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PDCurses v3.6 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-04-11 // about 6 years ago

  • Tidying up some loose ends from 3.5, and trying to bring all platforms
    up to the same level, as much as possible.

    🆕 New features

    🏁 256 colors for the Windows console -- under Windows 10 or ConEmu,
    only. This version doesn't allow init_color() or color_content() for
    🏁 colors 16-255, just uses Windows' predefined palette (which matches
    0️⃣ xterm-256color, like the default colors in X11 and SDL).

    🏁 Real blinking for the Windows console (all), and for OS/2 -- done in
    🏁 software, like the Windows version -- replacing the erraticly working
    Vio-based version (which didn't work at all in my OS/2 4.5 VM). OS/2
    now always has 16 colors, and bright backgrounds can combine with
    blinking.

    🏁 In DOS, OS/2 and Windows, attribute behavior now more closely matches
    👀 that of the more "advanced" ports (X11 and SDL) -- see the Attribute
    ✅ test in testcurs.

    All of the A_* and WA_* attributes from X/Open are now defined in
    curses.h, although some are no-ops, pending the availablity of more
    attribute bits. A_INVIS is now a no-op on all platforms, instead of
    overloading A_ITALIC, and so is A_PROTECT. A_LEFT and A_RIGHT are now
    synonyms for PDCurses' old *LINE attributes.

    🐛 Bug fixes and such

    🏗 For the X11 port, "make install" and the dynamic library build were
    🔧 broken, since the configure move. Fixes partly after Mark Hessling.

    📇 Renamed "win32" to the more accurate/descriptive "wincon" (i.e.
    🏁 WINdows CONsole). Makefiles for all platforms renamed to remove the
    👍 redundant platform names, and to allow better sorting.

    In SDL2, apps that didn't explicitly handle resizing locked up. Now,
    they can continue running, at their old size. (To Do: xmas is still a
    basket case.)

    ➕ Added "/MACHINE:$(PLATFORM)" to wincon/Makefile.vc -- Thomas Dickey
    🏗 says this is needed to build 64-bit with Visual Studio Express 2012.
    ⚠ With 2017, it suppresses a warning.

    ⚠ Suppressed "Possibly incorrect assignment" warnings with BCC, which
    also results in more readable code.

    ✏️ Cleaned up obsolete comments, dead code, unneeded includes, typos, and
    📚 outdated documentation.

    ⬇️ Dropped support for EMXVIDEO.

    ⬇️ Dropped color remapping for OS/2 (broken).

    ⬇️ Dropped X11 DLL support for Cygwin (broken).

    ✅ Rearranged extended color display in testcurs.

    ✅ In ptest, handle resizing, and check for screens too small to run in.

    Allow KEY_* codes (including KEY_RESIZE) to exit firework, as other
    keys do.

    🏁 Slightly faster Windows compilation (most noticeable in Watcom).

    👀 See the git log for more details.