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  • Author : sammy
    Date : 2008-04-22 17:09:52
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    Message : * Advertise the C bindings in the NEWS file.

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  • 						-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
    FTGL
    ====
    
    Included below are release notes for all versions of FTGL that have
    been released to date.  All versions prior to and including version
    2.1.2 were exclusively developed by Henry Maddocks.  Subsequent
    versions have changes attributed per contributor.
    
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    --- 2008-XX-XX  Release 2.1.3                                      ---
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        * The library now also exports a pure C interface - Éric Beets
        * Inset/outset contour support for fonts - Éric Beets
        * Fix the FTLayout rendering - Éric Beets
        * Added new FTLayout and FTSimpleLayout support for layout
          managers - Sam Hocevar
        * Fixed the paths in the XCode project - Henry Maddocks
        * Changed the behaviour of some objects so that if there is an
          error their state isn't changed - Henry Maddocks
    
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    --- 2004-12-11  Release 2.1.2                                      ---
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        * Changed the way the colour is specified for Pixmap fonts. It can
          now be done per string rather than at start up as previous.
        * Fixed a couple of compilation errors caused by the new FTPoint
          stuff, mostly...
        * More const correctness. It's like a virus!
    
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    --- 2004-12-05  Release 2.1.1                                      ---
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        * Added the xCode project properly this time.
    
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    --- 2004-12-05  Release 2.1.0                                      ---
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        * Added texture co-ordinates to the geometry based font types.
        * Added the ability to turn off (or on) glDisplayList creation
          inside FTGL.
        * Removed unnecessary translates in the glyph rendering code.
        * Moved the Mac project to XCode.
        * Added a line height function to FTFont.
        * Got rid of the GL_TEXTURE_2D_BINDING_EXT call and replaced it
          with a static member.
        * Fixed a bug where resizing FTGLTextureFont caused a GL error.
        * Refactored FTPoint quite a bit.
        * More unit tests. Fixed a heap of bugs.
    
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    --- 2004-08-16  Release 2.0.11                                     ---
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        * Updated FTFont( *pBufferBytes, bufferSizeInBytes) documentation.
    
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    --- 2004-08-16  Release 2.0.10                                     ---
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        * Fixed tab problem in unix Makefile.
        * Added CYGWIN GLUTesselatorFunction define to FTVectoriser.
    
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    --- 2004-04-21  Release 2.0.9                                      ---
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        * Fixed includes for pre 2.1.7 versions of freetype
        * Changed unix build to create FTGL subdir for includes
    
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    --- 2004-04-09  Release 2.0.8                                      ---
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        * Fixes for deprecated identifiers in 2.1.5
        * Changed the internals to use FTGlyphSlot instead of FTGlyph
        * Added a unit test for FTBitmapGlyph, FTCharToGlyphIndexMap.
        * Fixed a memory leak in FTGlyphContainer.
        * Added the ability to get the list of charmaps in the font.
        * Changed FTGLTextureFont to use FTVector for texture id list.
    
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    --- 2003-08-31  Release 2.07                                       ---
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        * Minor fix for unix build scripts.
        * Minor fix for unit tests.
    
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    --- 2003-08-25  Release 2.06                                       ---
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        * Updated the unix build scripts.
    
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    --- 2003-08-25  Release 2.05                                       ---
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        * Refactored FTGlyphContainer & FTCharmap. They now store FTGlyphs
          sequentially rather than by glyph index. This should save a heap
          of memory and a bit of time at startup.
        * Changed the Mac font paths in the demos.
        * Changed the unit tests for new hinter in Freetype 2.1.4.
        * Added a test for broken contour tags.
    
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    --- 2003-04-12  Release 2.04                                       ---
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        * Fixed resize behavior in FTGLTextureFont.
    
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    --- 2003-04-09  Release 2.03                                       ---
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        * Fix in FTContour to handle broken contours.
    
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    --- 2003-04-03  Release 2.02                                       ---
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        * Fixed memory leaks
    
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    --- 2003-03-14  Release 2.01                                       ---
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        * Minor changes to autoconf to detect glu
    
