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NEWS - list of user-visible changes between releases of LibGII
New in 0.9.0: 2004-11-30: - Documentation updates - KII target improvements - minor fixes to button and symbol handling - handle labels correctly now - merge improvements from the FreeBSD ports tree - works on Windows using MinGW w/o requiring special Makefiles. - task scheduler as an abstraction for platform independent threads. - DirectX target improvements - Tries to use the actual keyboard layout, and only fall back to the hardcoded defines when that does not work. - Makes shift and caps lock bring you capital letters. - Dead keys support (GIIK_VOID in sym, synthetic press/release events if non-matching key is hit after the dead key). - Renamed Caps, Num and Scroll to CapsLock, NumLock etc. - Mouse wheel support. - Support for up to 8 mouse buttons (2 previously). - Support for emPtrRelative. - Preliminary support for emPtrRelative. - Fixed a bug so that a lot of surplus emPtrAbsolute events are killed. - Support for various game controllers. - The mouse and the keyboard are separated into two devices. - Emulates key repeat messages. ^L New in 0.8.7: 2004-11-30: * hotfix: input-linux-evdev: fix compiling error where KEY_103RD is not defined (SuSE 9.1) * minor buildsystem update * use more length bounded string operations ^L New in 0.8.6: 2004-09-14: * ggGetUserDir(3): Eliminate race condition * ggGetUserDir(3): Fix memory leak on Darwin when $HOME is not set * Bugfix: ensure aligned memory access in event handling. Fixes crash on NetBSD/sparc64 * giiSplitInputs(3): make it work - finds the actual input * config file parsing fixes ^L New in 0.8.5: 2004-05-29: * add hotfix to make libgii compile for linux users, who uses kernel 2.6 headers to compile their userland. Fixes Debian bug #224802 * libtool update. Fixes Debian bug #208288. * add 'See Also' section to libgii(7) manpage and lots of other documentation updates * build system updates * linux_kbd fix: read unicode symbols correctly. Patch from Aurelien Reynaud. * focus pulling fix in xwin/x: Key focus should no longer get lost, when the mouse is NOT over the window. Note, input-x need to know some little more information from libggi's display-X. So don't forget to update libggi's display-X as well, otherwise you may experience everything from strange input behaviour to crashes. ^L New in 0.8.4: 2003-12-21: * gcc 3.3 warning fix (warnings caused by <ggi/gg.h>:194 fixed) * hotfixes for libgii 0.8.3 * fixed memory leak on unloading modules under Darwin ^L New in 0.8.3: 2003-03-19; * The two hotfixes for libgii 0.8.2 * manpage fixes * several minor fixes ^L New in 0.8.2: 2002-12-26; * Misc bugfixes (see ChangeLog). * Huge Documentation update. * Threadsafety fixes * LibGG: New supported platform: Darwin * Major build system update - autoconf 2.5x works now - build fixes for many platforms * input-kii - new input target. Works for many KGI users, but still not for everyone. - still very experimental, thus disabled by default * input-x/input-xwin - handle GraphicExpose events * input-ipaq - new touchscreen input for Compaq iPaq from Tobias * input-zaurus - new touchscreen input for Sharp Zaurus from Tobias ^L New in 0.8.1: 2001-08-26; * Nothing much in the code except the usual minor fixes. * The build process is improved. ^L New in 0.8: 2001-07-10; * Misc bugfixes (see ChangeLog). * Huge Documentation update. * New API: giiSplitInputs() * input-linux-evdev - Bugfixes from Stephan * input-directx - Update * input-vgl - small build fix for FreeBSD ^L New in 0.7: 2000-12-18; * Portability fixes for non-Linux platforms. * Preliminary Win32 support. * All headers should be C++ compatible now. * Misc bugfixes (see ChangeLog). * Documentation updates. * Renamed GGI_ELOCKBUSY to GGI_EBUSY. * New LibGG functions ggCurTime() and ggConfigExpandAlias(). * LibGG now uses it's own mutexes when compiled with gcc - no more pthreads and dynamic linker bugs. * Support compiler type checking on gii_input_t. * New command events GII_CMDCODE_PREFER_ABSPTR and GII_CMDCODE_PREFER_RELPTR. * input-linux-evdev - New target to support the new evdev input API present in Linux 2.4 and 2.2.18. Should handle mice, joysticks and keyboards. * input-linux-mouse - Improved autodetection of mousetype. * input-mouse - 3 button support for MS protocol. - 4 button support for IMPS/2 protocol. * input-x/input-xwin - Prevent events from lagging in the socket queue in apps that don't call XFLush/XSync frequently. * input-vgl - New inputlib for FreeBSD's VGL library. * input-directx - New inputlib for DirectInput on Win32. * filter-keytrans - Added new filter to arbitrarily remap key events. New in 0.6: 1999-05-17; * Portability fixes for non-Linux platforms. * Misc bugfixes (see ChangeLog). * Minor documentation updates. * New API function giiQueryDeviceInfoByNumber(). * New GII_EV_TARGET_QUEUE value for "target" in giiSendEvent(). * Thread fixes for event queues - now it's possible to have one thread block with giiEventPoll/Read, feed events with giiSendEvent() from another thread, and have the first thread unblock. * Fixes and improvements for the cleanup stuff in LibGG. * input-linux-kbd - Fixed to compile on pre 2.2 kernels. - Pressing dead key+space now works properly. - Better handling of Backspace/Delete. - PrintScreen now works. - If Win* keys are not mapped to anything by the kernel we map them to Left/Right Meta and GIIK_Menu respectively. New in 0.5: 1999-04-01; * Portability fixes for non-Linux platforms. * Lots of bugfixes. * Documentation updates. * Optimized the event handling. * Option values in ggParseOption() are allowed to be quoted (with ") and have escapes (using \) (but no special escapes like \n yet). * New API functions giiEventSelect() * giiGetSelectFdset() removed * Much more consisten keyboard handling between Linux-console and X. * Added support for dead keys, CapsLock, NumLock and keyboard LEDs. * Hack to tell left/right shift and control from eachother. * Unified filter/input handling, now filters are much nicer. * Support for querying device info without using events. * input-linux-kbd - Make sure keys does not get stuck when the VT is switched away. - Fixed shift-state bug. * input-linux-mouse - Improved autodetection of mousetype. * input-xwin/input-x - Fixed missing key-release bug. * input-x - Fixed to work with WMs that use interactive placement of windows. * input-file - New inputlib which will read events from a file saved by filter-save. Can be used to replay demos of LibGGI applications. * filter-mouse - Support for mouse acceleration. |