ugfx/docs/releases.txt

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*** Changes after 2.3 ***
FIX:        Add missing stm32m3 cpu makefile option. Update doc to match.
FEATURE:	Added ability to compile ugfx as a single file. Simply compile src/gfx_mk.c
FEATURE:	Added GFXSINGLEMAKE=yes|no to the ugfx makefile to compile ugfx as a single file.
FEATURE:	New board STM32F746G-Discovery
FEATURE:	New gdisp driver STM32LTDC
FEATURE:	Better support for Raw32 platforms
FEATURE:	Renaming GFX_NO_OS_INIT to GFX_OS_NO_INIT
FEATURE:	New demo applications/combo
FEATURE:    Adding more font metrics (BaselineX and BaselineY)
FEATURE:    Adding gdispGetStringWidthCount()
FEATURE:    Implementing widget focusing. See gwinSetFocus() and gwinGetFocus()
FEATURE:    Adding TextEdit widget
FEATURE:    Added color to widget style for focused widgets
FEATURE:    Added GWIN_FOCUS_HIGHLIGHT_WIDTH as an option in the configuration file
FEATURE:	Added support for CMSIS RTOS
FEATURE:	Added support for KEIL RTX


*** Release 2.3 ***
FEATURE:	Added more events to the slider widget
FIX:		Clean up visibility issues
FIX:		Correct moving of containers
FIX:		Fix GTIMER bug that could cause all timers to stop.
FIX:		Various minor driver fixes
FEATURE:	Add support for STM32 CCM memory with DMA in SSD1289 and SSD2119
FEATURE:	New Tabset GWIN widget
FEATURE:	New keyboard driver interface with drivers for Win32 and X
FEATURE:	Support for keyboard layouts for non-english keyboards
FEATURE:	GDISP now supports pixmaps (in memory drawing)
FEATURE:	Rename files to improve experience in certain brain-dead IDE's
FEATURE:	Add a checkbox "Toggle Button" custom draw
FEATURE:	Add Tetris as an application demo
FEATURE:	Add HY-MiniSTM32V board support
FEATURE:	Add GWIN feature to flash any window/widget
FIX:		Lots of GDISP monochrome drivers fixed
FEATURE:	Added TLS8204 GDISP driver
FIX:		Fixes for the board files for Olimex SAM7EX256
FEATURE:	Add a number of UEXT connector board files for Olimex SAM7EX256
FIX:		Fix for error rounding in gdispFillConvexPoly()
FEATURE:	Vastly improved gwin arrow button drawing
FIX:		GINPUT toggle fixes
FIX:		GFILE_ALLOW_FLOAT compile error fixed
FIX:		GFILE_NEED_STDIO compile and emulation errors fixed
FEATURE:	Added STMPE610 driver by lliypuk
FIX:		Corrected self calibration code for driver STMPE811
FEATURE:	Added Mikromedia Plus STM32-M4 board based on work by lliypuk & inmarket
FIX:		Work to improve the gdisp SSD1963 driver
FEATURE:	Added SSD1351 gdisp driver
FEATURE:	Added SSD1331 gdisp driver
FEATURE:	Added arduino as a GOS supported operating system
FEATURE:	Added additional pixel format's
FIX:		Color components fixed for some strange compilers
FEATURE:	Added GWIN virtual keyboard widget
FEATURE:	Added gwinListSetSelected()
FEATURE:	Added gwinListViewItem()
FIX:		GDISP driver color conversion when GDISP_PIXEL_FORMAT != GDISP_LLD_PIXEL_FORMAT


