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December 5 - FOX DEVELOPMENT 1.7.6 (Sinterklaas-Editie!)

FXThreadPool::execute() now returns FXWorker instead of a flag; this is convenient as you now have a handle to the thread responsible for executing your FXRunnable.
Fixed a few buglets in FXThreadPool, particularly having to do with wierd cases like stopping the FXThreadPool while trying to schedule new jobs, etc.
FXCondition::wait() now returns a flag also; return value is true if the function returns due to the condition being signalled, and false if interrupted or if there were errors. The overloaded version also returns false if the wait-time expired.
Added some missing includes in fx.h.
Fixed missing FXReactor FXIMPLEMENT issue.

November 30 - FOX DEVELOPMENT 1.7.5

Added new FXThreadPool class. FXThreadPool allows parallel execution of jobs (FXRunnable) without the overhead of creating a thread for each job; instead, a pool of worker-threads are used to execute jobs, and thus the overhead is minimal. To ensure that the workers do not fall behind with the incoming job-stream, new jobs are only accepted when worker-threads are available. The FXThreadPool can adapt to changing workloads by spawning new workers during peak-loads (up to a set maximum), and removing workers from the pool when there are no jobs (down to a certain minimum). Worker threads may be started right away (ensuring that all worker-threads are ready for action), or on an as-needed basis.
Added new FXReactor class. An FXReactor implements reactor pattern. FXReactor is thread-safe and will allow multi-threaded operation like the leader-follower pattern FXReactor is a key component for multi-thread platform-independent network-server development, and will also serve as the base class for the new event-dispatch structure being put into place.
Changed FXApp to use the new pselect() system call. It provides nano-second timeouts and will also make non-immediate signal processing in FOX safe from race-conditions (or at least it will when your c-library and linux-kernel support the new pselect() system call ;-)).
Added API's to FXThread for thread-local storage. This comes in addition to the thread-local storage already implicitly present for the self() API.
Added API to FXThread to determine number of processors in the system; this may be used when creating the FXThreadPool to start the proper number of worker threads based on actual hardware in the system.
FXThread now derives from FXRunnable, which encompasses an overloadable run function and some data. FXRunnable is also used in FXThreadPool.
Made FXThread safe for suicide of FXThread:- in case of self-destruction, FXThread properly detaches the thread and cleans up TLS to FXThread binding. When FXThread is destroyed by another thread cancels the thread. Normal termination properly resets the running flag but leaves tid to allow a join() operation.
Added new FXMessageChannel class. This replaces the old FXGUISignal. FXMessageChannel delivers a way to perform asynchronous message calls from a worker thread to the main GUI thread. It is implemented using an internally created pipe, which is connected to the GUI thread. A message written by a worker thread can thus be delivered to the GUI thread, and dispatched in the GUI thread's context. To obtain the behaviour of the old FXGUISignal, note that this is now simply a special case of an asynchronous call via FXMessageChannel with no data.
Fixed bug in vsscanf; New versions of Visual Studio now have one of the two missing functions.
Added special blank cursor stock cursor. This can be used when you desire to see no cursor at all.
Speeded up signal handling stuff: only check non-immediate signals if one was actually raised.
Fixed FXSpinner and FXRealSpinner; they were updating while being changed by the user through the text field.
Fixed ugly look of FXHeader when no items are present (as reported for its use in FXTable).
Improvements in FXText word-selection mode.

November 17 - FOX STABLE 1.6.20

Rolled back explicit template instantiation stuff: not supported everywhere.

November 9 - FOX STABLE 1.6.19

Fix bug in FXMutex::locked() implementation.
Suppress 4244 warning (possible loss of data) on VC++ compiler.

November 7 - FOX STABLE 1.6.18

Bug fix in FXApp drag and drop.
Wrong error message in argument check in FXTable API.
Fixed minor issues in FXPicker: now issues message on mouse button release.
Fixed problems in FXFile, FXSocket, FXPipe occurring on 64-bit Windows.

