| 1 | /* $Id: NEWS 3600 2009-08-02 11:08:58Z sam $ */ /** \page libcaca-news Libcaca news |
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| 3 | \section news0_99_beta17 Changes between 0.9.beta17 and 0.99.beta16 |
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| 5 | - new dirty rectangle framework for accelerated rendering |
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| 6 | - new <conio.h> compatible header for old DOS software porting |
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| 7 | - XCode and Visual Studio build improvements |
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| 8 | - improved HTML output |
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| 9 | - improved Ruby and .NET bindings |
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| 10 | - new comprehensive PHP bindings |
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| 11 | - Cocoa driver enhancements |
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| 12 | - documentation updates |
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| 13 | - minor improvements and bugfixes |
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| 14 | |
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| 15 | \section news0_99_beta16 Changes between 0.9.beta16 and 0.99.beta15 |
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| 17 | - many build fixes, especially for nonstandard platforms |
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| 18 | |
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| 19 | \section news0_99_beta15 Changes between 0.9.beta15 and 0.99.beta14 |
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| 20 | |
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| 21 | - libcucul was merged back into libcaca for more clarity |
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| 22 | |
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| 23 | \section news0_99_beta14 Changes between 0.9.beta14 and 0.99.beta13 |
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| 24 | |
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| 25 | - internal FIGlet font support |
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| 26 | - use C99 types in public headers |
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| 27 | - runtime support for output drivers |
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| 28 | - BBcode export support |
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| 29 | |
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| 30 | \section news0_99_beta13 Changes between 0.9.beta13 and 0.99.beta12 |
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| 31 | |
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| 32 | - device-dependent cursor support |
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| 33 | - event API rewrite |
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| 34 | - minor API improvements and extensions |
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| 35 | - img2txt improvements |
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| 36 | - Ruby bindings |
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| 37 | - Massive C# bindings improvements |
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| 38 | - Python sample code |
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| 39 | - Visual Studio build solution |
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| 40 | |
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| 41 | \section news0_99_beta12 Changes between 0.9.beta12 and 0.99.beta11 |
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| 42 | |
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| 43 | - support for 90-degree canvas rotation |
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| 44 | - better behaviour when trying to output Unicode on an ASCII terminal |
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| 45 | - the built-in font now supports the Geometric Shapes, Halfwidth and Fullwidth |
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| 46 | Forms and Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode blocks |
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| 47 | - new rotozoom effect in cacademo |
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| 48 | - Cocoa output driver for Mac OS X |
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| 49 | - preliminary .NET bindings |
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| 50 | - many bugfixes and documentation changes |
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| 51 | |
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| 52 | \section news0_99_beta11 Changes between 0.9.beta11 and 0.99.beta10 |
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| 53 | |
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| 54 | - fixed compilation of the C++ bindings |
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| 55 | - fixed bugs in cucul_import_memory(), cucul_set_canvas_size() |
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| 56 | - implemented caca_set_display_title() for ncurses and S-Lang |
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| 57 | - minor bugfixes |
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| 58 | |
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| 59 | \section news0_99_beta10 Changes between 0.9.beta10 and 0.99.beta9 |
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| 60 | |
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| 61 | - new debug mode |
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| 62 | - blitting canvases now makes use of the canvas' handle coordinates |
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| 63 | - import functions can read streamed data |
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| 64 | - attribute to colorspace transformations |
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| 65 | - added katakana and hiragana glyphs to the built-in font |
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| 66 | - many bugfixes and documentation changes |
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| 67 | |
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| 68 | \section news0_99_beta9 Changes between 0.9.beta9 and 0.99.beta8 |
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| 69 | |
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| 70 | - support for blink, bold, italics and underline attributes |
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| 71 | - allow to import and export zero-sized canvases |
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| 72 | - fixed Imlib2 support in cacaview |
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| 73 | - fixed buffer overlows in the file importer |
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| 74 | - big documentation updates |
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| 75 | |
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| 76 | \section news0_99_beta8 Changes between 0.9.beta8 and 0.99.beta7 |
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| 77 | |
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| 78 | - allow to build the X11 and GL drivers as separate plugins |
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| 79 | - support for fullwidth Unicode characters |
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| 80 | - improved cucul_flip() and cucul_rotate() |
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| 81 | - minor bugfixes and documentation updates |
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| 82 | |
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| 83 | \section news0_99_beta7 Changes between 0.9.beta7 and 0.99.beta6 |
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| 84 | |
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| 85 | - transparency support in the UTF-8 importer and exporter |
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| 86 | - optimised triangle fill routine |
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| 87 | - updated C++ bindings |
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| 88 | |
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| 89 | \section news0_99_beta6 Changes between 0.9.beta6 and 0.99.beta5 |
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| 90 | |
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| 91 | - ANSI importer now handles transparency and UTF-8 |
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| 92 | - Unicode support was broken for about 10% of the set |
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| 93 | - various memory leaks were fixed |
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| 94 | |
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| 95 | \section news0_99_beta5 Changes between 0.9.beta5 and 0.99.beta4 |
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| 96 | |
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| 97 | - implemented cucul_getchar() and cucul_get_color() |
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| 98 | - handle transparency in the IRC export |
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| 99 | - new cropping and expanding filters |
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| 100 | - full Unicode support in the OpenGL driver |
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| 101 | - portability fixes for 64-bit architectures, Win32 and MS-DOS |
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| 102 | - all demos except cacafire were merged into cacademo |
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| 103 | |
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| 104 | \section news0_99_beta4 Changes between 0.9.beta4 and 0.99.beta3 |
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| 105 | |
