Highlights of this release

This is a major release which removes a number of things which have been deprecated for a number of years. The most significant change in this release is that the Qt toolkit backend has been moved from the pyface.ui.qt4 package to the pyface.ui.qt package. The "qt4" namespace had been an ongoing source of confusion as Qt5 and Qt6 became the most popular versions of Qt in use. Because this change has the potential to cause significant backwards compatibility issues, this release includes import hooks to continue to support imports from pyface.ui.qt4... which can be enabled by:

• using "qt4" for the ETS_TOOLKIT or ETSConfig.toolkit values.
• setting the ETS_QT4_IMPORT environment variable to a non-empty value
• explicitly adding the import hooks to sys.meta_path

In particular the environment variables allow users of ETS-based applications such as Mayavi to continue to use those applications with newer versions of Pyface until there is time to update their code to the new import locations.

Additionally this release uses the module-level __getattr__ system introduced in Python 3.7 to delay imports from the api modules which have side-effects, particularly toolkit selection. This means that you can, for example, import pyface.api and toolkit selection will be deferred until you actually request a class or object which is toolkit-dependent. Part of this included adding formal interfaces for ActionManager and its subclasses

In addition this release:

• adds support for Python 3.11 and drops support for Python 3.6
• adds support for PySide 6.4+ and the new enum system
• removes code supporting PyQt4, and supports more modern imports from pyface.qt, such as pyface.qt.QtWidgets.
• removes many things flagged as deprecated in Pyface 7
• consistently add interface classes to api modules.
• adds new Field subclasses, including an ImageField and LabelField
• moves to a pyproject.toml-based packaging solution, removing setup.py

Detailed changes

Thanks to:

• Mark Dickinson
• Dominik Gresch
• JaRoSchm
• Rahul Poruri
• Corran Webster

Features

• Refactor IField and add IImageField and ILabelField Field classes (#1234)
• Move pyface.ui.qt4 to pyface.ui.qt (#1223, #1228)
• Delayed imports with side-effects in api modules; new interfaces for ActionManager and its subclasses (#1229)

Enhancements

• Better handling of sizes for multiple (or no) screens (#1237)
• More arguments for the confirm function (#1221)
• Expose interfaces in api modules and other improvemnts to api modules (#1220, #1222, #1229)
• remove deprecated modules and code (#1209, #1215)
• PySide 6.5 support (#1238)
• Python 3.11 and PySide 6.4 support (#1210)

Fixes

• Always use a no-delay timer for GUI invoke_later and set_trait_later on Qt (#1226)
• Work arounds for some end-of-process segfaults on PySide < 6.4.3 (#1214)
• Use exec instead of exec_ where possible (#1208)
• Emit a warning rather than asserting in SplitTabWidget (#1192)
• Remove required parent argument in Wx StatusBarManager (#1192)
• Use integer division in DockSplitter.draw (#1190)

Documentation

• general updates and enhancements (#1238)
• update copyright dates (#1191)

CI

• remove setup.py and use pyproject.toml (#1203, #1214)

Highlights of this release

This is a quick bugfix release that resolves some issues with the 7.4.3 release on CI for downstream projects. The issues were on testing code, and so shouldn't impact application code or behaviour.

Detailed changes

Fixes

• Don't raise ConditionTimeoutError if test doesn't time out (#1182)

CI

• get CI working again with ubuntu-current on GitHub (#1186)

Highlights of this release

This is a bugfix release that collects a number of additional issues discovered and fixed since the 7.4.2 release. Among the fixes, this pins PySide6 to less than 6.4.0, as 6.4 has breaking changes in it.

Thanks to:

• Alex Chabot-Leclerc
• Mark Dickinson
• Eric Larson
• Steven Kern
• Corran Webster

Detailed changes

Fixes

• Fix code editor gutter widget on recent Python versions (#1176)
• fix issues with FileDialog and DirectoryDialog close method on Linux (#1175)
• update setup.py metadata (#1173)
• restrict to PySide versions before 6.4.0 (#1169)
• don't do unneccessary evaluations of conditions in EventLoopHelper (#1168)
• fix a deleted object error in PyQt5 (#1161)
• better reporting of toolkit errors (#1157)

Documentation

• fix some Python 2 style print statements in documentation (#1157)

Highlights of this release

This is a bugfix release that collects a number of additional issues discovered and fixed since the 7.4.1 release.

