - Removed PDC_usleep(). napms() is now the core delay routine. |
| |
| - Fixed poll() support in napms(). |
| |
| - Various changes to the internal PDC_* functions -- don't depend on |
| these, and don't use them unless you absolutely have to. |
| |
| - Some routines accessed window structures in their variable |
| declarations, _before_ checking for a NULL window pointer. |
| |
| - Dropped support for the undocumented PDC_FULL_DISPLAY, wtitle(), and |
| PDC_print(). |
| |
| - Cleaned up remaining warnings. |
| |
| - Reduced unnecessary #include directives -- speeds up compilation. |
| |
| - Fix for demos build in Borland/DOS -- the makefile in 2.7 didn't |
| specify the memory model. Reported by Erwin Waterlander. |
| |
| - Simplified the makefiles; e.g., some now build each demo in a single |
| step, and Watcom no longer uses demos.lnk. Also, the demo exes are now |
| stripped when possible; maximum compression used for archives built |
| by the makefiles; xcurses-config removed as part of "make distclean"; |
| and I tweaked optimization for some platforms. |
| |
| - Reverted to /usr/local/ as default installation directory for XCurses. |
| |
| - Upgraded to autoconf 2.59... instantly doubling the size of the |
| configure script. Ah well. Otherwise, simplified the build system. |
| |
| - Dropped support for pre-ANSI compilers. (It hasn't worked since at |
| least version 2.4, anyway.) |
| |
| - Revised and, I hope, clarified the boilerplate and other comments. |
| |
| - Simplified logging and RCS ids; added RCS ids where missing. |
| |
| - Consistent formatting for all code, approximately equivalent to |
| "indent -kr -i8 -bl -bli0", with adjustments for 80 columns. |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| PDCurses 2.7 - 2005/12/30 |
| ========================= |
| |
| INTRODUCTION: |
| |
| Hello all. As of a few weeks ago, I'm the new maintainer for PDCurses. |
| Here's a brief summary of changes in this release. (More details are |
| available in the CVS log and trackers on SourceForge.) |
| |
| NEW FEATURES: |
| |
| - Functions: delscreen(), getattrs(), has_key(), slk_color(), |
| wcolor_set(), wtimeout(). |
| |
| - Macros: color_set(), mvhline(), mvvline(), mvwgetnstr(), mvwhline(), |
| mvwvline(), timeout(), wresize(). |
| |
| - Stub implementations of terminfo functions (including a term.h). |
| |
| - More stubs for compatibility: filter(), getwin(), putwin(), |
| noqiflush(), qiflush(), scr_dump(), scr_init(), scr_restore(), |
| scr_set(), use_env(), vidattr(), vidputs(). |
| |
| - The terminal's default colors are used as curses' default colors when |
| the environment variable "PDC_ORIGINAL_COLORS" is set to any value |
| (Win32 only at the moment). |
| |
| - Simplified build system. |
| |
| - Replaced PDC_STATIC_BUILD with its opposite, PDC_DLL_BUILD (see .mak |
| files for more info). |
| |
| - Minimal implementation of color_content() -- no longer a stub. |
| |
| - Added the remaining ACS defines (ACS_S3, ACS_BBSS, etc.) for |
| DOS/OS2/Win; "enhanced" versions of existing ACS characters used. |
| |
| - Support for scroll wheels. |
| |
| - Support for Pacific C. |
| |
| BUGS FIXED: |
| |
| - Builds correctly (including demos) on all tested platforms (see |
| below); nearly all compiler warnings have been cleaned up; the ptest |
| demo is built on all platforms; "clean" targets are improved. |
| |
| - The ability to build ncurses_tests has been restored (see demos dir). |
| |
| - Line-breakout optimization now defaults to off (equivalent to |
| "typeahead(-1)"), so output is not interrupted by keystrokes (it's |
| supposed to resume on the next refresh(), which wasn't working). |
| |
| - Implicit wrefresh() in wgetch() was not being invoked in nodelay mode. |
| |
| - subpad() was erroneously offsetting from the origin coordinates of the |
| parent pad (which are always -1,-1). |
| |
| - In wborder(), whline(), and wvline(), the current (wattrset) attribute |
| was being used, but not the current background (wbkgd). |
| |
| - Allow Russian 'r' character ASCII 0xe0 to be returned. |
| |
| - termattrs() now also returns A_UNDERLINE, A_REVERSE. |
| |
| - In Win32, with large scrollback buffers set, there was an unwanted |
| "scrollup" effect on startup. |
| |
| - Revamped keyboard handling for Win32. |
| |
| - New screen resize method for Win32. |
| |
| - napms(), delay_output(), etc. now work with Cygwin. |
| |
| - curs_set(0) wasn't working in Win32 in full-screen (ALT-ENTER) mode -- |
| the cursor stayed on. |
| |
| - The A_REVERSE attribute was broken in XCurses. |
| |
| - On 64-bit systems, XCurses was ignoring every other keystroke. |
| |
| - Added focus hints for XCurses. |
| |
| - Demos (except for tuidemo) once again have their proper titles in |
| XCurses (using Xinitscr() instead of the obsolete XCursesProgramName). |
| |
| - The 16-bit chtype is a working option again (by removing #define |
| CHTYPE_LONG from curses.h), except in XCurses. It's not recommended; |
| but if your needs are limited, it still works. |
| |
| - Reset screen size in resetty() under DOS, as in Win32 and OS/2. |
| |
| - Changes for cursor size under DOS. |
| |
| - Automatic setting of BIOS mode for CGA under DOS now works. |
| |
| - The cursor is now always updated in PDC_gotoxy(); this fixes the |
| problem of missing characters in BIOS mode. |
| |
| - Macros nocbreak(), cbreak(), nocrmode(), crmode(), nodelay(), |
| nl() and nonl() now return OK. |
| |
| - ERR and OK are now defined as -1 and 0, respectively, for |
