• Adam D. Ruppe (34/34) Apr 07 2016 My simpledisplay.d and terminal.d, nearly zero dependency modules

Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

My simpledisplay.d and terminal.d, nearly zero dependency modules 
to help with making windows and using terminals, respectively, 
just had their modules renamed.

I haven't had a breaking change in these for many years (I add 
things regularly, but in a compatible way), which is why I'm 
announcing it here.

Easy fix though: change your imports from `terminal` to 
`arsd.terminal` and `simpledisplay` to `arsd.simpledisplay`. 
Recompile. You should be done!

The new DMD has import changes anyway so I think now is the time. 
I've been wanting to change this for a long time because naked 
module names - one without a package portion - I think are a bad 
idea, they tend to bring troubles later, but I did it this way 
early on.


The roadmaps for these include:

simpledisplay
- Now that core.sys.windows.windows is better, I'll start using 
it and switch all the API calls to Unicode and remove my ad hoc 
bindings.
- at the bottom of the file, there's a text portion. I'll expand 
this eventually so rich text is easy to do.
- more OpenGL 3+ support
- A better event loop.

terminal
- The ScrollbackBuffer at the bottom is the terminal end of the 
simpledisplay rich text output. You can use it to partition the 
terminal into windows into rich text line sequences.
- The KeyEvent will become main, with the old key events being 
deprecated.
- A better event loop that can combine with simpledisplay somehow 
without an external module.


And of course, other stuff that comes up as I need it. Terminal 
recently also got full-color support and more getline editing 
too. These little modules do a lot!