1.10.0

New Features

• [Experimental] Support for Jupyter Notebooks
• width keyword can be applied to manager classes to statically specify width

1.9.0

New Features

• Human-readable numeric prefixes #29
  • Allows automatic conversion of SI (metric) and IEC (binary) unit prefixes
• Improved exemption messages for unavailable reserve fields
• rate_0, rate_00, interval_0, and interval_00 added as formatting fields

Changes

• New dependency: Prefixed
• all_fields can now be specified as a keyword argument to Counter to set the default value for subcounters

Housekeeping

• Minor refactoring and optimizations
• Demo updated
• Added Conda badge and instructions

1.8.0

New Features

• Manager.counter() and Manager.status_bar() now have a replace keyword argument

  • replace value must be an existing managed counter or status bar
  • New counter will assume the position of the counter it replaces
  • Old counter will be closed and removed
  • Equivalent to setting leave=False and running counter.close before adding a new counter

• percentage_00 and count_00 added as bar_format formatting fields (#42)

  • Sum of percentages and counts for all subcounters
  • Inverse of percentage_0 and count_0

Changes

• position for Manager.counter() and Manager.status_bar() must be >= 1
  • This was assumed before, but not enforced

Bugfixes

• Improved behavior of multicolored bars to avoid partial bars when count is 0 (#41)

Housekeeping

• Fixed typos
• Minor refactoring

1.7.2

Changes

• Manager() argument, threaded, now defaults to True when multiple processes are detected
• Evaluation of Manager() argument, threaded, now deferred until scroll area is set when not set explicitly
• Added FAQ question about reentrant calls

Housekeeping

• blessed.Terminal subclass removed
• Removed assert statements from code

1.7.1

Bugfixes

• Improved write atomicity [ Issue #36 ]
  • Improved behavior when multiple processes are writing to the terminal

1.7.0

New Features

• Added interval, the inverse of rate as a built-in formatting field. [ Issue #34 ]
• Added new Manager() argument, threaded, which forces threading behavior when True
  • Defaults to True when multiple threads are detected

Changes

• Deferred resize handing introduced in 1.6.2 is now only performed if threaded is True (default when multiple threads are detected)

Bugfixes

• Improved resize handing [ Issue #33 ]

Housekeeping

• Add 3.9 support to package metadata
• Minor optimizations

1.6.2

Changes

• Output will now be resized on the first write after a resize is detected
  • This addresses an issue that can cause threaded programs to crash #28
• Default Unicode are now used when running under Windows Terminal
  • Other windows terminals, like CMD, will still default to cp65001 compatible characters

Bug fixes'

• Additional stream flushes added to ensure incidental flush aren't relied upon #21
• Updated RPM installation instructions

1.6.1

Changes

• Warning is now emitted when a reserved field is passed as a user-defined field
• Drop Python 2.6 support
• Begin testing 3.10-dev

Bug fixes

• Preserve max scroll offset when number of status bars decrease (#27)
• Minor doc fixes

1.6.0

New Features

• Status bars can now be created with Manager.status_bar()
• Bars can now be invoked with autorefresh=True to trigger a refresh whenever another bar is updated or refreshed
• fill can now be used multiple times in counters and status bars
  • Remaining space is divided equally
• Fill character can now be specified for counters, with fill keyword
• Compound colors, like 'aqua_on_seagreen' are now supported
• Additional keywords passed to Counter() and Counter.update() are now used as user-defined fields

Changes

• Counter.last_update is now updated when Counter.refresh() is called
• Counter.last_update is now reset when Counter.clear() is called

Bug fixes

• Position pinning now works as expected

1.5.2

Bug Fixes:

• Ensure scroll reset does not exceed screen height #19

Housekeeping:

• Updated documentation to provide colored text examples