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    --- 2003-03-11  Release 2.0                                        ---
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        * Fixed some alignment bugs caused by changes to Freetype
          ( > 2.0.9).
        * Minor fixes to float declarations.
        * Moved FTBBox and FTPoint to their own files and added Move()
          and operator += to FTBBox
        * Replaced FT_Vector with FTPoint for kerning.
        * Fixed the glPushAttrib calls.
        * Changed gluTess callback def.
        * Rewriting FTGLDemo.
        * Minor fixes for irix.
        * Removed a bunch of redundant members and made them function
          locals.
        * Removed the Open() & Close() functions from FTFont because there
          was no way to handle Close correctly which makes Open redundant.
        * Removed Open() from FTface.
        * Improved the robustness of some of the error handling.
        * Removed the FTCharmap Platform/Encoding function.
        * Added unit tests.
        * Removed the precache flag.
        * Unvirtualised functions in FTLibrary and FTGlyphContainer.
        * Fixed empty string bug in FTFont::BBox.
        * Refactored FTContour and moved it to it's own file.
        * Removed unnecessary memory allocations in vector Glyphs. They
          now access the vector data directly.
        * Made vectoriser a local variable in vector glyphs.
        * Fixed a long standing visual bug in FTVectoriser.
        * Changed size calculations to use floats instead of ints. This
          includes FTBBox.
        * Refactored FTGlyph. Now calculates advance (as a float) and
          bbox.
        * Changed contourList from FTVector to an array in FTVectoriser.
        * Made function and member names more consistant.
        * Moved header files to include directory.
        * Mesh now uses a list for glCombine points.
        * Delete the display lists.
        * Unix AutoConf support.
        * Attach 'files' from memory.
    
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    --- 2002-10-23  Release 1.4                                        ---
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        * FTGL now requires 2.0.9 or later. See below for reason.
        * Merged 1.32 branch with main tree
        * Glyph loading has been optimised for pixel based glyphs.
        * Removed mmgr
        * Added FTFont::Attach
        * Updated API docs
        * Removed stl map and vector. Replaced by code supplied by
          Sebastien Barre
        * Removed work around for Type1 height and width bug in
          freetype. It seems to be fixed in 2.0.9
        * Added a test target to the Mac OSX project
        * Inline some private functions.
    
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    --- 2002-04-23  Release 1.32                                       ---
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        * Fixed enable state attribute in FTGLBitmapFont
        * Wrapped tb.h & trackball.h in EXTERN "C"
        * Renamed FTGLDemo to .cpp
        Ellers...
        * New MSVC projects updated to v1.3
        * Removed a lot of unnecessary Windows stuff from ftgl.h
        * Added functions to load font from memory.
        * Fixed a couple of Windows 'for' scope problems in FTExtrdGlyph
        * FTGLDemo. Added #define for windows font
    
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    --- 2002-01-30  Release 1.31                                       ---
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        * Forgot to update readme etc for 1.3
    
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    --- 2002-01-27  Release 1.3b5                                      ---
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        * FTBbox now uses float rather then int
        * Fixed some more warnings (size_t)
        * Removed the contour winding function because it didn't fix the
          problem!!
        * Fixed up some state settings in fonts.
    
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    --- 2001-12-11  Release 1.3b4                                      ---
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    
        * Added MAC OSX project (Project Builder)
        * Added a function for extruded glyphs that calculates the winding
          order of the glyph contour.
        * Added FTGL_DEBUG to include memory debugger.
        * Added a couple of typedefs to FTGL.h, mainly to aid debugging
        * Cleaned up the includes.
    
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    --- 2001-11-13  Release 1.3b3                                      ---
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        * Texture fonts now behave the same as the others and can be
          loaded on demand. This made FTGLTextureFont MUCH simpler!!!! It
          has also improved the grid fitting so less texture mem is
          needed.
        * Refactored FTVectoriser...
          This now builds contours and meshes internally and then passes
          the raw point data onto the glyphs. The gluTess data is captured
          in an internal non static data structure fixing a memory Leak in
          PolyGlyph (glCombine).
          This has enabled...
        * Extruded fonts. FTGLExtrdFont & FTExtrdGlyph.
        * Reversed the winding for polyglyphs, extruded glyphs and texture
          glyphs to make them CCW
        * Bounding box function
        * Fixed the != and == operators in ftPoint
        * Un-virtualised some functions in FTFont
        * Added a demo app to dist.
    
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    --- 2001-11-09  Release 1.21                                       ---
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        * Visual Studio projects updated for .cpp source file extensions.
        * A couple of windows 'cast' warnings have been fixed.
    
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    --- 2001-11-06  Release 1.2                                        ---
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        * Glyphs can now be loaded on the fly instead of being
          pre-cached. If FTFont::Open() is called with false,
          FTGlyphContainer will build a list of null pointers. Then when
          ever a glyph needs to be access eg by FTFont::advance or
          FTFont::render, it will be built and slotted into the glyphlist
          in the correct position.
        * Removed glext.h from FTGL.h and replaced it with a test for
          GL_EXT_texture_object.
        * Added padding to texture size calculations.
        * Fixed a NASTY bug in FTGLTextureFont. Only came to light after
          changes to the glyph preprocessing.
    
