FTXUI/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

current (development)

DOM

• Feature: more styles:
  • strikethrough
  • underlinedDouble
• Feature: Customize the cursor. Add the following decorators:
  • focusCursorBlock
  • focusCursorBlockBlinking
  • focusCursorBar
  • focusCursorBarBlinking
  • focusCursorUnderline
  • focusCursorUnderlineBlinking
• Bugfix: Fix focus/select when the vbox/hbox/dbox contains a flexbox
• Bugfix: Fix the selected/focused area. It used to be 1 cell larger/longer than requested
• Bugfix: Forward the selected/focused area from the child in gridbox.
• Bugfix: Fix incorrect Canvas computed dimensions.
• Bugfix: Support vscroll_indicator with a zero inner size.

Component:

• Feature: Add the Modal component.
• Feature: Slider supports taking references for all its arguments.
• Feature: Slider supports SliderOption. It supports:
  • multiple directions.
  • multiple colors.
  • various values (value, min, max, increment).
• Feature: Define ScreenInteractive::Exit().
• Feature: Add Loop to give developers a better control on the main loop. This can be used to integrate FTXUI into another main loop, without taking the full control.
• Feature: Input supports CTRL+Left and CTRL+Right
• Feature: Use a blinking bar in the Input component.
• Improvement: The Menu keeps the focus when an entry is selected with the mouse.
• Bugfix: Add implementation of ButtonOption::Border(). It was missing.
• Bugfix: Provide the correct key for F1-F4 and F11.
• Feature: Add the Hoverable component decorators.

Screen

• Feature: add Box::Union(a,b) -> Box
• Bugfix: Fix resetting dim clashing with resetting of bold.
• Feature: Add emscripten screen resize support.
• Bugfix: Add unicode 13 support for full width characters.
• Bugfix: Fix MSVC treating codecvt C++17 deprecated function as an error.

Build

• Support using the google test version provided by the package manager.

3.0.0

Build

• breaking: The library prefix is now back to "lib" (the default). This means non-cmake users should not link against "libftxui-dom" for instance.

Component

• Animations module! Components can implement the OnAnimation method and the animation::Animator to define some animated properties.
  • Menu now support animations.
  • Button now supports animations.
• Support SIGTSTP. (ctrl+z).
• Support task posting. ScreenInteractive::Post(Task).
• Menu can now be used in the 4 directions, using MenuOption.direction.
• Menu can display an animated underline, using MenuOption.underline.enabled.
• Button is now taking the focus in frame.
• breaking All the options are now using a transform function.
• breaking The Toggle component is now implemented using Menu.
• bugfix Container::Tab implements Focusable().
• bugfix Improved default implementations of ComponentBase Focusable() and ActiveChild() methods.
• bugfix Automatically convert '\r' keys into '\n' for Linux programs that do not send the correct code for the return key, like the 'bind'. https://github.com/ArthurSonzogni/FTXUI/issues/337
• Add decorator for components:
  • operator|(Component, ComponentDecorator)
  • operator|(Component, ElementDecorator)
  • operator|=(Component, ComponentDecorator)
  • operator|=(Component, ElementDecorator)
  • Add the Maybe decorator.
  • Add the CatchEvent decorator.
  • Add the Renderer decorator.
• breaking remove the "deprectated.hpp" header and Input support for wide string.

DOM:

• breaking: The inverted decorator now toggle in the inverted attribute.
• Add gauge for the 4 directions. Expose the following API:

Element gauge(float ratio);
Element gaugeLeft(float ratio);
Element gaugeRight(float ratio);
Element gaugeUp(float ratio);
Element gaugeDown(float ratio);
Element gaugeDirection(float ratio, GaugeDirection);

• Add separatorHSelector and separatorVSelector elements. This can be used to highlight an area.
• Add the automerge decorator. This makes separator characters to be merged with others nearby.
• Fix the Table rendering function, to allow automerging characters.
• Bugfix: The vscroll_indicator now computes its offset and size correctly.
• Add the operator|=(Element, Decorator)

Screen:

• Add: Color::Interpolate(lambda, color_a, color_b).

