ChangeLog

2026-03-13  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New UTF-8 encoding infrastructure under UTF8::encode

2026-03-09  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improved FOutputBuffer access

2026-03-04  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add a motion cache to quickly access escape sequences for frequently 
	  used cursor positions

2026-02-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FData class modernized

2026-02-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FAttribute has been reimplemented

2026-02-16  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FCellColor has been reimplemented

2026-02-08  Frank Dean  <frank@fdsd.co.uk>
	* Update autotools configuration to include all distribution files

2026-02-07  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fix the termcap quirks to support OSC 4 on newer versions of tmux

2026-02-06  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add additional subchapters to the documentation

2026-02-05  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Reduce pointer arithmetic and use safe iterators more often
	* Bugfix: Full-width characters will display correctly again. 
	  This was a defect since December 31
	* The configure script now supports compiling unit tests and examples 
	  in a single build when you use the --with-unit-test and 
	  --enable-compile-all arguments together

2026-02-03  Frank Dean  <frank@fdsd.co.uk>
	* Fix build failure when calling FListViewItem::setData

2026-01-20  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Convert the FUnicode data structure back to an array to avoid access 
	  problems on some architectures

2026-01-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Split the first steps document into several subchapters

2026-01-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Replace the FUnicode data structure from an std::array to a flatter 
	  struct

2025-12-31  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The "FindFinalCut.cmake" file has been added to simplify the 
	  integration of FINAL CUT into CMake projects
	* The unicode_to_utf8 function now returns the fixed-size 
	  struct UTF8_Char instead of an std::string object
	* Pointers to strings are used more frequently in string processing 
	  to avoid making unnecessary copies of strings

2025-11-23  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring of FString::toLong() and FString::toULong()

2025-11-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The FVTerm::addLayer() method decreases the range of saved vertical 
	  adjustments

2025-11-09  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The virtual terminal allows for faster tracking of changes by also 
	  saving vertical adjustments

2025-10-20  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The rotozoomer example now uses a precomputed trigonometric lookup
	  table

2025-10-19  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FVTerm's performance optimization reduces CPU cycle count

2025-10-09  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Some speed optimizations were made to the methods 
	  of the FString class
	* Add some methods to FString to improve its compatibility 
	  with the STL

2025-09-21  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The ConEmu, FPoint, FSize, and FRect classes have been refactored

2025-09-14  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Correct the use of "NSIG" in Cygwin

2025-09-13  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Classes in the event loop now have better safety and 
	  input validation

2025-08-31  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The key hash algorithm now uses an FNV-1a hash

2025-08-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Further FRingBuffer optimizations

2025-08-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Performance for FRingBuffer::back() has been optimized

2025-02-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixed FLineEdit label not shown again after hide() + show()

2025-02-09  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Significant speed-up when using FVTerm::copyArea with multiple 
	  overlapping and transparent layers. This reduces the CPU load 
	  of the process by ⅔.

2024-12-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Better FChar color value direct access

2024-11-29  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fix misaligned FScrollView viewport when using ignorePadding()

2024-11-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Added examples/widget-colors to show the internal predefined 
	  colors of the widgets

2024-11-06  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fix FComboBox widget list expansion

2024-11-05  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Added the getSelf() method to FObject

2024-09-21  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Change the widget color theme for non-focused list items

2024-07-21  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The hasPreprocessingHandler() method has been added to FVTerm

2024-07-07  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Avoid left overflows in area changes for smaller dialogs 
	  in drawGenericBox() and FScrollView::copy2area()
	* Add a setWidth() and setHeight() method to FDialog

2024-04-04  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Avoid printing scrollbar overrun on emit callback

2024-04-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Implementation of the mouse selection in the FTextView. Can be 
	  activated by setSelectable()
	* Add a setLines() method to FTextView

2024-03-26  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Visual highlighting of the selected text in FTextView

2024-03-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FTextView gets the ability to select text between a start and 
	  end position

2024-02-14  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Optimize FChar operations and processing

2024-02-07  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Escape sequences can now be used to repeat UTF-8 characters, which 
	  increases the display speed

2023-12-30  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FColorPair can now be used as input for FVTermAttribute::setColor

2023-12-21  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FListBox now has a findItem method

2023-12-10  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Permit message box without buttons

2023-11-26  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fix incorrectly calculated coordinates in FScrollView 
	  on position changes
	* Minor speed improvements in the terminal display

2023-11-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Optimized mouse string parser

2023-11-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Reorganize the data structure of widget color theme

2023-10-30  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Terminal detection can be turned off again
	* The missing null pointer check has been added to the constructor 
	  of FWindow

2023-10-26  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Reorganize the data structure of FOptiMove

2023-10-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Reorganize the data structure of FVTerm::FTermArea

2023-10-23  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Reorganize the data structure of FOptiAttr

2023-10-14  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Switch to a readers-writer lock for the timer list

2023-10-07  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Bugfix: Bottom transparent shadow changes were registered in wrong row

2023-10-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Eliminate undefined behavior on exit

2023-09-17  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Better direct access to FCharAttribute type

2023-06-04  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Added support for a tiltable scroll wheel. This allows you to scroll 
	  the context of widgets left and right in an xterm

2023-05-31  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fix setFormatedNumber() in FString for separator > 127 
	  (e.g. non-breaking space)

2023-05-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Version 0.9.0

2023-04-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Terminal focus-in and focus-out events can be disabled with 
	  the --no-terminal-focus-events parameter

2023-04-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Clears the FScrollView viewport area after viewport creation or 
	  resizing

2023-04-07  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Processing of FStyle in print() statements is now faster because only 
	  set data bits are considered

2023-04-06  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Individual columns can now be shown and hidden in FListView

2023-04-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FApplication now has the ability to register mouse handler functions

2023-03-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Compile fix for clang++ 15 with std=c++20

2023-03-16  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Size and position changes in FDialog are now made immediately before 
	  terminal output to speed up mouse-based changes

2023-03-13  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Speed up the drawing of shadows and boxes

2023-02-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fix missing deletion of no_changes and printed attributes on transparency

2023-02-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Small speed-up of the print function

2023-02-20  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixes display problems with half-covered full-width characters 
	  with color overlay
	* Fixes display inconsistencies that occur when a full-width 
	  character is used in combination with the terminal repeat (REP) 
	  function

2023-02-17  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixes the conflict between reducing changes and hardware scrolling

2023-02-14  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixes the problem of insufficient space on resizing in FScrollView 
	  by scrolling backwards

2023-02-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Better detection of the keypad center key

2023-02-07  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Keys are now identified via a hash map to speed up escape sequence 
	  searches

2023-02-04  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Adapted color reset for st - simple terminal
	* Fixes incorrect key detection caused by duplicate key sequences

2023-01-29  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixed invalid iterator on post-inserting an item in FListView
	* The application will now be notified when the focus changes in 
	  the terminal window, through the new onTermFocusIn() and 
	  onTermFocusOut() event methods
	* New methods removeColumn() and removeAllColumns() for 
	  FListView to remove columns

2023-01-22  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fix focus-in and focus-out errors FComboBox and FSpinBox

2023-01-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Speed-up of the update routine for virtual terminal

2023-01-07  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Accelerated copying of lines with transparent characters

2023-01-05  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Bugfix for broken scrollbar behavior in FScrollView widget
	* Bugfix for infinite loop on input queue processing on exit

2023-01-04  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FObject now supports reverse iterators
	* Small improvement of the display speed

2023-01-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The way how a widget gets the focus has been changed. It is now 
	  a single step that includes sending focus events

2022-12-26  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Incomplete mouse sequences are no longer checked by 
	  the keyboard parser
	* Fixing the conflict between NOT_SET and FKey::Incomplete

2022-12-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Widget flags are now organized in a hierarchical structure

2022-12-14  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Simplifies the request of the encoding

