Main CHANGES between versions of the Browse package
1.
8.
21
- Fixed another problem when running the tests
in 'tst/tests.tst'
in the background.
(The problem had been announced
by Joachim Zobel.)
- Support the package extensions feature of GAP
4.
13,
see
https://github.com/gap-system/gap/pull/5375.
1.
8.
20
- `configure` now additionally supports argument `--
with-gaproot=...`.
- Changed `make clean`
to not remove `Makefile` (
for compatibility
with
other package setups), old behaviour
with `make cleanlast`.
-
Also calling 'SHOW_STAT()'
and 'LoadStaticModule'
is not needed anymore,
due
to https://github.com/gap-system/gap/issues/5195.
- Added the new application 'BrowseWizard'.
1.
8.
19
-
In 'BrowseAtlasInfo()', fixed the appearance of non-core data:
Use 'UserPreference(
"AtlasRep",
"AtlasRepMarkNonCoreData" )'
not the outdated 'AtlasOfGroupRepresentationsInfo.markprivate'.
- When running the tests
in 'tst/tests.tst',
execute the 'LoadDemoFile' examples only
if 'GAPInfo.UseReadline = true'
holds.
Up
to now, running 'tst/tests.tst'
in the background caused error messages
because there
is no readline support
in GAP
4.
12 if the session runs
without terminal.
(The problem had been announced
by Joachim Zobel.)
-
Use 'IsKernelExtensionAvailable'
and 'LoadKernelExtension' instead of
'LOAD_DYN', see
https://github.com/gap-system/gap/issues/5195.
1.
8.
18
- Fixed 'BrowseDirectory' again.
- Changed an '#include' statement,
in order
to improve compatibility.
1.
8.
17
- Fixed 'BrowseDirectory', circular links
to directories had caused
an error up
to now.
Thanks
to Joachim Zobel
for reporting this.
1.
8.
16
- Fixed a technical problem
in the release process,
concerning invalid external links
in the HTML documentation.
Thanks
to Max Horn
for reporting this.
1.
8.
15
- Fixed a problem
with non-ASCII characters
in 'BrowseAtlasInfo'.
- Fixed the display of unknown indicator values
in 'Browse'
for
2-modular character tables, analogous
to the
fix described
in
https://github.com/gap-system/gap/pull/4842.
- Support columns of orthogonal discriminants (OD)
and character field
degrees (d)
in 'Browse'
for character tables.
- Make `configure`
and `Makefile.
in` more similar
to setup in EDIM.
1.
8.
14
- Fixed the name of a
record component of database attributes
('cleanupAfterAttributeComputation').
1.
8.
13
- Simplified 'configure' script. Made it compatible
with future
changes of the GAP (
and Oscar) build system.
- Support 'footer'
in the options of 'NCurses.BrowseDenseList'.
- Admit lines
in header and footer of a Browse table that are longer
than the width of the Browse table itself;
in this
case, the
header/footer
is centered horizontally
in the
window
in question.
- Adjust 'BrowseGapMethods' (see 'BrowseGapData')
to the introduction
of
"early methods" (
in GAP's pull request
4557).
1.
8.
12
- Make Browse more robust when called
with bad setting of the
TERM environment variable,
in particular it should now no
longer crash GAP during initialization.
- 'gap'
and 'gac' are now called
from the main GAP root directory
when the package
is built.
-
In 'BrowseTableFromDatabaseIdEnumerator' (which
is used
for example
by the
function 'BrowseCTblLibInfo'
from the CTblLib package),
fixed a column alignment
and forced a cell formatting.
Before the latter change, it may
have happened that too long strings
got truncated
in the table that was shown on the screen,
without noticing).
- Fixed a bug
in 'BrowseAtlasInfo', concerning non-ASCII characters
in the footer line,
in the situation that a representation has
been added
to the result list.
- Support MSC2020 codes
in 'BrowseMSC'
and 'BrowseBibliography',
and hence also in 'BrowseBibliographyGapPackages'.
Up
to now, only MSC2000
and MSC2010 codes had been supported.
