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| micky387 | 9b9f5e7 | 2025-07-08 18:04:53 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | -- $Id: NEWS,v 1.6 2021/06/17 21:20:30 tom Exp $ |
| Amit Daniel Kachhap | e6a01f5 | 2011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 31 | This is a log of changes that the ncurses C++ binding has gone |
| 32 | through starting with the integration of menu and forms integration |
| 33 | into the binding. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | 990731 + Improve support for pads. A viewport window may now be added to |
| 36 | a pad. It will then be possible to use a builtin panning mechanism |
| 37 | to view the pad. |
| 38 | |
| 39 | 970908 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to |
| micky387 | 9b9f5e7 | 2025-07-08 18:04:53 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 40 | cover more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and |
| Amit Daniel Kachhap | e6a01f5 | 2011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | noutrefresh() virtual members to allow different implementation |
| 42 | in the NCursesPanel class. |
| 43 | + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of |
| 44 | NCursesWindow class. |
| 45 | + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a |
| micky387 | 9b9f5e7 | 2025-07-08 18:04:53 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added |
| Amit Daniel Kachhap | e6a01f5 | 2011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel. |
| 48 | + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform |
| 49 | functionality. |
| 50 | + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to |
| 51 | etip.h |
| micky387 | 9b9f5e7 | 2025-07-08 18:04:53 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration |
| Amit Daniel Kachhap | e6a01f5 | 2011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | of menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of |
| 54 | title lines and Soft-Label-Keys for an application. |
| 55 | + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menus fieldlist. |
| 56 | + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for |
| 57 | menus. |
| 58 | + Enhanced demo. |
| 59 | 970502 |
| 60 | + Introduced the THROW and THROWS functions/macros to prepare |
| 61 | a smoother transition to real exception handling. |
| 62 | + Exception classes provided in etip.h |
| 63 | + Added the NCursesMenu class to support libmenu functionality. |
| 64 | + The inheritace relation between NCursesWindow and NCursesColorWindow |
| 65 | was kind of brain damage. Monochrome is a special case of colored, so |
| micky387 | 9b9f5e7 | 2025-07-08 18:04:53 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 66 | the relation should be just the opposite. This would allow all |
| 67 | derived classes like NCursesPanel, NCursesMenu or NCursesForm to |
| Amit Daniel Kachhap | e6a01f5 | 2011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 68 | have colors. |
| micky387 | 9b9f5e7 | 2025-07-08 18:04:53 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 69 | To resolve that design flaw I put the color functionality into the |
| Amit Daniel Kachhap | e6a01f5 | 2011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 70 | NCursesWindow class and it can be switched on by the static member |
| 71 | useColors(). NCursesColorWindow is still there for compatibility |
| 72 | reasons. |