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• Dropped support for Python 2, Python 3.9 or above is now required.
• Added support for ColouredText titles in MultiColumnLIstBox.
• Added gutter option to Layout.
• Added speed option to Sprite.
• Fixed bug where moving focus between Frames resulted in no current focus.
• Fixed internal state of RadioButton values to be consistent with selection.
• Fixed handling of zero width modifiers.
• Fixed image conversion to use modern PIL API and sort off-by-one height error.
• Fixed parser bug returning list instead of colour tuple.

• Added AnsiArtPlayer and AsciinemaPlayer
• Added dynamically sized, animated sprites to ray caster demo.
• Added fit parameter to DropdownList.
• Added support for default colours to AnsiTerminalParser
• Added VBarChart renderer.
• BREAKING VISUAL CHANGE: Frame now supports scroll bars without borders, to have no border and no scroll bar you now need Frame(has_border=False, can_scroll=False)
• Added TextBox.hide_cursor and TextBox.auto_scroll properties
• Added optional diameter parameter to ShootScreen.
• Improved DropEmitter effect - will now typically take a little longer to clear the screen.
• Fixed bug in widget focus - eliminated duplicate events and some cases that failed to move focus
• Fixed bug in clear_widgets() - also reset any focus in the layout.
• Fixed bug: layout could still be a tab stop with no active widgets.

• Added ability to change a Button's text through a .text attribute.
• Added ability to accept a name attribute in the Button and Label constructors.
• Added ability to detect job pause/resume and force full screen refresh.
• Added ability to request terminal default colours using Screen.COLOUR_DEFAULT.
• Converted widgets to a sub-package.
• Fixed issue with labels in a layout column preventing buttons from being pressed.
• Fixed issue with visual overrun on Listboxes when there is a label offset.
• Fixed issue with TextBox hitting IndexError in double buffers due to lack of clipping.
• Fixed issue with Text/TextBox start columns on reset.
• Added troubleshooting on terminal colour handling.

• Added ColouredText objects to handle embedded colour codes in text for some widgets.
• Added parsers to handle Asciimatics and Ansi Terminal escape sequences.
• Added ControlCodeParser to create human readable text from raw text with control codes in it.
• Added readonly logic for Text and TextBox.
• Added ability to enable/disable widgets by column in layouts.
• Added left/right/up/down navigation to nearest widget.
• Added ability to scroll screen/canvas by variable number of lines.
• Created terminal demo
• Fixed exception on reinstating NoneType signal handler.
• Fixed float/int issue with recent builds of pywin32.
• Fixed issue where setting options changed the selected value (even if it was still present).
• Fixed erroneous trigger of on_load for all Frames at start of day.
• Fixed bug where Frames passed on events that they already handled.
• Fixed bug: Restore current theme on screen resize.
• Fixed bug in scrolling the screen up.

Added allow_int parameter to Screen.play(). Added max_length parameter to Text. Added support for page up/down in TextBox. Added optional scroll bars to MultiColumnListBox. Added file_filter parameter to FileBrowser. Added wait_for_input method to Screen. Added optional theme parameter to PopupDialog. Added optional jitter parameter to Noise. Added ManagedScreen decorator. Improved performance of double-buffering.

• NOTE: Drawing off-screen with a large scrolling buffer is no longer supported (as it wasn't needed).

Added optional pattern parameter to Stars. Improved handling of permission errors in FileBrowser. Added formal support for defining your own colour theme. Added clear_widgets to Layout objects. Fixed height of PopUpDialog when no buttons are specified. Fixed bug where asciimatics Scenes would hang when the clock is moved back in time. Fixed off-by-one error in BarChart labels. Fixed bug where Labels ignored the custom_colour property. Added default date and time to DatePicker and TimePicker when no value specified.

• Added 'Frame.focussed_widget' to access current focussed widget of the frame.
• Added PopupMenu for dynamic contextual menus.
• Added DropdownList widget.
• Added VerticalDivider widget.
• Added optional scroll bar to Listboxes.
• Added line_wrap option to TextBoxes.
• Added line_char option to Dividers.
• Added align option to Labels.
• Added width property to widgets.
• Added set_theme to Frames and provided some new colour schemes.
• Fixed Screen.wrapper() to return result from wrapped function.
• Fixed list box truncation when lines are too long.
• Fixed issue with background colour when scrolling GNOME terminal.
• Fixed Text validator to support instance methods.
• Fixed exception raised by getdefaultlocale on some curses systems.
• Performance tweaks for non-unicode widgets.
• Relaxed restriction on static function callbacks for pop-up dialogs.
• Fixed bug where Listbox.reset() overrode current selected value.
• Fixed handling of decomposed unicode file names in FileBrowser for MacOS
• Fixed CJK issues with Screen.paint() and SpeechBubble.
• Fixed issue with dynamically added Frames so that they are reset before displayed for the first time.

• Added FileBrowser, DatePicker and TimePicker widgets.

  • Made screen a mandatory positional parameter to all Effects in the process.
  • NOTE: Any custom Effects you have created will now need to pass the screen down to the parent class.

• Added fill_polygon() to Screen and Canvas.

• Added the Kaleidoscope and RotatedDuplicate renderers.

• Created Maps demo - which renders vector tiles and satellite images from Mapbox.

• Added optional is_modal parameter to Frame constructor.

• Added on_blur and on_focus parameters to all interactive Widgets.

• Added colour property to Cogs Effect.

• Added title property to Frame.

• Added text property to Label.

• Added hide_char parameter to Text constructor to hide any entered text - e.g. for passwords.

• Added optional height parameter to Label constructor.

• Allowed programs to set "default" values for Widgets - which means you need to reset each field in a Frame explicitly rather than relying on reset to blank out uninitialized fields.

• Fixed up signal handling to re-instate old handlers on Screen.close().

• Fixed missing on_select handler for ListBox.

Fix packaging for v1.7.x.

Minor bug fix.