The codes used
in the functions correspond
to those listed
in the
file
that can be found at
'
https://mathscinet.ams.org/msnhtml/msc2020.pdf'.
These codes agree
with those listed
in a not too old version of
'
https://zbmath.org/static/msc2020.pdf'.
(
In April
2021, the
file at the latter address still contained several
wrong codes. When we checked the
file again
in November
2021,
these problems were fixed;
for example, the correct version of the
file
contains the codes
37A44
and 37A46 but not
37A45.)
1.
8.
11 (contents left unchanged, just removed an unwanted 'Print')
1.
8.
10
- Drop the support
for the '.zoo' archive format.
- Make the installation safer
in situations when GAP gets installed
via the Julia package 'GAP.jl'.
- Support JSON format
for files that belong
to database attributes,
document 'DatabaseAttributeString'
and related functions.
1.
8.
9
- The GAP Demo utility does no longer overwrite readline's C-g,
which has a documented meaning; now C-
\ is used instead.
-
In 'NCurses.BrowseDenseList',
use the grid drawn
by
'BrowseData.SpecialGridLineDrawPlus' only
if there are column labels;
if there are no such labels,
use 'BrowseData.SpecialGridLineDraw'.
- Some undocumented GAP library functions, such as 'STRING_LIST_DIR'
and
'USER_HOME_EXPAND', are no longer used
in Browse.
This simplifies the code but requires features introduced
in GAP
4.
11.
And since we require at least GAP
4.
11, some compatibility code has
been removed.
- The 'Browse'
method for character tables now supports the components
'charnames'
and 'classnames'
in the
record given as the second argument.
(The same has recently been
done in the corresponding 'Display'
method
in the GAP library.)
- 'BrowseGapDataAdd' does no longer need the information whether the
Browse application will
have a return
value.
(Now it calls the GAP
function 'CallFuncListWrap'.)
- Browse does no longer
assume that 'GAPInfo.SystemEnvironment.
TERM'
is
available,
in particular Browse does not try
to set this component.
1.
8.
8
- Blocks
in demo files can now be separated
by lines starting
with #%
which makes testing demo files easier.
- Fixed a bug
in the 'Browse'
method for character tables:
The shown centralizer orders
and power map information were not correct
when a set of characters or
class positions was prescribed.
(This problem did not occur when the full matrix of irreducibles was
shown.)
- Fixed a bug
in 'BrowseConwayPolynomials':
In the displayed polynomials, the exponents of those monomials whose
coefficient
is different
from 1 were erroneously increased
by 1.
Thanks
to a user
for reporting this bug.
- 'BrowseGapMethod'
uses now the filename
and startline of the
method's *installation*
and not the corresponding information of the
method itself, provided that this information
is available.
This information
is more appropriate
in the
context of 'BrowseGapMethods'.
Thanks
to Max Horn
for adding the underlying GAP feature.
1.
8.
7
- Removed the example application 'BrowseTransitiveGroupsInfo',
because of changes
in the underlying library of transitive groups.
- Added the new application 'BrowseBibliographyGapPackages'.
(This
is experimental, strange *.bib files
in package distributions
may cause error messages.)
- Added a new application that facilitates demos of GAP code, see
'?Browse: Utility
for GAP Demos'
for details.
- The input code
127 is assumed
to denote the backspace key
also if
'NCurses.keys.BACKSPACE' has a different
value, which apparently happens
for some Mac operating systems; up
to now, entering backspace had no
effect
with such systems.
[This bug had been reported
and analyzed
by Max Horn.]
- 'NCurses.Select' now supports the replay
and log features of
'NCurses.BrowseGeneric'.
Note that meanwhile several applications call 'NCurses.Select',
now we can provide examples
for them that are processed automatically,
and debugging
is easier.
1.
8.
6
- 'NCurses.EditFields' now deals
with long input strings
by scrolling
horizontally.
- 'BrowseAtlasInfo' now
uses the improved
setup of AtlasRep
2.
0:
With AtlasRep
1.
5 or older, one had
to guess the defining parameters
of a straight line program
from the displayed information;
AtlasRep
2.