*** Release 2.2 ***
FEATURE:	Added nested containers demo
FEATURE:	Revised GWIN redraw strategy
FEATURE:	Added generic framebuffer driver
FEATURE:	Added Linux-Framebuffer board definition
FEATURE:	Added FatFS support for GFILE
FEATURE:	Added gfileMount() and gfileUnmount()
FEATURE:	Added gfileSync()
FEATURE:	Added gwinDrawThickLine()
FEATURE:	Added support for eCos
FEATURE:	Added PCF8812 gdisp driver
FEATURE:	Added PCD8544 gdisp driver
FEATURE:	Added Raspberry Pi board support
FEATURE:	Added R61505U gdisp driver
FIX:		Fix threading issues in GEvent for callbacks
FEATURE:	Added geventEventComplete()
FEATURE:	Added support for the RawOS real time operating system
FEATURE:	Operating System initialisation is now optional
FEATURE:	Prevent mouse events going to obscured widgets
FEATURE:	Add GFILE support for file lists
FEATURE:	Add GFILE support for C strings as files
FEATURE:	Add GFILE support for PetitFS
FEATURE:	Added SPFD54124B GDISP driver by user shilow
FEATURE:	Added GWIN GL3D window type
FEATURE:	Generalised all GWIN events to use a common prefix structure.
FIX:		Improve memory usage for the GWIN Frame widget.
FEATURE:	Added transparent custom draws for GWIN containers and frame widgets
FEATURE:	Added image custom draws for GWIN containers and frame widgets
FEATURE:	Added GDRIVER infrastructure. Ported GDISP to use it.
FEATURE:	Added gdispDrawArcSectors() and gdispFillArcSectors().
FEATURE:	Ported GINPUT MOUSE to GDRIVER infrastructure.
FEATURE:	Mouse/Touch now support both pen and finger mode.
DEPRECATE:	gwinAttachMouse() is now handled automaticly.
FEATURE:	Added MAX11802 touch driver by user steved
FEATURE:	Added STM32F429i-Discovery board support
FEATURE:	Added DejaVuSans20 and DejaVuSans20_aa built-in fonts
FEATURE:	Added MatrixFloat2D and MatrixFixed2D operations to GMISC
FEATURE:	Added polygon drawing demo (with rotation, scaling and translation)


*** Release 2.1 ***
FIX:		Significant improvements to the way the MCU touch driver works.
FEATURE:	Add support for edge to edge touch calibration.
FEATURE:	Added progressbar widget
FEATURE:	Added gdispGDrawThickLine() by user jpa-
DEPRECATE:	TDISP module removed
FIX:		Console does not execute gwinPrintf() anymore if not visible
FEATURE:	Added gwinGetColor() and gwinGetBgColor()
FEATURE:	Console now has an optional backing store buffer (GWIN_CONSOLE_USE_HISTORY)
FEATURE:	Added smooth scrolling to list widget
FEATURE:	Increased performance of gwinListAddItem()
FEATURE:	Added FreeRTOS port
FEATURE:	Added gfxDeinit()
FEATURE:	Allow touch screen calibration in any display orientation
FEATURE:	New GFILE module to abstract File IO.
FEATURE:	Image file handling changed to use new GFILE module.
DEPRECTATE:	Old image opening functions deprecated.
FEATURE:	Restructure and simplify the include path for GFX
FEATURE:	Added LGDP4532 driver by user shilow
FIX:		Updated board files to support api changes in ChibiOS/RT 2.6.4
FEATURE:	Support for ChibiOS/RT 3.x
FEATURE:	Added gwinProgressbarStop() and gwinProgressbarReset()
FEATURE:	Added generic ILI93xx driver by xlh1460
FEATURE:	Added gwinListEnableRender()
FEATURE:	Added gwinLabelSetAttribute()
FEATURE:	Complete restructure of the GAUDIN and GAUDOUT into a common GAUDIO module
FEATURE:	Added a PWM audio play driver
FEATURE:	Update GADC audio recording driver to new GAUDIO format
FEATURE:	Added vs1053 audio play driver
FEATURE:	Added GAUDIO wave-play demo
FEATURE:	Added many GWIN simple demo's and updated the combined widget demo
FEATURE:	Added gwinEnable() and gwinDisable()
FIX:		Progressbar widget bug fix that could gwinProgressbarStop() to crash
FIX:		Imagebox widget bug fix that could cause gwinImageOpenFile() to crash
FEATURE:	GWIN containers such as "container" and "frame" which provides parent/children widget management
FEATURE:	Added gdispContrastColor()
FEATURE:	Added gwinShow() and gwinHide()
FEATURE:	ChibiOS/RT 3.x support and example for the Mikromedia STM32-M4 board.


