[823] | 1 | /* $Id: NEWS 1105 2006-09-25 16:12:17Z sam $ */ /** \page news News |
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[1094] | 3 | \section news0_99_beta5 Changes between 0.9.beta5 and 0.99.beta4 |
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| 5 | - implemented cucul_getchar() and cucul_get_color() |
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| 6 | - handle transparency in the IRC export |
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| 7 | - new cropping and expanding filters |
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| 8 | - full Unicode support in the OpenGL driver |
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| 9 | - portability fixes for 64-bit architectures, Win32 and MS-DOS |
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| 10 | - all demos except cacafire were merged into cacademo |
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[1021] | 12 | \section news0_99_beta4 Changes between 0.9.beta4 and 0.99.beta3 |
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| 14 | - added a compatibility layer for pre-1.x libcaca applications |
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| 15 | - fixed manpage generation |
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| 16 | - minor bugfixes and documentation updates |
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[1010] | 18 | \section news0_99_beta3 Changes between 0.9.beta3 and 0.99.beta2 |
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| 20 | - libcaca functions use errno for error reporting |
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| 21 | - updated C++ bindings |
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| 22 | - minor improvements, bugfixes and documentation updates |
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[992] | 24 | \section news0_99_beta2 Changes between 0.9.beta2 and 0.99.beta1 |
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[846] | 25 | |
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[992] | 26 | - ANSI importer |
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| 27 | - functions use errno for error reporting |
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| 28 | - updated C++ bindings |
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| 29 | - .NET bindings |
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| 30 | - cacadraw, an ANSI viewer that will evolve into an editor |
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| 31 | - Unicode input and output support for SLang and ncurses |
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| 32 | - built-in fonts work on Win32 |
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| 34 | \section news0_99_beta1 Changes between 0.9 and 0.99.beta1 |
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[852] | 36 | - license switched to WTFPL |
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[846] | 37 | - libcaca was split into libcucul, a standalone text manipulation backend, |
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| 38 | and libcaca, the display and user input frontend |
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| 39 | - Unicode support |
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[852] | 40 | - TrueColor (more than 16 colours) support |
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[846] | 41 | - Floyd-Steinberg dithering |
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| 42 | - gamma correction |
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[852] | 43 | - export functions for HTML, IRC, ANSI, SVG, PostScript, TGA... |
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[846] | 44 | - builtin fonts for device-independent bitmap output |
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| 45 | - various text transformation routines (rotation, horizontal flip...) |
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| 46 | - OpenGL renderer |
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[852] | 47 | - kernel mode to build libcaca programs into a bootable x86 kernel |
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[846] | 48 | - cacaserver, a telnet server that can be hooked to libcaca applications |
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| 49 | - img2irc, an image to IRC conversion utility |
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[823] | 51 | \section news0_9 Changes between 0.8 and 0.9 |
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[362] | 52 | |
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[823] | 53 | - fix for a buffer overflow in the line rendering |
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| 54 | - fixed resizing in the ncurses and slang drivers |
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| 55 | - aspect ratio and finer zoom support in cacaview |
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| 56 | - minor compilation fixes |
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[362] | 57 | |
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[823] | 58 | \section news0_8 Changes between 0.7 and 0.8 |
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[334] | 59 | |
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[823] | 60 | - window resizing support |
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| 61 | - native Win32 port |
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| 62 | - autorepeat emulation in the ncurses and slang drivers |
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| 63 | - support for more keycodes in the ncurses and slang drivers |
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| 64 | - cacaplas, a plasma animation example |
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[1105] | 65 | - cacamoir, a moire circles animation example |
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[823] | 66 | - MSVC project file |
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[334] | 67 | |
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[823] | 68 | \section news0_7 Changes between 0.6 and 0.7 |
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[322] | 69 | |
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[823] | 70 | - many bugfixes in the event handling |
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| 71 | - cacaball, a metaball animation example |
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[823] | 73 | \section news0_6 Changes between 0.5 and 0.6 |
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[310] | 74 | |
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[823] | 75 | - 30% speed increase in the bitmap rendering routine |
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| 76 | - mouse support and various speed optimisations in the X11 driver |
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| 77 | - X11 is now the preferred driver |
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| 78 | - improved documentation |
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| 79 | - minor bugfixes |
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[823] | 81 | \section news0_5 Changes between 0.4 and 0.5 |
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[282] | 82 | |
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[823] | 83 | - palette optimisation for the S-Lang driver to work around the colour pair |
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[282] | 84 | shortage bug |
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[823] | 85 | - minor compilation fix |
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[282] | 86 | |
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[823] | 87 | \section news0_4 Changes between 0.3 and 0.4 |
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[270] | 88 | |
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[823] | 89 | - preliminary X11 graphics driver |
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| 90 | - support for simultaneously compiled-in drivers |
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| 91 | - honour the CACA_DRIVER, CACA_GEOMETRY and CACA_FONT environment variables |
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| 92 | - more documentation |
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[823] | 94 | \section news0_3 Changes between 0.2 and 0.3 |
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[823] | 96 | - antialiasing support |
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| 97 | - dithering, antialiasing and background mode can now be selected at |
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[258] | 98 | runtime or in the environment using the CACA_BACKGROUND, CACA_DITHERING |
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| 99 | and CACA_ANTIALIASING variables |
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[823] | 100 | - alpha channel support in cacaview |
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| 101 | - BMP loading support in cacaview even if Imlib2 is not present |
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| 102 | - cacafire, a libcaca port of aafire |
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[823] | 104 | \section news0_2 Changes between 0.1 and 0.2 |
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[823] | 106 | - rendering now uses 256 colour pairs instead of 16 |
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| 107 | - mouse support for ncurses |
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| 108 | - ncurses is now the preferred backend |
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| 109 | - arbitrary color depth and bitmasks in the bitmap renderer |
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| 110 | - cacaview, an image viewer based on libcaca |
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[823] | 112 | \section news_0_1 New in 0.1 |
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[242] | 113 | |
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[823] | 114 | - initial release |
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| 115 | - slang, ncurses and conio drivers |
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| 116 | - basic line, box, ellipse and triangle primitives |
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| 117 | - colour bitmap blitting |
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[823] | 119 | */ |
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