Detailed changes

Thanks to:

• Eric Anderson
• Mark Dickinson
• Robert Kern
• Orion Poplawski
• Rahul Poruri
• PyHannes
• Corran Webster

Fixes

• fixes for Qt workbench backend (#1149)
• fix ConsoleWidget PySide6 issues (#1146, #1147)
• fix default AboutDialog image (#1142)
• remove reference cycle for actions on clean-up (#1143)
• status bar manager not cleaned up properly (#1141)
• expose QOpenGLWidget in a consistent place in pyface.qt (#1138)
• map popup menu coordinates to global (#1137)
• fix issues with last window close on Qt6 (#1136)
• font size and stretch are ints at the toolkit level (#1118)

Documentation

• add copy buttons for example code (#1134)

CI

• add a publish to PyPI Github action (#1126)

Highlights of this release

This is a bugfix release that fixes an issue that was causing memory corruption and occasional segfaults when using the new ArrayImage and PILImage classes on Windows with PySide2.

Detailed changes

Thanks to:

• Mark Dickinson
• Rahul Poruri
• Corran Webster
• John Wiggins

Fixes

• fix segfaults and memory corruption from dropped QImage references (#1108)

Highlights of this release

This release features some significant refactoring and reorganisation of the Pyface API aimed at making it generally more coherent. Specific changes include:

• adding intermediate interfaces and classes to collect common roles and behaviours.
• adding hooks to control widget sizing behaviour within layouts/sizers.
• deprecating behavior where a class creates the underlying toolkit widget in the __init__ method. This was done by a small minority of Widget classes, now all widgets are able to use two-step creation (first the instance, then the toolkit object via the create() method).
• creating Qt versions of some widgets, and filling in some gaps in widget types (particularly for Fields)
• providing image classes that wrap PIL images and NumPy arrays that allow dynamic images and icons in addition to the resource-based versions.
• providing a toolkit-independent Font class and corresponding trait that supports similar use-cases to the existing TraitsUI Font trait.
• extracting the menu and toolbar Schema system from Tasks and making it more generally useable.

All changes should be backwards compatible, and deprecated APIs have a clear path forward.

Additionally, this release adds experimental support for Qt 6 in the pyface.qt API. Downstream packages can use the "pyqt6" and "pyside6" values for QT_API and CI is being run and passing with PySide6. We generally plan to move the default development environment to Python 3.8 and PySide6 over the next few months.

Corresponding to this, PyQt4 support is deprecated, CI is no longer being run for PyQt4 (which has been at end-of-life since 2015) and remaining support for PyQt4 will be removed in the next major release.

Detailed changes

Thanks to:

• Aaron Ayres
• Kit Choi
• Nicola Di Mitri
• Mark Dickinson
• Frank Longford
• Rahul Poruri
• Diego Ramirez
• Palash Vishnani
• Corran Webster

Enhancements

• Make Action Schemas a generic feature, not specific to Tasks (#1076, #1079)
• Add a FontDialog class (#1067)
• Allow experimental use of Qt6 backends (#1050, #1057, #1059)
• Add DropHandler classes to public API (#1049)
• Make Color and Font traits available in pyface.ui_traits and no longer import them from traits.api (#1043)
• Add multi-file selection for IFileDialog (#1031)
• Support widgets and context menus for any concrete widget (#1019, #1020, #1066)
• Add an ILayoutWidget interface and LayoutWidget base class for widgets which can be used as layout/sizer items and refactor appropriate classes to use it (#1016, #1018)
• Add an _initialize_control method to base IWidget interface (#1013)
• Deprecate creation of widgets in init, use separate create call (#993)
• Add ILayeredPanel and Qt implementation of LayeredPanel (#982)
• Improvements to PythonEditor and PythonWidget classes (#980)
• Improvements to SplitWidget widget (#977)
• Improvements to HeadingText widget (#976)
• Add toggle field widget classes (#962)
• Improvements to image support allowing dynamic images from PIL, NumPy (#693, #959, #960, #970, #997, #1002, #1004)
• Further conversion to use observe system (#954, #963, #985, #1005, #1026)
• Replace use of pkg_resources by importlib (#943, #991, #994, #1000)
• Remove code branches for unsupported toolkit versions (#938, #939)
• Replace uses of sys.exc_traceback with sys.exc_info()[2] (#936)
• Replace old trait handlers with the new equivalents (#931, #1041, #1043)
• Add a text_format argument to MessageDialogs for Qt (#907)
• Add an enum type for DataViews (#782)
• Add a ColorDialog class (#711, #1065, #1066)
• Add a toolkit-independent Font class and associated traits (#609, #1066)
• Add a TimeField widget class (#507)

