On 11/16/09, Ian Ward <i...@excess.org> wrote: > Announcing Urwid 0.9.9 > ---------------------- > > Urwid home page: > http://excess.org/urwid/ > > Updated screen shots: > http://excess.org/urwid/examples.html
How did you make the html 'screenshots'? I guess you have some kind of urwid2html tool or some such or is it plain ncurses? Urwid is really cool! Cheers, Daniel > Tarball: > http://excess.org/urwid/urwid-0.9.9.tar.gz > > RSS: > http://excess.org/feeds/tag/urwid/ > > > About this release: > =================== > > This release includes many new features developed since the last major > release. Urwid now supports 256 and 88 color terminals. A new MainLoop > class has been introduced to tie together widgets, user input, screen > display and an event loop. Twisted and GLib-based event loops are now > supported directly. A new AttrMap class now allows mapping any > attribute to any other attribute. Most of the code base has been > cleaned up and now has better documentation and testing. Lots of other > improvements are listed below. > > > New in this release: > ==================== > > * New support for 256 and 88 color terminals with raw_display > and html_fragment display modules > > * New palette_test example program to demonstrate high color > modes > > * New AttrSpec class for specifying specific colors instead of > using attributes defined in the screen's palette > > * New MainLoop class ties together widgets, user input, screen > display and one of a number of new event loops, removing the > need for tedious, error-prone boilerplate code > > * New GLibEventLoop allows running Urwid applications with GLib > (makes D-Bus integration easier) > > * New TwistedEventLoop allows running Urwid with a Twisted reactor > > * Added new docstrings and doctests to many widget classes > > * New AttrMap widget supports mapping any attribute to any other > attribute, replaces AttrWrap widget > > * New WidgetDecoration base class for AttrMap, BoxAdapter, Padding, > Filler and LineBox widgets creates a common method for accessing > and updating their contained widgets > > * New left and right values may be specified in Padding widgets > > * New command_map for specifying which keys cause actions such as > clicking Button widgets and scrolling ListBox widgets > > * New tty_signal_keys() method of raw_display.Screen and > curses_display.Screen allows changing or disabling the keys used > to send signals to the application > > * Added helpful __repr__ for many widget classes > > * Updated all example programs to use MainLoop class > > * Updated tutorial with MainLoop usage and improved examples > > * Renamed WidgetWrap.w to _w, indicating its intended use as a way > to implement a widget with other widgets, not necessarily as > a container for other widgets > > * Replaced all tabs with 4 spaces, code is now more aerodynamic > (and PEP 8 compliant) > > * Added saving of stdin and stdout in raw_display module allowing > the originals to be redirected > > * Updated BigText widget's HalfBlock5x4Font > > * Fixed graph example CPU usage when animation is stopped > > * Fixed a memory leak related to objects listening for signals > > * Fixed a Popen3 deprecation warning > > > 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-list > -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