0 provides both more variants
and a sufficient
"identifier"
concept.
If AtlasRep
1.
5 or older
is going
to be loaded
in the current GAP
session
then the
file 'app/atlasbrowse_old.g'
is read, which yields the
old behaviour.
If AtlasRep
2.
0 or newer
is going
to be loaded
then the
file
'app/atlasbrowse.g'
is read.
- Symbolic values are now supported
in selections that are offered
by
'BrowseUserPreferences',
for example 'PACKAGE_ERROR'
in the
case of
'InfoPackageLoadingLevel'.
(The user preferences
in question must provide this information,
in order
to benefit
from this change.)
-
Use the precomputed data
for 'IsPerfectGroup' etc.
also when
'TransitiveGroupsData.OneTransitiveGroup'
is called;
note that before this change, reading the data
file was triggered only
indirectly
in this
case, so it was not sure that no recomputation
happened.
1.
8.
5
-
"Further improvement" of the Ctrl-M issue
from 1.
8.
4.
- Fixed two problems
with non-breakable spaces
in gap-publishednicer.bib.
1.
8.
4
- Fixed the handling of the 'version' component of database attributes;
before the
fix, it was possible that an attribute was regarded as
up-
to-date, without checking the version number
in the data
file.
- Avoid literal Ctrl-M characters
to work around a bug
in Windows
8.
1.
8.
3
- The new user preference 'EnableMouseEvents' sets the default behaviour
for the GAP session.
Enabling/disabling mouse events
is now regarded as one
global status
in the current GAP session,
and browse applications should not set this status when they are entered.
Note that more
and more browse tables are opened
from within other
browse tables,
and it
is not clear
to the user
where this happens.
Thus it does not make sense
to assign a ``mouse events status
value''
to individual browse tables.
As a consequence, the component 'dynamic.useMouse'
in the records
processed
by 'NCurses.BrowseGeneric'
is now obsolete;
we keep this component because some code may rely on its presence,
but its
use is not recommended.
- Avoid some compiler warnings
with 'gcc -Wall'
for gcc >=
4.
6 (
by
wrapping the macro wattr_get
in a
function).
- Changed encoding of Makefile.
in to UTF-
8 and setting LANG
and LC_ALL
to
"C" ./configure script (this
is workaround
to some problems
with 'sed'
on newer OS X systems).
- Fixed 'BrowseGapMethods', 'BrowsePackageVariables',
and 'BrowseProfile':
Up
to now, the attempt
to show the code of a
function in a pager
ran into an error
if the
file in question
is not available, or
if the
'FilenameFunc'
value of the
function involves the string
"GAPROOT"
(which happens
for compiled functions
in lib)
[This bug had been reported
by Vinay Wagh.]
- Fixed 'BrowseAtlasInfo':
Up
to now, unnecessary lines at the
end of the details table were
possible.
- We now handle the
case when
TERM is not set at all
in environment
(e.g., when workspaces are created
from cron jobs).
- Extended 'NCurses.Select', as follows:
- support mouse events (
and to enable/disable mouse events)
- admit
"fit" as the
value of the 'size' component,
meaning the smallest possible window size
- admit an optional 'align' component,
meaning the alignment of the window
in the terminal
- admit an attribute number instead of 'true'
for the optional 'border' component
- New applications 'BrowseUserPreferences', 'BrowseTomLibInfo'.
- Extended 'BrowseGapData'
and its documentation.
1.
8.
2
- `BrowseAtlasInfo' now admits a user input 'Y' (
show an overview of the
entries chosen
for the result)
and prints a message
in the footer whenever
a new entry
is added
to the result.
- `BrowsePackageVariables' now admits
also the same argument
syntax as the
GAP library
function `ShowPackageVariables', which
is simpler than the one
which has
to be used
for packages that are loaded before `Browse'.
`BrowsePackageVariables'
shows now
also the comments of
method
installations, corresponding
to the extension of the GAP library
function
`ShowPackageVariables'.
- `NCurses.Select' now admits entering digits,
in order
to jump
to the
next
row whose label matches the given number.
1.
8.
1
- improved README before release of GAP
4.
