----TEXT---- The first release candidate for FLTK 1.1.5 is now available for download and testing. You now have until April 25th, 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 #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 first release candidate for FLTK 1.1.5 is now available for download and testing. You now have until April 25th, 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 1.1.3 include: