This release introduces a number of new features and bugfixes. The most prominent of these is a set of Application classes designed to smooth the transition between Tasks applications which use only Pyface, and those that take advantage of the Envisage plug-in framework. Developers can now write a Pyface TasksApplication and then easily transition to an Envisage TasksApplication as the needs of their codebase grows. This feature has been a few years in development, and thanks is due to Jonathan Rocher for helping push this through to completion.
This release also includes a complete re-write of the Pyface timer code to make it easier to use and to provide a consistent and more Pythonic API shared by the different back-ends. A backwards compatible API is still available, but users of the Pyface timer code are encouraged to update to the new API.
ToolBars can now embed simple widgets, such as text fields, integer spinners, and comboboxes, as well as simple TraitsUI views. This is provided via a new "widget" style for Actions as well as the utility subclasses FieldAction and TraitsUIWidgetAction.
Although not visible to most users of Pyface, this release removes the use of 2to3 and now uses a unified codebase supported by the six library. Thanks to Rahul Poruri for performing this transformation. This should help significantly with ongoing development work in the coming years.
We also include experimental support for PySide2 (also called "Qt for Python"). We are running CI tests using the 5.11 release of PySide2 with success on OS X and Linux for Python 3, but are experiencing failures with the 5.12 release.
Finally, this release includes a number of bugfixes and minor enhancements which should improve the reliability and utility of the codebase.
Thanks to:
Martin Bergtholdt, Mark Dickinson, Robert Kern, Eric Larson, Gregory Lee,
Eric McDonald, Rahul Poruri, Jonathan Rocher, Hamdi Sahloul, Roger Serwy,
Brian Teague, Corran Webster, John Wiggins.
Apologies to any contributors that have been omitted.
Change summary
Enhancements
- Application classes (#334, #355, #345)
- New API for Timers (#340, #365)
- Support simple widgets in toolbars (#359, #360, #368)
- Experimental support of Pyside2 (#318, #335, #358)
- Support single codebase for Python 2 and 3 (#322, #351, #369, #370)
- Support ui dispatch for Traits even if TraitsUI not available (#363)
Fixes
- Fix context menu behaviour (#356)
- Remove TraitsUI dependency in GuiTestAssistant (#366)
- Fixes for ProgressDialog (#357)
- Fixes for toolbar and statusbar life cycles (#332)
- Fixes for CI (#342)
- Fix usages of event_loop() in tests (#336)
- Fix SplitEditorAreaPane tab dragging on Qt5 (#327)
- Fix resource warnings in test suite from un-closed files (#326)
- Remove uses of deprecated HasTraits.set() method (#320)
- Add Qt5 support for deprecated Qt Style options that Mayavi needs (#323)
- Various fixes around Qt API selection (#319, #344, #347, #371, #376, #381)
- Fixes for setup.py (#380)