enthought/pyface 7.1.0

Pyface 7.1.0

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Pyface 7.1.0 introduces a few new features and fixes to deprecation warnings.
There are also internal cleanups to Qt signal connection logic that should be invisible to users.

Highlights of this release

• A new pyface.data_view subpackage has been introduced to support visualization of hierarchical and non-hierarchical tabular data. See Pyface DataViews section of the user manual for an introduction. Additional examples are also added to the source distribution. Please note that as of this release the API is provisional.

• A new pyface.color.Color class and a corresponding pyface.ui_traits.PyfaceColor trait type have been
  introduced to support representing colors via a toolkit independent API. See Trait Types section of the user manual for further details.

Detailed changes

More than 70 PRs went into this release. Thanks to:
Aaron Ayres, Ieva Cernyte, Mark Dickinson, Kit Yan Choi, Rahul Poruri, Corran Webster

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

Features

• Add pyface.data_view subpackage for visualizing hierarchical and non-hierarchical data. (#619, #661, #682, #683, #694, #709)
• Add Color and PyfaceColor trait type. (#608, #710, #703)

Fixes

• Use availableGeometry for screen size in Qt to match TraitsUI behavior (#727)
• Fix deprecation warnings from Qt SystemMetrics (#719)
• Fix QFontMetrics.width deprecation warning. (#715)
• Remove border for heading text in Qt. (#692)
• Replacing ListItemAttr with ItemAttr to avoid deprecation warning. (#670)
• Fix wx/linux clipboard test failures. (#676)

Build and continuous integration

• Add CI job targeting traits 6.0. (#656)
• Fix extras_requires for PyQt5. (#659)
• Updated edm version in travis and appveyor config files. (#618)

Documentation

• Add documentation for the new PyfaceColor trait and Color class. (#710)
• Add documentation for DataView. (#543, #574, #763)
• Remove all enaml examples. (#652)
• Fix some Sphinx warnings while building documentation. (#769)

Maintenance and code organization

• Disconnect slots to Qt signals when cleaning up widgets. (#536, #542, #540)
• Disconnect trait change handlers when cleaning up ApplicationWindow widgets. (#541)
• Remove conditionals on python version. (#635)
• Remove a print call in test. (#657)
• Remove all of the u prefix on strings. (#604)
• Use collections.abc instead of collections. (#477)
• Use unittest discover for running tests. (#515)