Traits UI Changelog

Release 7.2.1

TraitsUI 7.2.1 is a bugfix release which updates TraitsUI to explicitly require Traits 6.2+ and Pyface 7.3+.

Build and continuous integration

  • Explicitly require traits 6.2 and pyface 7.3 (#1666, #1668)

Release 7.2.0

TraitsUI 7.2.0 is a minor release which includes numerous bug fixes, documentation improvements, code maintenance changes, and enhancements.

Highlights of this release

  • The migration from on_trait_change to observe is underway. As a result, TraitsUI now requires Traits >= 6.2.

  • New display-only VideoEditor (currently only on Qt backend).

  • Exapnsion of features for the new UITester including the ability to inspect UI object visibility / enabledness. Also documentation for testing has been updated.

Notes on upgrading

  • This release of TraitsUI now depends on Traits 6.2+ and pyface 7.3+. Also, deprecated code / modules have been removed. Namely, the traitsui.image module which was moved to pyface.image, editors_gen modules, Editor and EditorFactory factory methods on Toolkit objects, and more. For a complete list, see PRs in the “Removals” section below. These were all generally unused / deprecated for sometime. Also, importing directly from traitsui.editors has been deprecated. Please update imports to import directly from traitsui.api or traitsui.editors.api.

Detailed changes

Thanks to:

  • Aaron Ayres

  • Kit Yan Choi

  • Mark Dickinson

  • Rahul Poruri

  • Corran Webster

Enhancements

  • Open links externally instead of in the html editor in etsdemo application (#1446)

  • Hide demo tab when the demo is None (#1456)

  • Extract an interface from TargetRegistry to allow wider testing support for IsEnabled (#1490)

  • Expose clearButtonEnabled for Qt TextEditor (#1516)

  • Extend / document secret TreeNode api for passing tuples into add list trait (#1527)

  • Add ‘IsVisible` query class for UI Tester (#1552)

  • Extend button editor to allow dynamically changing button image (#1566)

  • Support testing with simple FileEditor (without dialog) (#1571)

  • Qt VideoEditor (#745, #1609, #1621)

  • Add item_factory callable for specifying creation of new list items (#1634)

Fixes

  • Support HTMLEditor.open_externally on QtWebEngine (#1451)

  • Qt InstanceEditor button should never be the default (#1498)

  • Propagate UI errors to the UI’s parent (#1503)

  • Fix resizable readonly enum editor (#1532)

  • StartStyling API changed for new Wx version (#1536)

  • Don’t use html for a variable name when using html module from standard library (#1540)

  • Label {visible/enabled}_when (#1544)

  • manually set the text format to plain text in error (#1546)

  • Fix RGBColor hex int to tuple color conversion (#1554)

  • Make Scrollable group respect visible_when (#1555)

  • Use correct source_path in example (#1433)

  • Move EnumEditor import in table_filter into the methods that need it (#1616)

Documentation

  • Add a module docstring to the api modules (#1441)

  • Use viewcode sphinx extension (#1443)

  • Add links to API docs in a etsdemo examples for traitsui standard editors (#1445)

  • Clarify which of traitsui.api and traitsui.editors.api is recommended (#1471)

  • traitsui.testing documentation updates (#1482, #1483, #1485, #1486, #1487, #1488)

  • Fix link label to the documentation home page (#1489)

  • Document enabled_when / visible_when better (#1537)

  • Document entries parameter not supported qt for FileEditor/DirectoryEditor (#1557

  • Add script to regenerate screenshots of editors for documentation (#1574)

  • Remove unused images in docs (#1584)

  • replace # with #: to document traits in traitsui.editors.* (#1596)

  • User facing docs for VideoEditor (#1630)

  • Format code examples in the user documentation (#1640)

Build and continuous integration

  • Fix cron job not installing additional dependencies (#1427)

  • Remove job on Travis for testing against Traits 6.0 (#1430)

  • Drop Python 3.5 support in TraitsUI (#1436)

  • Declare Python 3.5 not supported for ets-demo (#1437)

  • Fix link for installing wxPython on CI (for etsdemo) (#1491)

  • Add GitHub Actions to test against EDM (#1492)

  • Add GitHub Actions workflow for testing ets-demo (#1496)

  • Use EDM 3.2.3 instead of EDM 3.2.1 (#1548)

  • Drop support for PyQt < 4.3.2 (#1607)

