Revision history for IO-Prompter
0.0.1 Fri May 1 17:34:17 2009
Initial release.
0.001001 Tue Jun 22 05:39:09 2010
* More documentation
* Fixed README
* Tweaked Makefile.PL and Build.PL
* Fixed history completion (removed prefix)
* Added 'dirnames' as a completion option
* Allowed use of -number or -integer to specify numerically indexed -menu
* Made $SIG{INT} handling transparent
* Made constraints apply to -default value
(and issue a warning if they aren't satisfied)
* Added -DEFAULT option to override constraint checking
* Added -keyletters option to extract guarantees and defaults
from the prompt
0.002000 Tue Apr 10 17:25:54 2012
* Fixed selection of menu items specified by non-single character
(Thanks Chris!)
* Tweaked varname in docs (thanks Salvatore)
* Other doc fixes
* Made default values echo when selected
* Fixed -default value handling on -menu prompts
(disabled constraint-checking on that case)
* Fixed -keyletters example (-guarantee regex was wrong)
* Allowed -key and -keys as abbreviations for -keyletters
* Added -style and -echostyle features
* Added: use IO::Prompter -argv
* Improved -argv prompting
0.003000 Thu Jun 14 21:34:33 EST 2012
* Added lexically scoped automatic options
(e.g. use IO::Prompter [-yesno, -single])
* Fixes for -argv mode (especially filename completion)
* Added -yesno => $count option
* BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: Changed behaviour of prompt() in
list contexts: now returns empty list on failure.
Use C<scalar prompt @args> to get old behaviour.
0.003001 Tue Jul 3 17:54:40 2012
* Documented -echo=>'yea/nay' special case
* Fixed erroneous error message when completing with 'dirnames'
(thanks Matthias!)
0.004000 Sat Sep 22 14:30:13 2012
* Added ^A, ^B, ^E, ^F for in-line editing
0.004001 Sun Sep 23 21:18:33 2012
* Fixed nasty bug that prevented echoing most upper-case input
0.004002 Mon Sep 24 11:39:24 2012
* Fixed induced error in input faking
0.004003 Wed Jan 16 16:24:09 2013
* Patched history mechanism to allow non-recording of input history
(thanks Brian!)
0.004004 Sun Jan 27 09:05:25 2013
* Patched missing validity check for non-ReadKey input under -menu
(thanks Kalyan Raj!)
0.004005 Wed Mar 6 09:19:56 2013
* Disabled interactive testing on Windows platforms
(thanks Brian and Lady Aleena)
0.004006 Thu Aug 29 10:28:48 2013
* Better handling of input EOL under Windows (thanks Bas)
* Workaround for Term::ReadKey bug under Windows (thanks Bas)
0.004007 Fri Aug 30 07:25:33 2013
* Reworked workaround for Term::ReadKey timeout bug under Windows
(thanks again, Bas)
0.004008 Mon Sep 30 14:36:57 2013
* Further improvements under 5.18, especially for Windows
(thanks, Bas)
* Attempted to mollify cpanm by moving $VERSION declaration
0.004009 Wed Oct 2 21:55:06 2013
* Further improvements under 5.18
(thanks, Gareth)
0.004010 Thu Oct 3 18:17:48 2013
* Still further improvements under Windows
(thanks, Gareth)
* Fixed spurious ERASEs when deleting "past" start of input
(thanks, Gareth)
0.004011 Fri Jul 25 17:03:42 2014
* Added 'normal', 'default', 'standard', etc. to colour translation
* Added <ESC><ESC> at start of faked input to defer next fake and insert real input
(i.e. like <ESC>, but doesn't throw away the line that was scheduled next)
0.004012 Wed Feb 4 09:46:17 2015
* Added -void option to silence void warnings
* Added ability to declare lexically scoped wrapper subs
(thanks Schwern!)
* Documented incompatibility with Moose
(thanks Torbjørn!)
* Handle terminal escape sequences (e.g. arrow keys) more gracefully
(Thanks, Lukasz!)
0.004013 Thu Jul 23 07:15:57 2015
* Added better default ERASE character for MSWin32 (thanks Dan!)
* Silenced warnings within test for valid input
(Thanks Joel!)
0.004014 Tue Nov 24 08:50:00 2015
* Numerous improvements to completion behaviour
(Many thanks, Victor, and apologies for the long delay!)
0.004015 Sat Dec 8 06:53:05 2018
* Added warning about limitations under Windows
(Thanks, Jan!)
* Added warning about prompt() returning object not string
(Merci, Mirod!)
0.005000 Tue Jul 4 17:17:35 2023
* Added -monitor option
* Added -prefill option
* Added -cancel option
* Added support for 'ansiNNN' and 'rgbNNN' colour specifications
within -style and -echostyle arguments
* Improved error messages (some now indicate what the wrong argument was)
* Removed all uses of given/when and smartmatching for compatibility with Perl 5.38+
0.005001 Mon Jul 17 06:54:17 2023
* Removed all uses of continue;
(Thanks, Alexander!)
0.005002 Fri Feb 7 20:36:27 2025
* Worked around odd 'uninitialized' warning under timeouts
(thanks Diab!)