asciimatics changelog

Changelog History

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• v1.14.0 Changes

  • ➕ Added AnsiArtPlayer and AsciinemaPlayer
  • ➕ Added dynamically sized, animated sprites to ray caster demo.
  • ➕ Added fit parameter to DropdownList.
  • ➕ Added support for default colours to AnsiTerminalParser
  • ➕ Added VBarChart renderer.
  • BREAKING VISUAL CHANGE: Frame now supports scroll bars without borders, to have no border and no scroll bar you now need Frame(has_border=False, can_scroll=False)
  • Added TextBox.hide_cursor and TextBox.auto_scroll properties
  • ➕ Added optional diameter parameter to ShootScreen.
  • 👌 Improved DropEmitter effect - will now typically take a little longer to clear the screen.
  • 🛠 Fixed bug in widget focus - eliminated duplicate events and some cases that failed to move focus
  • 🛠 Fixed bug in clear_widgets() - also reset any focus in the layout.
  • 🛠 Fixed bug: layout could still be a tab stop with no active widgets.

• v1.13.0 Changes

  • ➕ Added ability to change a Button's text through a .text attribute.
  • ➕ Added ability to accept a name attribute in the Button and Label constructors.
  • ➕ Added ability to detect job pause/resume and force full screen refresh.
  • ➕ Added ability to request terminal default colours using Screen.COLOUR_DEFAULT.
  • 📦 Converted widgets to a sub-package.
  • 🛠 Fixed issue with labels in a layout column preventing buttons from being pressed.
  • 🛠 Fixed issue with visual overrun on Listboxes when there is a label offset.
  • 🛠 Fixed issue with TextBox hitting IndexError in double buffers due to lack of clipping.
  • 🛠 Fixed issue with Text/TextBox start columns on reset.
  • ➕ Added troubleshooting on terminal colour handling.

• v1.12.0 Changes

  November 15, 2020

  • ➕ Added ColouredText objects to handle embedded colour codes in text for some widgets.
  • ➕ Added parsers to handle Asciimatics and Ansi Terminal escape sequences.
  • ➕ Added ControlCodeParser to create human readable text from raw text with control codes in it.
  • ➕ Added readonly logic for Text and TextBox.
  • ➕ Added ability to enable/disable widgets by column in layouts.
  • ➕ Added left/right/up/down navigation to nearest widget.
  • ➕ Added ability to scroll screen/canvas by variable number of lines.
  • Created terminal demo
  • 🛠 Fixed exception on reinstating NoneType signal handler.
  • 🛠 Fixed float/int issue with recent builds of pywin32.
  • 🛠 Fixed issue where setting options changed the selected value (even if it was still present).
  • 🛠 Fixed erroneous trigger of on_load for all Frames at start of day.
  • 🛠 Fixed bug where Frames passed on events that they already handled.
  • 🛠 Fixed bug: Restore current theme on screen resize.
  • 🛠 Fixed bug in scrolling the screen up.

• v1.11.0 Changes

  May 10, 2019

  • ➕ Added allow_int parameter to Screen.play().
  • ➕ Added max_length parameter to Text.
  • ➕ Added support for page up/down in TextBox.
  • ➕ Added optional scroll bars to MultiColumnListBox.
  • ➕ Added file_filter parameter to FileBrowser.
  • Added wait_for_input method to Screen.
  • ➕ Added optional theme parameter to PopupDialog.
  • ➕ Added optional jitter parameter to Noise.
  • ➕ Added ManagedScreen decorator.

  • 👌 Improved performance of double-buffering.

    • NOTE: Drawing off-screen with a large scrolling buffer is no longer supported (as it wasn't needed).

  • ➕ Added optional pattern parameter to Stars.

  • 👌 Improved handling of permission errors in FileBrowser.

  • ➕ Added formal support for defining your own colour theme.

  • ➕ Added clear_widgets to Layout objects.

  • 🛠 Fixed height of PopUpDialog when no buttons are specified.

  • 🛠 Fixed bug where asciimatics Scenes would hang when the clock is moved back in time.

  • 🛠 Fixed off-by-one error in BarChart labels.

  • 🛠 Fixed bug where Labels ignored the custom_colour property.

  • ➕ Added default date and time to DatePicker and TimePicker when no value specified.

