Revision history for Term::Fabulous

0.02    2026-10-12
        - Term::Fabulous runs on Windows: termbox2 gets a Windows console
          backend (src/patches), reached through the console in virtual
          terminal mode, and run polls the terminal for events there,
          since Perl's select watches only sockets on Windows. The
          warning about a locale whose character set is not UTF-8 now
          comes from the real terminal when it opens, not from run, so
          programs on a memory terminal no longer see it; the Windows
          console is switched to UTF-8 and does not warn.
        - Term::Fabulous::Termbox: tf_input_ended replaces
          tf_readable_bytes and answers the end-of-input question for
          every platform.
        - run polls a terminal that offers no read handles at the rate of
          the new termbox_input_poll_interval reader (1/60 second); such
          a terminal's input was never read by run before.
        - Fixes from CPAN Testers: a terminal that hung up is recognized
          on FreeBSD too (ENXIO besides EIO); the time axis test no
          longer depends on the language of the locale.
        - Data::Checks and Object::Pad::FieldAttr::Checked are no longer
          prerequisites; nothing has used them since the architecture
          review of 2026-10-05. Without them, no XS extension of
          Object::Pad is needed, which matters on Windows, where such
          extensions cannot be built.

0.01    2026-10-11
        - First release. Full-screen terminal user interfaces from a
          tree of widgets, built in Perl or in a KDL layout file, laid
          out by Clay (through Clay::UI) and drawn with 24-bit colors
          through termbox2. Key presses, mouse clicks, wheel scrolling
          and resizes arrive as events; keyboard focus moves with Tab
          and the mouse.
        - Widgets: boxes, text and rich text with styled spans, scroll
          boxes and virtual lists, text fields and areas, buttons,
          check boxes, radio groups, dropdowns, sliders, star ratings,
          segmented controls, tables, tabs, accordions, dividers,
          dialogs, toasts, progress bars, spinners, canvases, pixel
          canvases, images and sixel pictures.
        - Charts drawn from data: line, area, bar and scatter charts,
          histograms, sparklines, pie, donut, polar area and radar
          charts.
        - Application widgets: menus, a menu bar, a status bar, prompts,
          a command table with key bindings, a key reference, file
          dialogs, color pickers and document tabs.
        - Themes in KDL files, with a theme editor.
        - An inline mode that uses a few rows below the shell's output
          instead of the whole screen.
        - Term::Fabulous::Static prints a widget tree once as text, with
          or without colors, and Term::Fabulous::Terminal::Memory runs
          whole programs in tests without a terminal.