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  ---- Version 0.9.1: I want my..I want my C.V.S.. ---- general: - Changed names of some makefile targets, added Debian package target (workaround, as my packaging skills are nil). The HTML documentation target is now named 'html'. - Started de-uglifying the HTML documentation by adding CSS. My head bounces off the DOC++ brick wall. - Built .debs that seem to work; DOC++ is a requirement here. Note: There is a doc-check target available, but the docs look worse after going through Tidy. Two @include of the CSS, two </html> tags.. - More workarounds for functions/definitions missing from Win32 (mostly non-POSIX; strangely, BSD definitions related to sockets are also absent at times) xinet: - It now works. restructuring: - CVS ditched, Subversion only off my home-server. xigfx: - Ugh. xitools: - Added CRC32 calculation and dynamic hashing - Made a replacement strndup() - it really replaces regular strndup() on systems that have it, and breathes new life into Win32 programming. - Removed write functions from autofiles; I didn't really use that complicated mess fully, anyway. - Made the XML reader actually work according to core 1.0 specs; 0.9.0 was skipped because of this. It can now handle XHTML. Try xmltest with hello.xhtml. - xi_lasterror should now contain new errors when XML functions fail. - strfind() returns the haystack when needle is a NULL string. - Hash table implementation #1: Plain hashes. Allocate one size, and it is stuck there. A sorta dynamic method, based on this, will be added at a later date. ---- Version 0.9.0: There is no 7+1 ---- policy: Eh? - Should I discover that no useful example uses a function anylonger, I remove the example and function. No, this isn't a very stable codebase. general: Mistakes are often the stepping stone to utter failure - Typos. Lots of them. Some were fixed, some were added. - Investigated recent GCC 3.x; it produces 10% smaller code on libxitools, and nothing seems broken. 'CC=gcc-3.3 ./configure' might work for you. - API: New file listing how stable I think the various sub-libraries are. - minimalgui: Example program for LUI. - tileset: Fixed minor bugs in the display of error messages. - tilefont: Replacement for makefont. The new internal fontsystem is more like tilesets, with each glyph in compressed form. Fonts can now be made with a specified spacing between each glyph. Proper TTF is recommended, though. - Changed more names (PREFS_* variable types to V_* and moved to separate files because of more parts using it) - Dropped PDF documentation; the conversion of the HTML docs to PDF would look prettier than what DOC++ creates :/ xitools: - Tag handling: Added another test in tagtest.c; the functions for tag- handling mimic the old Amiga functions exactly, so it's important to pass references. xigfx: Slow step forward, two steps back - xi_init(): XI_LUI and XI_TTF tags are now boolean. Less daft, eh? - The xifont system wasn't any good, so I redesigned it, See the new tilefont utility for information. The API is still the same old. - Setting width and height of destination rectangles is unnecessary, so most of those cases were optimised. - If no preferences filename is supplied to xi_init(), the default file $HOME/.xiqual/xiqualrc will be loaded. For Win32, this may be a slight problem, so xiqualrc is loaded from the current dir. Normally, the filename will first be tried in $HOME/.xiqual. This may be contrary to other applications, but seems more correct to me. Enforce home directory use wherever possible ;) (Will fix the use of home directory things for WinNT/Win2k sometime) lui: Bugfixing stubs - button.c: Fixed highlighting of pressed toggle buttons - lui.c: Added lui_newgadget() function wrapper. Calling this makes gadgets display on the default screen, and saves one or two tags with some gadgets. It's also the first time ever that I use the TAG_MORE tag :) - This time I actually include the message box code! - Two images are part of the distribution: A default pointer and a mesh for use in making gadgets look disabled. Both are possible to replace with your own, either through new images or replacing the functions. xinet: Client+server - Started making a utility that actually tests the select() server creation system. Surprisingly, it worked. It also gave me some pointers about what other utility functions are needed. - Touched up the server creation, simplified names of calls. - Added client-side functions. - Renamed the XN_ONREAD_FUNC tag to XN_READ_FUNC. xixml: Patience is my benchmark - Rudimentary XML 1.0 reading is here. Should make it possible to make more structured configfiles when the need arises. Supports deep nesting, and at least doesn't choke on O'Reilly examples or non-XML. Very close to core XML 1.0 in things supported; mostly stylesheets and certain special elements/declarations that aren't added. These have no