| 1 | /* $Id: NEWS 852 2006-04-22 21:51:50Z sam $ */ /** \page news News |
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| 3 | \section news0_99 Changes between 0.9 and 0.99 |
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| 4 | |
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| 5 | - license switched to WTFPL |
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| 6 | - libcaca was split into libcucul, a standalone text manipulation backend, |
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| 7 | and libcaca, the display and user input frontend |
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| 8 | - Unicode support |
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| 9 | - TrueColor (more than 16 colours) support |
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| 10 | - Floyd-Steinberg dithering |
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| 11 | - gamma correction |
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| 12 | - export functions for HTML, IRC, ANSI, SVG, PostScript, TGA... |
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| 13 | - builtin fonts for device-independent bitmap output |
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| 14 | - various text transformation routines (rotation, horizontal flip...) |
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| 15 | - OpenGL renderer |
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| 16 | - kernel mode to build libcaca programs into a bootable x86 kernel |
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| 17 | - cacaserver, a telnet server that can be hooked to libcaca applications |
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| 18 | - img2irc, an image to IRC conversion utility |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | \section news0_9 Changes between 0.8 and 0.9 |
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| 21 | |
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| 22 | - fix for a buffer overflow in the line rendering |
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| 23 | - fixed resizing in the ncurses and slang drivers |
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| 24 | - aspect ratio and finer zoom support in cacaview |
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| 25 | - minor compilation fixes |
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| 26 | |
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| 27 | \section news0_8 Changes between 0.7 and 0.8 |
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| 28 | |
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| 29 | - window resizing support |
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| 30 | - native Win32 port |
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| 31 | - autorepeat emulation in the ncurses and slang drivers |
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| 32 | - support for more keycodes in the ncurses and slang drivers |
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| 33 | - cacaplas, a plasma animation example |
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| 34 | - cacamoir, a moiré circles animation example |
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| 35 | - MSVC project file |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | \section news0_7 Changes between 0.6 and 0.7 |
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| 38 | |
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| 39 | - many bugfixes in the event handling |
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| 40 | - cacaball, a metaball animation example |
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| 41 | |
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| 42 | \section news0_6 Changes between 0.5 and 0.6 |
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| 43 | |
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| 44 | - 30% speed increase in the bitmap rendering routine |
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| 45 | - mouse support and various speed optimisations in the X11 driver |
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| 46 | - X11 is now the preferred driver |
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| 47 | - improved documentation |
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| 48 | - minor bugfixes |
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| 49 | |
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| 50 | \section news0_5 Changes between 0.4 and 0.5 |
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| 51 | |
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| 52 | - palette optimisation for the S-Lang driver to work around the colour pair |
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| 53 | shortage bug |
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| 54 | - minor compilation fix |
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| 55 | |
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| 56 | \section news0_4 Changes between 0.3 and 0.4 |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | - preliminary X11 graphics driver |
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| 59 | - support for simultaneously compiled-in drivers |
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| 60 | - honour the CACA_DRIVER, CACA_GEOMETRY and CACA_FONT environment variables |
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| 61 | - more documentation |
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| 62 | |
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| 63 | \section news0_3 Changes between 0.2 and 0.3 |
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| 64 | |
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| 65 | - antialiasing support |
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| 66 | - dithering, antialiasing and background mode can now be selected at |
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| 67 | runtime or in the environment using the CACA_BACKGROUND, CACA_DITHERING |
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| 68 | and CACA_ANTIALIASING variables |
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| 69 | - alpha channel support in cacaview |
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| 70 | - BMP loading support in cacaview even if Imlib2 is not present |
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| 71 | - cacafire, a libcaca port of aafire |
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| 72 | |
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| 73 | \section news0_2 Changes between 0.1 and 0.2 |
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| 74 | |
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| 75 | - rendering now uses 256 colour pairs instead of 16 |
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| 76 | - mouse support for ncurses |
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| 77 | - ncurses is now the preferred backend |
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| 78 | - arbitrary color depth and bitmasks in the bitmap renderer |
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| 79 | - cacaview, an image viewer based on libcaca |
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| 80 | |
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| 81 | \section news_0_1 New in 0.1 |
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| 82 | |
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| 83 | - initial release |
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| 84 | - slang, ncurses and conio drivers |
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| 85 | - basic line, box, ellipse and triangle primitives |
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| 86 | - colour bitmap blitting |
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| 87 | |
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| 88 | */ |
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