*** Release 2.0 ***
FEATURE:	GDISP Streaming API and demos.
DEPRECATE:	GDISP_NEED_ASYNC is now deprecated.
DEPRECATE:	3rd party boing demo is now deprecated (replaced by GDISP Streaming demo)
FIX:		Remove GOS definitions from demo conf files so that it can be supplied by a makefile.
FEATURE:	Repair GDISP low level driver interfaces so they can now be included in the doxygen documentation.
FEATURE:	New driver interface for GDISP
FEATURE:	Multiple display support
FEATURE:	Multiple controller support
FEATURE:	Application pixel format no longer has to match the low level driver pixel format.
FEATURE:	Many more pixel formats are now supported.
FEATURE:	Many performance optimisations
FEATURE:	Vertical scrolling is now supported if the low level driver supports read_pixel.
FEATURE:	Add gdispFlush() for those controllers that need it
FEATURE:	Add GDISP_NEED_AUTOFLUSH and GDISP_NEED_TIMERFLUSH to automatically flush when required.
FEATURE:	Add support for generic portrait and landscape orientation modes
FEATURE:	Add macro GDISP_DEFAULT_ORIENTATION so an application can specify a default orientation.
FEATURE:	Driver files renamed to allow compiles when all object files go in the same directory
FEATURE:	New directory structure for board files. Predefined boards have all the hardware definitions predefined.
FEATURE:	Board definotions, example projects and makefiles for Win32.
FEATURE:	Board definitions, example projects and makefiles for X.
FEATURE:	Board definitions, example projects and makefiles for the Olimex SAM7-EX256 board.
Feature:	Board definitions, example projects and makefiles for the Olimex STM32-LCD board.
FEATURE:	Board definitions, example projects and makefiles for the Mikromedia STM32-M4 board.
FEATURE:	Board definitions, example projects and makefiles for the Marlin board.
FEATURE:	New invsqrt() routine added to GMISC


*** Release 1.9 ***
FEATURE:	GWIN list boxes.
FIX:		POSIX port removed, now dedicated OS-X and Linux ports
FIX:		Several bugfixes
FEATURE:	mcufont integration
FEATURE:	SSD1306 driver by user goeck
FEATURE:	ST7565 driver by user sam0737
FEATURE:	ED060SC4 driver by user jpa-
FIX:		SSD1289 area filling bug fix by user samofab
FEATURE:	Added gwinListGetSelectedText()
FEATURE:	Added gwinListSetScroll()
FEATURE:	Added gwinLabelSetBorder()


*** Release 1.8 ***
FEATURE:	Rename of the project from ChibiOS/GFX to uGFX
FEATURE:    Moved from github.com to bitbucket.org
FEATURE:	New website with a lot more of documentation
FEATURE:	Introduced dedicated discussion forum
FEATURE:	Complete rework of the widget manager (GWIN)
FEATURE:	Added a lot of new widgets
FEATURE:	Added gfxRealloc() to the GOS module
FIX:		gfxHalt() fix for the Win32 port
FIX:		Cleaned up board file mess


*** Release 1.7 ***
FEATURE:	Added RA8875 GDISP driver
FEATURE:	Added FT5x06 GINPUT/touch driver
FIX:		Several bugfixes


*** Release 1.6 ***
FEATURE:	Added ILI9325 driver - Thanks to Chris van Dongen aka _Sjaak
FEATURE:	Added TDISP module
FIX:		tdispGotoXY() renamed to tdispSetCursor()
FEATURE:	Addition of GADC, GMISC, GAUDIN, GAUDOUT subsystems
FIX:		Removal of the GDISP_LLD() macro
DEPRECATE:	Removal of the GDISP VMT
FEATURE:	Added SSD2119 GDISP driver
FEATURE:	Added GWIN_BUTTON_LAZY_RELEASE macro to disable cancel feature of buttons
FEATURE:	Implemented all four orientation modes for the ILI9320 GDISP driver
FIX:		Renamed every '__inline' macro to 'inline' for compiler compatibilities
FEATURE:	Supporting all standard functions in GDISP Nokia6610GE8 driver
FEATURE:	Added STMPE811 GINPUT driver
FEATURE:	Added gdispDrawPoly() and gdispFillConvexPoly()
FEATURE:	Added arrow button style to GWIN buttons
FEATURE:	Added the ability to specify a custom button drawing routine
FEATURE:	SSD1963 rework by username 'fred'
FEATURE:	Added Picture converter tool
FEATURE:	Added slider widget
FEATURE:	First MIPS32 (PIC32) board files contributed by user 'Dmytro'
FEATURE:	Added gwinDraw() routine
FEATURE:	Added GINPUT Dial support and driver using GADC
FEATURE:	Simplified assigning inputs to buttons and sliders
FIX:		Some fixes for the HD44780 TDISP driver by the user 'Frysk'
FEATURE:	Added ILI9481 by user 'Abhishek'
FEATURE:	Added enable/disable functions for widgets (Buttons)
FEATURE:	Added HX8347D driver by user 'Eddie'
FEATURE:	Added enhanced notepad demo by user 'Abhishek'
FEATURE:	Added GOS module (including sub modules such as GQUEUE)
FEATURE:	Added some functionalities to the TDISP module by user 'Frysk'


