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 Jexer Work Log
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+July 15, 2017
+
+I think I have cleaned up most of the window show/hide/activate mess
+in TApplication.  Demo4 has some cool interactions between a
+background TDesktop and several foreground TWindows, which helped
+expose bugs.
+
+July 9, 2017
+
+While working on TWindow.hide/show I decided that I am sick of
+TApplication's active window handling.  TApplication makes lots of
+assumptions, things are too fragile between modal and not, and one
+cannot easily say window.activate().  So I will also be changing that
+too. ... Code is still a bit of a mess, but hooks are in place at
+least for show/hide/activate.
+
+July 8, 2017
+
+Qodem 1.0.0 released last month, I had a vacation, and a Jexer user
+(nikiroo) started opening up pull requests. :-) So back unto the
+breach we go!
+
+TButton is now animated so that there is some feedback when selected
+via keyboard.  StringJustifier was written which permits TText's to
+have left/centered/right and full justification.  TDesktop is now in
+too which can act as a permanent max-sized window without borders.
+
+Next up is Viewport, an interface to collect scrollbar API, and then a
+cleaner API for scrollable widgets and windows.  After that is more
+window API: hide/show/maximize/restore, and unclosable windows.  I am
+cherry-picking bits from @nikiroo's PRs, which will likely break them
+before it fixes things, but I will find some way to get Niki credited
+with those pieces.
+
+March 21, 2017
+
+I am starting to gear up for making Jexer a serious project now.  I've
+created its SourceForge project, linked it back to GitHub, have most
+of its web page set up (looks like Qodem's), and released 0.0.4.  And
+then this morning saw an out-of-bounds exception if you kill the main
+demo window.  Glad I marked it Alpha on SourceForge...
+
+Yesterday I was digging around the other Turbo Vision derived projects
+while populating the about page, and made a sad/happy-ish realization:
+Embarcadero could probably get all of them shut down if it really
+wanted to, including Free Vision.  I uncovered some hidden history in
+Free Vision, such that it appears that Graphics Vision had some
+licensed Borland code in it, so there might be enough mud in the air
+that Free Vision could be shut down the same way RHTVision was.  But
+even worse is the SCOTUS ruling on Oracle vs Google: if APIs are
+copyrighted (regardless of their thoughts on fair use), then any
+software that matches the API of a proprietary project might find
+itself subject to an infringement case.  So that too could shut down
+the other API-compatible TV clones.
+
+Fortunately, Jexer (and D-TUI) is completely new, and has no API
+compatibility with Turbo Vision.  Jexer could be a new root to a whole
+generation of TUI applications.
+
 March 18, 2017
 
 TStatusBar is working, as is "smart" window placement.  Overall this