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PortaLinux Terminal Library - Release Archive

The PortaLinux Terminal Library is a library for making terminal user interfaces (TUIs) in the C programming language. This terminal library strives to implement the same featureset of GNU Ncurses while having much lower complexity and being much smaller. Instead of utilizing a terminfo/termcap library implementation, it just assumes the currently utilized terminal supports the CGA/EGA/VGA superset of ANSI escape codes, which while it makes it less flexible, it makes it really small, and it still implements a very common superset of escape codes.

Here are the releases of this project repo:

• v0.01: Initial release
• v0.02: Fixed some bugs, Implemented plterm-ui API
• v0.03: Fully ported to pl-rt. Reimplemented plterm-ui
• v0.04: Menu Routines
• v0.05: Text Editing Routines
• v0.05.1: Minor bug fix
• v0.05.2: Post-1.02.3 pl-rt compatibility fix
• v0.06: Removed Text Editing Routines, Added Buttons to plterm-ui

v0.01: Initial release

First release. Here are the features:

• All of the functionality of misc/c-projects/text-editing/term.h
• Library and test compiles and runs

v0.02: Fixed some bugs, Implemented plterm-ui API

Second release. Here are the changes:

• plTermFillArea added to base pltermlib
• plTermGetAttrib now also returns the memory tracker of the active terminal
• plterm-ui API almost fully implemented
• Codebase has gotten a lot messier (omgwhyisitlikethiswhywhywhyihateitihateitihateitihateitsomuchpleaseneditaaaaljDSnosdnfunewunfd >~<)
• I'm rewritting this entire library next release (i hate this codebase so much please end my suffering >~<)

v0.03: Fully ported to pl-rt. Reimplemented plterm-ui

Third release. Here are the changes:

• pltermlib has finally been ported to pl-rt. It might get added to portalinux in the next release
• Because of this port to pl-rt, support for nonblocking input has been added
• plterm-ui has been reimplemented since the first implementation was never commited to main and has been lost to time

v0.04: Menu Routines

Fourth release. Here are the changes:

• Menu routines have been added to plterm-ui
• These routines are capable of rendering a proper ncurses-style text menu
• Some extra features may be added to plterm-ui menus prior to the 1.00 release

v0.05: Text Editing Routines

Fifth release. Here are the changes:

• Added plTermReadline
• It's not a 1 to 1 match of how GNU Readline works, but it's a nice-to-have
• Overhauled input system
• Unicode input may be broken, but I will test that another time

v0.05.1: Minor bug fix Routines

Sixth release. Here are the changes:

• Fixed bug where the entire program would crash if you perfectly timed a keypress prior to initialization

v0.05.2: Post-1.02.3 pl-rt compatibility fix

Seventh release. Here are the changes:

• Fixed bug that made pltermlib not compile on pl-rt versions past 1.02.3

v0.06: Removed Text Editing Routines, Added Buttons to plterm-ui

Eighth release. Here are the changes:

• Removed plterm-edit
• I remebered that this is supposed to be a TUI toolkit first and foremost rather than an editor in a library
• This code will be reused for internal functions within pl-coreutils
• Overhauled Menu system to utilize a universal plterm-ui list type
• Added Buttons to plterm-ui
• Utilizes the same list format as the Menu system