Below is a complete listing of changes for each revision of HighLine.
Improved Windows integration (by Ronie Henrich).
Clarified menu choice error messages (by Keith Bennett).
Fixed a bug with FFI::NCurses integration (by agentdave).
Improved StringExtensions performance (by John Leach).
Various JRuby fixes (by presidentbeef).
Fixed `terminal_size()` with jline2 (by presidentbeef).
Fixed a long supported interface that was accidentally broken with a recent change (by Rubem Nakamura Carneiro).
Added encoding support to menus (by David Lyons).
Some minor fixes to SystemExtensions (by whiteleaf and presidentbeef).
Added the new indention feature (by davispuh).
Separated auto-completion from the answer type (by davispuh).
Improved JRuby support (by rsutphin).
General code clean up (by stomar).
Made HighLine#say a little smarter with regard to color escapes (by Kenneth Murphy).
Added support for nil arguments in lists (by Eric Saxby).
Fixed HighLine's termios integration (by Jens Wille).
Added JRuby 1.7 support (by Mina Nagy).
Take into account color escape sequences when wrapping text (by Mark J. Titorenko).
Removed unneeded Shebang lines (by Scott Gonyea).
Protect the String passed to Question.new from modification (by michael).
Added a retype-to-verify setting (by michael).
Silenced warnings (by James McEwan).
Fixed a bad test. (Fix by Diego Elio Pettenò.)
Fixed a regression that prevented asking for String arguments (by Jeffery Sman.)
Fixed a testing incompatibility (by Hans de Graaff.)
The new list modes now properly ignore escapes when sizing.
Added a project gemspec file.
Fixed a bug that prevented the use of termios (by tomdz).
Switch to JLine to provide better echo support on JRuby (by tomdz).
Fix missing ERASE_CHAR reference (by Aaron Gifford).
Fixed bug introduced in 1.6.6 attempted fix (by Aaron Gifford).
Fixed old style references causing HighLine::String errors (by
Aaron Gifford).
HighLine#list now correctly handles empty lists (fix by Lachlan Dowding).
HighLine#list now supports
:uneven_columns_across and :uneven_columns_down
modes.
Add introspection methods to color_scheme: definition, keys, to_hash.
Add tests for new methods.
Add color NONE.
Add RGB color capability.
Made 'color' available as a class or instance method of HighLine, for instance: HighLine.color(“foo”, :blue)) or highline_obj.color(“foo”, :blue) are now both possible and equivalent.
Add HighLine::String class with convenience methods: color (alias foreground), on (alias background), colors, and styles. See lib/string_extensions.rb.
Add (optional) ability to extend String with the same convenience methods from HighLine::String, using Highline.colorize_strings.
Correctly handle STDIN being closed before we receive any data (fix by mleinart).
Try if msvcrt, if we can't load crtdll on Windows (fix by pepijnve).
A fix for nil_on_handled not running the action (reported by Andrew Davey).
Fixed raw_no_echo_mode so that it uses stty -icanon rather than cbreak as cbreak does not appear to be the posixly correct argument. It fails on Solaris if cbreak is used.
Fixed an issue that kept Menu from showing the correct choices for disambiguation.
Removed a circular require that kept Ruby 1.9.2 from loading HighLine.
Fixed a bug that caused infinite looping when wrapping text without spaces.
Fixed it so that :auto paging accounts for the two lines it adds.
On JRuby, improved error message about ffi-ncurses. Before 1.5.3, HighLine was silently swallowing error messages when ffi-ncurses gem was installed without ncurses present on the system.
Reverted Aaron Simmons's patch to allow redirecting STDIN on Windows. This is the only way we could find to restore HighLine's character reading to working order.
Added support for using the ffi-ncurses gem which is supported in JRuby.
Added gem build instructions.
Fixed the long standing echo true bug. (reported by Lauri Tuominen)
Improved Windows API calls to support the redirection of STDIN. (patch by Aaron Simmons)
Updated gem specification to avoid a deprecated call.
Made a minor documentation clarification about character mode support.
Worked around some API changes in Ruby's standard library in Ruby 1.9. (patch by Jake Benilov)
Fixed a bug that would prevent Readline from showing all completions. (reported by Yaohan Chen)
Added the ability to pass a block to HighLine#agree. (patch by Yaohan Chen)
Made the code grabbing terminal size a little more cross-platform by adding support for Solaris. (patch by Ronald Braswell and Coey Minear)
Additional work on the backspacing issue. (patch by Jeremy Hinegardner)
Fixed Readline prompt bug. (patch by Jeremy Hinegardner)
Fixed backspacing past the prompt and interrupting a prompt bugs. (patch by Jeremy Hinegardner)
Fixed the stty indent bug.
Fixed the echo backspace bug.
Added HighLine.track_eof= setting to work are threaded eof?() calls.
Patch by Jeremy Hinegardner:
Added ColorScheme support.
Added HighLine::Question#overwrite mode.
Various documentation fixes.
Really fixed the bug I tried to fix in 1.2.4.
Fixed a crash causing bug when using menus, reported by Patrick Hof.
Treat Cygwin like a Posix OS, instead of a native Windows environment.