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    --- 2001-10-31  Release 1.1                                        ---
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        * Renamed the source to .cpp
        * Removed the static activeTextureID from FTTextureGlyph and
          replaced it with a call to
          glGetIntegerv( GL_TEXTURE_2D_BINDING_EXT, &activeTextureID);
        * Added an include for glext.h in FTGL.h
        * Tidied up the glbegin/glEnd pairs in FTTextureGlyph &
          FTGLTextureFont
        * Fixed the problem with doc filenames.
        * Tidied up some implicit type conversions.
        * Fixed FTCharMap to ensure that a valid default charmap is always
          created by the c_stor.
    
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    --- 2001-10-26  Release 1.01                                       ---
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        * Removed the glEnable( GL_TEXTURE_2D) from FTGLTextureFont
        * Removed the redundant tempGlyph members in the FTGLXXXXFont
          classes
        * Made a change in FTGL.h to include correct headers for MAC OSX
        * FTGL.h now includes glu.h
        * Minor fixes to get rid of Project Builder warnings (MAC OSX)
        * Fixed some of the docs
    
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    --- 2001-10-24  Release 1.0                                        ---
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        * Version 1.0 release
    
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    --- 2001-09-29  Release 1.0b7                                      ---
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        * Tesselation winding rules
        * Fixed bug in FTContour Add point function
        * Cleaned up disposal of FTCharmap in FTFace
        * renamed FTVectorGlyph to FTOutlineGlyph
        * New distribution structure
        * Minor changes for windows (VC 6)
        * Windows and Linux ports.
    
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    --- 2001-09-20  Release 1.0b6                                      ---
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        * Implemented the new FTCharmap class. The performance improvement
          is dramatic.
        * Tidied up the way the freetype FT_Face object is disposed of by
          FTFont and FTFace. This was a potential crash.
        * FTVectorGlyph and FTPolyGlyph now disposes of the freetype glyph
          correctly after initialsation. This was a potential crash.
        * Preliminary support for unicode...wchar_t Tested with non
          european fonts.
        * Added function to calc the advance width of a string.
        * Minor tidy ups.
    
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    --- 2001-08-29  Release 1.0b5                                      ---
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        * Settled on integers for FTSize stuff. NOTE the FTGlyph stuff is
          still up in the air.
        * Fixed the positional stuff.
        * Added Java Doc comments. NOT COMPLETE
        * Fixes for linux, mainly to clear warnings.
        * changed the return type for FTFace::Glyph() from a reference to
          a pointer so it can return NULL on failure.
        * Related to above...better error handling and reporting in
          FTGLXXXFont::MakeGlyphList()
        * Fixed a bug in FTVectoriser that was ignoring non printing
          characters. This meant that the pen wasn't advanced for spaces
          etc. It affected polygon and outline font rendering.
        * Minor tidy ups.
    
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    --- 2001-08-21  Release 1.0b4                                      ---
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        * Changed the mode for FT_Load_Glyph to FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING |
          FT_LOAD_NO_BITMAP for outline and polygon fonts &
          FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING for texture fonts. Seems to produce better
          looking glyphs.
        * FTGLTextureFont can now use multiple textures to render glyphs
          if they  don't fit within one GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE texture.
        * Changed FTSize to use bbox for global width and height. Needs
          more work (eg float or int?) and need to check inconsistancies
          in freetype.
        * Being more strict with types eg integer indices and sizes are
          now unsigned.
    
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    --- 2001-08-08  Release 1.0b3                                      ---
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        * I've made fundamental change to the way the glyphlist is
          built. This is to get round the problems I was having with
          charmaps. At this stage it is a temporary solution. Previously
          the glyphList was indexed by char code. Now it's indexed by
          glyph index and the conversion is done by the freetype function
          FT_Get_Char_Index(). If this proves to be too slow I'll make my
          own charmap and use it to index into the glyphlist. This has
          fixed all the charmap related problems/bugs.
        * Enabled alpha blend in Pixmap font.
        * Enabled LINE_SMOOTH in Outline font
        * Fixed bug that prevented the display of chars >127
        * Moved pixel store stuff out of BitmapGlyph into BitmapFont.
        * Minor changes for IRIX (compiles but isn't tested)
        * Pixmap fonts can now be in colour. It uses the current colour
          when the font is CREATED. This isn't ideal but is better than
          the alternatives.
        * Tidied up the error handling.
        * Minor code clean ups.
    
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    --- 2001-08-06  BETA Release 1.0b2                                 ---
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        * Minor tidy ups for first public release.
    
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    --- 2001-08-03  First BETA Release 1.0b1                           ---
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        * All font types are now working, Bitmaps, Pixmaps, Texture,
          Outline and Polygons. Quality of output and performance varies
          wildly. :)
    
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    --- 2001-07-22  First ALPHA Release 1.0a1                          ---
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        * And so it begins.