./math/wxmaxima, Graphical UI for maxima

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 23.12.0nb6, Package name: wxmaxima-23.12.0nb6, Maintainer: helgoman

This is a graphical UI for the computer algebra system maxima.


Required to run:
[textproc/libxml2] [graphics/gnuplot] [math/maxima] [x11/wxGTK30]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/x11-links] [x11/xcb-proto] [x11/fixesproto4] [pkgtools/cwrappers] [x11/xorgproto]

Master sites:

Filesize: 16104.501 KB

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   2024-04-07 09:35:33 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (1138)
Log message:
*: bump for cairo buildlink3.mk change

lzo was made an option
   2024-04-06 10:07:18 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (1490)
Log message:
* recursive bump for libxkbcommon 1.7.0

Marc Baudoin reported problems with using old binary packages
with the new libkxbcommon, so force everything to 1.7.0
   2023-12-26 12:43:05 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3) | Package updated
Log message:
wxmaxima: update to 23.12.0.

Provided by Chavdar Ivanov in PR 57796.

# 23.12.0

- Input text selection was cleared when right-clicking
  on it (#1845)
- Pressing both mouse buttons simultaneously caused an
  assert (#1844)
- Corrected the cursor position after unsuccessful autocompletes
- Corrected the handling of question prompts from maxima (#1827)
- Bug corrections in the search functionality
- RegEx search works again
- Clicking on the notification now is more likely to focus the worksheet
- Corrected the cell folding logic (#1853)
- Folded cells are no more evaluated (#1853)
- Now we try to generate a backtrace on crashes (#1802)
- Corrected the position of integral limits
- Nicer product, sum and integral signs
- Hidden cells weren't restored from wxm files (#1855)
- diff() no longer causes spurious multiplication dots (#1825)

# 23.11.0

- Correctly draw the bracket of the cell under the cursor (#1811)
- Maths display was corrupted if the window was temporarily not wide
  enough to display it in 2D (#1812)
- Added many range checks to the code
- Correct label scaling after changing the zoom factor (#1815)
- Repaired "copy as bitmap" (#1820)
- Repaired EMF and SVG output (#1838)
- Focus the search text on activating the search box (#1821)
- Correctly support dropping multiple files on the worksheet
- If the worksheet isn't empty dropping a file on the worksheet
  no more closes the currently open file
- Try harder to kill maxima on closing it (#1824)
- Menu items for displaying the internal representation
- Better display of diff(), if multiplication dots are enabled (#1825)
- Tried to resolve a few asserts (#1831)
- Resolved many warnings from several static analysis tools
- Fine-tuning of the "undo" function

# 23.10.0

- A big rewrite to make the static analysis tools happy
- Many stability improvements
- Maxima's help commands work again out-of-the-box.
- Corrected the worksheet size calculation
- Better support for loading .wxmx files from weird paths
- Finally resolved the "Right-click resets zoom" problem (#1810)
- A speed up
- Many right-click menu fixes (#1810)
- Display/Hide label fixes
- Many help browser improvements (#1802)
- The worksheet size no more is underestimated (#1802)
- Cell creation fixes
- Copy-and-paste improvements (#1809)
- Better error messages for bitmaps
- Many additional bug fixes

# 23.08.0

- Better print scaling
- More consistent page size handling for printing
- Many performance and stability fixes from coverity-scan
- Resolved many warnings from cppcheck
- A RegEx search

# 23.07.0

- Printing: Made the page margins configurable (#1787)
- Printing: We no more print page headers (#1791)
- Printing: Printing no more omits labels (#1507)
- Printing: A better pagebreak algorithm
- Printing: No more ghost lines around text cells
- Less ugly integral signs
- Many stability fixes
- More consistent worksheet scaling and sizes (#1780)
- Correctly save the color settings (#1789)
- Correctly check the numeric and other menu items
- The cursor no more disappears (#1788)
- Updated italian translation

# 23.05.1

- Updated the Russian and Italian translation.
- Process the command line option `--maxima=<str>`.
- Resolved several possibilities to crash the config dialogue
  (#1774, #1766)
- Correctly calculate the worksheet size in the background (#1766)
- Correctly restore parenthesis on load (#1779)
- Always revise the decision what to display as 2D equation on
  window width changes
- 2D display of integrals had zero size (#1780)

# 23.05.0

- Got rid of some compiler and cppcheck warnings
- Big performance improvements
- A "maxima versus typical programming languages" tutorial.
- Table of contents: Jump to the chapter the cursor is in.
- Resolved another crash in the config dialogue
- Updated the unicode character list
- Resolved more potential event ID clashes
- Use an external file as wxMathML.lisp is now selected using
  a command line option, not configured in the GUI.
  This is mostly needed for developers, no need to expose it
  to the end user.
- Better handling of paths to maxima when starting new
  wxMaxima processes
- new wxMaxima processes now get more of the command-line args
  of the parent process
- wxMaxima no more tries to install its own fonts.