2022-12-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixed the changes on printing of the last full-width character 
	  in a virtual window
	* Bugfix: getPrevCharLength() crashed on strings with a leading space

2022-12-06  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FLineEdit can set the alignment (left, center, or right) for 
	  the content of the entry

2022-12-04  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Virtual windows now use C++ smart pointers for data storage

2022-11-26  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Removed the deprecated method isNull() in FString

2022-11-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New helper function to update the widget text of the status bar

2022-11-20  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FTimer specialization for FObject in FObjectTimer

2022-11-12  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Direct access to a character in a print area via coordinates

2022-11-05  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The new class FTimer now contains all timer methods

2022-10-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Generalize text reading from terminal

2022-10-23  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Queuing of mouse and keyboard inputs is now implemented with 
	  a ring buffer

2022-10-20  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Speed-up code through more inline functions

2022-10-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* To improve performance, the output buffer queue has been replaced 
	  with a ring buffer

2022-10-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Strict use of trailing return type

2022-06-13  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Added a unit test for the FWidget class

2022-05-29  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Avoiding some friend classes

2022-05-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* A unit test for the FEvent class was added

2022-05-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixed some errors

2022-05-04  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Bug fixes in FLineEdit: 
	  - Swapped cursor move behavior in the methods stepCursorBackward() 
	    and stepCursorForward() 
	  - The inputText method now repositions the cursor on input and 
	    updates the change directly on the screen 
	  Thanks to Michael Lehn for reporting these issues

2022-04-17  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The FLineEdit and FTextView widgets got additional public methods for 
	  more control. Many thanks to Michael Lehn for the good suggestions

2022-03-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Bugfix: Since February 14, setting the input cursor for the virtual 
	  terminal did not work

2022-03-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* A virtual window can now be placed above the virtual terminal

2022-02-14  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FVTerm::copyArea copies the data of the source area to the position 
	  of the destination area
	* FTermArea got methods to set the print position and to print data
	* Added examples/xpmview to view X PixMap (XPM) images in a terminal

2022-02-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Depending on the number of dialog windows, FDialogListMenu 
	  is now automatically enabled and disabled
	* FFileDialog now shows the file filter in the title bar

2022-01-29  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Minor bug fix for resizing dialogs
	* FTextView::FTextHighlight has received new constructors without 
	  length information. That allows to highlight text up to the end 
	  of the line

2022-01-21  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The trailing whitespaces in a FTextView line are now printed 
	  in the line buffer. This allows you to make text highlighting 
	  to the end of the line

2022-01-16  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Added examples/highlight-text to demonstrate text highlighting 
	  in FTextView

2022-01-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add text highlighting for FTextView. 
	  Thanks to Michael Lehn for the idea

2022-01-12  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Dropdown menus are closed again on click outside the widget 
	  if there is no widget at that position 
	  (Broken since Nov 1, 2020)

2022-01-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Generalize the passing of the resize event to its parent dialog

2022-01-09  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Added a ring buffer to buffer unprocessed keyboard and mouse input
	* Added a unit test for the FVTerm class
	* The current mouse event is now cached in a shared_ptr

2022-01-05  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Sharing keyboard buffer length in FKeyboard and FMouse

2022-01-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Speed up UTF-8 input parsing

2022-01-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FTermArea now checks if there is a given terminal position 
	  in its area

2021-12-30  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Resetting the terminal state on resizing

2021-12-27  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The number of cycles has been reduced to save CPU time

2021-12-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Move the border label methods from FButtonGroup to FScrollView

2021-12-13  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Faster string comparison between FString, char*, std::string, 
	  wchar_t and std:wstring

2021-12-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Correct mouse event after moving a window

2021-11-16  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* A new example demonstrates parallax scrolling with multi-layered 
	  stars

2021-11-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* You can now use the constructor of the FVTerm class to specify 
	  an alternative terminal output class that must be derived from 
	  FOutput

2021-11-06  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Using the STL algorithms for the input fifo_buf

2021-11-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Switched to the language standard C++14

2021-10-31  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Version 0.8.0

2021-10-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The keyboard and timer examples now have flicker-free scrolling

2021-10-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Faster search for key strings through sorted arrays

2021-10-23  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Virtual windows now know their own window level
	* String filter for FListBoxItem

2021-10-22  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Change FObjectList from std::list to std::vector

2021-10-21  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The tab stop printing was corrected

2021-10-20  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Implementation of the stringPrint() method in FTermcap

2021-10-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Speed up FTermcap::paddingPrint() by assigning the putchar function 
	  only once

2021-10-12  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Speed up access to mouse objects in FMouseControl 
	* The predefined escape sequences for keyboard keys are now 
	  functional again
	* Now, FINAL CUT also runs under GNU Hurd

2021-10-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The visibility of the FDialog title bar buttons can now be disabled

2021-10-04  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Preventing the focus of a container widget

2021-10-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The output buffer is now flushed before the terminal is scrolled

2021-09-29  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Faster FUnicode comparisons
	* Less string comparison in FKeyboard

2021-09-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Optimization of attribute comparisons
	* Reset the rdbuf of clog after deleting the logger object to prevent 
	  an invalid pointer in the rdbuf
	* FTermcap::getNumber now returns -1 if there is no value in the termcap 
	  database

2021-09-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New FString auxiliary function FStringCaseCompare as strcasecmp 
	  replacement
	* Move attribute handling from FVTerm to FVTermAttribute

2021-09-22  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The request for a terminal size change now occurs only once per 
	  event loop cycle

2021-09-22  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The individual FINAL CUT components have been moved to directories 
	  to provide a better code overview
	* Renaming the class FTermBuffer to FVTermBuffer, because only 
	  virtual terminal data is buffered here

2021-09-17  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Output optimization: Wide strings are now converted to 
	  UTF-8 strings before they are inserted into the output buffer
	* Key maps now store the length of the string to speed up 
	  key string parsing

2021-09-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* setExitMessage is now a function without object dependencies, 
	  so it can be called from anywhere
	* New internal function unicode_to_utf8 which allows to convert 
	  a wchar_t to a utf-8 string

2021-09-14  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* More local static variables are used to prevent repeated 
	  value assignments

2021-09-12  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The detected terminal type is now stored in FTermData

2021-09-05  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The methods for the physical terminal output of class FVTerm 
	  were extracted and moved to the new class FVTermOutput. 
	  The class FVTermOutput is the implementation of the abstract 
	  class FOutput. This abstraction layer can be the basis for 
	  an alternative implementation.

2021-08-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixed mutex deadlock in FObject

2021-07-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Function setMinimizable() to minimize FDialog windows added

2021-07-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improved the GNU autoconf-archive check

2021-06-26  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Global non-constant variables are now encapsulated in classes

2021-06-19  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Moving the creator methods from FTerm to its own class

2021-06-16  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Converted the internal timer from timeval 
	  to std::chrono::time_point<system_clock>

2021-06-06  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Bug fixing in FString and FTermDetection
	* FTermDetection now has clean code by using FString instead of char*
	* Replace std::strlen with stringLength

2021-06-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Some FString optimizations

2021-05-30  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FString internally changed from wchar_t* to std::wstring

2021-05-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Using std::string for the attribute buffer

2021-05-22  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Convert FOptiMove from char[] to std::string

2021-05-13  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Prevent duplicate widget in the close widget list

2021-05-07  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Some pointers were replaced by references

2021-05-04  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Prevent flickering when resizing terminals or redrawing 
	  the screen via ctrl-l

2021-05-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Bugfix for sending multiple SIGWINCH signals from 
	  gnome-terminal under Wayland

2021-05-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Replace some std::bind with lambda functions

2021-04-30  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixes Linux console bug from February 20, 2021

2021-04-27  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Code optimization at widget focus

2021-04-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixed mutex deadlock in FLogger

2021-04-21  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixes the detection of the terminal size after a SIGWINCH signal

2021-04-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Decoupling the FWidget and FWindow classes from FVTerm
	* Avoid redrawing widgets when show() is called multiple times
	* Readjustment of the root widget when the terminal size is changed

2021-04-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Better support for kitty terminals

2021-03-31  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* argv is now stored internally as a std::vector container

2021-03-30  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Stops terminal refresh during dialog resizing until all 
	  child widgets have been redrawn

2021-03-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Widget now have the virtual method initLayout() to set 
	  the widget layouts automatically before the first drawing 
	  on the terminal is done. Also texts in full-width characters, 
	  whose character width is determined automatically, should be 
	  calculated here.

