Replace notcurses_render_to_file() and
notcurses_render_to_buffer() with variants that work
on arbitrary piles (the former only worked on the standard
pile). Rewrite the former as trivial wrappers around the
latter, and deprecate the former. Closes#1770.
All our diagnostic macros required a struct notcurses from
which to extract the loglevel. Eliminate this parameter,
and update all caller sites. Add a library-wide (but not
exported) loglevel variable, and set it from both
notcurses_core_init() and ncdirect_core_init(). Add two
new direct mode flags, NCDIRECT_OPTION_VERBOSE and
NCDIRECT_OPTION_VERY_VERBOSE, mapping them to
NCLOGLEVEL_WARNING and NCLOGLEVEL_INFO respectively.
Closes#1690.
ncplane_as_rgba: genericize across blitters
ncplane_as_rgba() previously was implemented explicitly
in terms of NCBLIT_2x1. it now uses the `egcs` field of the
`blitset`. this supports NCBLIT_2x2 and NCBLIT_3x2 in
ncplane_rgba(). Closes#1490.
Writing a partial escape can easily lock up a terminal. This
is especially relevant when working with bitmaps, as they're
thousands or even millions of times longer than a typical
escape. Immediately before writing, block SIGINT, SIGQUIT, and
SIGTERM in the writing thread, and unblock them upon emerging
(at which point we'll immediately see any queued signal
get delivered). Don't block signals like SIGSEGV that would
seem indicative of actual problems. For this to actually work,
all other threads must also have the signals masked; we thus
now add them to the signal mask of notcurses_getc(), rather
than deleting them. Closes#1416.
deprecate ncvisual_geom() in favor of new ncvisual_blitter_geom(), which allows caller to get the blitter used. replace the checks and calculations in ncvisual_render() with a call to ncvisual_blitter_geom(), unifying the two paths (and eliminating several bugs in the unloved ncvisual_geom()).
Deprecate ncplane_align(), after rewriting it as a passthrough
to new function ncplane_halign(). Add ncplane_valign(). Update
all callers. Closes#1468.
Add `notcurses_check_pixel_support()` and
`ncdirect_check_pixel_support()` per #1367. Removes
NCOPTION_VERIFY_SIXEL, again per #1367. Adds
`free_terminfo_cache()`, and calls it from both
`notcurses_stop_minimal()` and `ncdirect_stop()`.
Update all documentation. Closes#1371 and #1367.
notcurses_stats() and notcurses_stats_reset() now take the
new statlock member, as do stat modifications from render,
raster, writeout, resize, plane creation, and plane
destruction. Add nonnull attributes to stats API. Initialize
and destroy statlock as part of notcurses struct. Update
documentation. Free pilelock on error paths. Closes#1139.
Eliminate NCDIRECT_OPTION_NO_READLINE (it was only introduced in
Notcurses 2.1.6). Add a new function, ncdirect_readline(). Upon
first call to this function, initialize libreadline. Destroy
libreadline in ncdirect_stop() iff we initialized it. Add
hilodirect guessing game PoC from #1325. Rename
notcurses_directmode.3 to notcurses_direct.3. Closes#1326.
Implement channels_set_fg_palindex() and channels_set_bg_palindex()
in terms of channel_set_palindex(). Add missing entries to
notcurses_channels.3 man page. Use uint32_t in place of unsigned
when dealing with channels in notcurses.h.
Extract `libnotcurses-core` from `libnotcurses`. The former contains everything except multimedia code. The latter contains multimedia stuff (a wrapper around FFmpeg or OIIO). If built with `-DUSE_MULTIMEDIA=none`, there will not be any `libnotcurses.so` generated. `libnotcurses.so` uses library constructors/destructors to insert its implementation into the `ncvisual` stack at runtime. Users linking `-lnotcurses` will get the full implementation; users linking `-lnotcurses-core` only will get the stack less multimedia code.
The upshot of this is that someone can compile/install only `libnotcurses-core`, and a program linked against it will work just fine. This eliminates the need to install the full (large) dependency stack of the multimedia code unless necessary. This will hopefully be useful for e.g. installers etc. Closes#339.
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