5
- made the compiler call
in Makefile more flexible: can now give additional
options
to C compiler
and change the linker options
- introduced a non-documented (
and not recommended) hook
to load Browse
without ncurses
and so no visual capabilities
1.
8
- improved support
for the
case that the environment variable
TERM
has the
value "dumb":
-
exit from `NCurses.BrowseGeneric', do not try
to switch
to visual mode
- do not switch
to visual mode
in NCurses.{Select,Pager,Alert}
- change user preferences
to 'false'
- `NCurses.attrs.ColorPairs'
is available
in this
case;
a manual/test example was adjusted
to this situation
- 'BrowsePackageVariables'
is now documented, because it will be
cross-referenced
from the GAP Reference Manual
- minor improvements of database attributes:
- set a default 'version' component
for attributes
- automatically recompute needed attributes that are not up-
to-date
- improved some 'Info' statements
1.
7
-
in the
case that the
output is redirected
to a
file,
avoid printing control sequences
to this
file,
by setting the
TERM variable
to 'dumb'
- improved `NCurses.Select':
searching
and filtering
is now possible,
and an optional `onSubmitFunction'
is supported;
these features are used
in GAP's online
help
- fixed a bug
with the choice of parameters
in the search dialog box
- support replay
with history when calling `BrowseAtlasInfo'
- overwrite the library
function `GetPackageNameForPrefix'
(
open a pager instead of just showing a list of matching entries)
-
use GAP's user preferences
for controlling the online
help
and `GetPackageNameForPrefix';
by default, the variants
with Browse support are chosen
- changed the default
for case sensitivity
from case sensitive
to case
insensitive
in the dialog boxes
for searching, sorting,
and filtering
- removed the
function `BibEntry',
which
is available
in the GAP
4.
5 library
1.
6
- support replay
with history when calling the `Browse'
method for
character tables
and `BrowseDecompositionMatrix'
- improved `NCurses.ConcatenationAttributeLines' (adjacent strings are
concatenated)
1.
5
- new example application `NCurses.BrowseDenseList'
and `Browse' methods
for lists of lists,
and several kinds of matrices over finite rings
- extended `BrowseBibliography'
by a MSC info column,
added the new
function `BrowseMSC' that
shows an overview of all current
MSC codes
- new example application `BrowseDecompositionMatrix'
for character tables
1.
4
- provide NCurses.IsStdoutATty
and NCurses.IsStdinATty, such that something
sensible can be
done in scripts or testing environments.
- The functions used
by `NCurses.BrowseGeneric' now work
also when the
output is redirected
to a
file.
In particular, the
file `tst/test.tst' can now be read
in the background.
- `BrowseAtlasInfo' was adjusted
to the extended functionality of
`DisplayAtlasInfo' (
for GAP
4.
5),
and it
shows now
also the available
straight line programs
and related information.
- The new example application `BrowsePackageVariables' was added.
Currently it
is undocumented, as
is the analogous GAP library
function
`ShowPackageVariables'.
1.
3
- bugfixes:
*
In some situations, it had been impossible
to scroll
back to the first
column once one had scrolled
to the right.
* Sorting a browse table
with hidden rows
by a column could yield a wrong
result.
* Showing
text containing unprintable characters could result
in error
messages; now `BrowseData.SimplifiedString'
is called
in the relevant
example applications (
for example
in the online
help).
* The
global variable `d' (
if bound) does not get a (new)
value when
the package gets loaded.
* `BrowseDirectory' does no longer run into an error
if some files
in
question are not readable.
- new example application `BrowseProfile' (
for GAP
4.
5); it
uses the
currently undocumented new utility `NCurses.EditFields'
- changed example application `BrowseGapMethods':
* A list of operations can be entered as an optional argument.
* The browse table
is more flexible
using successive categorization.
Up
to now, it was
pre-categorized
by operations
and number of arguments.
* Two new columns showing package names
and filenames were added.
*
If the source
file of the ``clicked''
method is known (this works
from
GAP
4.
5 on)
then this
file is opened instead of showing the code of the
function obtained
with `Print'.