place in the library as of yet; I included XML reading 1)for fun, 2) to simply read data and not layout. - Unicode: I've tried UTF-8 encoded tags and attributes - they work. If I change the strcmp() to a multibyte version, I'd also have to change the strlen() function I use. I'm not sure if I want to be 100% compliant; if anyone actually uses this library (other than the co-developer) and shows me Chinese/Japanese/Korean XML it chokes on, I'll add widechar support to the parser so people can use UTF-16. Those two are the only encodings I'm required to support, so I'll never add anything else. - The other preferences system is good enough for just variables and such, but this could be used for so much more. Game-specific, structured data like unit stats, for instance. Another use would be to hold multiple scripts, along with their names. The preferences system is very line-based, and I intend to keep it that way. Also, XML tag attributes can have spaces in their values, which isn't supported for multiple arguments in prefs. - Crude XML writing function included. Spits out data to a named file, or stdout if you specify "*" as the name. - Two example XML documents included: library.xml and sink.xml. Yes, this release really DOES have the kitchen sink included. - Memory consumption of the current parser is around 2.4 times the size of the document. Hooks would add minimally to that. ---- Version 0.8.0: Codename "Kitchen Sink" ---- general: - Added the cursor image I use in my test programs as a part of the base distribution. It will end up in /usr/local/share/Xiqual if using the defaults for the configure script. - Added an example xiqualrc - not much in it yet, but at least I'm moving towards some sort of standard way of defining where to get Xiqual's core data. lui: (NEW!) - The Xiqual GUI system. Currently an extremely sparse collection of gadgets, but I prefer to build them as I need them, and not before. Heck, messageboxes are the last addition so far ;) - Various features that can be called "object oriented": All gadgets share some methods (function hooks) that call further user-defined hooks to do the actual work. A simple button could easily be replaced with a list of images without harm. Some of the gadgets may seem slightly incomplete, but in the case of the list gadget, it's meant to be. It supplies a container and up/down buttons, while you supply the actual "filler". xisnd: - Err..still delayed :/ Enjoy LUI in the meantime. xigfx: - Slight optimisation in views (removed a rectangle from blits) - xi_init.c: Disabled mouse input events, as we're just grabbing state in the event loop. I may make this configurable later on. - Changed defaults to software surfaces in all xigfx functions (Not many places, fortunately - some were already software, so I expect a slight speed bost from having it uniform ;) - xisetup.h is gaining more flags for its subsystems; XIF_USE_TTF and XIF_USE_LUI are set if SDL_ttf and Xiqual's GUI system are initialised properly, respectively. - xi_main.c: Added some small changes to handle the GUI elements, including bits related to highlighting gadgets on mouseover. ---- Version 0.7.3: Codename "Territorial" ---- general: - Still working on map-related stuff; some xigfx functions will be included in the next unleashing of Xiqual. - Reorganised the documentation. Considered and spat on Doxygen. (It's no good for generating C API documentation, as the output is listed by source filename, C++ class/namespace or some other concept that doesn't fit in my world.) - Still adding more documentation. - Started using Patcher, a Conectiva-related utility that works like a very simple, local-only CVS. Very useful. - The tileset utility is now able to handle borders and offsets in images - if you have a tileset with a line between each block in the set, it can be ignored. See the x/yoffset and x/yborder settings in the definition file. - Discovered that those people doing "extreme programming" aren't really doing things much differently from what a sane programmer would do, anyway. Refactor mercilessly? Been there, done that, T-shirts available soon at CafePress. ---- Version 0.7.2: Win32 + tweaks ---- general: - Made all sublibraries compile with VC++ 5.0 (and then probably all later ones). Some features are not present in 5.0 that exist in 6.x and later, so I had to massage some code a little extra. The utilities seem to compile without error, and very few warnings. See separate sections for each. - Minor shuffling of headers (as usual) - Slightly improved xi_init() documentation - Fixed errors in documentation, missing O'Neills, cases of @deprecated mysteriously appearing instead of @doc and more. xitools: - Ported to Win32 - tested and working. - Removed redundant function call: cfg_truth(). Used cfg_isbool() where the former was before. xigfx: - Ported to Win32 - tested and working. Tested against a semi-minimal example