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.
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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
andLabel
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.
- ➕ Added ability to change a
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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.
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v1.11.0 Changes
May 10, 2019- ➕ Added
allow_int
parameter toScreen.play()
. - ➕ Added
max_length
parameter toText
. - ➕ Added support for page up/down in
TextBox
. - ➕ Added optional scroll bars to
MultiColumnListBox
. - ➕ Added
file_filter
parameter toFileBrowser
. - Added
wait_for_input
method toScreen
. - ➕ Added optional
theme
parameter toPopupDialog
. - ➕ Added optional
jitter
parameter toNoise
. - ➕ 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 toStars
.👌 Improved handling of permission errors in
FileBrowser
.➕ Added formal support for defining your own colour theme.
➕ Added
clear_widgets
toLayout
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.
- ➕ Added
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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()
andSpeechBubble
. - 🛠 Fixed issue with dynamically added Frames so that they are reset before displayed for the first time.
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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
andon_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.
- Made
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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.
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v1.7.2 Changes
August 15, 2017🛠 Fix packaging for v1.7.x.
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v1.7.1 Changes
August 15, 2017Minor bug fix.
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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.