2.0.0

Features:

Screen

• Add the automerge to the Pixel bit field. This now controls which pixels are automatically merged.

DOM:

• Add the Canvas class and ElementFrom('canvas') function. Together users of the library can draw using braille and block characters.
• Support flexbox dom elements. This is build symmetrically to the HTML one. All the following attributes are supported: direction, wrap, justify-content, align-items, align-content, gap
• Add the dom elements helper based on flexbox:
  • paragraph
  • paragraphAlignLeft
  • paragraphAlignCenter
  • paragraphAlignRight
  • paragraphAlignJustify
• Add the helper elements based on flexbox: hflow(), vflow().
• Add: focusPositionRelative and focusPosition
• Add Table constructor from 2D vector of Element, instead of string.

Component

• Add the collapsible component.
• Add the ScreenInteractive::WithRestoredIO. This decorates a callback. This runs it with the terminal hooks temporarilly uninstalled. This is useful if you want to execute command using directly stdin/stdout/sterr.

Bug

Table

• The table horizontal and vertical separator are now correctly expanded.

Component

• Input shouldn't take focus when hovered by the mouse.
• Modifying Input's during on_enter/on_change event is now working correctly.

Breaking changes:

• The behavior of paragraph has been modified. It now returns en Element, instead of a list of elements.

0.11.1

Component

• Feature: Support for PageUp/PageDown/Home/End buttons.
• Bugfix: Check the selected element are within bounds for Dropdown.

Build

• Bugfix: Package library using the "Release config". Not debug.

0.11

github workflow

• Add Windows ad MacOS artefacts.
• Merge all the workflows.

Bug

• On Unix system, fallback to {80,25} screen dimension on failure.

CMake

• Support for shared library, via BUILD_SHARED_LIBS option.
• Add library version and symlinks.

0.10 (2021-09-30)

Bug

• Fix the automated merge of borders.

Dom

• Table() class to build stylised table. See https://github.com/ArthurSonzogni/FTXUI/discussions/228
• vscroll_indicator. Show a scrollbar indicator on the right.
• separatorEmpty. A separator drawing nothing.
• separatorFixed. A separator drawing the provided character.

Component

• Maybe: Display an component conditionnally based on a boolean.
• Dropdown: A dropdown select list.

0.9 (2021-09-26)

The initial release where changelog where written.

This version includes:

screen

• Style:
  • Bold.
  • Blink.
  • Dim.
  • Inverted.
  • Underlined.
  • Foreground color.
  • Background color.
• Support for UTF8 unicode.
  • Full wide character: 测试.
  • Combining characters: a⃒
• A Stencil buffer.
• Automatically merge box drawing characters.
• Detect terminal dimension.

DOM

• Element:

  • text & vtext
  • separator and 5 variations.
  • gauge
  • border and 6 variations.
  • window
  • spinner
  • paragraph and hflow.

• Layout:

  • hbox
  • vbox
  • dbox
  • gridbox
  • frame: Drawing inside a virtual area, potentially larger than the real one.
  • focus, select: scroll the inner view of a frame, to be in view.
  • flex & 8 variations. filler

• Decorators:

  • bold
  • dim
  • inverted
  • blink
  • color
  • bgcolor
  • clearunder

Component

• Container:
  • Container::Vertical
  • Container::Horizontal
  • Container::Tab
• Button
• Checkbox
• Input
• Menu
• MenuEntry
• Radiobox
• Toggle
• Slider
• Renderer & variations
• CatchEvent

MISC

• Fuzzer
• Tests using gtest.
• Doxygen documentation
• IWYU
• 52 examples.
• Support for WebAssembly.
• Support for Window and fallback for broken terminal.