which opened a screen with a custom mousepointer (PNG), a button and tiles blitted to parts of the screen. Didn't get Ogg/Vorbis loading to work, so will try statically compiled SDL_mixer later. xinet: - Ported to Win32 - untested. Can't be arsed. xicgi: - Ditto. No warnings. xithings: - Ported to Win32 - works as well as in Linux. That means no compile warnings or link errors. tileset.c: - After much browsing of Win32 docs, and a desperate search for a *working* zlib for Windows, this compiles and creates perfectly good tilesets. prefs.c: - This test-program works for Win32. iffwrite: - Works for Win32, and creates a compliant IFF. ifftest: - Works for Win32. Can be used to test the output from iffwrite and tileset. md5: - Works for Win32. This could actually be useful. ---- Version 0.7.1: It's those .0 releases.. ---- general: - Not a single warning anymore :) xigfx: - Dropped the source rectangle from tile blits - Made xit_setdefaults() a macro - Tilesets no longer keep a List in addition to the array - Forgot to check for HAVE_SDL_SDL_MIXER_H in xi_init() before initialising audio - fixed. Similar for the header files. - Added SDL_ttf support to xi_init() - if it exists, the initialiser is called. Some sort of font loading will be added so that you can have several fonts ready with just the call to xi_init(). xisnd: - Coming next release..Vorbis loading of samples and simple memory management of samples. An own format for Vorbis streams will be used, unless Ogg headers can tell me the size of the Vorbis stream in advance. This is for sound mixing of compressed audio, not streaming. ---- Version 0.7.0: Better IFF, tiles ---- general: - A tileset tool has been added - use it to paste together bunches of previously created images. The GIMP is not a good tool to use for drawing tiles/sprites. Try KDE's icon editor. Examples in: tools/sprite (a few images and the definition file to create an IFF from them) - Found loads of places where no memset() was called, even though it would be necessary. Mysteriously, nothing broke until I started writing the tileset tool. list_free() started failing on a free() whenever IFF saving had been used earlier. Heisenbugs are NOT fun. - Tweaked the packaging/installation. When using CheckInstall, all files required to just start developing are bundled together. The binary packages should have headers, static libraries, all documentation and README/TODO etc. xigfx: - Minor tweaks in the xi_init() function (Maybe I'll add GL support) - A tileset loader/display engine has been added to this neglected section of Xiqual. The tileset tool mentioned above will create the files necessary for this. Two blitter functions are available; one with heaps of args, and one which relies on a default screen and tileset being set. New fields have been added to the globals. xitools: - IFF handling has improved, plus returncode bugs have been fixed. Writing nested chunks is now a lot easier. Detailed description: When creating a new IFF chunk, a node is added to the IFFHandle list called "chunks". This node contains id, size and position of each chunk. iff_endchunk() and iff_newchunk() uses this information to correct odd-sized chunks. This means writing a file will use a bit of extra memory (although not a huge amount). Reading the file is still pretty much a sequential operation. - Documentation added/rewritten for IFF handling - Temporarily disabled sub-forms in IFFs while pondering a better way to do recursive reading/writing without rewriting the IFF- handling entirely. - Fixed some memory oversteps and missing checks for NULL - Fixed yet more bugs in the preferences system, and removed the old system from the list of compiled files - Ensured that comments were not made into variables (saves lots of memory, considering the size of my own comments) - Some documentation was added to xi_seterror(). It is merely a function to set the global error string pointer, but could possibly do more in the future. For example, a flag could be passed to the Xiqual initialiser to point to a function that immediately displays an error prominently on the screen when it occurs. ---- Version 0.6.3: Bloody tokenisers ---- general: - Looking for retarded functions in libc to replace..str_tokenise() is a replacement for both strtok() and strtok_r(), for instance. More functions found inadequate will go in xitools (or other suitable sublibrary). xitools: - Added a string tokeniser (str_tokenise() and str_freetoken()). strtok()/strtok_r() are both missing from MingW32, so with this addition I am able to try compiling for Win32..unless I need to code yet another replacement ;) - Made cfg_loadprefs() use the new tokeniser - old clunky code now replaced with new clunky code! - Slight modification to files.c (moved a memset() call around) ---- Version 0.6.2: Bleh ---- general: - KDE 2 is finally usable and FAST on my system. Woohoo! KDevelop found