PDCurses 2.6 - 2003-01-08

INTRODUCTION:

This release of PDCurses includes the following changes:

BUGS FIXED:

• Allow accented characters on Win32 platform when run on non-English
  keyboards.

• Allow "special" characters like Ctrl-S, Ctrl-Q under OS/2 to be returned.

• Some bugs with halfdelay() fixed by William McBrine.

• pechochar() should now work correctly.

• redrawwin() macro in curses.h was incorrect - fixed by Alberto Ornaghi

• Don't include "special" characters like KEY_SHIFT_L to be returned in
  getnstr() family. Bug 542913

• Entering TAB in wgetnstr() no longer exceeds requested buffer size.
  Bug 489233

• Fixed bug 550066, scrollok() and pads.
  Also beep() called when buffer exceeded. Bug 562041.

• Reverse video of X11 selection reinstated. Pablo Garcia Abio??

• Right Alt modifier now works like left Alt modifier under Win32

• Add support for all libXaw replacement libraries with Scrollbar bug.
  Note that for this to work, you still have to change the libXaw
  replacement libraries to fix the bug :-(

• Don't trap signals in XCurses if calling application has ignored them.
  Change by Frank Heckenbach.

• Bug reports from Warren W. Gay:

  • Fix termattrs() to return A_REVERSE and A_BLINK on all platforms.
  • Fix definition of getsyx() and setsyx() to be consistent with
    ncurses. Bug 624424.
  • Fix definition of echo() and noecho(). Bug 625001.
  • Fix definition of keypad() and leaveok(). Bug 632653.
  • Missing panel_hidden() prototype. Bug 649320.

• Fixed bug with calling def_prog_mode(), resize_term(),
  reset_prog_mode(); the resize details were being lost.

NEW FEATURES:

• Clipboard support now available on DOS platform, but handled
  internally to the currently running process.

• New X11 resource: textCursor, allows the text cursor to be specified
  as a vertical bar, or the standard horizontal bar. Thanks to Frank
  Heckenbach for the suggestion.

NEW COMPILER SUPPORT:

• lcc-win32 now works correctly