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This release adds a BezierCurve type and a coroutine move_along_path that will move a gadget along a sequence of curves. move_along_path also accepts different easings to control movement. Additional changes include:

• VideoPlayer and BrailleVideoPlayer renamed Video and BrailleVideo, respectively.
• clear() method added to Text and Graphics and shift() method added to Text.
• Gadget minimum height/width is now 0 from 1.
• on_progress parameter of tween() method of Gadget now accepts a callable with a single argument (the argument is the current progress of the tween).
• Text effects added. A recreation of some effects from https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects.

Introducing the new canvas data type, Cell! Major changes:

• Char renamed to Cell.
• Cell has additional fields "fg_color" and "bg_color".
• colors ndarray of Text and _Root gadgets removed.
• ColorPair removed.

Additional changes:

• Theming is now done with a dictionary of hexcodes.
• GadgetBase is now Gadget.
• Pane gadget replaces the old Gadget type. Pane also alpha composites.
• Transparency semantics for text gadgets updated. Can now alpha composite with the background of transparent text.
• An alpha parameter/attribute has been added to several gadgets to use new compositing.
• render() method is now private, renamed _render().
• Resizable behavior removed.
• The following gadgets no longer inherit from Text, but prefer composition: BoxImage, BrailleImage, BrailleVideoPlayer, ProgressBar, Slider, Sparkline
• Running code in a separate thread is now optional for Console.
• MenuItem is now private, renamed _MenuItem.

Changes in v0.31.1

• Fixed missing _pos attribute from _Root. This caused errors when getting top, left, right, bottom attributes.
• Tasks returned by videos and animations don't propagate cancellations. Unwanted behavior could occur if while awaiting these tasks the video was paused or stopped.

Markdown gadget added! Render markdown in the terminal with graphics, links, tables, lists and task lists! See it in action.

Changes for v0.31.0

• Markdown gadget added/mistletoe added as a dependency.
• add_text funcion and add_str, and set_text methods can now accept batgrl-flavored inline markdown if markdown=True.
• Multi-line paste for console gadget.
• Doc strings now conform to pydocstyle.
• Raycaster refactored.
• Three new Text borders added: near, mcgugan_tall, mcgugan_wide.
• Cursor save/restore during rendering re-added.
• VideoPlayer and BrailleVideoPlayer raise FileNotFound if file doesn't exist to prevent cv2 from eating the errors.
• Render lock is now re-entrant. Gadgets must acquire render lock to resize or reposition.

New in v0.29.0

• Gadget, Text, and Graphics (and a few other gadgets) now inherit from GadgetBase. This removes background_char and background_color_pair from many gadgets where these attributes/parameters did nothing.
• StackLayout added. Stack layouts position their children horizontally or vertically and resize them to use all available space. Child height or width
  proportions can be set with the proportions attribute.
• add_syntax_highlight added to text gadgets. Pygments added as a dependency.

Additional Changes

• ColorTheme is now a dataclass (instead of a NamedTuple).
• ScrollView is themable (again)
• Character attributes of gadgets, such as Text.default_char or Gadget.background_char can now be set with styled Char.
• Gadget size and position are locked during rendering for thread safety.
• Gadgets that inherited scroll view now inherit GadgetBase and have a scroll view.
• Updated description of transparency for Gadget.
• Fix several occurrences of improper escapes in strings.
• Moved Char, style_char, and coerce_char into text_tools.
• All layouts (except split layout) remove hints from children.

New in v0.28.0:

• Console gadget added.
• Select all and select word key-binds added to text input gadgets.
• Method signatures added to method stubs in doc strings.
• Several bug fixes.

New in v0.27.0

• Renamed project to batgrl. Badass terminal graphics library. Widgets are now gadgets for flavor.
• Rendering now uses regions by default, but painter's algorithm can still be used by passing the rendering mode to an App.

New in v0.25.0

• nurses_2 is now formatted with Black and isort, and linted with ruff!
• Sparkline widget added.
• BarChart widget added.
• ScrollView smooth(er) scrolling with fractional block characters.
• Box drawing option for LinePlot.
• ProgressBar's progress attribute can be set to None for an infinite loading animation.
• TextPad and Textbox correctly take into account full-width characters as cursor moves or text is added and deleted.
• TextPad and Textbox now have move-across-word keybinds.
• ShadowCaster types simplified.
• Widget behaviors now follow an "-able" naming convention. Several behaviors have been renamed:
  • GrabbableBehavior is now Grabbable
  • GrabMoveBehavior is now Movable
  • GrabResizeBehavior is now Resizable
  • FocusBehavior is now Focusable
  • ScatterBehavior is now MovableChildren
• TextAnimation's color pair can now be set with the animation_color_pair attribute.
• Several enum parameters are now literal types.
  • Anchor is now Literal["bottom", "bottom-left", "bottom-right", "center", "left", "right", "top", "top-left", "top-right"]
  • Interpolation is now Literal["nearest", "linear", "cubic", "area", "lanczos"]
  • GridLayout.Orientation is now Literal["lr-tb", "lr-bt", "rl-tb", "rl-bt", "tb-lr", "tb-rl", "bt-lr", "bt-rl"]
  • Border is now Literal["light", "heavy", "double", "curved", "ascii", "outer", "inner", "thick"]
  • Easing is now a literal type.
  • Data table SelectItems and Alignment removed; parameters using these types now use literal types.
• Datatype of NDArray types now added to type hints, e.g., NDArray[np.uint8].
• TabbedWidget bug fixes:
  • Previous active tab content now disabled correctly when a new tab is added.
  • Animated underline height fixed.
• A few minor bug fixes.

New in v0.20.1:

• TextAnimation and spinners
• TabbedWidget
• DataTable
• Transparent text widgets don't paint their background color (background colors behind them are visible).

Create ascii art banners from FIGfont files. Banners are created as arrays that they can be copied into TextWidget canvas arrays.