| compatibility with other curses implementations -- note that this |
| change is not binary compatible; you'll have to rebuild programs that |
| use shared/dynamic libraries. |
| |
| - Added "const" to prototypes where appropriate. |
| |
| - Miscellaneous code cleanup. |
| |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: |
| |
| Walter Briscoe |
| Jean-Pierre Demailly |
| Ruslan Fedyarov |
| Warren Gay |
| Florian Grosse-Coosmann |
| Vladimir Kokovic |
| Matt Maloy |
| K.H. Man |
| Michael Ryazanov |
| Ron Thibodeau |
| Alexandr Zamaraev |
| |
| and of course, MARK HESSLING, for his over 13 years of service as the |
| maintainer of PDCurses. Plus, thanks to all who've reported bugs or |
| requested features. Apologies to anyone I've forgotten. |
| |
| I've tested this version on Turbo C++ 3.0 and Borland C++ 3.1 for DOS; |
| DJGPP 2.X; Open Watcom 1.3 for DOS (16 and 32-bit), Windows and OS/2; |
| EMX 0.9d and the "newgcc" version of EMX; Borland C++ 5.5 for Windows; |
| recent versions of MinGW, Cygwin, LCC-Win32 and Microsoft Visual C++; |
| and gcc under several flavors of Linux, Mac OS X, *BSD and Solaris. |
| |
| -- William McBrine |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| PDCurses 2.6 - 2003/01/08 |
| ========================= |
| |
| INTRODUCTION: |
| |
| This release of PDCurses includes the following changes: |
| |
| BUGS FIXED: |
| |
| - Allow accented characters on Win32 platform when run on non-English |
| keyboards. |
| |
| - Allow "special" characters like Ctrl-S, Ctrl-Q under OS/2 to be returned. |
| |
| - Some bugs with halfdelay() fixed by William McBrine. |
| |
| - pechochar() should now work correctly. |
| |
| - redrawwin() macro in curses.h was incorrect - fixed by Alberto Ornaghi |
| |
| - Don't include "special" characters like KEY_SHIFT_L to be returned in |
| getnstr() family. Bug 542913 |
| |
| - Entering TAB in wgetnstr() no longer exceeds requested buffer size. |
| Bug 489233 |
| |
| - Fixed bug 550066, scrollok() and pads. |
| Also beep() called when buffer exceeded. Bug 562041. |
| |
| - Reverse video of X11 selection reinstated. Pablo Garcia Abio?? |
| |
| - Right Alt modifier now works like left Alt modifier under Win32 |
| |
| - Add support for all libXaw replacement libraries with Scrollbar bug. |
| Note that for this to work, you still have to change the libXaw |
| replacement libraries to fix the bug :-( |
| |
| - Don't trap signals in XCurses if calling application has ignored them. |
| Change by Frank Heckenbach. |
| |
| - Bug reports from Warren W. Gay: |
| - Fix termattrs() to return A_REVERSE and A_BLINK on all platforms. |
| - Fix definition of getsyx() and setsyx() to be consistent with |
| ncurses. Bug 624424. |
| - Fix definition of echo() and noecho(). Bug 625001. |
| - Fix definition of keypad() and leaveok(). Bug 632653. |
| - Missing panel_hidden() prototype. Bug 649320. |
| |
| - Fixed bug with calling def_prog_mode(), resize_term(), |
| reset_prog_mode(); the resize details were being lost. |
| |
| NEW FEATURES: |
| |
| - Clipboard support now available on DOS platform, but handled |
| internally to the currently running process. |
| |
| - New X11 resource: textCursor, allows the text cursor to be specified |
| as a vertical bar, or the standard horizontal bar. Thanks to Frank |
| Heckenbach for the suggestion. |
| |
| NEW COMPILER SUPPORT: |
| |
| - lcc-win32 now works correctly |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| PDCurses 2.5 - 2001/11/26 |
| ========================= |
| |
| INTRODUCTION: |
| |
| This release of PDCurses includes the following changes: |
| |
| - Set BASE address for Win32 DLL |
| |
| - Add KEY_SUP and KEY_SDOWN. |
| |
| - Add PDC_set_line_color() |
| |
| - Add blink support as bold background |
| |
| - Add bold colors |
| |
| - Add getbkgd() macro |
| |
| - Add new PDC functions for adding underline, overline, leftline and |
| rightline |
| |
| - Add support for shifted keypad keys. |
| |
| - Allow more keypad keys to work under Win32 |
| |
| - Change Win32 and OS/2 DLL name to curses.dll |
| |
| - Change example resources to allow overriding from the command line |
| |
| - Changes for building cleanly on OS/2 |
| |
| - Changes to handle building XCurses under AIX |
| |
| - Check if prefresh() and pnoutrefresh() parameters are valid. |
| |
| - Ensure build/install works from any directory |
| |
| - Handle platforms where X11 headers do not typedef XPointer. |
| |
| - Mention that Flexos is likely out-of-date. |
| |
| - Pass delaytenths to XCurses_rawgetch() |
| |
| - Remove boldFont |
| |
| - Updates for cursor blinking and italic. |
| |
| BUGS FIXED: |
| |
| - Fix bug with getting Win32 clipboard contents. Added new |
| PDC_freeclipboard() function. |
| |
| - Fix bug with halfdelay() |
| |
| - Fix bug with mouse interrupting programs that are not trapping mouse |
| events under Win32. |
| |
| - Fix return value from curs_set() |
| |
| - Reverse the left and right pointing bars in ALT_CHARSET |
| |
| NEW COMPILER SUPPORT: |
| |
| - Add QNX-RTP port |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| PDCurses 2.4 - 2000/01/17 |
| ========================= |
| |
| INTRODUCTION: |
| |
| This release of PDCurses includes the following changes: |
| |
| - 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: |
| 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 |
| |
| - Added extra slk formats supported by ncurses |
| |
| - Fixed bug with resizing the terminal when slk were on. |
| |
