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| This is a log of changes that the ncurses C++ binding has gone | |
| through starting with the integration of menu and forms integration | |
| into the binding. | |
| 990731 + Improve support for pads. A viewport window may now be added to | |
| a pad. It will then be possible to use a builtin panning mechanism | |
| to view the pad. | |
| 970908 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to | |
| cover more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and | |
| noutrefresh() virtual members to allow different implementation | |
| in the NCursesPanel class. | |
| + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of | |
| NCursesWindow class. | |
| + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a | |
| reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added | |
| noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel. | |
| + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform | |
| functionality. | |
| + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to | |
| etip.h | |
| + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration | |
| of menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of | |
| title lines and Soft-Label-Keys for an application. | |
| + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menus fieldlist. | |
| + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for | |
| menus. | |
| + Enhanced demo. | |
| 970502 | |
| + Introduced the THROW and THROWS functions/macros to prepare | |
| a smoother transition to real exception handling. | |
| + Exception classes provided in etip.h | |
| + Added the NCursesMenu class to support libmenu functionality. | |
| + The inheritace relation between NCursesWindow and NCursesColorWindow | |
| was kind of brain damage. Monochrome is a special case of colored, so | |
| the relation should be just the opposite. This would allow all | |
| derived classes like NCursesPanel, NCursesMenu or NCursesForm to | |
| have colors. | |
| To resolve that design flaw I put the color functionality into the | |
| NCursesWindow class and it can be switched on by the static member | |
| useColors(). NCursesColorWindow is still there for compatibility | |
| reasons. |