Agar-1.4
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The Agar-1.4.0 release is the first of the 1.4 series. It includes major feature enhancements, optimizations and bug fixes.
This release preserves backward compatibility with Agar-1.3.4, but it is recommended to compile Agar with the --disable-legacy configure option, ensuring that existing applications are not using deprecated API calls.
Changes since Agar-1.3.4
- Added support for multiple "native" windows; rework of the low-level graphics and input device interfaces. As of this release, the available drivers are:
- New drivers can also be implemented as part of an application, the driver API is documented in AG_Driver(3).
- Applications should now use AG_InitGraphics() to initialize the graphical interface. Backward compatibility is preserved, but AG_InitVideo() will only select among single-window graphics drivers.
- Agar can now be built without the SDL library, where the SDL graphics driver is not needed.
- Many improvements to the AG_Surface(3) interface, no longer rely on SDL.
- Implement generic AG_Keyboard and AG_Mouse interfaces; allow for multiple input devices.
- Implement widget "actions" as a generic method of handling mouse and keyboard actions per user preferences (see AG_Widget(WIDGET_ACTIONS) ).
- Agar windows are now attached and detached using AG_ObjectAttach() and AG_ObjectDetach() against a parent AG_Driver(3); the AG_ViewDetach() function is now deprecated.
- Added AG_Tbl(3), AG_Tree(3) interfaces to ag_core.
- Fix handling of dynamically-allocated strings in AG_CopyVariable().
- Implement AG_TlistUniq(), AG_TlistAddHead().
- Important optimizations to AG_LookupClass().
- Consistently provide plain string variants for every function accepting format string arguments. This allows for more efficient code, and avoids complications with language bindings.
- As the window-* prefixes in events such as window-mousemotion is no longer relevant, mark them deprecated in favor of mouse-* and key-*.
- The integer typedefs Uint8, Sint8, Uint16, Sint16, etc. are no longer made public unless _USE_AGAR_TYPES is explicitely defined.
- Widgets such as AG_Textbox(3) now embed AG_Label(3) widgets to display their associated text labels.
- Added AG_TextboxSetFont(), AG_EditableSetFont(), AG_ConsoleSetFont().
- Various additions to AG_Console(3).
- It is now possible to have the AG_Scrollbar(3) control size scaled automatically from the "visible" binding, by enabling AG_SCROLLBAR_AUTOSIZE.
- Consistently represent color values using AG_Color(3) throughout the API.
- Many additions and updates to the API reference.
- Added various size hint routines: AG_ProgressBarSetLength(), AG_ScrollbarSizeHint().
- Fixed a few memory leaks on AG_Destroy(); added demos/reinit/ test case.
- Cursor changes are no longer performed directly from widget code. Instead, widgets now register "cursor change areas" via the AG_Cursor(3) interface.
- Introduce AG_EventQ structure,
- Added AG_ObjectSetAttachFn(), AG_ObjectSetDetachFn(), AG_ObjectMoveToHead() and AG_ObjectMoveToTail() functions, allowing the order of child objects to be controlled. This is used by AG_Window(3) where order is important.
- Implemented AG_ShortFilename() utility routine.
- VG: Implemented VG_Status(), VG_TextString(). VG_View(3) now uses widget actions.
- The default theme now allows transparency in the color scheme.