  • Remove CI test against Traits 6.0 (#1637)

  • explicitly install swig 3.0.12 for cron job (#1652)

Test suite

  • Refactor and extend tests for Qt HTMLEditor handling of opening links (#1465)

  • Update new test_editor_error_msg (#1553)

  • Unskip “EnumEditor” tests that were failing earlier on windows (#1615)

  • skip video editor test without numpy / move numpy import to when it is needed / list numpy as test dependency (#1639)

  • skip test if no QtWebkit or QtWebEngine (#1649)

  • skip a couple wx test failures (#1656)

Maintenance and code organization

  • Add pygments to etsdemo’s etstool.py (#1453)

  • Add help aliases to etsdemo etstool module (#1457)

  • Fix/Update copyright headers (#1467, #1486)

  • work towards flake8 clean codebase (#1469, #1562, #1563)

  • Remove meaningless comments from an outdated coding style. (#1472)

  • Remove clause that deviates from PEP8 backward compatibility convention in the testing package (#1481)

  • Formal editor interface for tooltips (#1493

  • Add instance choice classes to traitsui.api (#1495)

  • Undo/Redo cleanup (#1510)

  • start on_trait_change to observe migration (#1519, #1520, #1523, #1525, #1545, #1622, #1644)

  • Refactor TreeEditor _new_actions and _menu_new_node to avoid hacky eval (#1524)

  • Refactor _add_items method of _GroupPanel object (#1549)

  • Add new trait to eventually replace scroll_to_row_hint (#1560)

  • Add ‘default’: True to the etsdemo eam metadata (#1568)

  • update “super” usage (#1583, #1587, #1588, #1589, #1604)

  • Use “str.capitalize” directly instead of an alias (#1598)

  • Use “PrefixList” from traits >= 6.1 (#1599)

  • Update use of deprecated “Thread.setDaemon” (#1601)

  • Replace deprecated “wx.ListItemAttr” with “wx.ItemAttr” (#1602)

  • Adds “traitsui.toolkit.toolkit_object” to “traitsui.api” (#1603)

  • Import “TraitFactory” from “traits.api” (#1606)

  • Rename editor factory classes (#1610)

  • Cleanup imports in “traitsui.editors.*” (#1619)

Removals

  • Remove deprecated classes/modules (#1594)

  • remove traitsui.image submodule (#1595)

  • Remove Editor and EditorFactory factory methods on Toolkit objects (#1600)

  • Remove backwards compatibility toolkit factory imports (#1608)

  • Remove unused “Item.full_size” trait (#1613)

  • Remove code handling old/outdated versions of wx (#1614)

  • Remove unused editors_gen modules (#1626)

Release 7.1.1

This is a bugfix release that fixes a number of issues since the 7.1.0 release. Thanks to Corran Webster and Kit Choi for the patches.

Fixes

  • Fix scrollable trait of a Group not being implemented on Qt (#1406)

  • Fix icon button’s clickable area too small for FileEditor and RangeEditor on Qt and OSX (#1383)

  • Fix missing minimize and maximize buttons for dialogs opened on certain Linux platforms (#1409)

Release 7.1.0

TraitsUI 7.1.0 is a minor feature release which introduces a new testing library and a number of significant fixes. Demo examples are also distributed as package data such that they are visible via the “etsdemo” GUI application (to be installed separately).

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

Highlights of this release

  • A new traitsui.testing.api module has been introduced for testing GUI applications built using TraitsUI. See Testing TraitsUI Applications for an introduction. Builtin support has been added for testing several TraitsUI editors. More support will be added in the future.

  • On OSX and Qt, there have been reports of missing UI view updates after a push button is clicked. While this is suspected to be a Qt issue, changes have been made to ButtonEditor, SetEditor and ImageEnumEditor to mitigate the situation.

  • The internal logic for disposing an instance of UI is changed as an attempt to resolve AttributeError that occurs while a nested UI is removed.

Notes on upgrading

  • On the issue about Qt button not causing views to update on OSX, projects that have been working around the issue by adding GUI().process_events() (or similar) in their applications may now try to remove those workarounds. However, the change that mitigates the issue in a production environment has implications for tests: The button’s click slot is no longer invoked immediately but always invoked by the Qt GUI event loop. Tests that used to call the Qt button click method directly and rely on the event to happen immediately will now need to update their tests to ensure that the click slot is processed by the Qt GUI event loop in the same order as before. Consider using the new testing library which automatically runs the GUI event loop after each interaction (e.g. mouse click).