| - Changed behavior of slk_attrset(), slk_attron() slk_attroff() |
| functions to work more like ncurses. |
| |
| BUGS FIXED: |
| |
| - some minor bug and portability fixes were included in this release |
| |
| NEW FUNCTIONS: |
| |
| - PDC_getclipboard() and PDC_setclipboard() for accessing the native |
| clipboard (X11, Win32 and OS/2) |
| |
| - 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() |
| |
| - Xinitscr() (only for X11 port) which allows standard X11 switches to |
| be passed to the application |
| |
| NEW COMPILER SUPPORT: |
| |
| - 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 |
| |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: (for this release) |
| |
| 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. |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| PDCurses 2.3 - 1998/07/09 |
| ========================= |
| |
| 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 |
| |
| - 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 |
| |
| - 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. |
| |
| BUGS FIXED: |
| |
| - some minor bugs were corrected in this release |
| |
| NEW FUNCTIONS: |
| |
| - slk..() functions |
| |
| NEW COMPILER SUPPORT: |
| |
| - 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 |
| |
| EXTRA OPTIONS: |
| |
| PDCurses recognizes two environment variables which determines the |
| initialization and finalization behavior. These environment variables |
| do not apply to the X11 port. |
| |
| 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. |
| |
| 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. |
| |
| |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: (for this release) |
| |
| 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. |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| PDCurses 2.2 - 1995/02/12 |
| ========================= |
| |
| INTRODUCTION: |
| |
| This release of PDCurses has includes a number of major changes: |
| |
| - The portable library functions are now grouped together into single |
| files with the same arrangement as System V R4 curses. |
| |
| - A panels library has been included. This panels library was written by |
| Warren Tucker. |
| |
| - Quite a few more functions have been supplied by Wade Schauer and |
| incorporated into release 2.2. Wade also supplied the support for the |
| Microway NDP C/C++ 32 bit DOS compiler. |
| |
| - The curses datatype has been changed from an unsigned int to a long. |
| 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 |
| |
| - removed DESQview shadow memory buffer checking bug in curses.h in |
| #define for wstandout() |
| |
| - lots of others I can't remember |
| |
| NEW FUNCTIONS: |
| |
| - Too many to mention. See intro.man for a complete list of the |
| functions PDCurses now supports. |
| |
| COMPILER SUPPORT: |
| |
| - DJGPP 1.12 is now supported. The run-time error that caused programs |
| to crash has been removed. |
| |
| - emx 0.9a is supported. A program compiled for OS/2 should also work |
| under DOS if you use the VID=EMX switch when compiling. See the |
| makefile for details. |
| |
| - The Microway NDP C/C++ DOS compiler is now supported. Thanks to Wade |
| Schauer for this port. |
| |
| - The Watcom C++ 10.0 DOS compiler is now supported. Thanks to Pieter |
| Kunst for this port. |
| |
| - The library now has many functions grouped together to reduce the size |
| of the library and to improve the speed of compilation. |
| |
| - The "names" of a couple of the compilers in the makefile has changed; |
| CSET2 is now ICC and GO32 is now GCC. |
| |
| EXTRA OPTIONS: |
| |
| One difference between the behavior of PDCurses and Unix curses is the |
| attributes that are displayed when a character is cleared. Under Unix |
| curses, no attributes are displayed, so the result is always black. |
| Under PDCurses, these functions clear with the current attributes in |
| effect at the time. With the introduction of the bkgd functions, by |
| default, PDCurses clears using the value set by (w)bkgd(). To have |
| PDCurses behave the same way as it did before release 2.2, compile with |
| -DPDCURSES_WCLR |
| |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: (for this release) |
| |
| Pieter Kunst, David Nugent, Warren Tucker, Darin Haugen, Stefan Strack, |
| Wade Schauer and others who either alerted me to bugs or supplied |
| fixes. |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| PDCurses 2.1 - 1993/06/20 |
| ========================= |
| |
| INTRODUCTION: |
| |
| The current code contains bug fixes for the DOS and OS/2 releases and |
| also includes an alpha release for Unix. The Unix release uses another |
| public domain package (mytinfo) to handle the low-level screen writes. |
| mytinfo was posted to comp.sources.unix (or misc) in December 1992 or |
| January 1993. Unless you are a glutton for punishment I would recommend |
| you avoid the Unix port at this stage. |
| |
| The other major addition to PDCurses is the support for DJGPP (the DOS |
| port of GNU C++). Thanks to David Nugent <davidn@csource.oz.au>. |
| |
| Other additions are copywin() function, function debugging support and |
| getting the small and medium memory models to work. The testcurs.c demo |
| program has also been changed significantly and a new demo program, |
| tuidemo, has been added. |
| |
| Some people have suggested including information on where to get dmake |
| from. oak.oakland.edu in /pub/msdos/c |
| |
| OTHER NOTES: |
| |