September 30 - FOX STABLE 1.6.16

Fixed issue with FXMDIChild and FXTopWindow close() routine; this mostly affects FXRuby.
Fixed drag and drop issue with dropFinished() on Windows.
Fixed FXTextField drawCursor() array overrun and text measurement bugs.

August 29 - FOX DEVELOPMENT 1.7.3

Major upgrade to reswrap. New in reswrap is long option names. Also added are a number of new options, designed for more easy incorporation of reswrap into custom software build rules. First, options and filenames can now be mixed, allowing both icons.h and icons.cpp to be generated with one single reswrap command. Also, static and external linkage decorations can be generated for each symbol. Symbol names may be changed using prefixes, postfixes, or incorporated in namespaces. Size declarations may be added to header files to provide compiler with sizes of the embedded resources. For more, see updated reswrap documentation. One important warning: some options have been renamed for consistency!
Redesign of inner workings of FXScrollArea; getViewportWidth() and getViewportHeight() have been removed. New API's getVisibleX(), getVisibleY(), getVisibleWidth() and getVisibleHeight() are added. Also added internal (protected) member function placeScrollBars() which is intended to be called by subclasses of FXScrollArea.
Minor tweaks inside FXScrollBar.
Added new FXConsole widget (under construction).
Added some API's to FXArray.
Fixed some FXFileList drag and drop issues.
Cut down code size by means of explicit template instantiation.
FXQuat{d,f} API's setAxisAngle(), and getAxisAngle() have been made safer.
FXString inc() etc. made safer; won't increment too far.
Fixed FXTextField drawCursor() array overrun and text measurement bugs.

August 14 - FOX STABLE 1.6.14

Rolled back Niall's BOM-marker patch to FXDCWindow [not working].
FXSlider, FXRealSlider arrow-movement was not generating callback to target.
Include <asm/socket.h> for CYGWIN for X11 Windows build.
Regenerate fxunicode.cpp with surrounding namespace for Digital Mars C++ compile.
Surround fxascii with namespace for Digital Mars C++. Plus other issues brought to light on Digital Mars C++.

August 8 - FOX STABLE 1.6.13

Fixed Digital Mars C++ makefile.
Namespace qualification missing from macros in FXObject.h.
End of stream bugs in FXGZFileStream and FXBZFileStream.
BOM marker at end of text appears to fix WIN32 drawText() and drawImageText() in FXDCWindow.
Removed some more FXTRACE statements; fixed trace-levels on some other FXTRACE statements; this only affects debug-mode builds.

August 1 - FOX STABLE 1.6.12

Fix DLL issue [again].
Some FXTRACE statements were at too low a level.
Updated Visual C++ studio projects.
FXToolTip place() fixed.

August 1 - FOX DEVELOPMENT 1.7.2

Fix assorted typo's.
Change PI, DTOR, RTOD, EULER to const declarations inside FX namespace, preventing conflicts.
Fix FXChart Makefile.