a lot stabler than before, and not at all messing up my configure.in anymore. xitools: - Added a couple of new functions (cfg_findsection() and cfg_findnext()), which wrap around node_findbyname() to find preferences sections. - Fixed a minor oops in the (outdated, deprecated) prefs_findsection() call, so be quiet, O'Neill! ---- Version 0.6.1: Oops ---- general: - Fixed things which I seemed to have broken in the autofile implementations. - Minor tweaks to (hopefully) make things compile on other people's MingW32. Still having a problem because of the lack of strtok_r() in the libc from that compiler. Going to have to make my own. - Shane is complaining about missing functions. Bah. prefs_findsection_next() is still in there, but a macro named prefs_findnext() is also present now. Not documented, never will be. It's just a wrapper. - Minor improvement in xiqual-config: xitools is always linked last in the chain when --libs is specified. Specifying --tools does nothing, and is harmless. Every other sub-library depends on libxitools.a. ---- Version 0.6.0: I fucking broke the interface! ---- tools: - md5.c: Improved to handle any size of files. See autofiles. - statuscleaner.c: For Debian users with bloated dpkg status files. Halved the size of mine, from 1.2MB to about 600kB. I can't feel any bad effects yet. First in a line of user-hostile utilities. No commandline options, no guarantees. general: - Libraries no longer build without warning. Phew. - Screw the VC++ porting plans. - Changed iarea.c so that there is one hook for passing over, and one for clicking. The parameters were switched around, too, just to see if anyone is paying attention. - Views will have view_hide() called upon them as they are freed by view_free(). Do not free the SDL surface it is tied to until then. - Many other little bits of behavioural changes have happened. - Ready to use with C++, for anyone who cares (Shane obviously does, since he sent me the diffs ;) - Earlier releases of Xiqual found to be made and released in a drug- induced haze. - All the core functions (libxitools) are getting additional checks for zero value parameters where it shouldn'n. List functions should now be safe to call without checking what you give them, for instance. - Memory leak checking is slowly happening; cfg_* and list_* have been deemed safe so far. I use 'debauch' to check, as it doesn't require any recompilation. NOTE: If running a bare-minimum Xiqual program that calls xi_init() and xi_quit(), you'll see lots of memleaks reported with debauch. It seems that putting a call to SDL_SetVideoMode() in a library makes it lose track of where the screen data etc. goes. libxitools: - Slight rearrangement while adding documentation. New function in libxitools: list_makecircular() - deprecates list_nodemakecircular(). - A whole new interface for preferences; the old one will vanish one day. The new one is tag-based, therefore requiring less functions and less memorisation. The old one is just too messy. Functions have names starting with cfg_. It should now be a matter of calling cfg_loadprefs() with a few tags to load, and cfg_freeprefs() to release data. If you want to create from scratch, make a List and call cfg_newsection(). Likewise, cfg_freesection() releases a section and its variables. cfg_find* functions are possible to use for searching for next instance of something. Particularly useful for variables which can be specified multiple times to spread settings over several lines. - files.c: Autofiles now have an optional hook for reading and writing. You could use these to reverse byte order, check data for validity or whatever. See md5.c for an example. - files.c: Fixed a potentially narsty bug due to reversal of two parameters in fread(). You can guess which easily. All return values from file_read() and file_write() should now be correct. Only one was correct before (in some cases). - List/Node functions have been divided into list_* and node_*. A few extra calls have been added, too. Check the HTML documentation. ---- Version 0.5.1 (not released) ---- general: - Doc++ has been found a Good Thing. HTML and PDF documentation is made with each distribution. All documentation will have the current Xiqual version number in the headers. libxigfx: - Bloody colourkeys. Fixed in fonts, too. - Main loop hooks are sorta working, and the input handling with a rudimentary GUI system is being transferred from a few test-projects to Xiqual. Seems like the Amiga Layers-way with elements of BOOPSI will be the method of execution here. ---- Version 0.5.0 ---- general: - Major change: Autoconf scripts. 