freebsd-dev/contrib/ncurses/c++/NEWS
Peter Wemm 0e3d540892 Import unmodified (but trimmed) ncurses 5.0 prerelease 990821.
This contains the full eti (panel, form, menu) extensions.
bmake glue to follow.

Obtained from:	ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/dickey/ncurses
1999-08-24 01:06:48 +00:00

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This is a log of changes that the ncurses C++ binding has gone
through starting with the integration of menu and forms integration
into the binding.
990731 + Improve support for pads. A viewport window may now be added to
a pad. It will then be possible to use a builtin panning mechanism
to view the pad.
970908 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to
cover more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and
noutrefresh() virtual members to allow different implementation
in the NCursesPanel class.
+ CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
NCursesWindow class.
+ Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
+ Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
functionality.
+ Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to
etip.h
+ Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration
of menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of
title lines and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
+ Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menus fieldlist.
+ Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for
menus.
+ Enhanced demo.
970502
+ Introduced the THROW and THROWS functions/macros to prepare
a smoother transition to real exception handling.
+ Exception classes provided in etip.h
+ Added the NCursesMenu class to support libmenu functionality.
+ The inheritace relation between NCursesWindow and NCursesColorWindow
was kind of brain damage. Monochrome is a special case of colored, so
the relation should be just the opposite. This would allow all
derived classes like NCursesPanel, NCursesMenu or NCursesForm to
have colors.
To resolve that design flaw I put the color functionality into the
NCursesWindow class and it can be switched on by the static member
useColors(). NCursesColorWindow is still there for compatibility
reasons.