July 30 - FOX DEVELOPMENT 1.7.1

FXCalendar and FXCalendarView widgets added. The are written by Sander Jansen.
Added positive (?<= expr) and negative (?<! expr) look-behind patterns to FXRex; look-behind patterns are finite-length patterns that need to be matched (or not matched), without eating any text.
Fixed minor bug with case-insensitive back refecences in FXRex.
Different method implemented for back references; back references now also work even if npar is 1 in FXRex::match().
Added granularity option to FXRealSlider; if set greater than zero, values are rounded to multiples of granularity as slider is moved; this will cause slider to report nice round numbers.
getNextEvent() can now be told to wait only a finite amount of time for incoming events.
The addTimeout() and remainingTimeout() API's in FXApp now work in terms of nanoseconds.
New addDeadline() API added to FXApp which sets absolute clock value when a timer will expire; thus this new API is not subject to cumulative errors. The timeout is set in nanoseconds since Jan 1st, 1970.
Datatarget now supports FXbool type.
Added ID_SETLONGVALUE and ID_GETLONGVALUE support to FXTextField.
FXStream now supports FXbool type.
FXbool type now defines as bool.
FXToolBarShell now interprets its child's LAYOUT_FIX_WIDTH and LAYOUT_FIX_HEIGHT hints.
Change addInput() API; it now takes a void* pointer which is then passed along into the SEL_IO_READ (etc.) message handlers. You can get the old behaviour by passing in the file-descriptor for the void* pointer.
New FXGLConfig class decribes OpenGL framebuffer configuration.
New FXGLContext uses FXGLConfig to match OpenGL hardware capabilities.
Lasso selection in FXIconList no longer drawn as line, but solid rectangle. Looks MUCH nicer!.
New DND type added for files; this is now used internally between FOX applications in preference to "text/uri-list", since its much easier to decode and encode.
FXSettings and FXRegistry now support 64-bit integer values; this necessitated some small API changes: readUnsignedEntry() is now called readUIntEntry(), writeUnsignedEntry() is now writeUIntEntry(), and the new API's are called readLongEntry(), readULongEntry() and writeLongEntry(), writeULongEntry() respectively.
Also new in FXSettings is support for the type FXbool, which is read/written as a more humanly readable "true" and "false" instead of 1 and 0.
New class FXDLL and FXAUTODLL added to manage dynamic library (plugin) loading. This replaces the old function-based method. Also new, FXDLL has API to obtain FXDLL given a pointer; basically this allows you to determine the FXDLL containing a specific piece of code.
FXToolBar's setDockingSide() now preserves flags. If both LAYOUT_FILL_Y and LAYOUT_FILL_X are set the will remain set when orientation flips.
Added FXReadWriteLock class. This provides shared-lock support in a platform-independent way.
Added FXAtomic class. It provides multi-processor safe incrementation/decrementation of a lock-variable.
FXToolBarShell can resize its child if the LAYOUT_FIX_WIDTH and LAYOUT_FIX_HEIGHT are specified on the child [in other words, if its set to keep its given size, this size may be given through interaction with the user].
Added missing set() API's to FXExtentf and FXExtentd.
Cell being edited in FXTable now commits its value if clicking outside of table.
Fixed subltety in FXPath::relative().
Added new API FXPath::isInside().
Speeded up FXString's enquote(), dequote() API's.
Fixed drawing bug in FXTextField containing UTF8, when not all text is visible.
Fixed problem of parameters shadowing member functions in FXDate.
Changes in FXThread to eliminate race conditions.
New classes FXComplexf and FXComplexd added.
Fixed reset of scheduling policy in FXThread's priority() API.
Added API to FXThread to get/set scheduling policy, on systems where scheduling policies are implemented.
FXThread priority and policy now defined in terms of a range of enums for increased portability across platforms.
Fixed bug in FXToolTip's place() routine on Windows.
Fixed bug in FXDir on Windows where non-unicode version didn't compile.

July 25 - FOX STABLE 1.6.10

Updated VC++ project files.
Updated Adie.stx; new pattern for #ifdef 0 ... #endif method of commenting out code.
FXExpression memory leak fix.
Updated Visual C++ studio project: FXRulerView source file was omitted.
Missing FXAPI declaration added to FXExtentd and FXExtentf.

July 17 - FOX STABLE 1.6.8

Fixed drawing bug in FXTextField containing UTF8, when not all text is visible.
Fixed problem of parameters shadowing member functions in FXDate.
Missing FXAPI declaration added in FXSemaphore.
Add fflush() to fxassert(), fxmessage(), etc.
FXToolBar preserves flags if LAYOUT_FILL_X AND LAYOUT_FILL_Y both set on a bar.
Bug in strtoll() fixed [on machines where no native strtoll() is available].
A number of subtleties have been fixed in FXPath pathname manipulations.
Click outside occupied table area now commits input in cell being edited.
Small addition in Adie.stx for numerical size suffixes (c/c++ coloring).