2021-03-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Dynamic adjustment of the terminal refresh rate between 
	  5 and 60 Hz

2021-03-09  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Implementation of an own padding print method for sending 
	  control codes to the terminal

2021-02-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Removing the termcap library from the header files so 
	  that FINAL CUT programs are not affected by the preprocessor 
	  #define macros.
	  Many thanks to Zhenyu Zhang for this optimization suggestion

2021-02-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixed the incorrect display on terminals without 
	  UTF-8 character encoding

2021-02-20  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Optimize terminal output buffer queue with differencing
	  for strings, and control characters and control sequences

2021-02-09  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Added support for combined unicode characters
	* Added a unit test for the FTermBuffer class
	* Added a unit test for the FTterm functions

2020-12-31  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring to scoped enumerations

2020-11-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The terminal update rate is now limited to 60 Hz

2020-11-14  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Version 0.7.1
	* Bugfix: The cursor position was not changed anymore 
	  if there was no change to the content
	* Forcing a direct update for faster terminal output

2020-11-07  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Version 0.7.0

2020-11-04  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Elimination of unnecessary terminal flushes

2020-11-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Use FIONREAD to get the number of characters available 
	  for reading on stdin

2020-11-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Non-blocking reading before timeout after keystroke
	* Every fourth event processing causes a terminal flush
	* Call of TIOCLINUX only in the Linux console

2020-11-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Now FINAL CUT queues keyboard and mouse input to speed up 
	  the processing of widget events

2020-10-22  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Repair terminal update skipping

2020-10-20  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* For fast mouse movements the keyboard interval was increased 
	  from 13.3 to 30 Hz

2020-10-19  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Optimize the terminal output speed

2020-10-17  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixes unit test segfault

2020-10-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Solaris build fix
	* Added saving and restoring xterm titles to the stack 
	  for vte terminals
	* Menu key - activates the menu bar
	* Shift-Menu - opens the dialog menu

2020-10-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Better keyboard support for urxvt terminals
	* Screen reports (like Secondary DA) are now read directly
	* Report Cursor Position (DECXCPR) support
	* FListView and FListBox now have direct access to the list of client 
	  elements via data()

2020-10-05  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Now hides the input cursor when a widget gets hidden

2020-10-04  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Replaces some C-style arrays with std::array
	* Now you can use the arrow keys to move a window into the visible area
	* Removes FData memory leak in FListBoxItem and FListViewItem

2020-09-27  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* An explanation of the widget tree was added to the document 
	  of the first steps

2020-09-26  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FData improvements
	* The number of FObject children can now be limited with 
	  setMaxChildren()
	* FApplication can now have no more than one child widget

2020-09-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* std::clog now streams everything to the FLogger object
	* Added a unit test for the FData class

2020-09-23  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Bugfix: empty FString() + wchar_t

2020-09-22  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Bugfix in FDialog::setSize(): Automatic size adjustment and 
	  simultaneous widget movement are now possible.

2020-09-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The generic data type FDataPtr is now deprecated and was 
	  completely replaced by the template class FData

2020-09-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixes a problem with mouse input in Cygwin in non-blocking read mode

2020-09-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Speed up the reaction time of the gpm mouse
	* FListView now correctly adjusts the size of the scrollbar, 
	  when expanding and collapsing by double-clicking

2020-08-30  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Adding Windows Terminal detection

2020-08-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The call of the function setNonBlockingRead() resulted in 
	  a high CPU load in idle mode. 
	  Thanks to Pavel Stehule for reporting this problem.

2020-08-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New callback backend was implemented. Callback functions with any 
	  number of arguments are now possible.

2020-07-19  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* API: Some method name changes: 
	       FObject::delOwnTimer() -> FObject::delOwnTimers() 
	       FObject::delAllTimer() -> FObject::delAllTimers() 
	       FWidget::delCallbacks() -> FWidget::delAllCallbacks()

2020-07-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New data wrapper class FData

2020-07-06  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add a document that describes how to create user themes

2020-06-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New widget FBusyIndicator to indicate background activity
	* Added example/busy to demonstrate the functionality of this widget

2020-06-07  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The --log-file parameter stores log output to any file. The file 
	  can be viewed directly on another terminal with "tail -f".

2020-06-06  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Now, the terminal is not initialized before the method show() 
	  is called. Or you force it explicitly via the FApplication object.
	* Simplification of FMouse::createMouseObject()

2020-05-30  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* With the two new methods FApplication::setDarkTheme() and 
	  FApplication::setDefaultTheme() you can now change the theme 
	  within an application. An example can be found in examples/ui 
	  via the menu items "View" -> "Dark mode".

2020-05-29  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Adding a dark theme. Can be activated with the --dark-theme parameter.

2020-05-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FColorPalette now also uses polymorphism, so you can now 
	  easily create your own color palette theme

2020-05-26  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FWidgetColors now uses polymorphism, so you can now easily 
	  create your own widget color theme
	* FApplication has got the new virtual method processExternalUserEvent() 
	  for user code

2020-05-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New class FStringStream implements input and output operations 
	  on FString based streams
	* Fixed memory leak in FString move assignment operator

2020-05-21  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixed the event queue in FApplication

2020-05-16  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* More direct access to the static FTerm functions

2020-05-13  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The new class FLogger for logging, which can be redirected 
	  to different I/O channels
	* Adding the event-log example to show the logging functionality 

2020-05-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Transfer of all termcap functions into the FTermcap class

2020-04-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Adding the missing method getClientSize()
	* Static code for the special built-in key sequences

2020-04-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Better support of general arrow keys
	* Improved event handling code

2020-04-13  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Several small code improvements

2020-04-09  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* A dialog can now be displayed without a framing border.
	  Many thanks to basedtho for this tip

2020-03-22  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* A small benchmakt test was added to the Rotozoomer example

2020-03-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* A rotozoomer example was added to demonstrate the drawing speed 
	  of FINAL CUT

2020-03-07  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixes keyboard input buffer problem when opening a modal dialog
	* Exit the move-resize-mode when the close confirmation dialog 
	  is displayed

2020-03-05  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Unbuffered reading of keystrokes for better latency
	* Mouse adjustments when resizing an rxvt terminal

2020-02-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New command line switch "--no-terminal-data-request" to disable 
	  font and title determination

2020-02-19  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Some small code improvements
	* SGRoptimizer improved

2020-02-16  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Printing a FStyle object allows you to change video attributes

2020-02-13  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Rename setTransShadow() to setColorOverlay()

2020-02-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fix collapse() and expand() in FListViewItem()

2020-02-09  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Adding a tty check for stdin
	* An application structure diagram was added to the document 
	  of the first steps

2020-02-04  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fix in FListViewIterator
	* Add screenshorts to the first steps document

2020-02-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The methods clear() and remove() were added to FListView
	* Add some const type qualifiers
	* A small GNU autoconf-archive check

2020-01-12  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add a "widget layout" chapter to the first steps document

2020-01-09  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* With setText() and clearText() the text in the edit line can be changed 
	  without changing the content of the combo box
	* The setCurrentItem() method was added to the FComboBox widget class. 
	  Thanks cybin for the sample code

2020-01-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Illustrations to explain the widget layout

2019-12-31  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The new SGRoptimizer class allows several consecutive parameters 
	  from the SGR (Select Graphic Rendition) attributes to be combined 
	  into one

