4.0.0 (added support to Windows and MacOS)

New features and consistent improvements

• Added support to many Windows operating systems (release 10 or higher): Cygwin64, MSYS2, MinGW and WSL tested so far.
• Added support to MacOS operating systems.

Updates

• Added support for other compilers (clang tested so far).
• Added functions to enable and disable ANSI escape sequences and Unicode characters on Windows.
• Added Doxygen documentation.

Minor improvements and bugs fixing

• Example code has been separated into more files.
• Added workflow for doc generation.
• Added workflow for codeql-analysis.
• Added missing additional flags for compilation.
• Installer and updater scripts update.
• Minor bugs fixing.
• Code cleaning.
• Documentation update.

3.1.1

Updates

• Corrected a bug for which the progress bar remaining time was not correctly displayed.
• Added a new script to compute the size of the library before installation.
• Code cleaning.
• Documentation update.

3.1.0

Updates

• Removed extern keyword from inline functions.
• Removed using namespace directives from examples and tests codes.
• A new ProgressBar class constructor has been provided, in order to directly initialize min and max values at declaration point.
• Added a new ProgressBar class getter: getColorName().
• Added operator << overload for ProgressBar objects output.
• The update.sh script has been updated.
• Documentation update.
• Minor bugs fixing.

3.0.1

Updates

• All the utils code has been removed and replaced with a new external library called arsenalgear. Its installation has been added to the installer script prerequisites.
• Removed aliases.hpp file.
• Documentation update.
• Installer script update.
• Minor bugs fixed.

3.0.0

New features and consistent improvements

• A new feature to plot 2D canvas objects and functions in the terminal, without the needing of any GUI, has been finally added! See here.
• The repository structure has been updated and massively changed: headers and source code have been reorganized into submodules. See here.
• Progress spinner has been added to the ProgressBar class.
• Added remaining time option to the progress bars.

Updates

• Added an option to automatically install all the prerequisites during the installation with the install.sh script.
• Added a new map called "tcsc" for clear screen / line commans.
• Clang format for contributing code has been provided.

Minor improvements, bugs fixing and code performance updates

• Added tests to void methods.
• Fixed a bug about the compilation of the source code only, for which the shared library wasn't created correctly.
• Added a new header for type aliases definition.
• Explicit template instantiations have been improved.
• Changed the signature of the SET_CURSOR_VIEW function in a more general function called OPTION.
• Added a new helper function to check if a variabile value is in a certain bound.
• General code optimization with the usage of const references when possible.
• Documentation has been improved.

2.5.0

List of updates:

• Fixed the problem for which the mixed bar with floating point iterating index shown a float percentage indicator.
• Added a new template class MultiProgressBar to manage multiple progress bars simultaneously with threads.
• Now the ProgressBar class is thread-safe.
• Memory deallocation has been improved.
• All .h files have been renamed into .hpp.
• Tests have been improved and a bug related to their compilation has been solved.
• Added contribution file (about how to contribute).
• Other minor bugs have been fixed.
• Documentation has been improved.

2.4.0

Updates:

• Updater and uninstaller scripts have been provided.
• New functions have been added to the csmnaip header: RGB.
• New methods have been added to the ProgressBar header: update_output.
• Bugs fixing.
• Documentation has been improved.

2.3.1

Updated:

• Valgrind and Cppcheck debugging tools have been added into a new script: scripts/valgrind.sh.
• Repository structure has been slightly updated.
• Code documentation has been improved.
• Testing has been improved.
• New ProgressBar methods have been added: getStyleComplete().
• Bugs fixing.
• Documentation has been improved.

2.3.0

Improvements from the previous release:

• Bugs fixed.
• Documentation updated.
• Installer updated.
• General code readability improved.
• ProgressBar setStyle method has been improved, including also the type of the variable.
• ProgressBar getType method has been provided.
• New available styles have been added to the ProgressBar.
• A new method to create new progress bar styles have been introduced.
• Helper header, which contains helper tools for main headers, has been provided.
• Terminal control sequences have been added to the csmanip header file.
• The new go_to function has been added to csmanip header file.
• Progress bar cursor has been hidden during progress bar update.
• Progressbar class has been turned into a template class in order to fully support all the existing types, including floating point variables.

2.2.0

List of updated:

• Bugs fixed: in particular, corrected the bug for which if you used percentage bar into one loops after the other you get % string character doubled. In this way, feat function has been slightly changed.
• Readme updated.
• Makefile has been improved: executables are put into a bin folder.
• Installer has been updated.
• Osmanip header file has been separated into multiple headers.
• New methods have been added to ProgressBar class: print() (to print all the bar information on the screen) and methods to set color of the progress bar.
• Added operator redefinition to multiply strings.
• Overload of the feat function has been added to better support cursor navigation map (crs) usage.
• Added CREDITS.md file.
• Main code has been improved and simplified using functions.
• Classic loading bar style has been added in the ProgressBar class.
• Added .gitattributes file to correct language percentage assignment.
• Update method of ProgressBar class can now support mixed styles.