--- name: "news" section: "3caca" platform: "linux" package: "libcucul-dev" version: "0.99.beta11.debian-2" release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)" platforms: ["linux"] url: "https://new.carta.tech/news/3caca" --- # news(3caca) News ## NAME news - News ## Changes between 0.9.beta11 and 0.99.beta10 - • fixed compilation of the C++ bindings - • fixed bugs in **cucul\_import\_memory()**, **cucul\_set\_canvas\_size()** - • implemented **caca\_set\_display\_title()** for ncurses and S-Lang - • minor bugfixes ## Changes between 0.9.beta10 and 0.99.beta9 - • new debug mode - • blitting canvases now makes use of the canvas' handle coordinates - • import functions can read streamed data - • attribute to colorspace transformations - • added katakana and hiragana glyphs to the built-in font - • many bugfixes and documentation changes ## Changes between 0.9.beta9 and 0.99.beta8 - • support for blink, bold, italics and underline attributes - • allow to import and export zero-sized canvases - • fixed Imlib2 support in cacaview - • fixed buffer overlows in the file importer - • big documentation updates ## Changes between 0.9.beta8 and 0.99.beta7 - • allow to build the X11 and GL drivers as separate plugins - • support for fullwidth Unicode characters - • improved **cucul\_flip()** and **cucul\_rotate()** - • minor bugfixes and documentation updates ## Changes between 0.9.beta7 and 0.99.beta6 - • transparency support in the UTF-8 importer and exporter - • optimised triangle fill routine - • updated C++ bindings ## Changes between 0.9.beta6 and 0.99.beta5 - • ANSI importer now handles transparency and UTF-8 - • Unicode support was broken for about 10% of the set - • various memory leaks were fixed ## Changes between 0.9.beta5 and 0.99.beta4 - • implemented cucul\_getchar() and cucul\_get\_color() - • handle transparency in the IRC export - • new cropping and expanding filters - • full Unicode support in the OpenGL driver - • portability fixes for 64-bit architectures, Win32 and MS-DOS - • all demos except cacafire were merged into cacademo ## Changes between 0.9.beta4 and 0.99.beta3 - • added a compatibility layer for pre-1.x libcaca applications - • fixed manpage generation - • minor bugfixes and documentation updates ## Changes between 0.9.beta3 and 0.99.beta2 - • libcaca functions use errno for error reporting - • updated C++ bindings - • minor improvements, bugfixes and documentation updates ## Changes between 0.9.beta2 and 0.99.beta1 - • ANSI importer - • functions use errno for error reporting - • updated C++ bindings - • - • cacadraw, an ANSI viewer that will evolve into an editor - • Unicode input and output support for SLang and ncurses - • built-in fonts work on Win32 ## Changes between 0.9 and 0.99.beta1 - • license switched to WTFPL - • libcaca was split into libcucul, a standalone text manipulation backend, and libcaca, the display and user input frontend - • Unicode support - • TrueColor (more than 16 colours) support - • Floyd-Steinberg dithering - • gamma correction - • export functions for HTML, IRC, ANSI, SVG, PostScript, TGA... - • builtin fonts for device-independent bitmap output - • various text transformation routines (rotation, horizontal flip...) - • OpenGL renderer - • kernel mode to build libcaca programs into a bootable x86 kernel - • cacaserver, a telnet server that can be hooked to libcaca applications - • img2irc, an image to IRC conversion utility ## Changes between 0.8 and 0.9 - • fix for a buffer overflow in the line rendering - • fixed resizing in the ncurses and slang drivers - • aspect ratio and finer zoom support in cacaview - • minor compilation fixes ## Changes between 0.7 and 0.8 - • window resizing support - • native Win32 port - • autorepeat emulation in the ncurses and slang drivers - • support for more keycodes in the ncurses and slang drivers - • cacaplas, a plasma animation example - • cacamoir, a moire circles animation example - • MSVC project file ## Changes between 0.6 and 0.7 - • many bugfixes in the event handling - • cacaball, a metaball animation example ## Changes between 0.5 and 0.6 - • 30% speed increase in the bitmap rendering routine - • mouse support and various speed optimisations in the X11 driver - • X11 is now the preferred driver - • improved documentation - • minor bugfixes ## Changes between 0.4 and 0.5 - • palette optimisation for the S-Lang driver to work around the colour pair shortage bug - • minor compilation fix ## Changes between 0.3 and 0.4 - • preliminary X11 graphics driver - • support for simultaneously compiled-in drivers - • honour the CACA\_DRIVER, CACA\_GEOMETRY and CACA\_FONT environment variables - • more documentation ## Changes between 0.2 and 0.3 - • antialiasing support - • dithering, antialiasing and background mode can now be selected at runtime or in the environment using the CACA\_BACKGROUND, CACA\_DITHERING and CACA\_ANTIALIASING variables - • alpha channel support in cacaview - • BMP loading support in cacaview even if Imlib2 is not present - • cacafire, a libcaca port of aafire ## Changes between 0.1 and 0.2 - • rendering now uses 256 colour pairs instead of 16 - • mouse support for ncurses - • ncurses is now the preferred backend - • arbitrary color depth and bitmasks in the bitmap renderer - • cacaview, an image viewer based on libcaca ## New in 0.1 - • initial release - • slang, ncurses and conio drivers - • basic line, box, ellipse and triangle primitives - • colour bitmap blitting