Announcing Urwid 0.9.7 ---------------------- Urwid home page: http://excess.org/urwid/
Tarball: http://excess.org/urwid/urwid-0.9.7.tar.gz About this release: =================== This release adds a new BigText widget for banners and text that needs to stand out on the screen. A new example program demonstrating BigText usage and a number of fonts are included. This widget is a fixed widget, a new alternative to flow widgets and a box widgets. Fixed widgets may be displayed within Overlay or Padding widgets to handle changing screen sizes. New in this release: ==================== - Added initial support for fixed widgets - widgets that have a fixed size on screen. Fixed widgets expect a size parameter equal to (). Fixed widgets must implement the pack(..) function to return their size. - New BigText class that draws text with fonts made of grids of character cells. BigText is a fixed widget and doesn't do any alignment or wrapping. It is intended for banners and number readouts that need to stand out on the screen. Fonts: Thin3x3Font, Thin4x3Font, Thin6x6Font (full ascii) UTF-8 only fonts: HalfBlock5x4Font, HalfBlock6x5Font, HalfBlockHeavy6x5Font, HalfBlock7x7Font (full ascii) New function get_all_fonts() may be used to get a list of the available fonts. - New example program bigtext.py demonstrates use of BigText. - Padding class now has a clipping mode that pads or clips fixed widgets to make them behave as flow widgets. - Overlay class can now accept a fixed widget as the widget to display "on top". - New Canvas functions: pad_trim(..) and pad_trim_left_right(..). - Fixed a bug in Filler.get_cursor_coords(..) that causes a crash if the contained widget's get_cursor_coords(..) function returns None. - Fixed a bug in Text.pack(..) that caused an infinite loop when the text contained a newline. This function is not currently used by Urwid. - Edit.__init__(..) now calls set_edit_text(..) to initialize its text. - Overlay.calculate_padding_filler(..) and Padding.padding_values(..) now include focus parameters. About Urwid =========== Urwid is a console UI library for Python. It features fluid interface resizing, UTF-8 support, multiple text layouts, simple attribute markup, powerful scrolling list boxes and flexible interface design. Urwid is released under the GNU LGPL. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