# 23.04.1

- More config dialogue tweaks
- MacOs: No more create config icons that aren't needed
- Recent file list: Don't try to re-use no-more-used wxWidgets IDs
- Make sure that the help sidebar is shown when opening a help topic
- If maxima wants us to open a help browser and wxMaxima was compiled
  without one it now opens an external help browser
- Be aware that the MSW port recycles unused window IDs.
- The load() command now again works with symbols as package names.

# 23.04.0

- Made the GUI more responsive for functions with much output
- Handle errors in the XML from maxima more gracefully
- Rewrote parts of the lisp part of wxMaxima
- Resolved a few lisp warnings
- Resolved a few XML errors caused by not escaping special chars
- Automatic XML generation tests
- More MacOs fixes
- Correct display of operators
- A better style sample for the config dialogue
- Resolved several asserts
- Resolved a few small bugs in the autosave logic

# 23.03.0

- Make sure all bitmaps are valid on High-DPI MacOs (#1749)
- More styles consistency (#1753)
- Better configuration validation
- Depending on the wxWidgets version Unicode letters were
  interpreted inorrectly (#1754)
- The manual anchors cache now saves the file-per-chapter URLs, too.
- cmake -DWXM_DISABLE_WEBVIEW now allows to find wxWidgets, if
  wxWebView wasn't compiled.
- Completely rewrote the dockable-sidebars-stuff
- Many files are now build on demand, not at configure time

# 23.02.0

- Fix XML generation of wxmx documents (#1556)
- A faster font cache
- Faster communication between wxMaxima and Maxima
- Dropped the dependency on an \[internal\] ww898 library
- More consistent text style handling
- A try to improve locale management on the Mac platform
- A separate style for operators (#1002)
- A nicer ChangeLog

# 22.12.0

- A cleaner status bar with double-click actions
- Better display of labels
- box() now is displayed as a box, as the maxima manual states
- box(expr, "highlight") display expr in red, instead
- Resolved a few display glitches
- Resolved OS-dependant wrong actions on gui events
- A few system and compiler specific fixes
- Resolved a few compilation warnings
- Try harder to connect maxima if one communication port is blocked (#1717)
- Better display of help text in the console
- Faster saving of .wxmx files
- Better toolbar bitmap handling

# 22.11.1

- Repaired zooming the worksheet

# 22.11.0

- Resolved an ID collision (#1726)
- Faster restart of maxima (#1715)
- Make various dialogs window-modal (#1712)
- Proper handling of unicode in selection (#1726)
- An unicode conversion error (#1727)
- Repaired the "enter matrix" dialogue
- Jump to the correct anchor even if using online help
- Translation updates
- Many windows build improvements
- Resolved a crash on restarting maxima

# 22.09.0

- Support for wxWidgets 3.1.7
- The description field for wizards no more is a MouseOverToolTip
- Wizards now accept chars from the unicode buttons
- Wizards now can balance parenthesis
- Wizards for operatingsystem, basic programming and string operations
- More miscellaneous work on the wizards
- The watchlist was broken
- In MacOs the config dialogue crashed
- Better scalability of the config dialogue
- Folded multiline code cells are now sent to Maxima correctly (#1674)
- The output of the "?" command contained spurious "\<" \ 
(#1688)
- ?, ?? and describe() now use a browser window, by default
  (an up-to-date Maxima is required for that feature)
- Search harder for the Maxima manual
- Search harder for Maxima manual entries
- Now we find Maxima manual entries that have no explicit anchor
- On Linux, MacOs and, if wxWidgets was compiled with edge support
  the help browser can be obened in a dockable window
- wxMaxima can now compiled, even if wxWidgets was configured with
  the option "--enable-privatefonts=no".
  Use the option -DWXM_INCLUDE_FONTS=NO when compiling wxMaxima.
- Names that end in an underscore are now printed correctly (#1706)
- Made the tests work on more platforms (#1709)
- Resolved some asserts (#1574)
- Working MathJaX (#1702)
- A primitive integrated ChangeLog viewer
- Better documentation (#1693)
- Better unicode handling (#1691)
- Many additional bugfixes

# 22.05.0:

- Updated the Ukrainian translation
- Added `guess_exact_value` to the numeric menu.
- Added lapack to the matrix menu
- Added linpack to the numeric menu
- Added a "declare facts" right-click menu entry to variables
- We no more reserve space for hidden input
- A better logexpand section in the numeric menu
- Many wizards have a more modern look and feel, now
- The modern-style wizards are now dockable by default
- Undo and redo buttons for the toolbar
- A "construct fraction" wizard (#1664)
- Printing multiple-page documents now should work again on Linux (#1671)
- The selection should now no more overwrite test (#1665)
- Hidden code cells now are correctly sent to maxime (#1674)
- MacOs: The toolbar icons work now on retina screens (#1657)
- MacOs: The config dialogue works again (#1662)
- Many additional MacOs fixes
- The Cygwin build works again
- Support for wxWidgets 3.1.6

# 22.04.0:

- A Russian translation update from Olesya Gerasimenko
- Repaired drag-and-drop on MacOs (#1624)
- Resolved a bug in parenthesis matching (#1649)
- Faster startup logic

