ANNOUNCE: GtkExtra-0.99.1

[Adrian Feiguin <feiguin magnet fsu edu>]

I'am pleased to announce the new release of GtkExtra with lots of changes,
new features, and few bugfixes.

You can take a look at the web page at http://magnet.fsu.edu/~feiguin/gtk

Take a look at the links page. You'll find the new bindings to Python, C++
(GtkExtra--), and Ada95.


10/03/2000 Summary of changes
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- Fixes for ANSI C, by Aaron Lehman<aaronl@vitelus.com> and 
  Arnaud Charlet <charlet@ACT-Europe.FR>

GtkSheet
--------
- gchar* arguments replaced by const gchar* (Murray Cumming <murrayc@usa.net>)

- enums have a type

- Bugfixes:
     - top-left corner button drawing.
     - gtk_sheet_get_link.  (Andreas Voegele <andreas.voegele@gmx.de>)
     - initialization and GrowSheet. (Chris Howell <chris@applix.com>)
     - fixes when frozen. Ralf Forsberg <rfg@home.se>


GtkIconList
-----------
- GdkColor argument replaced by GdkColor *
  (Emmanuel Briot <briot@gnat.com>)

- gchar* arguments replaced by const gchar* (Murray Cumming <murrayc@usa.net>)


- Bugfixes:
     - signal handlers.  (Andreas Voegele <andreas.voegele@gmx.de>)
     - icon selection.

GtkPSFont
---------

- New function names: 
     gtk_psfont_add_font
     gtk_psfont_get_font

GtkFontCombo
------------

- Default size set to 12 
  (Andreas Voegele <andreas.voegele@gmx.de>)

- New functions:
    gtk_font_combo_select
    gtk_font_combo_select_nth

GtkPlotPC
---------
- GdkColor argument replaced by GdkColor *
  (Emmanuel Briot <briot@gnat.com>)

- pc->drawstring has new arguments (font, height)

GtkPlot
-------
- gtk_plot_paint argument changed to GtkPlot* 

- GdkColor argument replaced by GdkColor*
  (Emmanuel Briot <briot@gnat.com>)

- gchar* arguments replaced by const gchar* (Murray Cumming <murrayc@usa.net>)

- gtk_plot_dataset_get_points (Andreas Voegele)

- enums have a type

- Logarithmic scales (Torsten Luettgert <shaitan@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>)

- Autoscale function: gtk_plot_autoscale
  Rearranges the visible range to display all dataset points.
  (Thanks to Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> and 
   Peter Wurmsdobler <peterw@cetehor.com>. 
   Finally I did it in my own way)
 

- Text formatting. 
  Special characters:
                     \B : bold
                     \i : italics
                     \g or \8 : greek
                     \s or \_: subindices
                     \S or \^: supraindices
                     \+ : increment size
                     \- : decrement size
                     \b : backspace
                     \N : normal
                     \0, \1, \2, \3, \4, \5, \6, \7, \8, \9 : font foundry 
       
- New tick labels format GTK_PLOT_LABEL_POW. in powers of 10 with
  the exponent as a supraindex.

- gtk_plot_axis_set_ticks changed: You have to set the number of 
  minor ticks between major ticks.

- New functions:
  - gtk_plot_autoscale
  - gtk_plot_axis_set_labels
  - gtk_plot_axis_use_custom_tick_labels
  - gtk_plot_set_legends_border
  - gtk_plot_show/hide_legends
  - gtk_plot_set_x_attrributes
  - gtk_plot_set_y_attrributes
  - gtk_plot_axis_set_major_ticks
  - gtk_plot_axis_set_minor_ticks
  
- Bugfixes.

GtkPlotLayout
------------- 
- GdkColor argument replaced by GdkColor*
  (Emmanuel Briot <briot@gnat.com>)

- gchar* arguments replaced by const gchar* (Murray Cumming <murrayc@usa.net>)

- New function gtk_plot_layout_set_size.

GtkPlotCanvas
------------- 

- New function gtk_plot_canvas_set_size.
  Rescales resizing all plots to fit into the canvas with the same ratio.

- Bugfixes:
   - signal handlers (Andreas Voegele)
   - signal emission

GtkComboBox
-----------

- New function: gtk_combo_box_hide_popdown_window