| Under DOS, by default, screen writes to a CGA monitor are done via the |
| video BIOS rather than by direct video memory writes. This is due to |
| the CGA "snow" problem. If you have a CGA monitor and do not suffer |
| from snow, you can compile private\_queryad.c with CGA_DIRECT defined. |
| This will then use cause PDCurses to write directly to the CGA video |
| memory. |
| |
| Function debugging: Firstly to get function debugging, you have to |
| compile the library with OPT=N in the makefile. This also turns on |
| compiler debugging. You can control when you want PDCurses to write to |
| the debug file (called trace in the current directory) by using the |
| functions traceon() and traceoff() in your program. |
| |
| Microsoft C 6.00 Users note: |
| ---------------------------- |
| |
| With the addition of several new functions, using dmake to compile |
| PDCurses now causes the compiler to run "out of heap space in pass 2". |
| Using the 6.00AX version (DOS-Extended) to compile PDCurses fixes this |
| problem; hence the -EM switch. |
| |
| Functional changes |
| ------------------ |
| |
| Added OS/2 DLL support. |
| |
| A few curses functions have been fixed to exhibit their correct |
| behavior and make them more functionally portable with System V |
| curses. The functions that have changed are overlay(), overwrite() and |
| typeahead. |
| |
| overlay() and overwrite() |
| |
| Both of theses functions in PDCurses 2.0 allowed for one window to be |
| effectively placed on top of another, and the characters in the first |
| window were overlaid or overwritten starting at 0,0 in both windows. |
| This behavior of these functions was not correct. These functions only |
| operate on windows that physically overlap with respect to the |
| displayed screen. To achieve the same functionality as before, use the |
| new function copywin(). See the manual page for further details. |
| |
| typeahead() |
| |
| This function in PDCurses 2.0 effectively checked to see if there were |
| any characters remaining in the keyboard buffer. This is not the |
| behavior exhibited by System V curses. This function is intended |
| purely to set a flag so that curses can check while updating the |
| physical screen if any keyboard input is pending. To achieve the same |
| effect with typeahead() under PDCurses 2.1 the following code should be |
| used. |
| |
| In place of... |
| |
| while(!typeahead(stdin)) |
| { |
| /* do something until any key is pressed... */ |
| } |
| |
| use... |
| |
| /* getch() to return ERR if no key pending */ |
| nodelay(stdscr,TRUE); |
| while(getch() == (ERR)) |
| { |
| /* do something until any key is pressed... */ |
| } |
| |
| |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: (in no particular order) |
| |
| Jason Shumate, Pieter Kunst, David Nugent, Andreas Otte, Pasi |
| Hamalainen, James McLennan, Duane Paulson, Ib Hojme |
| |
| Apologies to anyone I may have left out. |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| PDCurses 2.0 - 1992/11/23 |
| ========================= |
| |
| 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. 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 |
| under OS/2 2.0. Also the library has been compiled successfully with |
| emx 0.8e, C Set/2 and Watcom 9. Most testing was done with the large |
| memory model, where applicable. The large memory model is probably the |
| best model to use. |
| |
| The amount of testing has not been as extensive as I would have liked, |
| but demands on releasing a product have outweighed the product's |
| quality. Nothing new with that !! Hopefully with wider circulation, |
| more bugs will be fixed more quickly. |
| |
| I have included just 1 makefile which is suitable for dmake 3.8 for |
| both DOS and OS/2. The makefile does not rely on customization of the |
| dmake.ini file. |
| |
| If you discover bugs, and especially if you have fixes, please let me |
| know ASAP. |
| |
| The source to the library is distributed as a zip file made with zip |
| 1.9. You will need Info-ZIP unzip 5.0 to unzip. Follow the directions |
| below to compile the library. |
| |
| DIRECTIONS: |
| |
| 1. Create a new directory in which to unzip pdcurs20.zip. This will |
| create a curses directory and a number of subdirectories containing |
| source code for the library and utilities and the documentation. |
| |
| 2. Make changes to the makefile where necessary: |
| Change the MODEL or model macro to the appropriate value (if it |
| applies to your compiler). Use model for Borland compilers. |
| |
| Change any paths in the defined macros to be suitable for your |
| compiler. |
| |
| 3. Invoke DMAKE [-e environment_options] [target] |
| |
| where environment_options are: |
| |
| OS (host operating system) |
| COMP (compiler) |
| OPT (optimized version or debug version) - optional. default Y |
| TOS (target operating system) - optional. default OS |
| |
| see the makefile for valid combinations |
| |
| targets: all, demos, lcursesd.lib, manual... |
| |
| NB. dmake is case sensitive with targets, so those environments that |
| use an upper case model value (eg MSC) MUST specify the library |
| target as for eg. Lcursesd.lib |
| |
| The makefile is by default set up for Borland C++. The use of -e |
| environment_options override these defaults. If you prefer, you can |
| just change the defaults in the makefile and invoke it without the |
| -e switch. |
| |
| OTHER NOTES: |
| |
| The documentation for the library is built into each source file, a |