2019-12-23  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Correction for height and width alignment in adjustSize()
	* Better setSize() implementation in some widgets

2019-12-20  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixed the drawing of FLabel widget with the default size 
	  of 1×1 character.
	  Thanks to terranpro for reporting this issue

2019-12-16  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New widget class FComboBox to provide a dropdown list 
	  with an input field

2019-11-17  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Revision of FString number input stream

2019-11-16  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New widget class FSpinBox to provide spin boxes

2019-11-06  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improved display of the NewFont midline 

2019-11-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Newfont specialization for 8x16 and 9x16 pixel character
	* Fixes the display of reverse characters on the 16 color 
	  Linux console

2019-10-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Unicode support for 8x16graph font

2019-10-20  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New method setInputType() in FLineEdit that allows to obscure 
	  password entries
	* FAcceleratorList reimplemented as non-pointer

2019-10-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Version 0.6.0

2019-10-13  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Compile fix for Cygwin and Linux on arm architectures
	* A small color palette optimization
	* Corrected east asian ambiguous character width for OpenBSD, NetBSD, 
	  FreeBSD and Solaris

2019-10-05  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Internal redesign of the callback call
	* Mapping of key functions in an associative container to simplify 
	  onKeyPress() in FListBox, FListView, FTextView and FScrollView

2019-10-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Replacing null-terminated wide strings with FString objects
	* Fix for getColumnWidth() with newfont character

2019-09-29  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Streaming into an FTextView() object
	* Fixes the streaming of empty FString objects into a stream with 
	  a width > 0
	* The FString operator [] now returns a null character ('\0') 
	  if the position is equal to the string length

2019-09-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Support for displaying full-width characters (2 columns wide) 
	  on the terminal. This is particularly important for the correct 
	  display of CJK characters

2019-09-16  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improve FStartOptions implementation

2019-09-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Remove the lines of the #pragma pack() directive from the code 
	  because they caused a misaligned address

2019-09-06  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Outsourcing the initialization data to a separate struct

2019-09-04  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The Cygwin and Linux console do not use cp437 character encoding 
	  by default anymore

2019-09-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Removing public + protected data members from classes

2019-08-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* More use of direct initializations

2019-08-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Solved problem detecting terminal size on quick changes
	* Update VTerm information only in case of changes
	* Fixes print() << FPoint() behavior in FScrollView

2019-08-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FRect has now got a scaleBy() method
	* Convert drawBorder() to a non-member function using FRect
	* Converts getHotkeyPos() for sharing into a non-member function

2019-08-10  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Pitch and duration of system speaker can now be changed 
	  on OpenBSD

2019-08-07  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixes the Cygwin build

2019-08-04  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Reduce the number of interface parameters

2019-07-31  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Unit test for the move assignment operator and move constructor 
	  in FPoint, FSize and FRect

2019-07-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FreeBSD can now change the frequency and duration 
	  of the pc speaker signal
	* Added a unit test for the FTermFreeBSD class to test 
	  the FreeBSD console

2019-07-21  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Reduce include entries in the header files

2019-07-14  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Reduces the use of raw loops 
	* Add a unit test for FTermOpenBSD to test the OpenBSD 
	  and NetBSD console

2019-06-30  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Expanding the unit test for FTermLinux
	* Update the cp437 unicode map
	* Reducing the special cases for Solaris

2019-06-19  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add a unit test for FTermLinux with a Linux console emulation 
	  and a dedicated FSystem test instance

2019-06-12  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixes problem with scroll bar view after first draw

2019-06-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Avoid drawing the scroll bars if the widget is non-visible

2019-05-27  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Use the Singleton design pattern to get a single object instance 
	  via FTerm

2019-05-26  Marek Habersack <grendel@twistedcode.net>
	* Fix a segfault when processing input to empty FListView

2019-05-17  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Move system calls to the new class FSystem

2019-04-27  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add the reserve() method to FListBox to increase the capacity 
	  of the list
	* Use shrink_to_fit() to save memory space

2019-03-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add a "scroll view" chapter to the first steps document

2019-02-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add an lambda expression callback example to the first steps document

2019-02-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FLineEdit now has the ability to define a character input filter 
	  via regular expression (regex)
	* Now FLineEdit can define a maximum character length for the input
	* The cursor position can now be set directly in FLineEdit
	* Added the 7-segment example to demonstrate the use of FTermBuffer
	  and FLineEdit input filters

2019-02-07  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add a "dynamic layout" chapter into the first steps document

2019-01-30  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Printing an FColorPair object can change the foreground and 
	  background color

2019-01-27  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The print command can now have an FPoint object as a parameter 
	  to set the cursor position
	* Refactoring of the FProgressbar drawing methods

2019-01-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring of some methods in FVTerm and FDialog

2019-01-21  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* More accurate interfaces through the strict use of FPoint() 
	  and FSize()

2019-01-16  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New class FSize for storing dimensions

2019-01-12  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring FFileDialog::fileOpenChooser
	* Refactoring FFileDialog::fileSaveChooser
	* Refactoring FListBox::init()
	* Refactoring FListView::init()
	* Refactoring FTextView::init()
	* Refactoring FTermXTerminal::resetXTermForeground()
	* Refactoring FTermXTerminal::resetXTermBackground()
	* Refactoring FTermXTerminal::resetXTermCursorColor()
	* Refactoring FTermXTerminal::resetXTermMouseForeground()
	* Refactoring FTermXTerminal::resetXTermMouseBackground()
	* Refactoring FTermXTerminal::resetXTermHighlightBackground()

2019-01-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Generalize hide() method

2019-01-09  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improvement in widget focusing
	* Better widget visibility handling with the methods hide() and show()

2019-01-05  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Use of initializer_list for FListBox, FListView and FTextView

2019-01-04  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Use the final specifier

2019-01-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improved PC encoding for Cygwin and Linux
	* Integration of an output filter to replace missing characters
	* Better Linux console support for UTF-8 encoding 
	  (Default is PC charset encoding)
	* Better background color for all terminals with a fixed color palette

2018-12-31  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Use the override specifier

2018-12-30  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Cygwin compiled fix for C++11

2018-12-29  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Text scrolling in FTextView was broken since February 17th!
	* Replace redundant FString code with templates

2018-12-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add the assignment operator (=) for FButton to set the button text
	* Corrected shortening of overlong texts in the title bar of FDialog
	* Add a "signals and callbacks" chapter into the first steps document

2018-12-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add a "event processing" chapter into the first steps document

2018-12-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Events can not only be sent to FWidgets, but also to FObjects
	* New event FUserEvent for user-defined events

2018-12-19  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Use of smart pointers
	* Add a "memory management" chapter into the first steps document

2018-12-17  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improve FButton mouse click animation
	* Minor data type corrections
	* Reactivate the event queue

2018-12-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Use of the C++11 auto specifier in the program code
	* Code reduction by using of range-based for loop
	* The example program for video attributes now replaces 
	  the switch statement with a vector of lambda expressions

2018-12-09  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Better handling of the scroll bar maximum
	* Deactivate copy constructor and assignment operator with "= delete"
	* Use nullptr instead of 0 to initialize a pointer values

2018-12-06  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Easier handling of fc::SpecialCharacter

2018-12-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Switched to the language standard C++11
	* Use delegated constructors and in-class default member initializers

2018-12-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improved gpm wheel mouse support
	* Fix compile in optimization level 2 for newer gcc

2018-11-27  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Correct vertical scroll bar position after sorting in FListView

2018-11-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Version 0.5.0
	* Namespace fix in FTermFreeBSD and FTermOpenBSD 
	* Fix compiler warning on non-x86 architectures

2018-11-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improved Sun Microsystems workstation console quirks
	* Handling environment variables with numbers in FTerm
	* Memory management fix in example program transparent

2018-11-21  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New type FKey for key inputs
	* The integer type of FPoint and FRect changed from short to int