Future removals

  • traitsui.image has been moved to pyface.image more than 3 years ago and has since been deprecated. Previously it was scheduled to be removed in TraitsUI 6.0. This planned removal is now deferred to TraitsUI 7.2.

Detailed changes

More than 100 PRs went into this release. Thanks to:

  • Aaron Ayres

  • Ieva Cerny

  • Kit Yan Choi

  • Mark Dickinson

  • James Johnson

  • Eric Larson

  • Rahul Poruri

  • Jonathan Rocher

  • Kuya Takami

  • Ioannis Tziakos

  • Corran Webster

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

Features

  • Add UITester for testing TraitsUI applications (#1107, #1157, #1171, #1175, #1179, #1201, #1207, #1269)

Fixes

  • Fix AttributeError when a nested UI is disposed (#1286)

  • Fix wx error due to use of alignment flag wxEXPAND (#1095)

  • Fix ButtonEditor not causing other widgets to update on OSX and Qt (#1303)

  • Fix ImageEnumEditor button not causing other updates on OSX (#1326)

  • Fix SetEditor on Qt and OSX not updating view after button clicks (#1325)

  • Fix for menu actions with on_perform being performed twice (#1199)

  • Fix deprecation warnings from Traits 6.1 due to the use of PrefixList (#1053)

  • Fix deprecation warnings from using HasTraits.trait_get (#1062)

  • Fix deprecation warnings from using QDesktopWidget.availableGeometry (#1311)

  • Fix deprecation warnings from using logging.warn (#1165)

  • Fix deprecation warnings from using ABC in collections (#1103, #1129)

Documentation

  • Make demo examples as package data (#1088)

  • Add UITester documentation in User Manual (#1263)

  • Add Developer Guide with internals on the testing package (#1314)

  • Fix warnings in demo examples documentation (#1378)

  • Generate API documentation automatically (#1368)

Build and continuous integration

  • Add a CI job for testing against traits 6.0 (#1108)

  • Move MacOS CI build from Travis to Appveyor (#1160)

  • Add flake8 task to CI with exclusions (#1222)

  • Explicitly declare additional dependencies for demo examples (#1147)

  • Explicitly require a minimum version for Traits (#1323)

Maintenance and code organization

  • Relax constraint on PySide2 version (#1146)

  • Update edm version in travis and appveyor config files (#1049)

  • Resolve warnings in tests from QItemSelectionModel with Qt5 (#1041)

  • Improve how we capture and re-raise errors in GUI tests (#1099)

  • Replace screen metrics code with Pyface implementation (#1322)

  • Fix deprecation warnings from certain usage of QDateTime in tests (#1310)

  • Add a new shell command to etstool.py (#1244)

Release 7.0.1

This is a bugfix release that fixes a number of issues since the 7.0.0 release. It includes fixes to various editors, improvements to tests and fixes to the demo application.

Thanks to Ieva Cerny, Kit Choi, Mark Dickinson, Robert Kern, Eric Larson, Federico Miorelli, Joris Vankerschaver, Corran Webster.

Fixes

  • Fix error from true division of integers for Qt RangeEditor and BoundsEditor (#999, #1000)

  • Fix handling of minimum and maximum datetimes in Qt DatetimeEditor (#803)

  • Fix error in wx TabularEditor (#969)

  • Fix wx panel error due to alignments (#829)

  • Fix various issues in the demo application (#799, #808)

  • Fix format_func not used when EnumEditor is initialized with static values (#848)

  • Fix demo application description (#850)

  • Fix auto-add functionality in ListStrModel (#860)

  • Fix segmentation fault for TabularModel (#871, #873)

  • Fix event handling in ListStrEditor and TabularEditor for adding and removing items (#875)

  • Fix TabularAdapter crashes when column number reduces (#897)

  • Fix theme pickling issue (#915)

  • Fix error from example’s tutor.py script (#813)

Documentation

  • Add links from TabularEditor and TreeEditor to adapter documentation (#917)

Tests

  • Rewrite nose tests to unittest (#809)

  • Use unittest discover instead of nose.core (#810)

  • Add more tests for EnumEditor (#836)

  • Add CheckListEditor tests (#837)

  • Add SetEditor tests (#838)

  • Add ImageEnumEditor tests (#845)

  • Add more ListStrEditor tests (#869)

  • Add more TabularEditor tests (#874)

  • Make sure all UI in tests are disposed (#865)

  • Add tests for layout and labels using any non-null toolkits (#846)

Release 7.0.0

TraitsUI 7.0.0 is a major release which focuses on modernization of the codebase. This release includes updating the WxPython backend to support WxPython 4, an effort led by Rob McMullen’s first cut at support, with help from a number of other people, particularly Per Brodtkorb. It also updates the code to use new features of Traits 6, and just like Traits 6, this release drops support for Python 2.