| couple of specific doc files and the header files. A program is |
| supplied (manext) to build the manual. This program gets compiled when |
| you build the documentation. |
| |
| To generate the library response file correctly, I had to write a quick |
| and dirty program (buildlrf) to achieve this. Originally the makefiles |
| just had statements like: "echo -+$(OBJ)\$* & >> $(LRF)" which appended |
| a suitable line to the response file. Unfortunately under some |
| combinations of makefiles and command processors (eg. nmake and 4DOS) |
| the & would get treated as stderr and the echo command would fail. |
| |
| The original source for PDCurses that I received from the previous |
| maintainer contained support for the FLEXOS operating system. Not |
| having access to it, I could not test the changes I made so its support |
| has fallen by the wayside. If you really need to have PDCurses running |
| under FLEXOS, contact me and I will see what can be arranged. |
| |
| Under DOS, by default, screen writes to a CGA monitor are done via the |
| video BIOS rather than by direct video memory writes. This is due to |
| the CGA "snow" problem. If you have a CGA monitor and do not suffer |
| from snow, you can compile private\_queryad.c with CGA_DIRECT defined. |
| This will then use cause PDCurses to write directly to the CGA video |
| memory. |
| |
| Added System V color support. |
| |
| COMPILER-SPECIFIC NOTES: |
| |
| Microsoft C |
| ----------- |
| |
| It is possible with MSC 6.0 to build the OS/2 libraries and demo |
| programs from within DOS. This is the only case where it is possible to |
| specify the value of TOS on the command line to be OS2 and the value of |
| OS be DOS. |
| |
| C Set/2 |
| ------- |
| |
| I have only tested the library using the migration libraries. I doubt |
| that the demo programs will work without them. |
| |
| emx |
| --- |
| |
| Testing has been done with 0.8e of emx together with the 16_to_32 |
| libraries. The emx\lib directory should include the vio32.lib and |
| kbd32.lib libraries from the 16_to_32 package. |
| |
| BUGS and UNFINISHED BUSINESS: |
| |
| - PDC_set_ctrl_break() function does not work under OS/2. |
| |
| - win_print() and PDC_print() do not work under OS/2. |
| |
| - The file todo.man in the doc directory also lists those functions of |
| System V 3.2 curses not yet implemented. Any volunteers? |
| |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: |
| |
| John 'Frotz' Fa'atuai, the previous maintainer for providing an |
| excellent base for further development. |
| John Burnell <johnb@kea.am.dsir.govt.nz>, for the OS/2 port. |
| John Steele, Jason (finally NOT a John) Shumate.... |
| for various fixes and suggestions. |
| Eberhardt Mattes (author of emx) for allowing code based on his |
| C library to be included with PDCurses. |
| Several others for their support, moral and actual. |
| |
| -- Mark Hessling |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| PDCurses 2.0Beta - 1991/12/21 |
| ============================= |
| |
| Changed back from short to int. (int is the correct size for the default |
| platform. Short might be too short on some platforms. This is more |
| portable. I, also, made this mistake.) |
| |
| Many functions are now macros. If you want the real thing, #undef the |
| macro. (X/Open requirement.) |
| |
| Merged many sources into current release. |
| |
| Added many X/Open routines (not quite all yet). |
| |
| Added internal documentation to all routines. |
| |
| Added a HISTORY file to the environment. |
| |
| Added a CONTRIB file to the environment. |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| PDCurses 1.5Beta - 1990/07/14 |
| ============================= |
| |
| Added many levels of compiler support. Added mixed prototypes for all |
| "internal" routines. Removed all assembly language. Added EGA/VGA |
| support. Converted all #ifdef to #if in all modules except CURSES.H and |
| CURSPRIV.H. Always include ASSERT.H. Added support for an external |
| malloc(), calloc() and free(). Added support for FAST_VIDEO |
| (direct-memory writes). Added various memory model support (for |
| FAST_VIDEO). Added much of the December 1988 X/Open Curses |
| specification. |
| |
| -- John 'Frotz' Fa'atuai |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| PCcurses 1.4 - 1990/01/14 |
| ========================= |
| |
| In PCcurses v.1.4, both portability improvements and bugfixes have |
| been made. The files have been changed to allow lint-free compilation |
| with Microsoft C v.5.1, and with Turbo C v.2.0. The source should still |
| compile without problems on older compilers, although this has not been |
| verified. |
| |
| The makefiles have been changed to suit both the public release and |
| the author, who maintains a special kind of libraries for himself. In |
| the case of Microsoft C, changes were done in the makefile to lower the |
| warning level to 2 (was 3). This was to avoid ANSI warnings which are |
| abundant because PCcurses does not attempt to follow strict ANSI C |
| standard. |
| |
| BUG FIXES FROM V.1.3 TO V.1.4: |
| |
| !!!IMPORTANT CHANGE!!! |
| |
| The definitions for OK and ERR in curses.h were exchanged. This was |
| done to be more consistent with UNIX versions. Also, it permits |
| functions like newwin() and subwin() to return 0 (=NULL) when they fail |
| due to memory shortage. This incompatibility with UNIX curses was |
| pointed out by Fred C. Smith. If you have tested success/failure by |
