The Microwindows project has released version 0.90 for public download. According to Greg Haerr, Microwindows project leader, there have been many additions, enhancements and bug fixes since last November's version 0.89 release. Some of the major enhancements include . . .

• Support for the new NXLIB project (also announced today), which allows X11 binaries to run unmodified on Microwindows, without requiring the X11 server.
• Support for Sharp Zaurus, Tuxscreen, TriMedia, and Cygnus X11 platforms.
• Standardized calibration (nxcal) support now built into Microwindows. A single touchscreen driver supporting popular ARM platforms including iPAQ, Zaurus, ADS and Tuxscreen is also available.
• Many font enhancements, including support for FreeType 2, as well as a new BDF font converter that will allow any BDF font, including large Asian fonts, to be used. In addition, a new .fnt native binary font format is supported. DBCS multibyte decoding is supported for Japanese, Chinese, and Korean encodings (BIG5, GB2312, EUCCN, EUCKR, EUCJP, JISX0213)
• Major speed improvements to the X11 screen driver as well as text drawing.
• Per-color alpha support with a new 32bit ARGB hardware driver is included.
• LIRC keyboard with HAVI keyboard mappings.
• Doxygen-based automated documentation generated from source code for html and pdf docs.
• “And lots more!”

The latest version of Microwindows is available for ftp download here, and the latest Microwindows fonts are here. The full change log is available at www.microwindows.org.

 
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