0.9.3

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Features

New Carousel Control

The new Carousel control is a View that contains a lazy list of items generated from a ListModel. It delegates all decisions about what items to show to a Presenter obtained from its CarouselBehavior. The Carousel only displays items the Presenter requests as it moves through frames. This means it can scale to very large datasets as long as the Presenter only shows items that are visible.

Carousels can have a very wide range of layouts and behaviors. This flexibility is achieved by giving Presenters full control over which items (including supplemental ones not based on the data model) are shown at any point, how opaque they are, their positioning, size, transform, clipping, etc.. With this, you can create almost any kind of carousel experience you'd like.

Carousel transitioning is a key part of their behavior. The control is therefore fully dynamic and interactive. You can move between frames in two ways. Either by skipping ahead or backward or by manually moving the Carousel to an x/y offset and then letting it transition to the best frame when manual movement is complete. Carousels rely on a Transitioner to manage the way they animate for all these movements. This allows a great deal of flexibility and customization.

Presenters are responsible for updating frame state whenever the Carousel adjusts anything. This allows for holistic animations. There are several built-in Presenters that show how to create various effects as well.

val carousel = Carousel(
    SimpleListModel(listOf(image1, image2, image3)),
    itemVisualizer { item, previous, _ ->
        when (previous) {
            is DynamicImage -> previous.also { it.update(item) }
            else            -> DynamicImage(item)
        }
    }
).apply {
    wrapAtEnds    = true
    acceptsThemes = false
    behavior      = object: CarouselBehavior<Image> {
  
      override val presenter = LinearPresenter<Image>(spacing = 10.0) {
          val aspectRatio = it.width.readOnly / it.height.readOnly

          it.width  eq parent.width
          it.center eq parent.center
          it.height eq it.width / aspectRatio
      }

      override val transitioner = dampedTransitioner<Image>(timer, animationScheduler) { _,_,_, update ->
          animate(0f to 1f, using = tweenFloat(easeInOutCubic, duration = 1 * seconds)) {
                update(it)
          }
      }
    }
}

Animations Can Now Be Paused/Resumed

The Animations implement the new Pausable interface, which allows them to be paused and resumed at any time.

val animation = animate.invoke(0f to 1f, using = tweenFloat(easeInOutCubic, duration = 1 * seconds)) {
  // ...
}

animation.pause()

// ..

animation.resume()

view | container Improvements

These DSLs now expose more of the protected properties of View and Container respectively.

view {
    + view {}                 // adds a child to the View
    
    chidren            += view         {} // children now accessible
    layout              = simpleLayout {} // access layout
  
    addedToDisplay      = {             } // called when view added to display
    removedFromDisplay  = {             } // called when view removed from display
    contains            = { _ -> false  } // called to decide if a point within the view
  
    // ..
}

APIs

• General

  • Vector3D now exposes its magnitude
  • basicMenuBehavior module function now exposes various configuration input parameters to customize the result.
  • TreeItemRole now has a selected property
  • New lerp function for Rectangle and Size
  • New Rectangle constructor that takes a Size
  • BasicDropdownBehavior now takes Accessibility label for its button
  • BasicMutableDropdownBehavior now takes Accessibility label for its button
  • BasicSpinnerBehavior now takes Accessibility labels for its buttons
  • BasicMutableSpinnerBehavior now takes Accessibility labels for its buttons
  • basicDropdownBehavior(), basicMutableDropdownBehavior(), basicSpinnerBehavior() and basicMutableSpinnerBehavior() now support accessibility labels
  • BasicDropdownBehavior and BasicMutableDropdownBehavior now allow inset to be specified
  • basicDropdownBehavior() and basicMutableDropdownBehavior() now take an optional inset
  • MonthPanel class is now open
  • New FieldState.ifInvalid utility function

• Browser

  • Auto-complete can now be disabled for nativeTextFieldBehavior

Fixes | Improvements

• General

  • Bug where MonthPanel could NPE if selection queried while nothing selected
  • Bug in TextMetrics size calculation when lineSpacing set
  • TreeRow now updates its accessibility role with the current selected state.
  • Issue where deleted Views might not be cleaned up if they are removed from a parent at the same time their child is being removed and added to that same parent.
  • Bug where View could loop when a child is removed and added to its parent
  • Camera now clips transformed ConvexedPolygons so their points do not go behind it.
  • Issue where the children of a View that is removed are not properly re-added if they are placed into their grandparent before the next cleanup pass within RenderManagerImpl.
  • Bug where View.toAbsolute and View.fromAbsolute resulted in incorrect results
  • Optimize View.resolvedTransform with caching
  • Issue where TextField could not override user input during textChanged
  • nativeTextFieldBehavior respects TextField.cursorVisible
  • TextInput setting cursorVisible to true during selection
  • Slight UI improvement for inset in basic BasicDropdownBehavior
  • Issue where textField form element would be considered invalid at creation when blank text is allowed
  • StyledText.isBlank not working as expected
  • MonthPanel more efficiently responds to selection changes, especially when the selection model has a very large dataset.

• Browser

  • TreeRole now marked as aria-multiselectable
  • Native behavior for HyperLinks ensure the associated html element inherits the a11y labels of their Hyperlink
  • Native behavior for TextFields ensure the associated html element inherits the a11y labels of their TextField
  • Fixed issue where Native TextField behavior stopped supporting mask value
  • Fixed Issue with graphics surface sort order
  • Line-height not correctly set when value != 1f
  • Bug where zOrder is incorrect for containers
  • Only apply Safari shadow hack when multiple shadows applied to an element
  • Case where graphics surface index could go negative and create incorrect render ordering
  • nativeTextFieldBehavior now properly respects TextField.cursor
  • Improved text fitting for nativeTextFieldBehavior

• Desktop

  • Bug with zIndex for pop-ups

Documentation

• Improving code documentation
  • proper external links
  • Initial module docs

Versions

• Measured -> 0.3.3
• Dokka -> 1.9.0

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This discussion was created from the release 0.9.3.