In addition to the modernization, this code fixes many bugs and adds some useful new features, including:

  • a DatetimeEditor to go with the new Datetime trait in Traits 6

  • an API to add placeholder text to a TextEditor

  • support for the LEDEditor in Qt

Finally, the documentation has been improved, adding sections about some of the internals of the TraitsUI mechanisms. Additionally, the Examples, Demos and Tutorials have been improved and cleaned-up, including fixing and unifying the demo viewer codebase.

Thanks to Per Brodtkorb, Christian Brodbeck, Kit Choi, Mark Dickinson, Matt Hancock, Sandhya Govindaraju, Midhun Madhusoodanan, Rob McMullen, Shoeb Mohammed, Eric Olsen, Roberto Preste, reckoner, Jonathan Rocher, Scott Talbert, Corran Webster.

Enhancements

  • Documentation improvements (#720, #724, #723, #778)

  • WxPython 4 compatibility and support (#708, #736, #762, #772, #775, #776)

  • Traits 6 compatibility and enhancements (#689, #690, #693, #695, #713, #727, #770)

  • Style improvements (#648, #771)

  • Add placeholder text option for TextEditor (#735)

  • Examples clean-up and unification (#697, #702, #703, #705, #711, #712, #777)

  • Add a DatetimeEditor (#719, #730)

  • Refactor and clean-up of base Editor class (#685, #686, #688)

  • Remove use of Category classes from TraitsUI (#654)

  • Add LEDEditor for Qt (#635)

  • Add ‘docs’ command to etstool.py (#624)

  • Add TabularAdapter to traitsui.api (#627)

  • Enhancements to CI and testing (#683, #714, #740)

Fixes

  • Documentation fixes (#546, #766)

  • Fix cgi.escape for Python 3.8 (#780)

  • Log exceptions in table sorting (#751)

  • Use TupleEditor for traits derived from BaseTuple (#747)

  • Fixes for Undo/Redo (#733)

  • Add explicit redraw for TableEditor selection (#721)

  • Fixes for Qt5 support (#709)

  • Fix bugs in color functions (#707, #744)

  • Fix importing of ProgressColumn and EditColumn (#691)

  • Set initial focus item correctly in Qt (#602)

  • Fix text elision test on some platforms (#644)

  • Fix a bug with TableEditor column clicking (#669)

  • Fix typo in progress column exception (#662)

Release 6.1.3

A bugfix release that fixes a number of issues discovered since the 6.1.2 release. In particular this fixes a number of issues around the TableEditor and TabularEditor for the Qt toolkit which didn’t match the advertised behaviour in the documentation.

Thanks to Qi Chen, Vladimir Chukharev, Mark Dickinson, Sandhya Govindaraju, Maxwell Grady, Scott Maddox, Sean Parsons, Rahul Poruri, Corran Webster.

Fixes

  • Add “bool” to allowed types for TableColumn (#656)

  • Fix tabular editor column widths (#652)

  • Fix setting valus in DataFrameEditor (#651)

  • Allow ‘…’ in addition to ellipsis in text elision (#644)

  • Handle invalid values in RangeEditor better (#637)

  • Fix multi-select in Qt TabularEditor (#633)

  • Fix call to Bind in Wx FileEditor (#628)

  • Fixes to doc links in tutorial (#619)

  • Remove 3.5 from test matrix (#615)

  • Ensure etstool.py has consistent default Python versions (#614)

  • Fix typos in comments for table editor (#610)

  • Comprehensive tests for the base Editor object (#609)

  • Fix ContextValue __init__ method (#607)

  • Fix tutor.py in examples for Python 3 (#603)

  • Set initial item focus correctly on Qt (#602)

  • Make View and UI icons an Image trait (#600)

  • Fix TableEditor styling for Qt (#597)

Release 6.1.2

A bugfix release that fixes a number of issues discovered since the 6.1.1 release. In particular this fixes a couple of issues that impacted the usability of Mayavi.

