----TEXT---- The third release candidate for FLTK 1.1.5 is now available for download and testing. You now have until October 8th, 2004 to report any problems with this release candidate using the software trouble report form at the following URL: http://www.fltk.org/str.php If no priority 4 or 5 STRs are received and confirmed before this date, FLTK 1.1.5 will be released. Note: Since problems reported on the FLTK newsgroups or mailing lists are *not* automatically entered as STRs, it is imperative that you report any problems using the STR form. ---- Draft FLTK 1.1.5 Release Announcement ---- The FLTK Team is proud to announce the release of FLTK 1.1.5, a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX(r)/Linux(r) (X11), Microsoft(r) Windows(r), and MacOS(r) X. FLTK provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat and supports 3D graphics via OpenGL(r) and its built-in GLUT emulation. The FLTK 1.1.5 release is primarily a bug-fix release including documentation updates, fixes for 64-bit platforms, FLUID, several widgets, and GLUT emulation, and fixes for several platform-specific issues. The new release also adds project files for Visual C++.NET and supports KDE 3.x icons. FLTK is provided under the GNU Library Public License with exceptions that allow for static linking. Changes since FLTK 1.1.4 include: - Documentation updates (STR #505, STR #513) - Updated PNG library source to 1.2.7. - Updated ZLIB library source to 1.2.1. - Fixed VC++ project file problems (STR #476, STR #478, STR #520, STR #527, STR #537) - Now look for 8 bits of alpha when the developer has requested FL_RGB8 (STR #541) - The last line in an Fl_Help_View widget was not aligned properly (STR #536) - The "search" symbol looked like a Q (STR #536) - Changed Fl_Help_View::get_color() to use a lookup table to avoid serious Borland C++ 5.5 compiler bugs (STR #533) - Fixed Watcom compiler warnings with FL/Fl_Widget.H (STR #540) - The image class copy() methods did not always make a separate copy of the image data (STR #539) - Fixed an edge case in fl_old_shortcut() that could cause it to read beyond then end of the shortcut string (used for XForms named shortcuts) - Added (unsupported) CMake files (STR #499) - Tooltips would not reappear on the same widget, and the initial tooltip delay was not used after a tooltip was shown (STR #465) - Fixed a compile problem with the Linux 2.6 threading support (STR #483) - Fixed problems with 2-byte Xpm files on 64-bit platforms (STR #525) - FLTK didn't handle the ReparentNotify event on X11 (STR #524) - The old source file "fl_set_gray.cxx" is not needed (STR #516) - Fl_Text_Display still called delete[] instead of free() in one place (STR #503) - The symbol test program did not handle the @+ symbol properly (STR #490) - Fl_File_Chooser didn't correctly call isprint() and isspace() when checking to see if the current file was text that can be previewed (STR #517) - FLUID didn't compile with Borland C++ due to a compiler bug (STR #496) - Fl_Positioner did not handle reversed min and max values (STR #510) - fl_descent(), fl_height(), and fl_width() would crash a program if you didn't call fl_font() first; they now return -1 if no font is set (STR #500) - Added test/unittests to verify pixel drawing and alignment across platforms - Fl_Menu_::find_item() didn't determine the menu path properly (STR #481) - The build system now installs image library header files in FL/images/filename.h so that FLTK programs will use the same header files as the FLTK image libraries. - The build system now creates image libraries named "libfltk_name.a" instead of "libname.a" to avoid clobbering an existing installed library (STR #480) [1.1.5rc2] - Documentation updates (STR #365, STR #399, STR #407, STR #412, STR #414, STR #452, STR #462) - Fl_Text_Display did not handle drawing of overlapping text (italic next to plain, etc.) properly (STR #381) - All of the core widgets now consistently set changed() before calling the callback function for a change in value; this allows programs to check the changed() state in a callback to see why they are being called (STR #475) - Fl_File_Chooser did not handle some cases for filename completion (STR #376) - Fl_Help_View didn't properly compute the default maximum width of the page properly, resulting in non-wrapped text in table cells (STR #464) - Fl_Text_Editor no longer tries to