| comparisons to anything other than ERR and OK, your applications will |
| need to be be changed on that point. Sorry... but presumably most of you |
| used the symbolic constants? |
| |
| (END OF IMPORTANT CHANGE) |
| |
| Fred also pointed out a bug in the file update.c. The bug caused the |
| first character printed after 'unauthorized' screen changes (like during |
| a shell escape, for example) to be placed at the wrong screen position. |
| This happened even if the normal precautions (clear / touch / refresh) |
| were taken. The problem has now been fixed. |
| |
| PCcurses is currently also being used on a 68000 system with |
| hard-coded ESCape sequences for ANSI terminals. However, ints used by |
| the 68000 C compiler are 32 bits. Therefore ints have been turned into |
| shorts wherever possible in the code (otherwise all window structures |
| occupy twice as much space as required on the 68000). This does not |
| affect PC versions since normally both ints and shorts are 16 bits for |
| PC C compilers. |
| |
| At some places in the source code there are references made to the |
| 68000 version. There are also a makefile, a curses68.c file, and a |
| curses68.cmd file. These are for making, low-level I/O, and linking |
| commands when building the 68000 version. These files are probably |
| useful to no-one but the author, since it is very specific for its |
| special hardware environment. Still in an effort to keep all |
| curses-related sources in one place they are included. Note however that |
| PCcurses will not officially support a non-PC environment. |
| |
| The file cursesio.c, which was included in the package at revision |
| level 1.2, and which was to be an alternative to the cursesio.asm file, |
| has been verified to behave incorrectly in the function _curseskeytst(). |
| The problem was that the value of 'cflag' does not contain the proper |
| data for the test that is attempted. Furthermore, neither Turbo C or |
| Microsoft C allows any way to return the data that is needed, and |
| consequently you should not use cursesio.c. The best solution is to |
| simply use the ASM version. In v.1.2 and v.1.3, the user could edit the |
| makefile to select which version he wanted to use. The makefiles in |
| v.1.4 have removed this possibility forcing the use of the ASM file, and |
| cursesio.c has been dropped from the distribution. |
| |
| A bug in the wgetstr() function caused PCcurses to echo characters |
| when reading a keyboard string, even if the echo had been turned off. |
| Thanks to Per Foreby at Lund University, Sweden, for this. Per also |
| reported bugs concerning the handling of characters with bit 8 set. |
| Their ASCII code were considered as lower than 32, so they were erased |
| etc. like control characters, i.e. erasing two character positions. The |
| control character test was changed to cope with this. |
| |
| The overlay() and overwrite() functions were changed so that the |
| overlaying window is positioned at its 'own' coordinates inside the |
| underlying window (it used to be at the underlying window's [0,0] |
| position). There is some controversy about this - the documentation for |
| different curses versions say different things. I think the choice made |
| is the most reasonable. |
| |
| The border() and wborder() functions were changed to actually draw a |
| border, since this seems to be the correct behavior of these functions. |
| They used to just set the border characters to be used by box(). These |
| functions are not present in standard BSD UNIX curses. |
| |
| The subwin() function previously did not allow the subwindow to be as |
| big as the original window in which it was created. This has now been |
| fixed. There was also the problem that the default size (set by |
| specifying numlines or numcols (or both) as 0 made the resulting actual |
| size 1 line/column too small. |
| |
| There were a few spelling errors in function names, both in the |
| function declarations and in curses.h. This was reported by Carlos |
| Amaral at INESC in Portugal. Thanks! There was also an unnecessary (but |
| harmless) parameter in a function call at one place. |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| PCcurses 1.3 - 1988/10/05 |
| ========================= |
| |
| The file 'border.c' is now included. It allows you to explicitly |
| specify what characters should be used as box borders when the box() |
| functions are called. If the new border characters are non-0, they |
| override the border characters specified in the box() call. In my |
| understanding, this functionality is required for AT&T UNIX sV.3 |
| compatibility. Thanks for this goes to Tony L. Hansen |
| (hansen@pegasus.UUCP) for posting an article about it on Usenet |
| (newsgroup comp.unix.questions; his posting was not related at all to |
| PCcurses). |
| |
| The only other difference between v.1.2 and v.1.3 is that the latter |
| has been changed to avoid warning diagnostics if the source files are |
| compiled with warning switches on (for Microsoft this means '-W3', for |
| Turbo C it means '-w -w-pro'). Of these, the Turbo C warning check is |
| clearly to be used rather than Microsoft, even if neither of them comes |
| even close to a real UNIX 'lint'. Some of the warnings in fact indicated |
| real bugs, mostly functions that did not return correct return values or |
| types. |
| |
| The makefiles for both MSC and TRC have been modified to produce |