Fixes

• Support for PyQt6-style enums (#1098)
• Fix an issue with circular references in EventFilters (#1093)
• Select colors from palettes for better dark mode support (#1089)
• Fix an issue with undocked dock panes not updating (#1044)
• Remove uses of old trait constructors such as Either and Trait() (#728, #1041)
• Fix SplitEditorAreaPane tab label and tooltip update bugs (#1038)
• Fix broken local imports (#1034, #1036)
• Fix active_task observer (#1026)
• Fixes to make examples work (#988)
• Better support for newer Python and Qt versions (#958, #964, #965)
• Fix use of wx.StyledTextControl (#951)
• Fix sizing of ImageButton when image changes (#932)
• Fixes for observe integration (#915)
• Code quality improvements (#914, #919, #920, #921, #922, #923, #935, #945, #946, #947, #920, #921, #922, #923, #1007, #1008, #1046, #1048, #1070, #1072, #1074)
• Fix DockItem trait definitions (#902)

Documentation

• Update discussion of toolkit support (#1101)
• Documentation for standard dialogs (#1053)
• Improvments to GUITestAssistant documenation (#1047)
• Clean up unused links (#1012)
• Documentation for ImageLibrary system (#1001)
• Documentation for GuiTestAssistant and ModalDialogTester (#933)
• Add documentation for contents of API modules (#903)

Build, Tests and Continuous Integration

• Ensure tests run cleanly in Python 3.8 and when some packages missing (#1090)
• Flake8 style check in CI (#1073)
• Use most recent EDM version (#1058)
• Support MacOS Big Sur in CI (#1056)
• Add flake8 command to etstool.py (#1027)
• Rename "master" branch to "main" (#1011)
• Tests for ImageLibrary system (#1003)
• Allow manual triggering of cron CI jobs (#975)
• Generic modules for testing classes (#926, #956)
• Move CI to github actions (#950, #961, #967, #1056)
• Drop PyQt4 from CI (#949, #955)
• Improvements to CI (#908)

The most significant change introduced in this minor release is the replacement of Traits on_trait_change-based listeners with the new Traits observation framework.

This release is only compatible with Traits >= 6.2.0 i.e. the most recent version of Traits.

Highlights of this release

• Replace use of Traits on_trait_change with observe.

Detailed changes

Thanks to:

• Aaron Ayres
• Kit Yan Choi
• Rahul Poruri
• Corran Webster

Fixes

• Fix undo/redo merge bugs. (#885)
• Fix importing QtWebEngine after toolkit selection. (#853)

Documentation

• Improve api documentation for pyface.tasks submodules. (#844)
• Improve api documentation for pyface.undo and pyface.undo.action submodules. (#847)
• Improve api documentation for pyface.action and pyface.tasks.action submodules. (#843)
• Use viewcode sphinx extension. (#851)
• Address a few sphinx warnings. (#846)

Build, Tests and Continuous Integration

• Stop running CI on traits 6.0. (#865)
• Skip test if wx is not installed. (#867)
• Declare python_requires to support Python >= 3.6. (#850)

Maintenance and code reorganization

• Replace use of traits on_trait_change with observe. (#892, #882, #881, #880, #870, #864)
• Import from traits.api where possible. (#866)
• Expose keyboard focus on Widgets. (#862)
• Remove support for PySide. (#861)
• Remove Python 2 sip configuration for Qt toolkit backends. (#860)
• Remove coverage reporting on PRs. (#855)
• Update year range in copyright headers. (#854)

Pyface 7.2.0 is a minor release which introduces a variety of bug fixes, documentation updates, and other code maintenance. The most significant change introduced by this release is the addition of undo/redo functionality from the undo subpackage copied from apptools.

