
                             PDCurses 2.5
            (Public Domain Curses for DOS, OS/2, X11 and Win32)


INTRODUCTION:

This release of PDCurses includes the following changes:

Set BASE address for Win32 DLL
Add KEY_SUP and KEY_SDOWN.
Add PDC_set_line_color()
Add blink support as bold background
Add bold colors
Add getbkgd() macro
Add new PDC functions for adding underline, overline, leftline and rightline
Add support for shifted keypad keys.
Allow more keypad keys to work under Win32
Change Win32 and OS/2 DLL name to curses.dll
Change example resources to allow overriding from the cpmmand line
Changes for building cleanly on OS/2
Changes to handle building XCurses under AIX
Check if prefresh() and pnoutrefresh() parameters are valid.
Ensure build/install works from any directory
Handle platforms where X11 headers do not typedef XPointer.
Mention that Flexos is likely out-of-date.
Pass delaytenths to XCurses_rawgetch()
Remove boldFont
Updates for cursor blinking and italic.

BUGS FIXED:

Fix bug with getting Win32 clipboard contents. Added new PDC_freeclipboard() function.
Fix bug with halfdelay()
Fix bug with mouse interrupting programs that are not trapping mouse events under Win32.
Fix return value from curs_set()
Reverse the left and right pointing bars in ALT_CHARSET


NEW COMPILER SUPPORT:

Add QNX-RTP port

Makefiles for each platform/compiler option reside in the platform
directory.  These all have an extension of .mak.

Cheers, Mark
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 Mark Hessling,  M.Hessling@qut.edu.au  http://www.lightlink.com/hessling/
 Author of THE, a Free XEDIT/KEDIT editor and, Rexx/SQL
 Maintainer of PDCurses: Public Domain Curses and, Regina Rexx interpreter
 Use Rexx ? join the Rexx Language Association: http://www.rexxla.org
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