| warning messages as part of normal compilation. |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| PCcurses 1.2 - 1988/10/02 |
| ========================= |
| |
| The changes from v.1.1 to v.1.2 are minor. The biggest change is that |
| there was a bug related to limiting the cursor movement if the |
| application tried to move it outside the screen (something that should |
| not be done anyway). Such erroneous application behavior is now handled |
| appropriately. |
| |
| All modules have been changed to have a revision string in them, which |
| makes it easier to determine what version is linked into a program (or |
| what library version you have). |
| |
| There is now a 'cursesio.c' file. That file does the same as |
| 'cursesio.asm' (i.e. it provides the interface to the lower-level system |
| I/O routines). It is written in C and thus it is (possibly) more |
| portable than the assembler version (but still not so portable since it |
| uses 8086 INT XX calls directly). When one creates new curses libraries, |
| one chooses whether to use the assembler or the C version of cursesio. |
| The choice is made by commenting out the appropriate dependencies for |
| cursesio.obj, near the end of the makefiles. |
| |
| There is now a 'setmode.c' file. That file contains functions that |
| save and restore terminal modes. They do it into other variables than do |
| savetty() and resetty(), so one should probably use either |
| savetty()/resetty() or the new functions only - and not mix the both |
| ways unless one really knows what one does. |
| |
| Diff lists vs v.1.0 are no longer included in the distribution. The |
| make utility still is. PCcurses v.1.2 still compiles with Microsoft C |
| v.4.0, and with Borland Turbo C v.1.0. There is as far as I know no |
| reason to believe that it does not compile under Microsoft C v.3.0 and |
| 5.x, or Turbo C v.1.5, but this has not been tested. |
| |
| There are two makefiles included, one for Microsoft C, one for Turbo |
| C. They are both copies of my personal makefiles, and as such they |
| reflect the directory structure on my own computer. This will have to be |
| changed before you run make. Check $(INCDIR) and $(LIBDIR) in |
| particular, and make the choice of ASM or C cursesio version as |
| mentioned above (the distribution version uses the C version of |
| cursesio). |
| |
| The manual file (curses.man) has been changed at appropriate places. |
| |
| I would like to thank the following persons for their help: |
| |
| Brandon S. Allbery (alberry@ncoast.UUCP) |
| for running comp.binaries.ibm.pc (at that time) |
| and comp.source.misc. |
| |
| Steve Balogh (Steve@cit5.cit.oz.AU) |
| for writing a set of manual pages and posting |
| them to the net. |
| |
| Torbjorn Lindh |
| for finding bugs and suggesting raw |
| character output routines. |
| |
| Nathan Glasser (nathan@eddie.mit.edu) |
| for finding and reporting bugs. |
| |
| Ingvar Olafsson (...enea!hafro!ingvar) |
| for finding and reporting bugs. |
| |
| Eric Rosco (...enea!ipmoea!ericr) |
| for finding and reporting bugs. |
| |
| Steve Creps (creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu) |
| for doing a lot of work - among others |
| posting bug fixes to the net, and writing |
| the new cursesio.c module. |
| |
| N. Dean Pentcheff (dean@violet.berkeley.edu) |
| for finding bugs and rewriting cursesio.asm |
| for Turbo 'C' 1.5. |
| |
| Finally, Jeff Dean (parcvax,hplabs}!cdp!jeff) |
| (jeff@ads.arpa) |
| has had a shareware version of curses deliverable since |
| about half a year before I released PCcurses 1.0 on Use- |
| Net. He is very concerned about confusion between the two |
| packages, and therefore any references on the network |
| should make clear whether they reference Dean's PCcurses |
| or Larsson's PCcurses. |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| PCcurses 1.1 - 1988/03/06 |
| ========================= |
| |
| The changes from v.1.0 to v.1.1 are minor. There are a few bug fixes, |
| and new (non-portable) functions for verbatim IBM character font display |
| have been added (in charadd.c and charins.c). The manual file |
| (curses.man) has been changed at appropriate places. |
| |
| In the file v10tov11.dif there are listings of the differences between |
| version 1.0 and 1.1. The diff listings are in UNIX diff(1) format. |
| |
| Version 1.1 compiles with Turbo C v.1.0, as well as Microsoft C v.3.0 |
| and v.4.0. On the release disk there is a make.exe utility which is very |
| similar to UNIX make (If the package was mailed to you, the make utility |
| will be in uuencoded format - in make.uu - and must be uudecoded first). |
| It is much more powerful than Microsoft's different MAKEs; the latter |
| ones will NOT generate libraries properly if used with the PCcurses |
| makefiles. |
| |
| There are three makefiles: |
| |
| makefile generic MSC 3.0 makefile |
| makefile.ms MSC 4.0 makefile |
| makefile.tc Turbo C 1.0 makefile |
| |
| To make a library with for example Turbo C, make directories to hold |
| .H and .LIB files (these directories are the 'standard places'), edit |
| makefile.tc for this, and type |
| |
| make -f makefile.tc all |
| |
| and libraries for all memory models will be created in the .LIB |
| directory, while the include files will end up in the .H directory. Also |
| read what is said about installation below! |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| PCcurses 1.0 - 1987/08/24 |
| ========================= |
| |
| This is the release notes for the PCcurses v.1.0 cursor/window control |