Thanks to Mark Dickinson, Maxwell Grady, Prabhu Ramachandran, Matt Reay, Ajeet Vivekanandan, Corran Webster, John Wiggins.

Fixes

  • Fix tree node copy failure to copy (#590)

  • Fix/scroll to row preserve column (#588)

  • Call correct object on label change for TreeNodeObject (#586)

  • Remove uses of etsdevtools (#577)

  • Fix modal view application (#574)

  • Remove unicode usage (#572)

  • Update Travis CI configuration to be compatible with Ubuntu Xenial. (#569)

  • Build CI on maintenance branches (#567)

  • Fix an erroneous handler removal (#566)

  • Fix the sizeHint() default for TreeItemDelegate (#565).

  • Update unittest import (#564)

Release 6.1.1

A bugfix release to correct some critical issues with the TreeEditor.

Fixes

  • Fix TreeNodeObject listener cache (#558).

  • Fix tree node insertion (#561).

Release 6.1.0

This is an incremental release without many new features, but with significant improvements in the code base and numerous small bugfixes. Probably the most significant change, but one not obvious to most users is that we have moved away from using 2to3 for Python 3 support to using a single codebase with the six library to patch over the differences. This significantly enhances maintainability and development speed, and gives a better path forward for future Python versions.

Additionally, this release introduces experimental support for PySide2 (also known as “Qt for Python”). Pyside2 was enabled as a potential backend in 6.0.0 but there was no testing being performed. As of this release PySide2 is now tested as part of the CI system with tests passing on Linux and OS X using the 5.11 release. There are currently issues with the 5.12 release which have yet to be fully investigated.

The one significant new feature that has been added to this release is the ability to completely replace the rendering of TreeEditorNodes with custom rendering code on Qt (due to the limitations of the Wx tree control, this is unlikely to be extended to Wx). An example showing the drawing of sparkline plots in TreeEditor cells has been added to the code demos.

There has been a long-standing issue with the way that the Qt TableEditor handled selections, and this release fixes this, matching the behaviour of the Wx backend and the documentation. It is possible that this may break code that was written expecting the buggy behaviour.

Finally, there are a large number of minor bug fixes

Thanks to:

Martin Bergtholdt, Stefano Borini, Alex Chabot, Kit Choi, Mark Dickinson, Kevin Duff, Matthew Evans, Matt Hancock, Robert Kern, Fede Miorelli, Rahul Poruri, Jenni Portman, Prabhu Ramachandran, @ransonr, Jonathan Rocher, Roger Serwy, Ajeet Vivekanandan, Corran Webster, John Wiggins.

Enhancemenrs

  • Switch to using six instead of 2to3 (#482, #484, #486, #498, #531).

  • Experimental Pyside2 support (#451, #500, #504).

  • Allow arbitrary rendering of tree nodes in Qt backend (#499, #502, #527).

  • Use tooltip metadata on a trait instead of desc, if available (#473).

  • Enable scroll to column for TabularEditor (#547)

  • Add demo for tabular editor with context menu (#460).

  • Allow the use of extended trait names in TreeNodes where possible (#500, #528).

  • Allow drag move and drag copy modes on Qt TabularEditor (#363).

Fixes

  • Fixes to README (#478).

  • Documentation fixes (#471, #508).

  • Fixes to setup.py (#549).

  • Fix an attribute error on Qt TextRangeEditor (#540).

  • Use SimpleEditor for Qt TextEditor’s “text” style (#535).

  • Fix handling of Range traits with a mix of constant and named bounds (#533).

  • Fix display selection on Wx backend (#534).

  • Fixes for Qt TableEditor selections (#275).

  • Fix deprecation warnings for inspect.getargspec (#530).

  • Fixes to etstool (#526).

  • Fix TreeEditor unhashable type errors (#525).

  • Fix crash when TabularEditor has no columns (#521).

  • Clone editor factories so they don’t share traits (#519).

  • Avoid creation of dummy traits by springy items (#515).

  • Fix drag and drop crash in Python 3 (#516).

  • Fix Undo/Redo for readonly items and error handling (#510).

  • Fix source parsing in demo app (#501).

