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*** Releases ***
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*** Changes after 2.6 ***
FEATURE: Added EXC7200 driver
FEATURE: Added STM32F439i-EVAL board files
FIX: Fixed crash when passing NULL to gwinSetStyle()
FIX: Fixed potential crash when GDISP_NEED_TEXT_WORDWRAP is turned on
FEATURE: Added SDL driver
FEATURE: Added ILI9225 driver
FEATURE: Added ST7735 driver
FEATURE: Added Linux event input driver
FIX: Fixed an issue with color formats in Linux-Framebuffer board files
FIX: Fixing and improving arc rendering functions
FIX: Preventing possible crash when no valid GWIN default font has been set
FIX: Updating Windows binaries of the font encoder to improve compatibility
FIX: Fixed progressbar bounds checking and decrementing
FEATURE: Added a dual circle with the same center drawing routine to GDISP
FIX: Fixed an issue in the filled polygon drawing function which caused irregularities
FEATURE: Added high-level functions to modify image color palettes
*** Release 2.6 ***
FIX: Fixed bug where the list item count wasn't decremented when an item was removed
FEATURE: Added options GFILE_FATFS_EXTERNAL_LIB and GFILE_PETITFSFS_EXTERNAL_LIB
FEATURE: Added FT6x06 driver
FIX: Fixed issue in STM32F746G-Discovery board file that resulted in bad color reproduction
FEATURE: Added gwinPrintg()
FIX: Fixed sprintg and related functions handling of NULL pointers.
FIX: Fixed width calculation of gdispGDrawString() and gdispGFillString().
FEATURE: Added QImage display driver.
FEATURE: Added QWidget touch driver
FEATURE: Added support for Qt as a GOS platform
FEATURE: Added ability to set a parent for a win32 ugfx emulator window
FEATURE: Added ability to inject mouse events for a Win32 ugfx emulator window
FEATURE: Added ability to turn on and off mouse processing for a win32 ugfx emulator window
FEATURE: Added ability to capture mouse events on the win32 ugfx emaultor window
FIX: Fixed issue where children of (nested) containers were not properly handled when callin gwinRaise()
FEATURE: Automatically close all open files in gfileDeinit()
FEATURE: Added support for IAR and EDG compilers
FIX: Fixed crash when loading GIF image without enough memory available
FEATURE: Added games/minesweeper demo
FEATURE: Added games/justget10 demo
*** Release 2.5 ***
FEATURE: Added support for numerous compilers
FIX: Improving STM32LTDC driver
FEATURE: Added support for NIOS-II platform
FEATURE: Added Altera-MAX10-NEEK board support
FIX: Vastly improving keyboard widget default rendering
FEATURE: Added ILI9342 driver
FIX: Fixing issues where wrong 'progress' color from widget style palette was used
FEATURE: Added GWIN_FRAME_KEEPONCLOSE flag to prevent destruction of a frame on close
FEATURE: Added support for PNG images
FEATURE: Added new module 'GTRANS' which allows handling application translations
FEATURE: Added SSD1848 driver
*** Release 2.4 ***
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
FEATURE: Replace all references to inline with a reference to GFXINLINE
FEATURE: Added config option GFX_NO_INLINE to run off inlining of ugfx functions.
FEATURE: Added word-wrapping support for gdispDrawStringBox() and gdispFillStringBox()
FIX: Fixing issue in touchscreen calibration code
FEATURE: Added GFX_OS_PRE_INIT_FUNCTION for early hardware initialization
FEATURE: Added label rendering functions that allow to set text justification
FIX: Fixing GTIMER for high clock rate devices
FEATURE: Added GFX_COMPILER_KEIL and GFX_COMPILER_ARMCC macros
*** 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 a game 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