2018-11-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The FListViewItem class now provides checkable list view items
	* Adding the checklist example to demonstrate the checkable 
	  FListViewItems
	* A checkable FListViewItem now shows the input cursor

2018-11-12  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Clicking on the column header in FListView now changes the sort order

2018-11-10  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FListView now has a sort indicator to display the sort order

2018-11-07  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Use new type FColor for color values

2018-11-05  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FButton now uses the widget flags directly

2018-11-04  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Widget flags are now stored in a bit field

2018-11-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New method rgb2ColorIndex() to converts a 24-bit RGB color 
	  to a 256-color compatible approximation

2018-11-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Moved FTerm debug access methods to FTermDebugData

2018-10-29  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FTerm is now a data member of FVTerm
	* Fix FListBox prevListItem()
	* Setting the value can_change_color_palette in FTermcapQuirks

2018-10-26  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Building Fix for a negative value check (gcc < 4.8)
	* Adding the capacity() method to the FString class

2018-10-21  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Moving static attributes from FApplication to FWidget

2018-10-17  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Changed more variables from int to std::size_t

2018-10-14  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* A width or height can not be negative. 
	  For that reason the change from int to std::size_t
	* FString fix for 32-bit architectures

2018-10-13  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Avoid using dynamic_cast so that you can compile Final Cut 
	  without Run-Time Type Information (RTTI). 
	  Thanks to user1095108 for reporting that.

2018-10-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FKeyboard now uses references for keyboard buffer passing

2018-10-09  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Terminal detection for newer vte libraries (>= 0.53.0)

2018-10-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Move all termcap code into FTermcap
	* Some small code splits

2018-10-05  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Remove redundant program code from FString

2018-10-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* At the end of the lifetime of an FMenuItem object, 
	  delete its entry from the object list of the parent object
	* Reduce the use of the new operators in the examples
	* Adding a unit test for the FTermData class

2018-10-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Extract FTerm data members into the data class FTermData

2018-09-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FListView now has the ability to sort by columns

2018-09-27  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Move time event processing from FApplication to FObject

2018-09-26  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The FListViewItem class now has a getData() and a setData() method 
	  similar to the FListBoxItem class.

2018-09-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Stricter use of the keyword virtual
	* Add a first steps document

2018-09-20  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Added pkg-config file finalcut.pc
	* The entire library source code is now encapsulated under 
	  the namespace finalcut. All examples and tests have been 
	  modified to fit the namespace.

2018-09-16  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Implement a ttytype test for the FTermDetection unit test

2018-09-14  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Added unit test for FTermDetection with a terminal simulation 
	  for common terminals
	* Some minor terminal detection bug fixes

2018-09-12  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Removes the deprecated keyword "register" 
	  from the source code

2018-09-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fix mouse wheel behavior over horizontal scroll bars
	  in FTextView
	* Some small code improvements

2018-09-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Compiles now with newer gcc

2018-08-31  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixed a problem for a non-debug compilation

2018-08-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Added unit test for FTermcapQuirks

2018-07-29  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Added numeric Keypad [/], [*], [-], [+] support
	* Handling of keys that are substrings of other keys
	* More tests in FKeyboard unit test

2018-07-27  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The array for keyboard input of UTF-8 characters was 
	  not long enough for 4 bytes of UTF-8 codes.
	* More tests in FKeyboard unit test

2018-07-22  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Added unit test for FKeyboard

2018-07-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Keyboard functions are now in a separate class
	* Fix Parameter passing in term::init_OptiAttr

2018-07-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Extension of the unit test of FOptiMove

2018-07-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* All in FOptiMove required termcap values can now be passed 
	  with a single struct

2018-06-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* All termcap values required in FOptiAttr can now be passed 
	  with a single struct

2018-06-17  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Added special console options for FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD

2018-06-12  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Linux functions from FTerm moved into the FTermLinux class

2018-05-27  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Move FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD functions to separate classes

2018-05-20  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Methods outsourcing from FTerm to FTermXTerminal

2018-05-06  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Some protected data members in FTerm moved to private

2018-05-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fix resetColorMap in FTerm

2018-05-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Outsourcing of data from FTerm to the classes FTermios, 
	  FTermDetection and FTermcapQuirks

2018-04-19  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Placing the terminal types in FTerm in a separate structure

2018-04-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fake-reverse bugfix in FOptiAttr
	* Strict use of fc::colornames in FOptiAttr
	* Stream support for FPoint and FRect

2018-04-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Remove Cygwin bold color quirks fix in FOptiAttr
	* Added unit test for FOptiAttr

2018-04-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improved Linux terminal quirks
	* Improvement in class FOptiAttr

2018-04-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improved cygwin terminal quirks
	* Optimized character set switching in FOptiAttr

2018-03-30  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Added unit test for FOptiMove

2018-03-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add boundary check to FOptiMove

2018-03-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Added unit test for the mouse classes
	* Fixed small parsing errors with mouse events

2018-03-17  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Added unit test for FObject
	* Some minor bug fixes in FObject

2018-03-13  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Added unit test for FRect

2018-03-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Added unit test for FPoint

2018-03-10  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Unit tests for the FString class completed
	* Minor bug fixes in FString

2018-02-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* First CppUnit tests implemented

2018-02-22  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Generalize mouse event passing in FMenuItem

2018-02-19  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring FTerm::init_termcaps
	* Refactoring FTerm::init_encoding

2018-02-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Avoid scroll bar overshooting
	* Refactoring FListView::onMouseMove
	* Refactoring FDialog::initDialogMenu

2018-02-17  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Generalize scroll functions in FTextView
	* Refactoring FButtonGroup::drawLabel
	* Refactoring FToggleButton::drawLabel

2018-02-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring FWidget::focusNextChild and FWidget::focusPrevChild
	* Refactoring FListView::onWheel
	* Refactoring FListView::drawColumnLabels
	* Refactoring FTerm::getSystemTermType
	* Rename getTermName() to getTermFileName()

2018-02-10  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring FOptiMove::verticalMove and FOptiMove::horizontalMove
	* Refactoring FVTerm::getCharacter
	* Refactoring FWidget::drawBorder

2018-02-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Avoids flickering when redrawing a focused widget

2018-01-31  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring FSwitch::drawCheckButton
	* Refactoring FWidget::redraw
	* Refactoring FMessageBox::init 
	* Refactoring FFileDialog::init 

2018-01-30  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring FLabel::draw
	* Refactoring FFileDialog::readDir

2018-01-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring FApplication::processKeyboardEvent
	* Shorter methods and a fix for recreating new windows 
	  in the window example

2018-01-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* UTF-8 fix for Solaris

2018-01-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixes compiler errors for latest Cygwin versions
	* Widget color scheme settings moved to a separate class
	* The color palette redefinition now has its own class

2018-01-21  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The Final Cut can now also be compiled under Cygwin
	* Fixed bug in FScrollView::scrollTo
	* Refactoring FStatusBar::drawKeys
	* Refactoring FListView::drawListLine

2018-01-17  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Small array optimizations in the examples

2018-01-14  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Mouse functions are now in a separate class

2018-01-05  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring FVTerm::restoreVTerm
	* Fixed buffer size in FOptiMove

2018-01-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring FOptiMove::relativeMove
	* Refactoring attribute settings in FOptiAttr
	* Refactoring FTerm::parseKeyString and timeout settings

2018-01-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring of secondary device attributes parsing
	* Small menu improvements

2017-12-31  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring of the FListBox mouse event handler
	* Refactoring of the FMenuBar mouse event handler
	* Replace the switch-case in the calculator example by an STL map 
	  with method pointers

2017-12-29  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring of the FDialog mouse event handler