| package. PCcurses offers the functionality of UNIX curses, plus some |
| extras. Normally it should be possible to port curses-based programs |
| from UNIX curses to PCcurses on the IBM PC without changes. PCcurses is |
| a port/ rewrite of Pavel Curtis' public domain 'ncurses' package. All |
| the code has been re-written - it is not just an edit of ncurses (or |
| UNIX curses). I mention this to clarify any copyright violation claims. |
| The data structures and ideas are very similar to ncurses. As for UNIX |
| curses, I have not even seen any sources for it. |
| |
| For an introduction to the use of 'curses' and its derivatives, you |
| should read 'Screen Updating and Cursor Movement Optimization: A Library |
| Package' by Kenneth C. R. C. Arnold, which describes the original |
| Berkeley UNIX version of curses. It is available as part of the UNIX |
| manuals. The other source of information is 'The Ncurses Reference |
| Manual' by Pavel Curtis. The latter is part of Curtis' ncurses package. |
| |
| The only other documentation provided is a 'man' page which describes |
| all the included functions in a very terse way. In the sources, each |
| function is preceded by a rather thorough description of what the |
| function does. I didn't have time to write a nice manual/tutorial - |
| sorry. |
| |
| PCcurses is released as a number of source files, a man page, and a |
| make file. A uuencoded copy of a 'make' utility, and a manpage for the |
| 'make' is also provided to make it easier to put together PCcurses |
| libraries. Even if you are not interested in PCcurses, it may be |
| worthwhile to grab the make. |
| |
| The makefile assumes the presence of the Microsoft C compiler (3.0 or |
| 4.0), Microsoft MASM and LIB, plus some MS-DOS utilities. The reason for |
| supplying MAKE.EXE is that the Microsoft 'MAKE:s' are much inferior to a |
| real UNIX make. The supplied make is a port of a public domain make, |
| published on Usenet. It is almost completely compatible with UNIX make. |
| When generating the curses libraries, the makefile will direct make to |
| do some directory creating and file copying, and then re-invoke itself |
| with new targets. The workings of the makefile are not absolutely |
| crystal clear at first sight... just start it and see what it does. |
| |
| For portability, the curses libraries depend on one assembler file for |
| access to the BIOS routines. There is no support for the EGA, but both |
| CGA, MGA, and the HGA can be used. The libraries are originally for |
| Microsoft C, but all C modules should be portable right away. In the |
| assembler file, segment names probably need to be changed, and possibly |
| the parameter passing scheme. I think Turbo C will work right away - as |
| far as I understand, all its conventions are compatible with Microsoft |
| C. |
| |
| There are some parts left out between ncurses and PCcurses. One is the |
| support for multiple terminals - not very interesting on a PC anyway. |
| Because we KNOW what terminal we have, there is no need for a termcap or |
| terminfo library. PCcurses also has some things that neither curses nor |
| ncurses have. Compared to the original UNIX curses, PCcurses has lots of |
| extras. |
| |
| The BIOS routines are used directly, which gives fast screen updates. |
| PCcurses does not do direct writes to screen RAM - in my opinion it is |
| a bit ugly to rely that much on hardware compatibility. Anyone could fix |
| that, of course... |
| |
| One of the more serious problems with PCcurses is the way in which |
| normal, cbreak, and raw input modes are done. All those details are in |
| the 'charget' module - I do raw I/O via the BIOS, and perform any |
| buffering myself. If an application program uses PCcurses, it should do |
| ALL its I/O via PCcurses calls, otherwise the mix of normal and |
| PCcurses I/O may mess up the display. I think my code is reasonable... |
| comments are welcome, provided you express them nicely... |
| |
| To install, copy all files to a work directory, edit 'makefile' to |
| define the standard include and library file directory names of your |
| choice (these directories must exist already, and their path names must |
| be relative to the root directory, not to the current one). You must |
| also run uudecode on make.uu, to generate MAKE.EXE. You can do that on |
| your PC, if you have uudecode there, otherwise you can do it under UNIX |
| and do a binary transfer to the PC. When you have MAKE.EXE in your work |
| directory (or in your /bin directory), type make. |
| |
| Make will now create 4 sub-directories (one for each memory model), |
| copy some assembler include files into them, copy two include files to |
| your include directory, CHDIR to each sub-directory and re-invoke itself |
| with other make targets to compile and assemble all the source files |
| into the appropriate directories. Then the library manager is run to |
| create the library files in your desired library directory. Presto! |
| |
| If you only want to generate a library for one memory model, type |
| 'make small', 'make large', etc. The name of the memory model must be in |
| lower case, like in the makefile. |
| |
| I think the package is fairly well debugged - but then again, that's |
| what I always think. It was completed in May-87, and no problems found |
| yet. Now it's your turn... Comments, suggestions and bug reports and |
| fixes (no flames please) to |
| |
| -- Bjorn Larsson |