libcaca-news(3caca)
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libcaca-news - Libcaca news
Changes between 0.99.beta17 and 0.99.beta16
o new dirty rectangle framework for accelerated rendering
o new <conio.h> compatible header for old DOS software porting
o XCode and Visual Studio build improvements
o Unicode support in the X11 driver
o improved HTML output
o new troff output
o improved Ruby and .NET bindings
o new comprehensive PHP bindings
o new Java bindings
o Cocoa driver enhancements
o support for ANSI colour in FIGlet and TOIlet fonts
o documentation updates
o numerous improvements and bugfixes
Changes between 0.99.beta16 and 0.99.beta15
o many build fixes, especially for nonstandard platforms
Changes between 0.99.beta15 and 0.99.beta14
o libcucul was merged back into libcaca for more clarity
Changes between 0.99.beta14 and 0.99.beta13
o internal FIGlet font support
o use C99 types in public headers
o runtime support for output drivers
o BBcode export support
Changes between 0.99.beta13 and 0.99.beta12
o device-dependent cursor support
o event API rewrite
o minor API improvements and extensions
o img2txt improvements
o Ruby bindings
o Massive C# bindings improvements
o Python sample code
o Visual Studio build solution
Changes between 0.99.beta12 and 0.99.beta11
o support for 90-degree canvas rotation
o better behaviour when trying to output Unicode on an ASCII terminal
- o the built-in font now supports the Geometric Shapes, Halfwidth and
- Fullwidth Forms and Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode blocks
- o new rotozoom effect in cacademo
- o Cocoa output driver for Mac OS X
- o preliminary .NET bindings
- o many bugfixes and documentation changes
Changes between 0.99.beta11 and 0.99.beta10
o fixed compilation of the C++ bindings
o fixed bugs in cucul_import_memory(), cucul_set_canvas_size()
o implemented caca_set_display_title() for ncurses and S-Lang
o minor bugfixes
Changes between 0.99.beta10 and 0.99.beta9
o new debug mode
o blitting canvases now makes use of the canvas' handle coordinates
o import functions can read streamed data
o attribute to colorspace transformations
o added katakana and hiragana glyphs to the built-in font
o many bugfixes and documentation changes
Changes between 0.99.beta9 and 0.99.beta8
o support for blink, bold, italics and underline attributes
o allow to import and export zero-sized canvases
o fixed Imlib2 support in cacaview
o fixed buffer overlows in the file importer
o big documentation updates
Changes between 0.99.beta8 and 0.99.beta7
o allow to build the X11 and GL drivers as separate plugins
o support for fullwidth Unicode characters
o improved cucul_flip() and cucul_rotate()
o minor bugfixes and documentation updates
Changes between 0.99.beta7 and 0.99.beta6
o transparency support in the UTF-8 importer and exporter
o optimised triangle fill routine
o updated C++ bindings
Changes between 0.99.beta6 and 0.99.beta5
o ANSI importer now handles transparency and UTF-8
o Unicode support was broken for about 10% of the set
o various memory leaks were fixed
Changes between 0.99.beta5 and 0.99.beta4
o implemented cucul_getchar() and cucul_get_color()
o handle transparency in the IRC export
o new cropping and expanding filters
o full Unicode support in the OpenGL driver
o portability fixes for 64-bit architectures, Win32 and MS-DOS
o all demos except cacafire were merged into cacademo
Changes between 0.99.beta4 and 0.99.beta3
o added a compatibility layer for pre-1.x libcaca applications
o fixed manpage generation
o minor bugfixes and documentation updates
Changes between 0.99.beta3 and 0.99.beta2
o libcaca functions use errno for error reporting
o updated C++ bindings
o minor improvements, bugfixes and documentation updates
Changes between 0.99.beta2 and 0.99.beta1
o ANSI importer
o functions use errno for error reporting
o updated C++ bindings
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o cacadraw, an ANSI viewer that will evolve into an editor
o Unicode input and output support for SLang and ncurses
o built-in fonts work on Win32
Changes between 0.9 and 0.99.beta1
o license switched to WTFPL
- o libcaca was split into libcucul, a standalone text manipulation
- backend, and libcaca, the display and user input frontend
- o Unicode support
- o TrueColor (more than 16 colours) support
- o Floyd-Steinberg dithering
- o gamma correction
- o export functions for HTML, IRC, ANSI, SVG, PostScript, TGA...
- o builtin fonts for device-independent bitmap output
- o various text transformation routines (rotation, horizontal flip...)
- o OpenGL renderer
- o kernel mode to build libcaca programs into a bootable x86 kernel
- o cacaserver, a telnet server that can be hooked to libcaca
- applications
- o img2irc, an image to IRC conversion utility
Changes between 0.8 and 0.9
o fix for a buffer overflow in the line rendering
o fixed resizing in the ncurses and slang drivers
o aspect ratio and finer zoom support in cacaview
o minor compilation fixes
Changes between 0.7 and 0.8
o window resizing support
o native Win32 port
o autorepeat emulation in the ncurses and slang drivers
o support for more keycodes in the ncurses and slang drivers
o cacaplas, a plasma animation example
o cacamoir, a moire circles animation example
o MSVC project file
Changes between 0.6 and 0.7
o many bugfixes in the event handling
o cacaball, a metaball animation example
Changes between 0.5 and 0.6
o 30% speed increase in the bitmap rendering routine
o mouse support and various speed optimisations in the X11 driver
o X11 is now the preferred driver
o improved documentation
o minor bugfixes
Changes between 0.4 and 0.5
- o palette optimisation for the S-Lang driver to work around the colour
- pair shortage bug
- o minor compilation fix
Changes between 0.3 and 0.4
o preliminary X11 graphics driver
o support for simultaneously compiled-in drivers
- o honour the CACA_DRIVER, CACA_GEOMETRY and CACA_FONT environment
- variables
- o more documentation
Changes between 0.2 and 0.3
o antialiasing support
- o dithering, antialiasing and background mode can now be selected at
- runtime or in the environment using the CACA_BACKGROUND,
CACA_DITHERING and CACA_ANTIALIASING variables - o alpha channel support in cacaview
- o BMP loading support in cacaview even if Imlib2 is not present
- o cacafire, a libcaca port of aafire
Changes between 0.1 and 0.2
o rendering now uses 256 colour pairs instead of 16
o mouse support for ncurses
o ncurses is now the preferred backend
o arbitrary color depth and bitmasks in the bitmap renderer
o cacaview, an image viewer based on libcaca
New in 0.1
o initial release
o slang, ncurses and conio drivers
o basic line, box, ellipse and triangle primitives
- o colour bitmap blitting