- `BrowseAtlasInfo' can now be called
also with a group name as its first
argument,
and it amits
also the conditions (such as `IsPermGroup') that
are admissible
for `DisplayAtlasInfo'.
The return
value of the
function was changed,
now the records
in the list do no longer contain the generators themselves;
one can get the generators
from these records (which are returned
also by
`OneAtlasGeneratingSetsInfo')
by calling `AtlasGenerators'.
-
in `BrowseGapManuals',
use `NCurses.Pager' only
if the user defined pager
is "builtin";
otherwise,
use the user defined pager
-
in `BrowseGapPackages',
use the
global function `BibEntry' (which
is
available
in the GAP
4.
5 library) not `BrowseData.BibEntry'
- generalized undocumented functions:
* `BrowseData.SetActions' has now an optional argument that allows one
to replace existing
actions.
* `BrowseData.PositionInBrowseTable' computes
also the positions
in
header or footer.
* `BrowseData.ReallyFormatParagraph' admits left alignment
* `BrowseData.CompareAsNumbersAndNonnumbers'
is now more efficient
- new search/filter parameter
"mode" (
"substring" or
"whole entry"),
which allows one
to search
for whole entries
and not only
for substrings;
in this
case, one can search
also w.r.t.
"<",
"<=" etc.,
not only w.r.t.
"=" or
"<>"
- successive categorization
by table columns
is now supported (up
to now,
existing category lines were erased upon categorizing
by a column)
- new optional third argument
🚫 for `DatabaseAttributeCompute'
- changed the encoding of the files
to UTF-
8
1.
2
- several bug
fixes, concerning
* `BrowseTableFromDatabaseIdEnumerator'
and its data format,
* the line grid (
for cells that are higher or wider than the screen),
and
* the sorting of tables
in certain situations,
- several small improvements, such as
* a ``status bar''
in visual mode, indicating that GAP
is still computing
(that
is, the screen
is not yet updated),
* a new search/filter parameter
"negate", which allows one
to restrict a
table
to all rows *not* matching a certain string,
* speedup
for example of sorting/categorizing,
and
* better `minyx' functions
in `Browse'
for character tables, which makes
it possible
to show tables
with large headers on small screens,
- new example application `BrowseTransitiveGroupsInfo'
- rearranged example application `BrowseBibliography':
* now it
is based on database id enumerators,
* it
is more flexible via the possibility
to use a
record as its argument,
* duplicate entries
in the input files are supported,
* character replacements
in the input are now left
to GAPDoc (
using, e.g.,
`SimplifiedUnicodeString'),
and
* new
actions for showing the three formats of a selected entry were added
- extended example application `BrowseGapPackages':
* be aware of an empty `Persons' component
in a `PackageInfo.g'
file
(up
to know, this had caused an error),
* distinguish direct
and indirect dependencies,
* improved category values
in tables categorized
by needed/suggested
packages,
* changed
output format (equal
to that of `BrowseBibliography')
1.
1
- after loading a workspace re-initialize kernel part of NCurses (which
depends on type of current terminal)
- fixed the bug that the brk-prompt sometimes was moved
to the wrong
line of the screen
- added low level support
for mouse events
in visual mode
and used it
in
some applications
- made sure that
TERM is set when kernel module
is loaded
to avoid
exit when ncurses
is initialized
- again bugfixes
in functions used
by `NCurses.BrowseGeneric'
- new feature ``database attributes'' (described
in a manual appendix)
- new (trivial but extendible) application `BrowseGapData',
with some subapplications such as `BrowseConwayPolynomials'
1.
0 generic special grid
from line drawing characters,
new
actions: scroll home/
end
added components `isRejectedLabelsCol', `isRejectedLabelsRow'
(
use them
in a new action
for character tables)
0.
99 a few bug
fixes in applications,
adjustments
to the forthcoming version of GAPDoc,
new `NCurses.BrowseGeneric' application `BrowseDirectory'
new `NCurses.BrowseGeneric' feature ``filtering''
extended `BrowseBibliography'
to XML format source files
(
and changed the
output format)
0.
9 first public release
with requests
for comments.