  • Fix signature of close() method of Qt modal dialog (#506).

  • Fix incorrect code in Wx ColorEditor (#479).

  • Fix incorrect code in Wx ProgressEditor (#513).

  • Remove uses of deprecated HasTraits.set() calls (#457).

  • Fix rendering of CheckboxColumn on OS X and Qt (#456).

Release 6.0.0

This release introduces preliminary support for Qt5 via PyQt5, thanks to the work of Gregor Thalhammer which got the ball rolling. Qt5 support is not yet robustly tested in deployed applications, so there may yet be bugs to find. As part of this effort all occurences of old-style signals and slots have been removed; and this has greatly improved stability under Qt.

This release also features a great deal of work at the API level to disentangle the two-way dependencies between Pyface and TraitsUI. This has involved moving a number of sub-packages between the two libraries, most notably the zipped image resource support and a number of trait definitions. We have endeavored to keep backwards compatibility via stub modules in the original locations, but we can’t guarantee that there will be no issues with third party code caused by the change in locations. We haven’t been able to remove all dependencies, but as of this release on the dock and workbench submodules have required dependencies on TraitsUI.

As part of the latter work, support for TraitsUI Themes have been removed. This was a feature that was only available under WxPython, was slow, was never used in production code, and was not supported for over a decade. Some of the codebase remains as it is still used by the Pyface Dock infrastructure and several editors, but ther long-term intention is to remove this completely.

Another long-desired feature was the ability to write toolkit backends for Pyface and TraitsUI that are not part of the main codebase. This is now possible by contributing new toolkit backends to the “traitsui.toolkit” pkg_resources entry point in a setup.py. This work was accompanied by an overhaul of the toolkit discovery and loading infrastructure; in particular Pyface and TraitsUI now share the same code for performing these searches and loading the backends.

The entire TraitsUI codebase has been run through the AutoPEP8, assisted with some customized fixups and occasional drive-by cleanups of code, which means that the codebase is generally easier to read and follows modern Python conventions.

Finally, the testing infrastructure has been overhauled to provide a one-stop location to run tests in self-contained environments using Enthought’s EDM package management tool. Tests can be run from any python environment with the “edm” command available and the “click” library installed with the “etstool.py” script at the top level of the repository. In particular:

python etstool.py test_all

will run all relevant tests for all available toolkits in all supported python versions. The TravisCI and Appveyor continuous integration tools have been updated to make use of these facilities as well.

Thanks to Martin Bergtholdt, Alex Chabot, Kit Choi, Mark Dickinson, Robin Dunn, Pradyun Gedam, Robert Kern, Marika Murphy, Pankaj Pandey, Steve Peak, Prabhu Ramachandran, Jonathan Rocher, John Thacker, Gregor Thalhammer, Senganal Thirunavukkarasu, John Tyree, Ioannis Tziakos, Alona Varshal, Corran Webster, John Wiggins

Enhancements

  • Support for Qt5 (#347, #352, #350, #433)

  • Remove TraitsUI Themes (#342)

  • Improve Toolkit selection and handling (#425, #429)

  • API Documentation (#438)

  • Adapter documentation (#340)

  • Support multi-selection in DataFrameEditor (#413)

  • DataFrameEditor demo (#444)

  • Common BasePanel class for toolkits (#392)

  • Labels honor enable_when values (#401)

  • Better error messages when toolkit doesn’t implement methods (#391)

  • Improve TraitsUI Action handling (#384)

  • ListEditor UI improvements (#338, #396, #395)

  • Remove old style signals and slots for Qt backend (#330, #346, #347, #403)

  • Expose a “refresh” trait for the DataFrameEditor (#288)

  • Use Enthought Deployment Manager to automate CI and testing (#321, #357)

  • Continuous integration on OS X (#322)

  • Reduce circular dependencies of Pyface on TraitsUI (#304)

  • PEP8-compliant formatting of source (#290)

  • Add progress bar column for TableEditor (#287)

  • Add codecov coverage reports (#285, #328)

Fixes

  • Fix some issues for newer WxPython (#418)

  • Fix Wx simple FileEditor (#426)

  • Fixes for DataFrameEditor (#415)

  • Fixes for preferences state saving under Qt (#410, #447)

  • Fix panel state after setting preferences (#253)

  • Fix TableEditor ColorColumn (#399)

  • Prevent loopback from slider in Qt RangeEditor (#400)

