tui-rs v0.9.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-04-14 // almost 4 years ago
  • ๐Ÿ”‹ Features

    • Introduce stateful widgets, i.e widgets that can take advantage of keeping some state around between two draw calls (#210 goes a bit more into the details).
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Allow a Table row to be selected. ```rust // State initialization let mut state = TableState::default();

    // In the terminal.draw closure let header = ["Col1", "Col2", "Col"]; let rows = [ Row::Data(["Row11", "Row12", "Row13"].into_iter()) ]; let table = Table::new(header.into_iter(), rows.into_iter()); f.render_stateful_widget(table, area, &mut state);

    // In response to some event: state.select(Some(1));

    * โž• Add a way to choose the type of border used to draw a block. You can now
    choose from plain, rounded, double and thick lines.
    * โž• Add a `graph_type` property on the `Dataset` of a `Chart` widget. By
    0๏ธโƒฃ default it will be `Scatter` where the points are drawn as is. An other
    option is `Line` where a line will be draw between each consecutive points
    of the dataset.
    * ๐Ÿ’… Style methods are now const, allowing you to initialize const `Style`
    objects.
    * ๐Ÿ‘Œ Improve control over whether the legend in the `Chart` widget is shown or
    not. You can now set custom constraints using
    `Chart::hidden_legend_constraints`.
    * โž• Add `Table::header_gap` to add some space between the header and the first
    row.
    * โœ‚ Remove `log` from the dependencies
    * โž• Add a way to use a restricted set of unicode symbols in several widgets to
    ๐Ÿ‘Œ improve portability in exchange of a degraded output. (see `BarChart::bar_set`,
    `Sparkline::bar_set` and `Canvas::marker`). You can check how the
    `--enhanced-graphics` flag is used in the demos.
    
    ### ๐Ÿ’ฅ Breaking Changes
    
    * `Widget::render` has been deleted. You should now use `Frame::render_widget`
    to render a widget on the corresponding `Frame`. This makes the `Widget`
    implementation totally decoupled from the `Frame`.
    ```rust
    // Before
    Block::default().render(&mut f, size);
    
    // After
    let block = Block::default();
    f.render_widget(block, size);
    
    • Widget::draw has been renamed to Widget::render and the signature has โšก๏ธ been updated to reflect that widgets are consumable objects. Thus the method takes self instead of &mut self. ```rust // Before impl Widget for MyWidget { fn draw(&mut self, area: Rect, buf: &mut Buffer) { } }

    /// After impl Widget for MyWidget { fn render(self, arera: Rect, buf: &mut Buffer) { } }

    * `Widget::background` has been replaced by `Buffer::set_background`
    ```rust
    // Before
    impl Widget for MyWidget {
      fn render(self, arera: Rect, buf: &mut Buffer) {
        self.background(area, buf, self.style.bg);
      }
    }
    
    // After
    impl Widget for MyWidget {
      fn render(self, arera: Rect, buf: &mut Buffer) {
        buf.set_background(area, self.style.bg);
      }
    }
    
    • โšก๏ธ Update the Shape trait for objects that can be draw on a Canvas widgets. Instead of returning an iterator over its points, a Shape is given a Painter object that provides a paint as well as a get_point method. This gives the Shape more information about the surface it will be drawn to. In particular, this change allows the Line shape to use a more precise and efficient drawing algorithm (Bresenham's line algorithm).
    • SelectableList has been deleted. You can now take advantage of the associated ListState of the List widget to select an item. ```rust // Before List::new(&["Item1", "Item2", "Item3"]) .select(Some(1)) .render(&mut f, area);

    // After

    // State initialization let mut state = ListState::default();

    // In the terminal.draw closure let list = List::new(&["Item1", "Item2", "Item3"]); f.render_stateful_widget(list, area, &mut state);

    // In response to some events state.select(Some(1));

    * ๐Ÿšš `widgets::Marker` has been moved to `symbols::Marker`