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@@ -1,3 +1,92 @@ +* Changes in mcclim-0.9.8 relative to 0.9.7: +** Listener UX improvements +** Refactor command tables and commands parsing +** Refactor of the sheet and the mirror implementation +** Numerous new examples +** Unification of CLX backends into a single system +** bugfix: TTF font caches do not overlap between backends +** Add an alternative (not default) TTF renderer based on FFI to FreeType +** bugfix: address numerous issues in tab-layout +** Improved support for text transformations +** Bundle cl-dejavu fonts as a dependency +** Portability fixes for CL implementations +** Better separation of responsibilities between sheets and mediums +** TABLE-FORMATTING improvements +** Support for system clipboard and for internal selection +** Remove invalid assumptions about the sheet coordinates while scrolling +** Full rewrite of CLX renderer to use XRender (transparency, transformations, clipping) +** Incremental redisplay partial rewrite and bug fixes +** UX imrovements for gadget states with regard to pointer events +** Bug fixes and conformity improvements for PS and PDF backends +** Pull bezier curve and bezier area extensions as core regions +** Improved set of colors for MAKE-CONTRASTING-INKS +** Improved set of patterns for MAKE-CONTRASTING-DASH-PATTERNS +** A new protocol for handling patterns, transformations and arbitrary designs +** Rewrite mcclim-render extension +** Enable rendering directly to the pattern or a raster file +** Flesh out the protocol to implement indrect inks +** Remove obsolete backend "beagle" +** Rewrite of the demo DRAWING-TESTS +** Improved support for arcs, angles and ellipses +** Geometry module partial rewrite - conformance and performance improvements +** Improved class hierarchy for input events +** Space requirements rewrite to allow specification of padding and margins +** Menu bar rewrite to handle keyboard accelerators and arrows +** Remove runtime overhead from protocol classes +** More conforming handling of line style unit +** Introduce the concept of a page with four margins +** Implement word wrap and extend FILLING-OUTPUT and INDENTING-OUTPUT macros +** Rewrite PRESENTATION-SUBTYPEP and PRESENTATION-TYPEP for conformance +** Much faster TTF renderer, implement kerning and tracking, thread safe rendering +** Pixel-perfect FONT-TEXT-EXTENT implementation for the TTF renderer, transformations +** Gadgets UX improvements for both space composition and event handling +** Better PRINT-OBJECT methods for numerous internal objects +** Rewrite EVENT-QUEUE for thread safety and performance, extend TIMEOUT interface +** Fix McCLIM regression to work on non-SMP systems +** Improved parsing for space requirements +** Rewrite the implementastion of mapping between text styles and fonts +** Refactor of the EXTENDED-INPUT-STREAM +** Add numerous missing ACCEPT-PRESENT-DEFAULT methods for dialog-views +** Improved repaint-sheet handling (less repaints, more performant) +** Improvements to numerous presentation methods in functions ACCEPT and PRESENT +** Presentation translator lookup rewrite +** Selection API can carry arbitrary presentations with "paste" translators +** Extensions documentation in manual, various fixups and improvements +** Specification clarifications in the bundled latex source code +** Implement double buffering in the CLX backend +** New protocols to set the frame (and sheet) pretty name and icon +** Refactor mirrored/non-mirrored event distribution and add synthetic events +** Rewrite pointer tracking, pointer grabbing and drag&drop support +** Include the new inspector "Clouseau" with bundled applications, remove old the inspector +** Put Franz-specific extensions to the system "mcclim-franz" +** A new command parameter OUTPUT-DESTINATION to redirect the command output +** Improve frame and panes definitions to allow dynamic reinitialization +** Improve PROCESS-NEXT-EVENT specification and implementations for clarity and completness +** It is possible to define a presentation to command translator with the argument +** Rework accepting values to remove a few kludges +** Refactor FORMAT-GRAPH-FROM-ROOT and the layout algorithm for correctness +** Numerous cleanups to avoid accessing internal symbols and have a clean file structure +** Introduce the presentation BLANK-AREA (similar to NULL-PRESENTATION) that allows parameters +** Provide an uniform interface for mapping over command table menu items and keystrokes +** Improve the protocol for defining new ports (backends) +** Allow for existance of ungrafted mediums +** Allow runtime replacement of the menu bar in the frame +** Better spearation of responsibilities between frames and frame managers +** Improvemed gesture and event matching that allows wildcards +** Minor integrations between