June 15 - FOX STABLE 1.6.6

Added fox.pc for pkgconfig support benefiting FOX package builders and developers.
Added date-tooltip to Adie clock.
Removed CXXFLAGS clear in configure.in so it can be passed.
Removed test on zero-message for callback due to its use in FXRuby.
Removed cruft from FXDragCorner.
Fixed little bug in FXTable setItemText().
Fixed csv clipboard issue in FXTable.
Fixed clipboard issue in FXText.
Added workaround for byte order in FXCursor render for Apple MacOSX X Server bug.
Fixed buglet in own strtoll which is only used on machines which don't have native one.
Fixed Python syntax pattern for Adie.stx.

June 15 - FOX STABLE 1.4.34

Fixed buglet in own strtoll which is only used on machines which don't have native one.

April 17 - FOX STABLE 1.6.4

Fixed two bugs in FXTable setItemText() and setItemIcon().
Double-free in Xft mode fixed:- freetype now frees its memory!
Patch for fxkeyboard.cpp for other compilers.
Callbacks from FXListBox SEL_CHANGED message weren't passing item-index.
Bounding box in fxpsio.cpp was wrong.
VirtualAlloc() instead of FXMALLOC() in FXImage circumvents apparent driver bugs on Windows-Xp.

April 5 - FOX STABLE 1.6.3

Fixed issue with multi-head on Windows-XP.
Fixed issue with FXSphered/FXSpheref.

April 3 - FOX STABLE 1.6.2

Fixed fxkeyboard.cpp build problem on Windows.
Fixed sporadic core-dump due to SetDIBits() reacting poorly to malloc()-allocated memory; now using VirtualAlloc() instead of malloc() which gives whole pages.

April 1 - FOX STABLE 1.6.1

Fixed fxgetticks() issue for AIX/PowerPC.
Fixed round() API in FXExpression for other platforms.
Incorporated Daniel Gehriger's keyboard path for Windows 9x/ME.
Fixed FXThread::time() issue for non-POSIX199309 UNIX platforms.

March 21 - FOX STABLE 1.6.0

New FXExpression class to evaluate numerical expressions. Its fast as it compiles to easy to interpret byte-code. It also allows expressions with variable arguments, which can be named arbitrarily.
Fixed but in fxtoDos and fxfromDOS; the end-of-string is no longer accounted for in the length [but it is still added, for convenience].
Changed sleep() API of FXThread; it now has a single argument, the number of nanoseconds to sleep.
Added wakeat() API to FXThread. The wakeat() API sleeps till the given absolute time is reached. The time is expressed as a 64-bit long counting nanoseconds since Jan. 1, 1970.
Added time() API to FXThread. It returns nanoseconds since Jan. 1, 1970.
Internal timer calculations in FXApp now use FXThread::time() and so on.
FXCondition's wait() API now also waits a number of nanoseconds.
Fixed tooltip on FX7Segment widget.
Fixed document-comment in FXString.
Added update handlers for FXTable row/column selection.
Bug in fxrgbio fixed.
Warning in FXWindow fixed.
Added sample program for expression class.
fxsleep() is now deprecated. Please stop using it!

March 21 - FOX STABLE 1.4.32

Back-ported fixes for GCC 4.1 C++ Language Changes [Friend Injection].

February 10 - FOX STABLE 1.6.0 (Release Candidate 4)

Updated FXRealSpinner. New API setGranularity() allows the values to stay at "nice round numbers".
Logarithmic mode of FXRealSpinner also updated.
Updated FX4Splitter. In case only one panel is collapsed, panel besides it will stretch to fit.
Also fixed layout issue with FX4Splitter which inadvertently placed barsize worth of pixels on the side even if all but one panel was collapsed.
Update FX4Spliiter's default size computation based on which panels are collapsed; this has gotten a bit complex now.