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| 106 | - added a compatibility layer for pre-1.x libcaca applications |
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| 107 | - fixed manpage generation |
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| 108 | - minor bugfixes and documentation updates |
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| 109 | |
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| 110 | \section news0_99_beta3 Changes between 0.9.beta3 and 0.99.beta2 |
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| 111 | |
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| 112 | - libcaca functions use errno for error reporting |
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| 113 | - updated C++ bindings |
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| 114 | - minor improvements, bugfixes and documentation updates |
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| 115 | |
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| 116 | \section news0_99_beta2 Changes between 0.9.beta2 and 0.99.beta1 |
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| 117 | |
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| 118 | - ANSI importer |
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| 119 | - functions use errno for error reporting |
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| 120 | - updated C++ bindings |
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| 121 | - .NET bindings |
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| 122 | - cacadraw, an ANSI viewer that will evolve into an editor |
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| 123 | - Unicode input and output support for SLang and ncurses |
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| 124 | - built-in fonts work on Win32 |
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| 125 | |
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| 126 | \section news0_99_beta1 Changes between 0.9 and 0.99.beta1 |
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| 127 | |
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| 128 | - license switched to WTFPL |
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| 129 | - libcaca was split into libcucul, a standalone text manipulation backend, |
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| 130 | and libcaca, the display and user input frontend |
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| 131 | - Unicode support |
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| 132 | - TrueColor (more than 16 colours) support |
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| 133 | - Floyd-Steinberg dithering |
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| 134 | - gamma correction |
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| 135 | - export functions for HTML, IRC, ANSI, SVG, PostScript, TGA... |
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| 136 | - builtin fonts for device-independent bitmap output |
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| 137 | - various text transformation routines (rotation, horizontal flip...) |
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| 138 | - OpenGL renderer |
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| 139 | - kernel mode to build libcaca programs into a bootable x86 kernel |
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| 140 | - cacaserver, a telnet server that can be hooked to libcaca applications |
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| 141 | - img2irc, an image to IRC conversion utility |
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| 142 | |
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| 143 | \section news0_9 Changes between 0.8 and 0.9 |
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| 145 | - fix for a buffer overflow in the line rendering |
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| 146 | - fixed resizing in the ncurses and slang drivers |
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| 147 | - aspect ratio and finer zoom support in cacaview |
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| 148 | - minor compilation fixes |
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| 149 | |
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| 150 | \section news0_8 Changes between 0.7 and 0.8 |
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| 151 | |
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| 152 | - window resizing support |
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| 153 | - native Win32 port |
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| 154 | - autorepeat emulation in the ncurses and slang drivers |
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| 155 | - support for more keycodes in the ncurses and slang drivers |
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| 156 | - cacaplas, a plasma animation example |
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| 157 | - cacamoir, a moire circles animation example |
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| 158 | - MSVC project file |
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| 159 | |
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| 160 | \section news0_7 Changes between 0.6 and 0.7 |
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| 162 | - many bugfixes in the event handling |
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| 163 | - cacaball, a metaball animation example |
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| 164 | |
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| 165 | \section news0_6 Changes between 0.5 and 0.6 |
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| 166 | |
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| 167 | - 30% speed increase in the bitmap rendering routine |
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| 168 | - mouse support and various speed optimisations in the X11 driver |
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| 169 | - X11 is now the preferred driver |
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| 170 | - improved documentation |
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| 171 | - minor bugfixes |
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| 172 | |
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| 173 | \section news0_5 Changes between 0.4 and 0.5 |
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| 174 | |
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| 175 | - palette optimisation for the S-Lang driver to work around the colour pair |
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| 176 | shortage bug |
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| 177 | - minor compilation fix |
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| 178 | |
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| 179 | \section news0_4 Changes between 0.3 and 0.4 |
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| 180 | |
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| 181 | - preliminary X11 graphics driver |
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| 182 | - support for simultaneously compiled-in drivers |
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| 183 | - honour the CACA_DRIVER, CACA_GEOMETRY and CACA_FONT environment variables |
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| 184 | - more documentation |
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| 185 | |
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| 186 | \section news0_3 Changes between 0.2 and 0.3 |
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| 187 | |
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| 188 | - antialiasing support |
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| 189 | - dithering, antialiasing and background mode can now be selected at |
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| 190 | runtime or in the environment using the CACA_BACKGROUND, CACA_DITHERING |
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| 191 | and CACA_ANTIALIASING variables |
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| 192 | - alpha channel support in cacaview |
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| 193 | - BMP loading support in cacaview even if Imlib2 is not present |
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| 194 | - cacafire, a libcaca port of aafire |
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| 196 | \section news0_2 Changes between 0.1 and 0.2 |
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| 197 | |
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| 198 | - rendering now uses 256 colour pairs instead of 16 |
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| 199 | - mouse support for ncurses |
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| 200 | - ncurses is now the preferred backend |
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| 201 | - arbitrary color depth and bitmasks in the bitmap renderer |
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| 202 | - cacaview, an image viewer based on libcaca |
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| 204 | \section news_0_1 New in 0.1 |
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| 205 | |
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| 206 | - initial release |
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| 207 | - slang, ncurses and conio drivers |
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| 208 | - basic line, box, ellipse and triangle primitives |
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| 209 | - colour bitmap blitting |
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| 211 | */ |
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