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libcaca-news - Libcaca news
Changes between 0.99.beta18 and 0.99.beta17¶
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- new 'cacaclock' utility
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- improved FIGlet support
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- improved Python and Ruby bindings
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- numerous improvements and bugfixes
Changes between 0.99.beta17 and 0.99.beta16¶
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- new dirty rectangle framework for accelerated
rendering
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- new <conio.h> compatible header for old DOS software
porting
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- XCode and Visual Studio build improvements
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- Unicode support in the X11 driver
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- triangle texture mapping
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- improved HTML output
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- new troff output
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- improved Ruby and .NET bindings
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- new comprehensive PHP bindings
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- new Java bindings
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- Cocoa driver enhancements
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- support for ANSI colour in FIGlet and TOIlet fonts
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- documentation updates
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- numerous improvements and bugfixes
Changes between 0.99.beta16 and 0.99.beta15¶
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- many build fixes, especially for nonstandard platforms
Changes between 0.99.beta15 and 0.99.beta14¶
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- libcucul was merged back into libcaca for more clarity
Changes between 0.99.beta14 and 0.99.beta13¶
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- internal FIGlet font support
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- use C99 types in public headers
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- runtime support for output drivers
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- BBcode export support
Changes between 0.99.beta13 and 0.99.beta12¶
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- device-dependent cursor support
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- event API rewrite
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- minor API improvements and extensions
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- img2txt improvements
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- Ruby bindings
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- Massive C# bindings improvements
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- Python sample code
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- Visual Studio build solution
Changes between 0.99.beta12 and 0.99.beta11¶
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- support for 90-degree canvas rotation
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- better behaviour when trying to output Unicode on an ASCII
terminal
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- the built-in font now supports the Geometric Shapes,
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms and Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode
blocks
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- new rotozoom effect in cacademo
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- Cocoa output driver for Mac OS X
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- preliminary .NET bindings
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- many bugfixes and documentation changes
Changes between 0.99.beta11 and 0.99.beta10¶
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- fixed compilation of the C++ bindings
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- fixed bugs in cucul_import_memory(),
cucul_set_canvas_size()
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- implemented caca_set_display_title() for ncurses and
S-Lang
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- minor bugfixes
Changes between 0.99.beta10 and 0.99.beta9¶
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- new debug mode
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- blitting canvases now makes use of the canvas' handle
coordinates
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- import functions can read streamed data
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- attribute to colorspace transformations
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- added katakana and hiragana glyphs to the built-in
font
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- many bugfixes and documentation changes
Changes between 0.99.beta9 and 0.99.beta8¶
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- support for blink, bold, italics and underline
attributes
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- allow to import and export zero-sized canvases
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- fixed Imlib2 support in cacaview
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- fixed buffer overlows in the file importer
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- big documentation updates
Changes between 0.99.beta8 and 0.99.beta7¶
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- allow to build the X11 and GL drivers as separate
plugins
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- support for fullwidth Unicode characters
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- improved cucul_flip() and cucul_rotate()
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- minor bugfixes and documentation updates
Changes between 0.99.beta7 and 0.99.beta6¶
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- transparency support in the UTF-8 importer and
exporter
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- optimised triangle fill routine
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- updated C++ bindings
Changes between 0.99.beta6 and 0.99.beta5¶
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- ANSI importer now handles transparency and UTF-8
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- Unicode support was broken for about 10% of the set
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- various memory leaks were fixed
Changes between 0.99.beta5 and 0.99.beta4¶
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- implemented cucul_getchar() and cucul_get_color()
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- handle transparency in the IRC export
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- new cropping and expanding filters
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- full Unicode support in the OpenGL driver
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- portability fixes for 64-bit architectures, Win32 and
MS-DOS
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- all demos except cacafire were merged into cacademo
Changes between 0.99.beta4 and 0.99.beta3¶
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- added a compatibility layer for pre-1.x libcaca
applications
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- fixed manpage generation
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- minor bugfixes and documentation updates
Changes between 0.99.beta3 and 0.99.beta2¶
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- libcaca functions use errno for error reporting
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- updated C++ bindings
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- minor improvements, bugfixes and documentation updates
Changes between 0.99.beta2 and 0.99.beta1¶
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- ANSI importer
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- functions use errno for error reporting
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- updated C++ bindings
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- .NET bindings
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- cacadraw, an ANSI viewer that will evolve into an
editor
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- Unicode input and output support for SLang and ncurses
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- built-in fonts work on Win32
Changes between 0.9 and 0.99.beta1¶
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- license switched to WTFPL
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- libcaca was split into libcucul, a standalone text
manipulation backend, and libcaca, the display and user input
frontend
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- Unicode support
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- TrueColor (more than 16 colours) support
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- Floyd-Steinberg dithering
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- gamma correction
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- export functions for HTML, IRC, ANSI, SVG, PostScript,
TGA...
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- builtin fonts for device-independent bitmap output
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- various text transformation routines (rotation, horizontal
flip...)
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- OpenGL renderer
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- kernel mode to build libcaca programs into a bootable x86
kernel
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- cacaserver, a telnet server that can be hooked to libcaca
applications
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- img2irc, an image to IRC conversion utility
Changes between 0.8 and 0.9¶
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- fix for a buffer overflow in the line rendering
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- fixed resizing in the ncurses and slang drivers
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- aspect ratio and finer zoom support in cacaview
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- minor compilation fixes
Changes between 0.7 and 0.8¶
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- window resizing support
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- native Win32 port
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- autorepeat emulation in the ncurses and slang drivers
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- support for more keycodes in the ncurses and slang
drivers
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- cacaplas, a plasma animation example
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- cacamoir, a moire circles animation example
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- MSVC project file
Changes between 0.6 and 0.7¶
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- many bugfixes in the event handling
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- cacaball, a metaball animation example
Changes between 0.5 and 0.6¶
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- 30% speed increase in the bitmap rendering routine
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- mouse support and various speed optimisations in the X11
driver
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- X11 is now the preferred driver
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- improved documentation
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- minor bugfixes
Changes between 0.4 and 0.5¶
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- palette optimisation for the S-Lang driver to work around
the colour pair shortage bug
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- minor compilation fix
Changes between 0.3 and 0.4¶
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- preliminary X11 graphics driver
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- support for simultaneously compiled-in drivers
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- honour the CACA_DRIVER, CACA_GEOMETRY and CACA_FONT
environment variables
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- more documentation
Changes between 0.2 and 0.3¶
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- antialiasing support
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- 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
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- alpha channel support in cacaview
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- BMP loading support in cacaview even if Imlib2 is not
present
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- cacafire, a libcaca port of aafire
Changes between 0.1 and 0.2¶
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- rendering now uses 256 colour pairs instead of 16
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- mouse support for ncurses
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- ncurses is now the preferred backend
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- arbitrary color depth and bitmasks in the bitmap
renderer
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- cacaview, an image viewer based on libcaca
New in 0.1¶
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- initial release
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- slang, ncurses and conio drivers
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- basic line, box, ellipse and triangle primitives
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- colour bitmap blitting