2017-12-27  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Generalize scroll functions in FScrollView
	* Refactoring FScrollbar::drawBar
	* Refactoring FLineEdit::onKeyPress
	* Refactoring FMenu::onKeyPress
	* Refactoring FDialog::onKeyPress
	* Refactoring FDialog::drawTitleBar
	* New FDialog methods moveUp(), moveDown(), moveLeft(), 
	  moveRight(), reduceHeight(), expandHeight(), reduceWidth(), 
	  and expandWidth()

2017-12-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring FButton::draw
	* Passing more strings by reference

2017-12-21  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring FMenuBar::drawItems
	* (de)allocation functions in FTerm

2017-12-19  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring FMenu::drawItems

2017-12-17  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The Final Cut now also compiles under Solaris

2017-12-14  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add Sun Microsystems workstation console support

2017-12-10  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring of the FMenu mouse event handler

2017-12-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* More individual arithmetic operations methods in 
	  the implementation of the calculator example

2017-12-05  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring FApplication::processMouseEvent
	* Refactoring FApplication::processKeyboardEvent

2017-12-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring FListBox::drawList and FListBox::onKeyPress
	* Refactoring FWidget::event

2017-12-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring FApplication::linuxModifierKeyCorrection and
	  FVTerm::updateVTerm
	* Fix getLinuxModifierKey() subcode value as non-const

2017-11-30  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring FVTerm::updateTerminalLine

2017-11-26  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Better code readability by splitting FOptiMove::moveCursor 
	  into sub-functions
	* Improved alignment of the code by changing the indentation 
	  in Boolean expressions

2017-11-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Splitting quirks in serperate methods

2017-11-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Detects Linux console font with 512 characters and 
	  reduces the number of colors to 8
	* Color palette defined for 8 colors

2017-11-23  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Remove duplicated code from FOptiAttr::changeAttribute

2017-11-22  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Remove duplicated code in FVTerm::print

2017-11-19  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Splitting the FString example into sub-functions to make 
	  the code more comprehensible

2017-11-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improved command line paramenter handling
	* New command line paramenter --no-terminal-detection
	* New command line paramenter --no-color-change
	* Splitting init_termcaps() into multiple submethods

2017-11-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improved code coverage tests

2017-11-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Simulate invisible characters on terminals that do not 
	  support this attribute

2017-11-04  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Version 0.4.0
	* Change license from GPL v3 to LGPL v3

2017-11-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Small NewFont improvements
	* Fixed bug: The window example called a callback method after 
	  the child data was deleted

2017-11-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Move fonts into the root directory 

2017-10-30  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fix scrollview functionality with new inheritance structure
	* Add a standardized close confirmation dialog
	* Only <final/final.h> can now be directly integrated in programs

2017-10-29  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Adaptation of the inheritance diagrams in the header files
	* Add a standardized cb_exitApp callback method to FApplication

2017-10-27  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FWidget now inherits directly from FObject 

2017-10-23  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* A FListView tree branch can now be expand and collapsed 
	  with a single click

2017-10-19  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Optimized Color palette (less saturated colors)

2017-10-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Expand or collapse a tree element with a double-click
	* FListView::adjustViewport() improved

2017-10-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FObject double free prevention of fc::empty_string

2017-10-14  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixed a bug in the FObject check of parent objects
	* Replace the deprecated readdir_r function (CVE-2013-4237)
	* First implementation of a tree view in the FListView 
	  class (alpha state)

2017-10-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* DECSCUSR - Set Cursor Style support for VTE >= 0.40.0 and 
	  gnome-terminal >= 3.16
	* Checks if the FScrollview viewport fits into the print area

2017-10-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* SGR and URXVT mouse support for coordinates greater-than 
	  255 columns or lines
	* Add copyright information to the source files

2017-09-21  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New data type FStringList introduced
	* Stream and assignment operator support for FLineEdit

2017-09-20  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FString has now got its own streaming functionality for 
	  inbound and outbound type conversion
	* Added stream and assignment operator support for FLabel

2017-09-19  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The command line help text is now available in all applications

2017-09-17  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FObject has received the iterator child access methods 
	  begin() and end()
	* All include files were moved to a separate directory
	* std::scanf used now fields with width limit

2017-09-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fix byte access in data type char_data

2017-09-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Some code improvements 
	* Fix handling of negative numbers in FString::toLong()

2017-09-09  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Wrong UTF-8 string length fixed when attaching to FString

2017-09-07  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Type definition exported into a separate header file

2017-09-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixes wrong maximum line width in FListView

2017-08-26  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improve code readability through spaces between 
	  the operands and the operators

2017-08-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Rename fapp.{cpp,h} to fapplication.{cpp,h}

2017-08-20  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Screen characters got a union structure for a faster 
	  attribute compare operation

2017-08-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Some code changes for GCC 7
	* Implementation of a copy constructor for FPoint and FRect

2017-08-06  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fix GNU Screen support for vte/gnome-terminals
	* Advanced streaming functionality for FTermBuffer 
	  and FVTerm::print()

2017-07-31  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New methods to retrieve or modify FListViewItem text or 
	  a FListView column text for a specific column

2017-07-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Possibility for a FListView column to set 
	  the alignment (left, center or right)

2017-07-23  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Check an object with isInstanceOf(...) whether it is 
	  an instance of a specified class

2017-07-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New Widget class FListView (filled with FListViewItem) 
	  to allow a multi-column data view
	* Add the listview example to demonstrate FListView

2017-07-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New class FTermBuffer to buffer terminal outputs
	* Add the possibility to print from the terminal buffer

2017-07-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Use more static const variables where it makes sense

2017-06-26  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FString::rtrim() and FString::left() now return an FString 
	  object with the correct character length

2017-06-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Move the dragScroll enumeration into the fc namespace

2017-06-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New method FObject::isWidget()
	* Non-widget objects inherit from FObjects will no longer 
	  affect the widget lists

2017-06-05  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The focus and active flag is set centrally in FWidget

2017-05-20  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Recalculate the horizontal FListBox scroll bar size 
	  on lazy conversion

2017-05-19  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FListBox: Import of data from a container via 
	  "lazy conversion" during item print

2017-04-23  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Import of data from a standard container in FListBox 
	  is now possible
	* The new "listbox" example shows the handling with 
	  standard containers

2017-04-17  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Speed up FString::setNumber() by using a decimal 
	  string lookup table
	* FString allocates no new memory if the size is sufficient

2017-04-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fix unsigned integer underflow in FString::_insert()

2017-04-14  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The Final Cut compiles also under OpenBSD
	* The alt key now always generates an esc prefix 
	  on an OpenBSD and a NetBSD console

2017-04-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Enable xterm "metaSendsEscape" switch

2017-04-09  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The Final Cut compiles now also under NetBSD
	* Rename preprocessor macro names with leading underscore

2017-04-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Looking in /etc/ttys for the type of terminal

2017-04-06  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Change cursor style on a FreeBSD console

2017-04-05  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Replace non-printable characters for Tera Term and 
	  Cygwin terminal directly at start-up. Special cases 
	  in the code are no longer necessary.
	* New method setInsertCursorStyle() to change the appearance 
	  of a cursor

2017-04-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Remap the meta key to left alt key at runtime 
	  on the FreeBSD console for the accelerator key access
	  (Console switching is still possible with 
	   Ctrl-Alt-F1 through Ctrl-Alt-F8)
	* Avoid non-printable ASCII codes < 0x1c on a FreeBSD console

2017-03-30  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixed bug: termcap "me" does not reset 
	  the alternate character set

2017-03-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improved graphic charset pairs (vt100) 
	  for FreeBSD console

2017-03-26  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The Final Cut compiles now under FreeBSD
	* A new test program to show the termcap variables

2017-03-19  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add the "mouse" example to illustrate mouse programming

2017-03-17  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* More constant character pointers

2017-03-13  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Corrects directly the input cursor position on window moving

2017-03-12  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The FButtonGroup now has a scrolling area 
	  with on-demand scroll bars
	* Add the "choice" example to demonstrate the FButtonGroup 
	  auto-adjusting with on-demand scroll bars
	* FRect can now combine two FRect objects
	* The FButtonGroup got the possibility of index access 
	  to a child button.
	* Fixed bug in FString copy constructor

2017-03-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improve input cursor positioning in FScrollView

2017-02-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Corrected swapped top and left offset variables 
	  in the class FVTerm

2017-02-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FListBox gets the option to save a data pointer for 
	  every FListBoxItem element
	* Fixes incorrect return value of FString::toString()

2017-02-19  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New FWidget methods setMinimumWidth(), setMinimumHeight(), 
	  setMaximumWidth() and setMaximumHeight() 
	* FButtonGroup now inherits from FScrollView. This supports 
	  many buttons to be displayed in a smaller frame.