# 22.03.0:

- Add an compile option "WXM_INCLUDE_FONTS", which allows to
  specify, if additional fonts should be included.
  Current default: YES; use -DWXM_INCLUDE_FONTS=NO when calling
  CMake to disable that.
  Including fonts caused some issues on MacOS. (#1580)
- Rename command line option --logtostdout to --logtostderr.
  Because the option does print the log messages to STDERR, not STDOUT.
- A better heuristics for finding out what to style as 1D maths
- An updated french translation from Frédéric Chapoton
- Consistent image resolutions
- No more crashes on exporting multiple animations at once (#1616)
- Drag-and-Drop in the table of contents
- Table of contents: Convert sections to subsections and similar (#1629)
- Parenthesis and quote matching now uses the Maxima parser.
  This means it now both knows the details of the Maxima language
  and is much faster than before.
- A way of limiting the toc depth shown in the table of contents
- Now the problems after a kill(all) should be finally resolved
- Better support for the debugger (#1625)
- Machine-Float NaNs no more causes XML errors
- Labels with hexadecimal numbers no more cause crashes (#1633)
- wxMaxima no more skips chars in subscripted variables (#1632)
- Merging cells per keyboard shortcut works again (#1626)
- Symbols buttons whose symbols the GUI font lacks are now hidden

# 21.11.0:

- Allow seeing all files in the file save dialog. (#1557)
- Fix an error when using Alt up arrow (show previous command) (#1566)
- Rewrote a config dialogue
- Improvements in the manual
- Update Spanish translation of manual
- Update German, Russian, Hungarian and Ukrainian translation
- Fix a warning, which occurred, when starting wxMaxima the first time
- ww898 unnecessarily limited the list of supported platforms
- wxMaxima's properties to Maxima symbols can now no more be killed
- Allow single GroupCells to be converted to LaTeX
- Enable reloading and changing images inserted via "Cell" -> \ 
"Insert Image..." (#1597)
- Correctly set the document saved state when the size of an image is changed
- Use the AUTHORS file for the Credits page in the "About" dialogue
- Handle power events (#1607)
- Fix ugly buttons in the sidebars with recent wxWidgets

# 21.05.2:

- The integral signs disappeared or were misplaced on some MS Windows computers

# 21.05.1:

- Resolved a segfault on printing that could be triggered on some computers

# 21.05.0:

- Long numbers now can be broken into lines
- On Export long numbers sometimes got lost
- The height of folded cells now is calculated correctly, again (bug #1532)
- Printing now can insert pagebreaks within GroupCells (bug #970, #1528,
  #1241, #181, #573,#1082)
- A Russian translation update by OlesyaGerasimenko
- A Ukrainian translation update by Yuri Chornoivan
- Changed the font for the PDF manuals to free Google Noto fonts.
  Now all PDF manuals can be created without missing characters
  (before cyrillic, chinese and greek characters were missing).
- Solved a crash when printing.

# 21.04.0

- Fix visualization after "Evaluate all cells (Ctrl+Shift+R)" (bug #1512).
- Fix context sensitive help with F1 (bug #1508).
- Add an option for not showing matching parenthesis (bug #1509).
- Changed the weather icons in the toolbar to more meaningful ones (bug #1514).
- Many bugfixes with respect to correctly breaking lines (bugs #1528, #1471, #1512).
- Fix a bug in copy-paste of saved/loaded results (bug #1518).
- Fix a crash when pressing Ctrl-X while a math cell is selected (bug #1519).
- CMake 3.10 is now required for building wxMaxima.
- C++ 14 is required for building wxMaxima. Now CMake knows about that fact.
- Many external build scripts are now replaced by C++ and CMake commands.
- A menu entry for when to invoke the debugger.

# 21.02.0

- A Spanish translation update by cyphra
- Replaced openMP by c++11's built-in thread handling. This should improve
  stability at the cost of making loading files with lots of images slower.
- Language selection now works on Windows.
- Resolved a crash when deleting regions.
- The --ini switch should work again correctly.
- Fix an issue, where demos didn't re-center screen anymore, when screen
  is full and print was incomplete.
- Made the time between autosaves configurable.
- Fixed an issue with reproducible builds.

# 21.01.0

- Chinese translation updates by 刘荣.
- A Russian translation update by OlesyaGerasimenko
- Many small bugfixes including a crash on loading files with images.
   2023-11-14 15:03:25 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (1145)
Log message:
*: recursive bump for cairo dependency changes
   2023-11-12 14:24:43 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2570)
Log message:
*: revebump for new brotli option for freetype2

Addresses PR 57693
   2023-11-08 14:21:43 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2377)
Log message:
*: recursive bump for icu 74.1
   2023-10-21 19:11:59 by Greg Troxel | Files touched by this commit (1345) | Package updated
Log message:
recursive revbump for tiff update
   2023-04-19 10:12:01 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (2359) | Package updated
Log message:
revbump after textproc/icu update