Minor documentation corrections.
Applied Thomas Werschleiln's patch to fix termio buffering on Solaris.
Applied Justin Bailey's patch to allow canceling paged output.
Fixed a documentation bug in the description of character case settings.
Added a notice about termios in HighLine::Question#echo.
Finally working around the infamous “fast typing” bug
Applied Justin Bailey's fix for the page_print() infinite loop bug.
Made a SystemExtensions module to expose OS level functionality other libraries may want to access.
Publicly exposed the get_character() method, per user requests.
Added terminal_size(), output_cols(), and output_rows() methods.
Added :auto setting for warp_at=() and page_at=().
Improved RubyForge and gem spec project descriptions.
Added basic examples to README.
Added a VERSION constant.
Added support for hidden menu commands.
Added Object#or_ask when using highline/import.
Moved the HighLine project to Subversion.
HighLine's color escapes can now be disabled.
Fixed EOF bug introduced in the last release.
Updated HighLine web page.
Moved to a forked development/stable version numbering.
Removed old and broken help tests.
Fixed test case typo found by David A. Black.
Added ERb escapes processing to lists, for coloring list items. Color escapes do not add to list element size.
HighLine now throws EOFError when input is exhausted.
Minor bug fix: Moved help initialization to before response building, so help would show up in the default responses.
Fixed documentation typo pointed out by Gavin Kistner.
Added gather = ... option to question for fetching entire
Arrays or Hashes filled with answers. You can set gather to a
count of answers to collect, a String or Regexp
matching the end of input, or a Hash where each key can be used in a new
question.
Added File support to HighLine#ask. You can specify a directory and a glob pattern that combine into a list of file choices the user can select from. You can choose to receive the user's answer as an open filehandle or as a Pathname object.
Added Readline support for history and editing.
Added tab completion for menu and file selection selection (requires Readline).
Added an optional character limit for input.
Added a complete help system to HighLine's shell menu creation tools.
Removed termios dependancy in gem, to fix Windows' install.
Implemented HighLine#choose for menu handling.
Provided shortcut choose(item1, item2, ...) for simple menus.
Allowed Ruby code to be attached to each menu item, to create a complete menu solution.
Provided for total customization of the menu layout.
Allowed for menu selection by index, name or both.
Added a shell mode to allow menu selection with additional details following the name.
Added a list() utility method that can be invoked just like color(). It
can layout Arrays for you in any output in the modes
:columns_across, :columns_down,
:inline and :rows
Added support for echo = "*" style settings. User
code can now choose the echo character this way.
Modified HighLine to user the “termios” library for character input, if available. Will return to old behavior (using “stty”), if “termios” cannot be loaded.
Improved “stty” state restoring code.
Fixed “stty” code to handle interrupt signals.
Improved the default auto-complete error message and exposed this message
through the responses interface as
:no_completion.
Implemented echo = false for HighLine::Question objects, primarily to
make fetching passwords trivial.
Fixed an auto-complete bug that could cause a crash when the user gave an answer that didn't complete to any valid choice.
Implemented case for HighLine::Question objects to provide
character case conversions on given answers. Can be set to
:up, :down, or :capitalize.
Exposed @answer to the response system, to allow response that
are aware of incorrect input.
Implemented confirm for HighLine::Question objects to allow for
verification for sensitive user choices. If set to true, user
will have to answer an “Are you sure? ” question. Can also be set to the
question to confirm with the user.
Added @wrap_at and @page_at settings and
accessors to HighLine, to control text flow.
Implemented line wrapping with adjustable limit.
Implemented paged printing with adjustable limit.
Added support for installing with setup.rb.
All output is now treated as an ERb sequence, allowing Ruby code to be embedded in output strings.
Added support for ANSI color sequences in say(). (And everything else by extension.)
Added whitespace handling for answers. Can be set to :strip,
:chomp, :collapse,
:strip_and_collapse, :chomp_and_collapse,
:remove, or :none.
Exposed question details to ERb completion through @question, to allow for intelligent responses.
Simplified HighLine internals using @question.
Added support for fetching single character input either with getc() or HighLine's own cross-platform terminal input routine.
Improved type conversion to handle user defined classes.
Added Unit Tests to cover an already fixed output bug in the future.
Added Rakefile and setup test action (default).
Renamed HighLine::Answer to HighLine::Question to better illustrate its role.
Renamed fetch_line() to get_response() to better define its goal.
Simplified explain_error in terms of the Question object.
Renamed accept?() to in_range?() to better define purpose.
Reworked valid?() into valid_answer?() to better fit Question object.
Reworked @member into @in, to make it easier to
remember and switched implementation to include?().
Added range checks for @above and @below.
Fixed the bug causing ask() to swallow NoMethodErrors.
Rolled ask_on_error() into responses.
Added support for validate = lambda { ... }.
Added default answer support.
Fixed bug that caused ask() to die with an empty question.
Added complete documentation.
Improve the implemetation of agree() to be the intended “yes” or “no” only question.
Added Rake tasks for documentation and packaging.
Moved project to RubyForge.
Initial release as the solution to Ruby Quiz #29.