emulate the Emacs CTRL-A shortcut to move to the first column, since there is a key for that and the widget does not emulate any other Emacs keys (STR #421) - Fl_File_Chooser always disabled the OK button when the user pressed DELETE or BACKSPACE (STR #397) - Added Fl_Browser::swap() methods (STR #459) - Fl_Counter didn't use a thin down box for the text field if the box type was set to FL_THIN_UP_BOX (STR #467) - Fl_Help_View now resets the scrollbars if they go outside the current view (STR #464) - fl_dir_chooser() did not show the previous selection as documented (STR #443) - Fl_Text_Display used delete[] instead of free() in some places (STR #466) - FLTK now includes copies of the PNG, JPEG, and ZLIB libraries for platforms that do not have them (STR #441) - The fltk-config script did not include the "-mno-cygwin" option under CygWin (STR #434) - Fl_Help_View::find() did not check for a NULL value (STR #442) - Added search symbol to the search field of Fl_Help_Dialog (STR #417) - Added two new symbols, @search and @FLTK, which can be used in labels. - MacOS X: fixed NumLock mixup, added support for FL_Menu and FL_Delete keys on external (PC) keyboards (STR #445) - Fl_File_Icon::draw() did not support drawing of complex polygons in icon descriptions (STR #474) - The configure script now offers options for JPEG, PNG, and ZLIB libraries (STR #416) - The first menu item in a list would not go invisible (STR #406) - Fl_Text_Buffer::replace() now range checks its input (STR #385) - FLTK now builds with the current release of MinGW (STR #325, STR #401, STR #402) - FLTK now honors the numlock key state (STR #369) - The Fl_Text_Display widget did not redraw selections when focus changed (STR #390) - The plastic background image is now less contrasty (STR #394) - Fl_Scroll now uses a full redraw when the scheme is set to plastic and the box type is a frame (STR #205) - Fl_Window::resize() did not work properly with KDE 3.2 (STR #356) - FLTK didn't delete font bitmaps when the last OpenGL window was deleted, preventing future text from displaying (STR #310) - FLUID didn't include a full initialization record for the trailing NULL menu items (STR #375) - Fl_Browser::item_width() did not properly handle format modifiers (STR #372) - Fl_Browser::item_height() did not handle columns properly (STR #371) - Fl_Gl_Window's on WIN32 now prefer accelerated pixel formats over generic formats (STR #382) - Fl_Window::resize() did not work on some systems if the window was not shown (STR #373) - FLUID did not write the user_data type if the user_data field was empty (STR #374) - The value(const Fl_Menu_Item*) method was not implemented for Fl_Choice (STR #366) - Fl_Pack didn't draw child widget labels the same way as Fl_Group, causing display problems (STR #360) - fl_read_image() didn't work when reading from an offscreen buffer with some X11 servers (STR #364) [1.1.5rc1] - Documentation updates (STR #186, STR #245, STR #250, STR #277, STR #281, STR #328, STR #338) - fl_scroll() did not handle scrolling from off-screen on WIN32 (STR #315) - Fl_File_Chooser did not allow manual entry of a drive letter (STR #339) - Fl_Menu now uses the boxtype to redraw the menu background (STR #204) - Fl_Scroll now shows the background image when a framed box type is used and the Fl_Scroll is a direct decendent of a window (STR #205) - Added a new_directory_tooltip string pointer to allow localization of the file chooser's new directory button (STR #340) - Added Fl_Menu_::find_item() method (STR #316) - The Fl_Widget copy operator definitions were not conditionally compiled properly (STR #329) - FLUID's Layout functionality did not move child widgets when laying out group widgets (STR #319) - FLUID's Layout->Center In Group functionality did not properly handle widgets that were children of a Fl_Window widget (STR #318) - The Fl_Text_Display destructor did not remove the predelete callback associated with the current buffer (STR #332) - Fixed several bugs in the MacOS X Fl::add_fd() handling (STR #333, STR #337) - The Fl_Text_Display widget did not display selections set by the application (STR #322) - FLUID crashed if you did layout with a window widget (STR #317) - Fl_Scroll::clear() didn't remove the child widget from the Fl_Scroll widget (STR #327) - Fl_Value_Slider::draw_bg() didn't always apply the clipping rectangle (STR #235) - fl_filename_relative() returned