CHANGES

3.7 - 8.Mar.2005

Added ‘rat’, ‘ox’, ‘tiger’, ‘hare’, ‘dragon’, ‘snake’, ‘horse’, ‘ram’, ‘monkey’, ‘rooster’, ‘dog’, and ‘boar’ layouts -- the whole Chinese zodiac! -- contributed by Todd Michel McComb <mccomb@medieval.org>.

Added native support for KDE Mahjongg (kmahjongg) tilesets and layouts. (The tilesets must be converted to GIF format; kmahjongg uses BMP.) Brought to my attention by Jim Broderick <broderick@linuxfreemail.com>.
Another compilation fix reported by Rene Blokland <reneb@cistron.nl>.
Fixed bug: xmahjongg would ignore some button release events.

Game play change: If a tile is selected already and you click a tile that doesn’t match, the selection is transferred to that new tile. (It used to just beep at you.)
Bug fix in permstr.cc: now xmahjongg can be compiled with recent versions of gcc. The error was a strange use of va_arg(). Reported by C. M. Connelly <c@eskimo.com>.

Added two new tilesets: ‘dorothys’, a colored version by Dorothy Robinson <mokuren@teleport.com> (the old ‘dorothys’ has been renamed to ‘dorwhite’), and ‘real’, scanned images of some real Mah Jongg tiles provided by Mark Sanctuary <sanctuary@jps.net>.
Added new tileset format. Check ‘share/tiles/real.gif’ to see what it looks like.

Some small changes to hopefully fix a mystery bug: Some people report that xmahjongg appears with no tiles visible. I can’t replicate this.

Finally completed number font!
Better support for very thick tilesets and tilesets with lower-right direction shadows.
The ‘thick’ tileset is now the default.
Speed improvements on highlighting and unhighlighting tiles.
The match count no longer bleeds into the layout area when there are a lot of matches.
Can read Kyodai Mahjongg layout files. (See http://www.kyodai.com/)

Added ‘dorothys’ tileset, thanks to Dorothy Robinson <mokuren@teleport.com>, artist of the original xmahjongg tiles. Also added support for tilesets that don’t have lower-left direction shadows.

Fixed buffer overrun bug: xmahjongg wouldn’t load anything but the default layout.

The xmahjongg package now uses automake.
Use the failing-malloc library to avoid problems with some systems’ bad realloc() definitions.
Improved error messages on bad files.

Added support for Gnome Mahjongg-style tilesets. (Well, almost: while Gnome Mahjongg reads XPMs -- and probably every other format, using imlib -- xmahjongg can still only read GIFs.)
Added two tilesets from Gnome Mahjongg: ‘gnome’ and ‘gnome2’. These tilesets were apparently created by Jonathan Buzzard and Max Watson.
Shrank the border around the layout to waste less screen space. The default tileset with default layout will now fit on a 1024x768 screen.
Renamed the ‘--board’ option to ‘--layout’. Moved ‘share/boards’ to ‘share/layouts’. Renamed the ‘tall’ tileset to ‘thick’.

‘--help’ now prints to stdout, following the GNU Coding Standards.
Made ‘--solvable-boards’ the default.
Makefiles: Added ‘make uninstall’ target, enabled ‘./configure’s program name transformations, made VPATH builds possible.

Fixed several display and clipping bugs.
Added ‘--list’ and ‘--background’.
Initial display and new-game display are cleaner.
Cleaned up Panel and Board by removing unused or duplicate members and functionality.

Big release after the summer. Traversal, solutions, bug fixes, cleaned-up code, a first go at a tile count, etc., etc.