  • Fix Action buttons under Qt (#393, #394)

  • Fix ValueEditor icons (#386)

  • Fix bug in update_object (#379)

  • Avoid reading Event trait values in sync_value (#375)

  • Fix raise_to_debug calls (#362, #372)

  • Fix errors during garbage collection (#359)

  • Remove unused argument in wx.hook_events (#360)

  • Fix button label updates (#358)

  • Fix TreeEditor label updates (#335)

  • Proper InstanceEditor dialog lifecycle (#332)

  • Don’t explicitly destroy child widgets under Qt (#283)

  • Test fixes and improvements (#329, #369, #371, #327)

  • Fixes for demos and examples (#320, #445)

  • Fix CheckListEditor string comparison (#318)

  • Remove some spurious print statements (#305)

  • Documentation fixes (#301, #326, #380, #438, #443)

  • Fixes for Python 3 compatibility (#295, #300, #165, #311, #410)

  • Fix error with Qt table model mimetype (#296)

  • Fixes for continuous integration (#299, #345, #365, #397, #420, #427)

  • Fix offset issue when dragging from Qt TreeEditor (#293)

  • Fix Wx kill-focus event issues (#291)

  • Fix readthedocs build (#281)

Release 5.2.0

Enhancements

  • Add support for multi-select in the DataFrameEditor (#413).

Release 5.1.0

Enhancements

  • Enthought Sphinx Theme Support (#219)

  • Allow hiding groups in split layouts on Qt (#246)

  • Allow subclass of Controller to set a default model (#255)

  • Add toolbar in Qt UI panel (#263)

Fixes

  • Fix Qt TableEditor segfault on editing close (#277)

  • Update tree nodes when adding children to am empty tree (#251)

  • Change default backend from Wx to Qt (#254, #256)

  • Improve toolkit selection (#259)

  • Fix capturing the mouse and click events on Wx (#265, #266)

  • Remove duplicated traits in NotebookEditor (#268)

  • Fix exception during disposal of ListStrEditor (#270)

  • Version number in documentation (#273)

Release 5.0.0

This release features experimental support for Python 3 with the Qt toolkit!

This is based in large part on the work of Yves Delley and Pradyun Gedam, but also owes a lot to Ioannis Tziakos for implementing container-based continuous integration and Prabhu Ramachandran and Corran Webster for tracking down last-minute bugs. Python 3 support is probably not yet ready for production use, but feedback and bug reports are welcome, and all future pull requests will be expected to work with Python 3.4 and later. Python 3 support requires Traits 4.5 or greater, and Pyface 5.0 or greater.

In addition, this release includes fixes to support wxPython 3.0 and deprecates wxPython 2.6. Thanks to Robin Dunn for providing these improvements.

This release also introduces a DataFrameEditor which provides a tabular view of a Pandas DataFrame, similar to the existing ArrayViewEditor.

There are also a number of bug fixes and minor improvements detailed below.

Finally, this release changes the default GUI toolkit from Wx to Qt. This changes the behaviour of the library in the case where both WxPython and PyQt/PySide are installed and the user or code doesn’t specify the toolkit to use explicitly.

New Features

  • Experimental Python 3 support (#230)

  • A DataFrameEditor for Pandas DataFrames, similar to the ArrayViewEditor (#196)

Enhancements

  • Change the default backend from Wx to Qt (#212)

  • Add a Qt version of the ProgressEditor (#217)

  • Links to demos in the documentation (#159)

  • Add minimal support for the dock_styles option to the Qt tabbed List Editor. (#143)

Fixes

  • Fix failure to disconnect selection listeners for ListStrEditor in Qt (#223)

  • Fix layout of TextEditors in some situations (#216)

  • Fix removal of _popEventHandlers not owned by TraitsUI in Wx (#215)

  • Remove some old (TraitsUI 3.0-era) documentation (#214)

  • Help button now works on Qt (#160)

Release 4.5.1

Fixes

  • Fix pypi installation problem (#206)

Release 4.5.0

Fixes

  • Application-modal Traits UI dialogs are correctly styled as application-modal under Qt. On Macs, they will now appear as independent windows rather than drop-down sheets. (#164)

  • Qt CodeEditor now honors ‘show_line_numbers’ and the ‘readonly’ style (#137)

  • Deprecated implements declaration removed, use provides instead (#152)

  • Fix TableEditor so that Qt.QSplitter honors ‘orientation’ trait (#171)

  • Show row labels in Qt TableEditor when requested (#176)

  • Fix TupleEditor so that multiple change events are not fired (#179)

  • Numpy dependency is now optional. ArrayEditor will not be available

    if numpy cannot be imported (#181)

  • Add development versioning (#200)

Release 4.4.0

The biggest change in this release is support for the new adaptation mechanism in Traits 4.4.0. Other than that, there are a number of other minor changes, improvements and bugfixes.