7-8 hours spent on this and porting issues. - More pruning of CVS tags in various files (CVS won't be active for a while). - Removed XIulong/XIushort; not quite sure where ulong and ushort is defined in every OS, and I can't quite get the scripts to work with mingw32 yet. If you need a Win32 port fast, it sucks to be you. - About a thousand lines of header/source vanished. Haven't a clue where, as the library has more functionality than when it bypassed 7500 lines. - 'make dist' will create a tarball of the source with configure scripts, as per the Autoconf/Automake defaults (Xiqual-<version>.tar.gz>. A Bzip2 target will be added soon-ish. - New header: xios.h - various attempts at cross-platform work will start here. Include in every file, before other Xiqual headers, and you should be OK for the most part. string.h/strings.h issues will hopefully be resolved through this. - All libraries build without a warning. Must investigate. libxigfx: - Fixed inconsistencies (view->flags not being used, for instance) - Reduced views back to storing only one surface+backbuffer - Colourkey problems with the font system have been fixed (hopefully) - xi_textwidth() is now a simple macro, since fonts are fixed-width ---- Version 0.4.2 ---- general: - Tiny tweaks in various places to make things compile smoothly, follow ANSI guidelines even more strictly etc. libxitools: - Nasty bug(missing feature discovered in list_remove(): It did not clear the pointers to next and previous node. Fixed. libxinet: - It basically works. More sorts of hook functions will be added later. - Library split into one file per function, with destructors inside same file as the creator. ---- Version 0.4.1 ---- general: - Makefile tidied up a lot - a full compile went from 26 seconds to 20 seconds. - Makefiles use a common include file, plus an exported TOPDIR variable. Some MS-DOS variants might have trouble with ../ as a path specification, therefore this fix. - Only GNU Make will work now (VC++ 5+ projectfile planned) libxitools: - New function: prefs_findsection_next() - Searching for preferences sections is now done case-insensitively The hunt for inconsistencies continues.. libxinet: - Functions to create a SelectServer structure and pass it hooks/ settings now exist. Call net_process() to have it wait for incoming calls, call hooks and do any other magic it requires. Use internal Xiqual routines to read packets for convenience, or just handle the socket yourself. Raw calls to just read data also exist. This is the only part of the tools that isn't really cross-platform ready yet. ---- Version 0.4.0 Official ---- Added: libxithings - Here go things related to things and critters (NPCs/players). Currently only structures for inanimates, living things and attributes. The attribute system may seem a bit peculiar, but it should work. libxinet: - Server/client networking code goes here. It will be a fairly complete toolkit for select()-servers. Not too big and advanced, and not encumbered by threading/fork() issues. Scalability is uncertain, but the first 5 planned projects on my list (yeah, I'm busy) don't require MMORPG-like server scalability (which, by the way, I can tell you that MMORPGs don't have, either). ----------------- Version 0.3.6-son ----------------- Fixed: list_getnode() -If a non existing index value was specified it would segfault. Now if an out of bounds index is specified it will either return the first or the last node in the list, depending on which end of the list the value is violating. Changed: list_getnode() -Changed the index value offset. A zero now represents the start of a list and not 'one', as with version 0.3.5-son list_new() -Removed lines initialising head and tail pointers to NULL. Not Required. Added: str_getvalue() -This is used to convert values in a string to 'int'. It returns an offset, so that can be used to get the next value. E.G. Suppose a string of "$1 2 3 4", the first call to this function would place the value of '1' in a supplied variable, and an offset to the next white space character returned. This offset can then be fed into a second call to str_getvalue, and the value placed in the supplied variable will be '2'.. etc. An offset of '0' is returned if there are no more values in the string. additions.txt -This is in the doc directory, and covers new functions added. SON. ----------------- Version 0.3.5-son ----------------- Added: List_getnode() -Returns a pointer to node specified by index value. list_nodemakecircular() -Converts a standard list into a circular list. list_nodestart() -Finds the first node in a list. list_nodeend() -Finds the last node in a list. prefs_findvar_next() -Finds the next occurrence of a variable name within a list. Fixed: N/A Changed: list_add() -This required modification for the support of circular lists. list_new() -Added lines to initialise head & tail pointers to NULL. list_newitem() -An items 'prev' pointer is now also initialised to NULL. strsplit() -This function now supports strings with underscores. prefs_free() -Function modified to support circular lists. prefs_findvar() -Function modified to support circular lists. SON.

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