asciimatics v1.7.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2016-09-24 // over 7 years ago-
- ➕ 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.