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Terminaux v8.3 – The Sunshine Blogger Award 2nd Edition

The Sunshine Blogger Award is a community award that selects bloggers as nominees who bring positivity and inspiration in their posts. We have been selected as a nominee for The Sunshine Blogger Award for the second time. As a result, we’ve made a new version of Terminaux.

Terminaux v8.3 is now available as of today, and we are so excited to announce that it’s a special release for the Sunshine Blogger Award nomination. This version of Terminaux includes pane-specific keybindings and pixel-accurate progress indicators.

We have also added more improvements to the markup parser to handle complex formatting more properly. The markup parser has also seen a new feature, which is the link tag. This lets your console applications display hyperlinks on your console that you can click.

You can see the 2nd nomination announcement of The Sunshine Blogger Award below:

We promise that Terminaux 8.4 will be one of the most exciting releases that will bring support for FreeBSD when it comes to audio feedback for keypresses, and we expect that May 26th will be the final release date, though we may release it earlier as a reward for all of you, especially our readers!

To learn more about this version of Terminaux, please consult the Aptivi Newsroom article.

Mouse improvements in Terminaux 8.1

Since Terminaux 4.0, mouse support was added to make C# console applications more interactive. This was done by abstracting the implementations of both the Windows API for detecting mouse clicks in the terminal using the combination of PeekConsoleInput() and MOUSE_INPUT_RECORD, and the Linux method for mouse clicks using the SGR/X10 VT sequences that we have to parse ourselves. The end result is a single function that handles mouse and keyboard input on a ReadPointerOrKey() function, further branched to a non-blocking version.

As a result, we’ve integrated mouse support to all kinds of interactive user interfaces within Terminaux, which resulted in both the library and Nitrocid handling all mouse input, as well as Terminaux programs having mouse support built-in without re-implementing support. However, there was room for improvements when it comes to the selection-based user interfaces.

Terminaux 8.1, which will be released two weeks from now, will feature improvements to mouse support when it comes to the choice selection style TUIs, as well as the interactive selector TUIs. Starting from this version:

• In the selector TUI, double-clicking on an item in either the first pane or the second pane will trigger the “submit” action, which, by default, is defined to an action bound to the Enter key. For example, in Nitrocid 0.2.0, if you double-click on an SMultivar settings entry in the second pane, the child settings entries underneath this entry will be revealed.
• In both the selection style and the infobox selection input TUIs, double-clicking on an item in the list of choices will confirm the selection. This allows you to confirm your selection without accidentally selecting a wrong item, since those TUIs always show a list of choices.

This is a behavioral change to the three affected Terminaux input components, which will land to Nitrocid 0.2.0 and 0.1.0 Service Pack 6 next month.

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