nionui 0.4.0

Nion UI framework.

Introduction

This is a UI library that can run with a pyqt, PySide2, or nionui-tool backend.

Changelog (nionui)

0.4.0 (2020-08-31)

• Add support for declarative pop-up window (preliminary).

• Improve key handling in list widget.

• Improve handling of slider value to avoid update cycles in multiple sliders bound to same value.

• Spacing in item-bound rows/columns now works.

• Add a declarative image widget.

• Allow custom bindings in declarative handlers.

• Allow binding to push button and check box text content.

• Add support for declarative polymorphic components using get_resource and examples.

• Add support for declarative list box.

• Add support for specifying expanding declarative items (horizontal/vertical-size-policy).

• Add show_ok_dialog and show_ok_cancel_dialog methods to application class.

• Add run_ui to application for running simple declarative windows.

• Add functions for opening file dialogs without a window.

• Add support for adjusting menus at the application level.

• Add function to truncate string to pixel width.

• Add color/font methods to eliminate need for stylesheet properties.

• Improve handling of scrolling when changing list selection.

• Add UI function to retrieve default cursor tolerance for hit testing.

• Add basic notification dialog when actions report warnings/errors.

• Consolidate default behavior (dock windows, window closing, etc.).

• Add backend support for multi-threaded section-serialized rendering.

• Add backend support for section by section drawing for improved performance.

• Add latency display capability with rolling average to backend.

• Fix drawing bugs (nested layers, startup race condition, thread shutdown).

• Introduce action architecture for declarative menus and key bindings.

• Add support for “name” keyword for declarative row and column widgets.

0.3.27 (2020-02-27)

• Fix tool tip handling (incorrect recursive implementation caused UI hangs).

• Add support for layer caching (optimized drawing, part 1).

0.3.26 (2020-01-08)

• Add support for dynamic tool tips in canvas items and list items.

• Change default logging level to INFO (was DEBUG).

• Add ability to register declarative components.

• Add preliminary support for PySide2 (similar to PyQt).

• Add unbind methods to complement all bind methods.

0.3.25 (2019-10-24)

• Add icon to push button. Add binding to both push button text and icon.

• Add binding to enabled/visible/tool_tip and size properties for all declarative elements.

• Fix minor checkbox issue in PyQt.

• Improve ability to handle stacked canvas items during drag and drop.

• Extend list canvas item to support drag and drop on items.

• Fix issues with SVG 1.1 compatibility (use ‘none’ in place of ‘transparent’, opacity).

• Do not select list item if click handled in delegate mouse_pressed_in_item method.

0.3.24 (2019-06-27)

• Fix problem clearing tasks. Add ability to clear queued tasks too.

• Fix problem leaking threads in PyCanvas in PyQt backend.

• Extend sizing policy support.

• Expand capabilities of StringListWidget. Stricter keyword arguments too.

• Implement high quality image rendering in PyQt backend.

0.3.23 (2019-04-17)

• Fix byte ordering bug when exporting RGB data to SVG (includes complex data displays).

• Do not automatically using expanding layout when setting min-width or min-height on widget.

• Add ‘expanded’ property to SectionWidget for programmatic control.

• Fix issue to avoid combo box having dangling update after close.

• Fix another issue with closing dynamic components.

0.3.22 (2019-02-27)

• Fix skewing issue drawing raster images with odd widths in pyqt UI.

• Fix issues with dynamic declarative components.

• Keep selection (by index) on combo box, if possible, when replacing items.

0.3.21 (2019-01-07)

• Add 2 pixel margin to tree widget to avoid undesired scrolling behavior.

• Add text edit widget to declarative.

• Allow window show method to specify position and size.

0.3.20 (2018-12-11)

• Fix issue with drawing context when writing RGB data to SVG.

• Load resources using pkgutil to be more compatible with embedding.

• Add bitmap loader based on imageio.

• Improve exception handling in pyqt callbacks to avoid crashes.

0.3.19 (2018-11-28)

• Fix issues with line edits: returns, escapes, and editing finished events.

• Fix issue with menu items being enabled for key shortcuts.

• Add support for window level key handling.

0.3.17 (2018-11-13)

• Add ability to specify width on declarative label, push button, combo box.

• Fix problem comparing keyboard modifiers in pyqt.

• Add text button widget.

• Fix text color in SVG.

0.3.16 (2018-07-23)

• Python 3.7 compatibility (command launcher).

0.3.15 (2018-06-25)

• Fix combo box initialization issue.

0.3.14 (2018-06-18)

• Fix issue with splitters. Also add snapping to 1/3, 1/2, and 2/3 points.

• Fix bugs with PyQt backend (color maps, export image).

0.3.13 (2018-05-18)

• Fix bugs with PyQt backend (gradients).

0.3.12 (2018-05-15)

• DPI aware drawing code.

0.3.11 (2018-05-12)

• Initial version online.

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