2017-02-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Allows a window to have more than one FScrollView widget

2017-02-07  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Uses termcap capability U8 to identify terminals that 
	  can't display vt100 line-drawing in UTF-8 mode

2017-01-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Allow to change the focus out from FScrollView to another widget

2017-01-26  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FScrollView now scrolls automatically to the focused widget

2017-01-22  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* A FScrollView object can now have client widgets 
	  on the scrolling area

2017-01-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Virtual window gets a preprocessing handler. This allows 
	  a preprocessing method to be called before the vterm is updated.

2017-01-07  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add scrollTo and scrollBy methods to FScrollView

2017-01-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FScrollView now has on-demand scroll bars
	* Arrow keys support for FScrollView viewport scrolling

2017-01-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The new FScrollView widget provides a scrollable viewport 
	  to change the area of interest
	* The scrollview example illustrates the use of FScrollView class

2016-12-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Reduce public methods in FVTerm

2016-12-27  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Avoid non-working tab-cursor-movements on Linux terminals
	  with activated PC or VT100 encoding

2016-12-26  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add the ability to stream text into a widget's virtual window
	  with print() << '#' << 5; or *this << ...

2016-12-22  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* VTerm marks printed characters for a correct determination 
	  of unchanged characters
	* Correct gpm detection in configure script

2016-12-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Only perform VTerm updates on terminal updates
	* Skipping the print of characters without changes
	* Combined scrollAreaForward and scrollAreaReverse 
	  with terminal scroll sequences

2016-12-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Reduce the character output by using character erase 
	  and character repeat

2016-12-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Accelerates text line drawing by clear with CSI sequences 
	  to begin or to end of the current line.

2016-11-29  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Restore the xterm window title and font 
	  only if it could be read before

2016-11-27  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Some minor bug fixes
	* Version 0.3.0

2016-11-26  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improvements for ansi terminal emulators
	* Add the opti-move test program
	* Optimized the terminal clear screen

2016-11-20  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Increase speed on cygwin terminals
	* Improve tty settings

2016-11-13  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Do not draw shadows on a Linux console if not 
	  all characters are available

2016-11-12  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Better support for Linux terminals with 8 colors
	* Optimized input cursor positioning for terminals without 
	  hidden cursor
	* Switch locale name from "en_US" to "C"
	* Fix FString toLong()

2016-11-06  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The adjustment of xterm default colors now is configurable

2016-11-05  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Determine xterm maximum number of colors via OSC 4
	* The method clearArea can now fill the background 
	  with certain character

2016-11-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* xterm should be able to use at least 16 colors

2016-11-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The class declaration now has a consistent order

2016-10-17  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactor the VGA attribute controller access code

2016-10-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Each virtual window gets its own virtual print cursor

2016-10-14  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Virtual windows can now store their own offset information
	* Correct implementation of the move() method

2016-10-13  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Reduces in the code the number of friend classes

2016-10-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Separate the virtual terminal into a own class vterm

2016-10-09  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Remove some duplicate code

2016-10-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add the possibility to scroll text up and down 
	  in a virtual window

2016-10-06  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The input cursor is now controlled by the virtual terminal

2016-10-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FStatusBar and FMenuBar use now the always-on-top 
	  window option

2016-10-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add an always-on-top mode for window objects
	* New FToolTip widget to show assisted information

2016-09-30  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Using arrow keys to move or to resize a window

2016-09-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The size is now dynamically changeable with the mouse 
	  in a resizable window.

2016-09-26  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FLabel now transmits the Click events to the parent widget

2016-09-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Splitting gotoxy in printPos (local position) 
	  and printPosTerm (global terminal position)
	* Replacing the widget position variables by FRect objects
	* Rename getGeometryShadow() to getGeometryWithShadow()
	* Rename getGeometryGlobal() to getTermGeometry()
	* Rename getGeometryGlobalShadow() to getTermGeometryWithShadow()
	* Rename globalToLocalPos() to termToWidgetPos()
	* Rename getGlobalX() to getTermX()
	* Rename getGlobalY() to getTermY()
	* Rename getGlobalPos() to getTermPos()
	* setColor() without parameters sets the default widget colors
	* New methods setMinimumSize(), setMaximumSize(), setFixedSize() 
	  and setSize()

2016-09-12  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Activate the title bar menu with ctrl+^

2016-09-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New zoom interaction-elements to maximize a FDialog

2016-09-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Different color when focusing the title bar button
	* Move clearArea() from FWidget to FTerm
	* Move setWidth(), setHeight() and setGeometry from 
	  FDialog to FWindow

2016-09-04  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* FButton, FLineEdit and FProgressbar has shadow now enabled 
	  by default
	* FDialog has now transparent shadow as default

2016-09-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The method clearFlatBorder() replace now a double flatline 
	  with a single flatline
	* Add the possibility to set the double_flatline_mask for 
	  every position on all sides

2016-09-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Method setGeometry assigns now the full widget size to 
	  the double_flatline_mask (previously, it was the adjust size)

2016-08-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Remove obsolete code from FDialog
	* An incorrect parameter can now return an error message 
	  on program exit
	* Termcap S2 and S3 fallback only for the vte/gnome-terminal 
	  and the Linux terminal

2016-08-27  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* A new inherit background option for characters
	* Use inherit background for the simple shadows
	* Updating the transparent example program

2016-08-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Use the new transparent shadow option in drawShadow()

2016-08-21  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improved transparent shadow background
	* Add "transparent" example to demonstrate transparency

2016-08-20  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Switch back to the own dialog when you closing a dialog menu
	* switchToPrevWindow() is looking for another window 
	  if no previous window was found

2016-08-14  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Screen characters now have a transparent 
	  and a transparent shadow option

2016-07-31  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Rename setUpdateVTerm to updateVTerm
	* Rename clrscr to clearArea
	* The widget clearing method updates now only non-covered 
	  characters on the virtual terminal.

2016-07-31  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Resetting the local window widget focus at 
	  the end of the lifetime of a widget.
	* Fix method setPos in the class FRect
	* Add the windows example to show the window behavior

2016-07-30  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Delete all callbacks from a widget with delCallbacks()
	* Remove dialog list item callback from the associated window

2016-07-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improvements for the window focus

2016-07-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add missing null pointer check in FOptiAttr before dereferencing
	* Remove callbacks and accelerator keys from FDialogListMenu
	  on closing of a dialog window
	* Execute accelerator keys only once
	* Improved window focus behavior

2016-07-23  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add a modifier key correction for the Linux tty
	* Support to read meta+enter from keyboard

2016-07-16  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Support to read meta+tab from keyboard

2016-07-16  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Switch to a specific dialog with meta key + 1..9
	* Add more meta key escape sequences (for putty)

2016-07-14  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Adding a dialog list with the entries in the chronological 
	  order of the generation

2016-07-13  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Bind accelerator key from the FMenuItem to the root widget

2016-07-12  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* The status bar and the menu bar insert now the accelerator keys 
	  into the global scope of the root widget

2016-07-10  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Remove obsolete code from FDialog destructor
	* FDialog focus fix

2016-07-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Better code readability: control structures (if/else, while, switch) 
	  are now separated by a blank line.

