NEWS

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JavaGD 0.6-5 (2022-11-30)

• update autoconf versions, minor cleanup of benign warnings

JavaGD 0.6-4 (2020-11-02)

• no functional changes, only minor packaging changes to appease CRAN checks

JavaGD 0.6-3

• update the device to be compatible with the upcoming changes for R 4.1.0. Note that the new functionality (gradients, masking paths etc.) is not yet implemented by the device, but it will still work with the new graphics engine.

JavaGD 0.6-2 (2020-04-30)

• fix a bug in resize that refused to resize if a device was removed (closed) that was in the list before the JGD device. (Thanks to Eugene Schava for reporting)
• minor updates in configure and dependencies

JavaGD 0.6-1 (2012-09-13)

• clean up Windows version and remove dependency on WinRegistry

JavaGD 0.6-0

• change raster color space to sRGB
• add support for flush/hold
• add support for polypaths (modified patch by Stephan Wahlbrink)
• add a namespace
• fixed a leak in StrWidth callback
• cleanup (registered entry points, .Call)

JavaGD 0.5-5 (2011-12-11)

• minor cleanups to get rid of warnings
• add raster support

JavaGD 0.5-4 (2011-06-22)

• copies WinRegistry.dll in the build directory so it can be picked up by multi-arch installs.

JavaGD 0.5-3 (2010-10-18)

• substitute $(JAVA_HOME) when testing JNI
• add UTF-8 conversion from native strings where TextUTF8 is not used
• add a work-around for Windows where the Symbol font is handled incorrectly and cannot be used directly. This behavior can also be overridden by the javagd.usesymbolfont property which can be set to true/false (the default is false on Windows and true elsewhere).
• add support for multi-arch builds and Win64

JavaGD 0.5-2 (2008-10-19)

• adapt to changes in R-devel (2.9.0-to-be)

JavaGD 0.5-1 (2008-04-04)

• adapt to even more changes in R 2.7.0

JavaGD 0.5-0 (2008-03-24)

• adapt to changes in R 2.7.0
• use Java configuration from R

JavaGD 0.4-3 (2007-08-25)

• adapt to changes in R 2.5.0
• improve Windows compatibility

JavaGD 0.4-2 (2007-05-22)

• fix a memory handling bug in MetricInfo

JavaGD 0.4-1 (2007-05-01)

• minor fixes

JavaGD 0.4-0

• use rJava to load Java classes if native version fails
• minor memory leak fixes and cleanups
• rename functions to avoid conflicts with JavaGD

JavaGD 0.3-6 (2007-03-07)

• Text using symbols (fontface=5) is re-coded to unicode in UTF-8 encoding before it's passed to Java. The back-end now displays symbols correctly.

JavaGD 0.3-5 (2006-09-15)

• Fix compatibility with Java 1.6

JavaGD 0.3-1

• use external pointer reference in .getJavaGDObject()

JavaGD 0.2-1

• remove dependency on internal R headers

JavaGD 0.2-0

• added .javaGD.version() and .javaGD.set.display.parameters()

JavaGD 0.1-1

• initial version