This release should still be compatible with Traits 6.0+. Users are encouraged to upgrade to Traits 6.1+ to stay current as future releases of Pyface will stop supporting Traits 6.0.

Highlights of this release

• New :mod:undo <pyface.undo> subpackage that has been copied over from apptools (soon to be deprecated in apptools)

Detailed changes

Thanks to:

• Aaron Ayres
• Mark Dickinson
• Kit Yan Choi
• Rahul Poruri
• Corran Webster

Features

• Copy Undo over from apptools (#813)

Fixes

• Add wx_id parameter to init for Tree to avoid errors (#810)
• Fix Qt widget visibility (#807)
• Fix sporadic Timer test failure on OSX + Qt (#799)
• Fix invalid escape sequence deprecation warning at compile time (#788)

Build and continuous integration

• Remove macOS builds from Travis CI configuration (#820)
• Run pip install with no deps (#792)
• Don't install traitsui from git source (#787)

Documentation

• Add installation instruction on README (#797)
• Fix code formatting in timers docs (#794)
• Rename version folders for built documentation (#783)

Maintenance and code organization

• Delete unused requirements file (#817)
• Dont include ALL txt files from root directory (#816)
• Log debug message if import PythonShell and PythonEditor fail in api.py (#801)
• Make pygments optional for pyface.api (#796)
• Use importlib_resources instead of pkg_resources for resource files (#791)
• Use importlib_metadata instead of pkg_resources for toolkit entry points (#790)

Pyface 7.1.0 introduces a few new features and fixes to deprecation warnings. There are also internal cleanups to Qt signal connection logic that should be invisible to users.

Highlights of this release

• A new pyface.data_view subpackage has been introduced to support visualization of hierarchical and non-hierarchical tabular data. See Pyface DataViews section of the user manual for an introduction. Additional examples are also added to the source distribution. Please note that as of this release the API is provisional.

• A new pyface.color.Color class and a corresponding pyface.ui_traits.PyfaceColor trait type have been introduced to support representing colors via a toolkit independent API. See Trait Types section of the user manual for further details.

Detailed changes

More than 70 PRs went into this release. Thanks to: Aaron Ayres, Ieva Cernyte, Mark Dickinson, Kit Yan Choi, Rahul Poruri, Corran Webster

Note that the following list is not exhaustive. Some PRs references have been omitted.

Features

• Add pyface.data_view subpackage for visualizing hierarchical and non-hierarchical data. (#619, #661, #682, #683, #694, #709)
• Add Color and PyfaceColor trait type. (#608, #710, #703)

Fixes

• Use availableGeometry for screen size in Qt to match TraitsUI behavior (#727)
• Fix deprecation warnings from Qt SystemMetrics (#719)
• Fix QFontMetrics.width deprecation warning. (#715)
• Remove border for heading text in Qt. (#692)
• Replacing ListItemAttr with ItemAttr to avoid deprecation warning. (#670)
• Fix wx/linux clipboard test failures. (#676)

Build and continuous integration

• Add CI job targeting traits 6.0. (#656)
• Fix extras_requires for PyQt5. (#659)
• Updated edm version in travis and appveyor config files. (#618)

Documentation

• Add documentation for the new PyfaceColor trait and Color class. (#710)
• Add documentation for DataView. (#543, #574, #763)
• Remove all enaml examples. (#652)
• Fix some Sphinx warnings while building documentation. (#769)

Maintenance and code organization

• Disconnect slots to Qt signals when cleaning up widgets. (#536, #542, #540)
• Disconnect trait change handlers when cleaning up ApplicationWindow widgets. (#541)
• Remove conditionals on python version. (#635)
• Remove a print call in test. (#657)
• Remove all of the u prefix on strings. (#604)
• Use collections.abc instead of collections. (#477)
• Use unittest discover for running tests. (#515)

This is a bugfix release which fixes a number of minor issues with the 7.0.0 release.

Thanks to: Aaron Ayres, Kit Choi, Rahul Poruri, Pedro Rivotti, Corran Webster.

Fixes

• Fix copyright header in AboutDialog. (#573)
• Fix dock pane layout on Qt5. (#545)
• Fix errors from incorrect QImage memory management. (#546)
• Fix CodeWidget handling of parsed tokens which caused TraitsUI CodeEditor to fail when a different lexer was chosen (#566).