CLIM-DEBUGGER and Clouseau +** Removal of numerous internal obsolete interfaces +** Thread-safe implementation of the function EXECUTE-FRAME-COMMAND +** Better support for repeated grafting and degrafting sheets (migrating frames between backends) +** Implement a new backend that creates SVG documents +** Introduce a new macro for drawing backends CLIME:WITH-OUTPUT-TO-DRAWING-STREAM +** Include a new extension "mcclim-tooltips" +** Include a new extension "mcclim-dot" +** Write new implementation of text-field and text-editor gadgets (with pointer selection etc) +** Allow for preloaded fonts in the application image +** Flesh out important protocols useful for writing new backends +** Add a new gesture types :TIMER, :INDIRECT, :POINTER-MOTION and :POINTER-SCROLL +** TTF renderer consults the graft DPI to decide on the font scaling + * Changes in mcclim-0.9.7 relative to 0.9.6: ** Bug fix: Many! (and some regressions). ** Bug fix: tab-layout fixes. @@ -52,7 +141,7 @@ a fix to the Xrender support of CLX, available in Christophe Rhodes's current CLX distribution from darcs. ** Improvement: Look up arbitrary truetype fonts by name via fontconfig. -** New extension: mcclim-truetype: provides a 100% lisp path for +** New extension: mcclim-truetype: provides a 100% lisp path for AA fonts with CLX using cl-vectors and zpb-ttf, as an alternative to mcclim-freetype. ** Bug fix: correct computation of bounding rectangle after @@ -61,43 +150,43 @@ * Changes in mcclim-0.9.5 relative to 0.9.4: ** Installation: the systems clim-listener, clim-examples, and clouseau can now be loaded without loading the system mcclim - first. Users with existing McCLIM installations should use the + first. Users with existing McCLIM installations should use the provided script: - ./symlink-asd-files.sh /path/to/asdf-central-registry/ -** New extension: tab-layout. This extension allows keeping a stack of panes - whose foreground pane is controlled by a tab bar. This layout can be + ./symlink-asd-files.sh /path/to/asdf-central-registry/ +** New extension: tab-layout. This extension allows keeping a stack of panes + whose foreground pane is controlled by a tab bar. This layout can be customized in backends and frame managers. For examples, see the gtkairo backend and the pixie frame manager. -** New extension function: SHEET-RGB-IMAGE: makes a screenshot of a sheet +** New extension function: SHEET-RGB-IMAGE: makes a screenshot of a sheet in the CLX backend. (Supported on truecolor visuals only for now.) ** New experimental extension: tree-with-cross-edges are an extension to the graph formatter. -** New experimental backend: clim-graphic-forms: native widgets on Windows. +** New experimental backend: clim-graphic-forms: native widgets on Windows. This backend is still very experimental (it doesn't run demos yet). ** New inspector feature: The inspector now displays more useful information about hash tables and generic functions. ** Specification compliance: Various layout panes no longer quite as aggressive at eating the space requirements of their children. -** Specification compliance: There is now a rudimentary implementation of +** Specification compliance: There is now a rudimentary implementation of NOTIFY-USER ** Usability: Text editors and text input panes now use click-to-focus. -** Improvement: the ACCEPTING-VALUES command table was renamed to - ACCEPT-VALUES (as this is the name that the other clim-2 implementation +** Improvement: the ACCEPTING-VALUES command table was renamed to + ACCEPT-VALUES (as this is the name that the other clim-2 implementation uses) ** Improvement: the CLX backend should no longer cause focus stealing when an application has text-editor panes. This change comes with a rudimentary click-to-focus-keyboard widget policy. ** Improvement: define-application-frame now allows a :default-initargs - option. (This is not exactly a "specification compliance" fix, as + option. (This is not exactly a "specification compliance" fix, as d-a-frame is not defined to accept this option.). ** Improvement: menu-choose menus now look a little prettier. ** Improvement: added more styles for bordered-output: :rounded, :ellipse ** Improvement: Toggle button values now default to NIL. -** Improvement: Frame layouts are now inherited from the frame's +** Improvement: Frame layouts are now inherited from the frame's superclass. -** Improvement: The Lisp Syntax is much improved: now recognizes +** Improvement: The Lisp Syntax is much improved: now recognizes delimiter characters, and more types of Lambda lists. -** Bug fix: Bezier designs should now draw in the right place in all +** Bug fix: Bezier designs should now draw in the right place in all backends. ** Bug fix: Text in Drei no longer "walks" to the left. ** Bug fix: Drei now has better support for delimiter gestures. |