[XForms] New pre-release: xforms-1.0.92.pre7

[Jens Thoms Toerring]

Hi everybody,

   here's another pre-relase:

http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/xforms/xforms-1.0.92pre6.tar.gz

The most important changes are:

a) Werner Heisch send a patch to improve reading in .fd files into
   fdesign. This makes fdesign a bit more liberal in what it accepts
   and, on the other hand, outputs more reasonable error messages if
   it has trouble reading in such a file. That will especially benefit
   people like me who tend to edit .fd files directly.

   In the process also the "magic number" at the start of the .fd
   files was changed due to a number of changes in what fdesign
   recognizes in these files, making them unreadable for older
   versions of fdesign (but the new version of fdesign continues to
   be able to read files created with older versions!). If you load
   an "old" file with the new version of fdesign thus a warning
   will be shown to remind you that the file written out by fdesign
   won't be recognized by older versions of fdesign.

b) Rex Dieter send a patch for the way the library gets built.
   This relieves one of the necessity to link against libX11
   and libXpm explicitely when linking against libforms since
   libforms now gets the linker to pull them in automatically.

   Thus a program now can be compiled and linked with e.g.

      gcc -o myapp myapp.c -lforms

   instead of

      gcc -o myapp myapp.c -lforms -lX11 -lXpm

c) The size of a form can now be entered directly (in pixels) in
   fdesign instead of oly by dragging the corner of the form window
   with the mouse (and then being dependent on the alignment settings).
   This became necessary due to a bug in KDE noticed by Werner Heisch,
   that resulted in the size of forms getting changed when the alignment
   in fdesign was modified.

d) Support for the new "spinner" object class has been put into fdesign.

Please let me know if you find bugs!

And, again: does anyone of you have some nice screenshots from
programs using XForms for the new homepage? Or ideas for impro-
ving it in other ways?
                             Best regards, Jens
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