Corran Webster (corranwebster on GitHub) is now maintainer of TraitsUI.

Change summary since 4.3.0

New Features

  • Changes for new Traits adaptation mechanism support (#113)

Enhancements

  • Add Travis-CI support.

  • Remove the use of the deprecated PySimpleApp under Wx and several other improvements. (#107)

  • Improvements to Qt TabularEditor, TableEditor and TreeEditor drag and drop support. Should be roughly on par with Wx support. No API changes. (#124, #126, #129, #135)

  • Improvements to PyMimeData coercion to better handle lists of items. (#127)

Fixes

  • Fixes item selection issue #133 in ListStrEditor under Wx 2.9 (#137)

  • Fixes to avoid asking for value of a Delegated Event (#123 and #136)

  • Fix drag image location for Qt TreeEditor (#132)

  • Qt TreeEditor supports bg and fg colors and column labels correctly. (#131)

  • Fix ListEditor under PySide (#125)

  • remove event handlers before window destruction in Wx. Required for Wx 2.9. (#108)

There are currently some other unlisted changes going back some time before this file was created.

Traits 3.5.0 (Oct 15, 2010)

Enhancements

  • adding support for drop-down menu in Button traits, but only for qt backend

  • adding ‘show_notebook_menu’ option to ListEditor so that the user can right-click and show or hide the context menu (Qt)

  • added selection range traits to make it possible for users to replace selected text

Fixes

  • fixed null color editor to work with tuples

  • bug when opening a view with the ToolbarButton

Traits 3.4.0 (May 26, 2010)

Enhancements

  • adding new example to make testing rgb color editor easier

Fixes

  • fixed NumericColumn to not expect object to have model_selection attribute, and removed more dead theming code

  • fixed API bugs with the NumericColumn where its function signatures differed from its base class, but the calling code expected them to all be the same

  • fixed bug which was related to type name errors caused when running Sphinx

  • when using File(exists=True), be sure to validate the type of the value first before using os.path.isfile()

Traits 3.3.0 (Feb 24, 2010)

Enhancements

The major enhancement this release is that the entire Traits package has been changed to use relative imports so that it can be installed as a sub-package inside another larger library or package. This was not previously possible, since the various modules inside Traits would import each other directly through “traits.[module]”. Many thanks to Darren Dale for the patch.

Fixes

There have been numerous minor bugfixes since the last release. The most notable ones are:

  • Many fixes involve making Traits UI more robust if wxPython is not installed on a system. In the past, we have been able to use Qt if it was also installed, but removing Wx would lead to a variety of little bugs in various places. We’ve squashed a number of these. We’ve also added better checks to make sure we’re selecting the right toolkit at import and at runtime.

  • A nasty cyclic reference was discovered and eliminated in DelegatesTo traits.

  • The Undefined and Uninitialized Traits were made into true singletons.

  • Much of the inconsistent formatting across the entire Traits source has been eliminated and normalized (tabs/spaces, line endings).

Traits 3.2.0 (July 15, 2009)

Enhancements

  • Implemented editable_labels attribute in the TabularEditor for enabling editing of the labels (i.e. the first column)

  • Saving/restoring window positions works with multiple displays of different sizes

  • New ProgressEditor

  • Changed default colors for TableEditor

  • Added support for HTMLEditor for QT backend using QtWebKit

  • Improved support for opening links in external browser from HTMLEditor

  • Added support for TabularEditor for QT backend

  • Added support for marking up the CodeEditor, including adding squiggles and dimming lines

  • Added SearchEditor

  • Improved unicode support

  • Changed behavior of RangeEditor text box to not auto-set

  • Added support in RangeEditor for specifying the method to evaluate new values.

  • Add DefaultOverride editor factory courtesy Stéfan van der Walt

  • Removed sys.exit() call from SaveHandler.exit()

Fixes