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@wmcbrine wmcbrine released this 11 Apr 16:06
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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.
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