February 6 - FOX STABLE 1.6.0 (Release Candidate 3)

Reconciled API inconsistencies between FXObjectList and FXArray.
Added mimeType constant to FX***Image and FX***Icon classes for drag and drop and clipboard support.
Added auto-repeat snapshot capability to shutterbug.
Added auto-renumbering option for row and column headers in FXTable.
Implemented no-navigation mode in FXFileDialog.
Extra option for compression quality added to FXJPGImage and FXJPGIcon.
Added missing FXAPI to codec declarations.
Block generation of some callback messages if message is 0.
Improved fxbmpio implementation by directly using FXStream's primitive types.
Fixed issue with FXStat::touched().
Added bunch of missing API's to FXTable to control row and column header appearance.
Added ComboBox table item to enter a choice among a number of strings.
Added FXExpression which contains a function to evaluate expression.
Added Control-click mode to FXSpinner and FXRealSpinner.
Adie shows number of rows in status bar instead of byte count.
Wheel support in FXOptionMenu.
The setValue() API in FXRuler now has value relative to document position.
The setArrowPosY() and setArrowPosY() APIs in FXRulerView also relative to document position.

December 19 - FOX STABLE 1.6.0 (Release Candidate 2)

Added FXRulerView widget. The ruler view coordinates the scroll bars and rulers to automatically adjust to the stated document dimensions and margin settings for a document- oriented workview. It is intended as a base class for an applications document drawing framework.
Added FILELIST_NO_PARENT option to FXFileList to suppress '.' and '..' display in directory lists.
Added extra field in FILETYPES binding for "change directory" and "run in terminal" flags.
Optimized FXText continuous wrap mode layout update when using fixed-pitch fonts; this frequent scenario is quite a bit faster now; also greatly simplified layout handling in FXText.
Fixed layout issues with LAYOUT_FIX_X and LAYOUT_FIX_Y in FXPacker, FXTopWindow, FXGroupBox, FXHorizontalFrame, and FXVerticalFrame widgets.
Updated FXArray implementation; many API's added, a few dropped to so as to require no insert- or extract operators, or equality operators, on the contained items.
Updated FXVec{2,3,4}{d,f} classes; changed many friend functions to members, added explicit declarations for remaining friend functions in preparation for GCC 4.1 C++-language-change.
Small changes to FXQuat{d,f}. Some friend functions have become member functions.
Updated xinc.h to accomodate broken prototypes on older unix machines with respect to input method support.
Also simplified FXText layout logic.
Fixed tons of warnings on SGI, HPUX, Solaris, OSF1, and Windows builds.
Split FXComposeContext creation from construction. This is necessary as input method editor server may come and go.
Updated FXHash class with a few additional API's to make it easier to look over all contents in the table.
Added clearElms() API to FXElement.h.
Fixed FXVisual getNumGreen() and getNumBlue() access functions.
Expunged a number of FXbool in favor of bool.
Speeded up fxloadBMP(), fxsaveBMP(), fxloadICO() and fxsaveICO() functions through use of byte-swapping capability of FXStream.
Fixed typo in FXDebugTarget.
Fixed problem in FXFile::removeFiles().
Removed tons of warnings on Solaris builds.
Turned off XIM by default until it works across the board.

November 29 - FOX STABLE 1.4.26

Fixed SUN Solaris compile issue with threads.
Missing fxcheckTIF(), fxcheckPNG(), fxcheckJPG() declarations if TIF, PNG, and JPEG support is stubbed out.

November 14 - FOX STABLE 1.4.24

Fixed small issue in FXVec4{d,f} distance() routine.

November 9 - FOX STABLE 1.4.23

Fixed compile issue with new GetOwnModuleHandle() function.
Delete thread local storage key upon global destructor in FXThread.

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