Announcing Urwid 0.8.7
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Urwid home page:
  http://excess.org/urwid/

Tarball:
  http://excess.org/urwid/urwid-0.8.7.tar.gz
or:
  https://excess.org/urwid/urwid-0.8.7.tar.gz


Summary:
========

This release adds a number of new widget classes as well as feature
enhancements for existing widget classes.  It also comes with a new 
example program similar to the dialog(1) command.


New in this release:
====================

  - New widget classes: Button, RadioButton, CheckBox.
  
  - New layout widget classes: Padding, GridFlow.

  - New dialog.py example program that behaves like dialog(1) command.

  - Pile widgets now support selectable items, focus changing with up and
    down keys and setting the cursor position.
  
  - Frame widgets now support selectable items in the header and footer.

  - Columns widgets now support fixed width and relative width columns, a
    minimum width for all columns, selectable items within columns containing
    flow widgets (already supported for box widgets), focus changing with
    left and right keys and setting the cursor position.

  - Filler widgets may now wrap box widgets and have more alignment options.

  - Updated tour.py example program to show new widget types and features.

  - Avoid hogging cpu on gradual window resize and fix for slow resize 
    with cygwin's broken curses implementation.

  - Fixed minor CJK problem and curs_set crash under MacOSX and Cygwin.

  - Fixed crash when deleting cells in calc.py example program.


About Urwid
===========

Urwid is a curses-based UI library for Python. It features fluid 
interface resizing, CJK support, multiple text layouts, simple 
attribute markup, powerful scrolling list boxes, flexible edit boxes
and HTML screen shots.


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