the wrong string if the absolute pathname was equal to the current working directory (STR #224) - Fl_Help_Dialog didn't correctly restore the scroll position when going forward/back in the link history if the file changed (STR #218) - glutGetModifiers() did not mask off extra state bits, confusing some GLUT-based applications (STR #213) - Fixed mouse capture problems on MacOS X (STR #209, STR #229) - Fl_Sys_Menu_Bar is now built into the library for MacOS X (STR #229) - Fl_Menu_ now provides item_pathname() methods to get the "pathname" of a menu item, e.g. "File/Quit" (STR #283) - Fl_Text_Display now provides cursor_color() methods to get and set the cursor color (STR #271) - Fl_Scroll didn't honor FL_NO_BOX (STR #305) - FLUID declaration blocks didn't support public/private definitions (STR #301) - Fl_Preferences incorrectly created the preferences directory before necessary (STR #247) - The WIN32 project files still defined the (obsolete) FL_STATIC constant (STR #279) - Fl_Text_Display::buffer() did not support NULL values, making it impossible to clean up text buffers from a subclass (STR #295) - Fl_Text_Display did not support a NULL unfinishedStyleCB function (STR #241) - Fl::background2() incorrectly marked the foreground color as initialized (STR #255) - Fixed the X11 CTRL + "-" detection code to properly track the state of the CTRL key (STR #264) - Fl_File_Icon::load_system_icons() didn't support KDE 3.x (STR #299) - WIN32's scandir() emulation did not allocate enough memory for directory names (STR #263) - Fl::compose() did not handle special keys like backspace properly (STR #293) - Fl_Choice did not clip its text when drawing using the plastic scheme (STR #287) - Fl_Group incorrectly mapped the emacs CTRL keys to keyboard navigation (STR #228) - Fl_File_Browser::load() didn't handle a NULL directory name (STR #266) - 64-bit library fixes (STR #261) - The Fl_Valuator::format() function did not limit the size of the number buffer (STR #268) - The keypad Enter key works as the normal Enter/Return key in common widgets (STR #191) - Fixed some OS/2-specific build problems (STR #185, STR #197) - Calling Fl_Text_Display::buffer() with the same buffer would cause an application to lockup (STR #196) - Some of the widgets could crash an application if the cursor was changed after a window was deleted (STR #181) - The Fl_Gl_Window WIN32 pixel format code did not choose the pixel format with the largest depth buffer (STR #175) - The configure script didn't leave space between the CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS and X_CFLAGS variables (STR #174) - The Fl_JPEG_Image and Fl_PNG_Image classes did not trap errors from the corresponding image libraries (STR #168) - Added "--with-links" configure option to control whether symlinks are created for the FLTK header files (STR #164) - Added new hoverdelay() to Fl_Tooltip to control how quickly recent tooltips appear (STR #126) - FLUID now sets the size range when a window is shown. This seems to be necessary with some window managers (STR #166) ----HTML----

The third release candidate for FLTK 1.1.5 is now available for download and testing. You now have until Ocotber 8th, 2004 to report any problems with this release candidate using the software trouble report form at the following URL:

    http://www.fltk.org/str.php

If no priority 4 or 5 STRs are received and confirmed before this date, 1.1.5 will be released.

Note: Since problems reported on the FLTK newsgroups or mailing lists are not automatically entered as STRs, it is imperative that you report any problems using the STR form.

---- Draft FLTK 1.1.5 Release Announcement ----

The FLTK Team is proud to announce the release of FLTK 1.1.5, a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX®/Linux® (X11), Microsoft® Windows®, and MacOS® X. FLTK provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat and supports 3D graphics via OpenGL® and its built-in GLUT emulation.

The FLTK 1.1.5 release is primarily a bug-fix release including documentation updates, fixes for 64-bit platforms, FLUID, several widgets, and GLUT emulation, and fixes for several platform-specific issues. The new release also adds project files for Visual C++.NET and supports KDE 3.x icons.

FLTK is provided under the GNU Library Public License with exceptions that allow for static linking.

Changes since FLTK 1.1.4 include: