[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: vty-ui 0.2

[Jonathan Daugherty]

I'm happy to announce the release of vty-ui 0.2.

Get it from Hackage:

  http://hackage.haskell.org/package/vty-ui

Or get the source with darcs:

  http://repos.codevine.org/vty-ui

This version of vty-ui is everything you hoped it would be: fewer
bugs, more widget types, cleaner code, better abstractions, and more
generality.  If you've written any applications to use vty-ui, only a
few of your type signatures will need to change.

Here's a summary of changes:

General
  * Unify HBorder and VBorder types (now called Border)
  * Unify HFill and VFill types (now called Fill)
  * Unify HBox and VBox types (now called Box)
  * Box layout: layout documentation, edge case bug fixes
  * Widget class: refactor growthPolicy into growHorizontal and
    growVertical
  * Add Graphics.Vty.Widgets.Composed for high-level widget
    compositions
  * Add Graphics.Vty.Widgets.All convenience module to export
    everything in the library

Lists
  * List items may now be of any widget type!
  * Add resize, pageUp, pageDown, scrollBy functions and expose other
    list functionality
  * Generalize scrolling API
  * Add convenience API for using lists of Text widgets
  * Support internal identifiers for list items
  * Always consume scrollWindowSize lines of space even if the list is
    smaller

New widgets
  * WrappedText: automatically wraps text in available space; try
    resizing the demo.
  * Borders module: one-row/one-column ASCII borders between boxed
    widgets; ASCII art box container
  * Demo: use crazy boxed list items to show off border boxes and
    generic widget support in Lists!
  * Demo: support PageUp/PageDown to demonstrate List paging API

Enjoy!

-- 
  Jonathan Daugherty