• v1.10.0 Changes

  September 18, 2018

  • ➕ Added 'Frame.focussed_widget' to access current focussed widget of the frame.
  • ➕ Added PopupMenu for dynamic contextual menus.
  • ➕ Added DropdownList widget.
  • ➕ Added VerticalDivider widget.
  • ➕ Added optional scroll bar to Listboxes.
  • ➕ Added line_wrap option to TextBoxes.
  • ➕ Added line_char option to Dividers.
  • ➕ Added align option to Labels.
  • ➕ Added width property to widgets.
  • ➕ Added set_theme to Frames and provided some new colour schemes.
  • 🛠 Fixed Screen.wrapper() to return result from wrapped function.
  • 🛠 Fixed list box truncation when lines are too long.
  • 🛠 Fixed issue with background colour when scrolling GNOME terminal.
  • 🛠 Fixed Text validator to support instance methods.
  • 🛠 Fixed exception raised by getdefaultlocale on some curses systems.
  • 🐎 Performance tweaks for non-unicode widgets.
  • 🔊 Relaxed restriction on static function callbacks for pop-up dialogs.
  • 🛠 Fixed bug where Listbox.reset() overrode current selected value.
  • 🛠 Fixed handling of decomposed unicode file names in FileBrowser for MacOS
  • 🛠 Fixed CJK issues with Screen.paint() and SpeechBubble.
  • 🛠 Fixed issue with dynamically added Frames so that they are reset before displayed for the first time.

• v1.9.0 Changes

  December 06, 2017

  ➕ Added FileBrowser, DatePicker and TimePicker widgets.

  • Made screen a mandatory positional parameter to all Effects in the process.
  • NOTE: Any custom Effects you have created will now need to pass the screen down to the parent
    class.

  ➕ Added fill_polygon() to Screen and Canvas.

  ➕ Added the Kaleidoscope and RotatedDuplicate renderers.

  Created Maps demo - which renders vector tiles and satellite images from Mapbox.

  ➕ Added optional is_modal parameter to Frame constructor.

  Added on_blur and on_focus parameters to all interactive Widgets.

  ➕ Added colour property to Cogs Effect.

  ➕ Added title property to Frame.

  ➕ Added text property to Label.

  ➕ Added hide_char parameter to Text constructor to hide any entered text - e.g. for passwords.

  ➕ Added optional height parameter to Label constructor.

  👍 Allowed programs to set "default" values for Widgets - which means you need to reset each field
  in a Frame explicitly rather than relying on reset to blank out uninitialized fields.

  🛠 Fixed up signal handling to re-instate old handlers on Screen.close().

  🛠 Fixed missing on_select handler for ListBox.

• v1.8.0 Changes

  August 15, 2017

  • ➕ Added MultiColumnListBox for displaying tabular data in widgets.
  • 👌 Improved efficiency of screen refresh on curses systems.
  • 👌 Improved start-up time by avoiding use of deepcopy()
  • ➕ Added unicode characters to ColourFileImage to increase rendering resolution.
  • ➕ Added support for validated free-form text to Text widgets.
  • ➕ Added force_update() to allow background refresh of the Screen.
  • ➕ Added custom_colour property to widgets.
  • ➕ Added support for DELETE key to text widgets.
  • 🛠 Fixed ZeroDivisionError in Frames.
  • 🛠 Fixed issues with double-width glyphs as used by CJK languages.
  • 🌐 Tweaked widget navigation using cursor keys to be more like web forms.

• v1.7.2 Changes

  August 15, 2017

  🛠 Fix packaging for v1.7.x.

• v1.7.1 Changes

  August 15, 2017

  Minor bug fix.

• v1.7.0 Changes

  September 24, 2016

  • ➕ Added unicode support for input and output.

  • Reworked Screen construction.

    • Added open() and close() methods to Screen.
    • Retired from_windows(), from_curses() and from_blessed() methods.
    • Retired Blessed support.

  • Added set_scenes() and draw_next_frame() to allow asynchronous frameworks to use Screen.

  • ➕ Added Plasma renderer and sample code to use it.

  • ➕ Added background colour support to ColourImageFile.

  • ➕ Added support for multi-colour rendering using ${c,a,b} syntax.

  • ➕ Added highlight() method to Screen and Canvas.

  • ➕ Added UT framework for testing and CI configurations to run the tests.

  • ➕ Added shadows to Frames.

  • 🛠 Fixed bug in restoring console colours on Exit for Windows.

  • 🛠 Fixed up logic for handling Ctrl keys and documented OS restrictions.

  • 🛠 Fixed refresh timer in play() when handling intensive computational load.

  • ➕ Added repeat flag to play() to allow termination of the animation instead of infinite looping.

  • 👌 Improved CPU usage for Widgets-based UIs.

  • ✅ General docs and test tidy up.

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