2016-07-06  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Stop terminal updates during processCloseWidget() is working

2016-07-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add the new class FDialogListMenu to switch between dialog menus
	* More consistent method names: 
	  rename parentWidget() to getParentWidget()

2016-06-27  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fix the use-after-free bug for previous_widget

2016-06-26  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Bug fix for FWindow::activatePrevWindow()

2016-06-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Move processNextEvent() code into sub functions

2016-06-22  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Adding required updateTerminal() calls for FMenuBar

2016-06-19  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Clear status bar text in FMenuBar::leaveMenuBar()
	* Fixes some status bar update issues and focus problems

2016-06-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improved status bar text updating at window change

2016-06-16  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Bug fix in FTerm updateVTerm() for updates from vdesktop
	* Bug fix in FDialog onWindowActive() for combined setFocus() 
	  and activateWindow()

2016-06-13  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improved title bar menu integration

2016-06-12  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add a title bar menu to close dialogs

2016-05-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Use nl_langinfo to determine the numeric thousands separator 
	  for Fstring::setFormatedNumber as default parameter

2016-05-22  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fix for menus in modal dialogs

2016-05-16  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improve adjustSize()
	* Implement adjustSizeGlobal() for all widgets
	* Don't focus menus with focusFirstChild() and focusLastChild()
	* Remove duplicate code

2016-05-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Better terminal identification

2016-04-30  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improve 256 color terminal detection

2016-04-19  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fix the missing typecast for SpecialCharacter in "ui.cpp"

2016-02-04  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* KDE Konsole detection improved
	* OSC sequence support for GNU Screen and tmux

2016-01-31  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Better escape sequences readability through 
	  symbolic names like ESC, CSI or OSC

2016-01-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Moving widget flags into the class fc

2016-01-17  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Moving events into the class fc
	* Avoid height and width underflow in adjustSize()
	* Fix default color handling on Cygwin and Linux terminals

2016-01-10  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Better default color handling in FOptiAttr

2016-01-07  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add the new class FOptiAttr to control video attributes and colors 
	  for output on terminals

2015-12-23  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add video attribute support for dim (half-bright) and italic
	* An example program to test video attributes on your terminal

2015-12-20  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add the possibility to switch off the cursor optimization 
	  for bad ANSI-terminal implementations like HyperTerminal 
	  (e.g. horizontal absolute position (ch) has there no function)
	* Now you can activate the menu with ctrl+space, too. 
	  (For terminals with no meta key support)

2015-12-20  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Bug fix in FTerm updateVTerm() for updates from vdesktop
	* Add raiseWindow() to FMenuBar::leaveMenuBar()
	* Fix allocation of null strings with the FString = operator
	* Fix for non printable characters in Cygwin and TeraTerm
	* Fix missing eat_newline_glitch (xn) in TeraTerm

2015-12-19  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add delOwnTimer() for FObject
	* Close sub-menu on right and middle click
	* Version 0.2.0

2015-12-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Optimize menu example
	* More string types for FString relational operators 

2015-12-16  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Avoid to show menus outside of the screen

2015-12-12  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improve sub-sub-menu handling

2015-12-10  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* PC encoding: Avoid to print ASCII sign 0x00..0x1f in xterm
	* Newfont Bullet sign

2015-12-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add "menu" example to demonstrate the behavior from FMenuBar, 
	  FMenu, FMenuItem, FCheckMenuItem and FRadioMenuItem widgets.
	* Show status bar messages, if no keys are available.

2015-11-29  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Better handling of empty strings in FLineEdit and FButton
	* Add a sub-menu to the "ui.cpp" example

2015-11-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Small menu improvements

2015-11-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improved mouse and keyboard handling in sub-menus

2015-11-22  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add sub-menu support

2015-11-19  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add the missing resetXTermHighlightBackground method

2015-11-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add two new classes FCheckMenuItem and FRadioMenuItem 
	  for menu check marks and menu option marks (bullets)

2015-11-12  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improve menu accelerator keys
	* Shows accelerator keys on the right side of the FMenu.

2015-11-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Activate the previous window in case if the menu is open and 
	  the mouse click has activated no window.

2015-11-07  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improved menu focus handling
	* Menu supports newfont

2015-11-05  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Menu bar navigation without menu drop down

2015-11-03  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improve keyboard shortcut handling in menus

2015-11-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* First working version of an application menu, 
	  it uses the new classes FMenuBar, FMenu and FMenuItem 
	  (alpha state)

2015-10-29  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Support for the menu key

2015-10-23  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Color setting improvements

2015-10-22  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Make cursor visibility more standards compliant.

2015-10-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Hidden windows are now non-clickable

2015-10-17  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* More faster header inline code
	* Improve getXTermFont() and getXTermTitle()
	* Newfont characters are now printable in FLabel, FMenuBar and FMenu.

2015-10-16  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixed: calculator behavior for negative values 
	  in trigonometric functions

2015-10-13  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Reduce the number of getParent() function calls for print operations

2015-10-11  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improve attribute setting for bold, reverse and underline output
	* Better support for monochrom terminals

2015-10-10  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Deactivate a key from the status bar automatically 
	  after getting back from the callback.

2015-10-09  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Eliminate duplicate code

2015-10-06  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Refactoring FTerm::init()

2015-10-05  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improve compatibility with initialize_color
	* Better support for TeraTerm

2015-10-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* No terminal updates until input data is pending. 
	  This speeds up the window moving with the mouse on terminals 
	  with a high latency.
	* Use now the select command before read ENQ and SEC_DA

2015-09-29  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Some code improvements

2015-09-27  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add methods getPos and setPos to FRect and FWidget

2015-09-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add macro _METHOD_CALLBACK and _FUNCTION_CALLBACK 
	  to simplify the use callback functions
	* The callback data pointer is now predefined with 
	  NULL as default argument

2015-09-23  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Further code optimizations

2015-09-22  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add the possibility to hide a virtual window
	* Some code optimizations

2015-09-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Fixed compile error on 32-bit architectures

2015-08-08  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Bug fix in FDialog (use GlobalPos to move)
	* Don't check mouse click position on title bar again 
	  while FDialog is in move

2015-07-26  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* init() method for the FStatusKey constructor 
	  to avoid code duplication

2015-07-18  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add multiple lines support for FLabel

2015-07-12  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Improve focusFirstChild() and focusLastChild()

2015-07-09  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Better contrast on 8 color terminals

2015-07-06  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Bug fix disable cursor on focus FSwitch
	* Hold down the mouse button displays FSwitch in a different color.

2015-07-04  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* New class FSwitch
	* Add the watch example to demonstrate FSwitch
	* Version 0.1.1

2015-07-02  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add a joined right-left-line character to the newfont
	* Use the object timer for the progress bar animation 
	  in the ui example program

2015-07-01  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Use the object timer for the click animation in FButton

2015-06-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add exception handling for toLong() and toULong() 
	  in FString

2015-06-27  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add toFloat(), toDouble() and setNumber(...) for 
	  floating point values to FString

2015-06-22  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add a simple calculator with trigonometric functions

2015-06-21  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add the possibility to draw double lines on overlapped 
	  flat lines for the 8x16graph font
	* Bug fix in FButton (mouse click with unsetClickAnimation())

2015-06-20  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add the possibility to change the colors from FButton

2015-06-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add the possibility to turn off click animation 
	  on FButton

2015-06-14  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* correction for the modifier letter small x 
	  in the character map

2015-06-12  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add Some mathematical signs to the character map

2015-05-28  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add keyword 'explicit' to some constructors

2015-05-25  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Add a Mandelbrot set program

2015-05-24  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Bug fix in FLineEdit (ypos from the label)
	* Bug fix in FDialog onWindowActive (status bar check)

2015-05-15  Markus Gans  <guru.mail@muenster.de>
	* Remove never read value from code
	* Add the possibility to use exec() from FMessageBox 
	  to enter and leave the main event loop correctly
	* Add a "hello world" example