*** Release 1.5 ***
FEATURE:	GEVENT - for passing event structures from Sources to Listeners
FEATURE:	GTIMER - thread context based once-off and periodic timers.
FEATURE:	GINPUT - extensible, multiple device-type, input sub-system.
FEATURE:	GWIN - full button, console and graph support
FEATURE:	Numerous touch calibration improvements
FEATURE:	Win32 driver - now support gdisp & ginput mouse/touch/toggle
FEATURE:	Win32 driver - full gdisp orientation support
FEATURE:	ILI9320 GDISP driver
FEATURE:	Nokia6610 GDISP driver split in to GE8 and GE12 variants
FEATURE:	Many GDISP drivers changed to use a board interface definition
FEATURE:	GFX source restructure with new gfx.h include file.
DEPRECATE:	console deprecated - replaced with gwin functionality
DEPRECATE:	graph deprecated - replaced with gwin functionality
DEPRECATE:	touchscreen deprecated - replaced with ginput functionality
FEATURE:	Numerous documentation improvements
FEATURE:	Added a number of module demo and test programs
DEPRECATE:	Remove of XPT2046 since full compatibility with ADS7843


*** Release 1.4 ***
FIX:		Nokia 6610 fix
FEATURE:	New driver: Win32
FEATURE:	implementation of gdispFillArc()
FIX:		Hardware accelerate Arc routines
FIX:		Fix axis orientation for Arc routines
FEATURE:	new gdisp rounded box routines
FEATURE:	new gdispDrawStringBox()
FEATURE:	GWIN infrastructure
FEATURE:	now we fully support doxygen


*** Release 1.3 ***
FEATURE:	added FSMC for SSD1289 / F4
FEATURE:	added calibration storage interface
FIX:		bugfix in filling functions for SSD1289
FEATURE:	added point_t struct in gdisp.h
FEATURE:	added graph module


*** Release 1.2 ***
FIX:		orientation macros changed
FIX:		huge internal bugfix in orientation stuff (big thanks to Abhishek)
FEATURE:	added TOUCHPAD_XY_INVERTED macro
FIX:		struct cal   renamed to   struct cal_t
FIX:		SCREEN_WIDTH and SCREEN_HEIGHT renamed to GDISP_SCREEN_WIDTH and GDISP_SCREEN_HEIGHT
FIX:		struct TOUCHPAD_t   renamed to   struct TOUCHPADDriver_t
FIX:		struct GConsole   renamed to   struct GConsole_t
FIX:		lcdConsoleXXX()   functions have been renamed to   gfxConsoleXXX()
FEATURE:	FSMC for SSD1289 F2/F4


*** Release 1.1 ***
FIX:		removed gdisp and touchpad prefix of driver directories
UPDATE:		added SSD1963 driver
FIX:		fixed Validation, VMT driver, console and BitBlit
FEATURE:	added clipping support
FEATURE:	addad gdispDrawArc()
FEATURE:	added SSD1963 DMA support
FEATURE:	added touchpad interface for storing calibration values (#define TOUCHPAD_STORE_CALIBRATION)
CHANGE:		replaced every  GDISP_XXX  macro with  GDISP_XXX
CHANGE:		removed last digit of version number