nanogui: Microwindows 0.87pre6 released
Subject:
Microwindows 0.87pre6 released
From:
"Greg Haerr" ####@####.####
Date:
1 Feb 2000 04:38:53 -0000
Message-Id: <026c01bf6c6c$c58ec880$15320cd0@gregh>
YAP (yet another prerelease) of Microwindows 0.87 is available at:
http://microwindows.censoft.com/pub/microwindows/microwindows-0.87pre6.tar.gz
There have been so many contributions that I feel necessary to release this
for quality reasons. I want 0.87 to be quite stable, and I think the Makefile
system is now approaching it. Following are the main additions:
o Martin contributed an updated X11 based configure program,
allowing users to configure various options of Microwindows
graphically.
o I've added experimental alpha blending support, just to test the
concept. This works on 8, 16 and 32bpp displays. More will
be coming in the 0.88 release.
o Morten has contributed GrArea enhancements for high speed
rendering, including some 16bpp alpha blending support.
o Chris has contributed a C++ objects framework, which can
be enabled via the OBJFRAMEWORK config option.
o Many, many makefile changes and some small bugfixes.
I plan to go final within the next few days, after contributors have
had a chance to sign off on the release, if desired.
I want to thank the growing list of contributors to Microwindows.
It's really getting fun. I've been working on getting some trade
press for the project, and this should be coming real soon, so
our efforts will be visible to a much larger group of people.
Following is the ChangeLog:
Version 0.87pre6 - 31st January 2000 - ####@####.####
* added C++ objects framework from Chris
* added support for multiple read/write/except fd's from Chris
* added Martin's X11 configure program and various Makefile fixes
* added compile time warnings patches from Chris
* added Morten's drawarea patch pre5mr1
* added experimental 8, 16 and 32bpp constant alpha blending to bitblit
(#define ALPHABLEND in device.h and run bin/mterm for demo)
* changed distance-cubed find nearest color to use abs() for speed
* fixed max character height/width alloc; max now 128x128 (configurable)
* small bugfix DRAWON/DRAWOFF in mempl4.c
Regards,
Greg
