LibGGI 2.1.0
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LibGGI 2.1.0 was released on 2004-11-30.
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Release Notes
New in libggi 2.1.0:
- Documentation updates
- removed obseleted Xlib target
- added new GGIFLAG_TIDYBUF flag. It is intended for applications using directbuffer and having their own dirty-region management. Currently only supported by the X-target.
- KGI target improvements
- added Matrox Gx00 accelerator sublib
- added devfs support
- added multiple frame support
- merged improvements from the FreeBSD ports tree
- fbdev gammamap support
- added the -fullscreen option to the X-target
- added the -physz option to the ipc-target
- Major DirectX target improvements
- added -noinput and -physz options by Christoph Egger. Tested by Albert Graef.
- fix cursor stuff, added -keepcursor and -nocursor options (patch from Albert Graef)
- disable maximize button on GGI-on-DX window (patch from Albert Graef)
- remove stuff in WindowProc made obselete by the above two items (patch from Albert Graef)
- move the globals in ddinit.c into private data structure (patch from Albert Graef)
- merge the two targets into one (directxnt has been renamed to directx and is now the one directx target) (patch from Albert Graf)
- fix a couple of bugs and race conditions (patch from Albert Graef)
- added -inwin option (patch from Albert Graef)
- added support for virtual size != visible size.
- added support for panning (ggiSetOrigin)
- added support for up to 16 frames.
- added support for asynchronous mode (no background updates when active).
- added support for fullscreen and mode switching.
- preliminary support for palettized modes.
- display-auto has been added. It replaces the 5 years old linux specific target autodetection and handles it OS dependend
- works on Windows using MinGW w/o requiring special Makefiles.
- a pseudo-stubs target has been added by Peter Ekberg. It does effectively nothing, but gives extensions a way to have one target that stands for all targets that passes all operations to their parent visuals. libggiwmh and libggimisc make palemu and trueemu working with it w/o having a target for each of them.
- display-mansync has been reworked by Peter Ekberg. It now uses the platform independent task scheduler.
- added a new macro: GT_ByPPP which is basically GT_ByPP but for packed pixels and it takes two arguments.