v0.8.0 - Formation Studio

New Features

• TTK Themes support (for built-in themes)
• Allow passing arguments to callbacks (#33) (Thanks to @KavyanshKhaitan2)
• Allow passing widgets as arguments to callbacks (#48)
• Menu tool has been integrated into the studio
• Customtkinter support
• Allow reordering of tabs in Tab layout (#51)
• Copy-paste is unified between the various studio tools
• Automatically check for updates

UI improvements

• Container names are displayed when hovering
• New tabs open next to the currently open tab
• Widgets are selected when added
• Better component pane search mechanics
• Common shortcuts work on canvas and menu objects
• Widget groups on the component pane now indicate whether tk or ttk.
• General debugger improvements

Bug fix

• Fix flickering when highlighting containers
• Fix "wrap" property options
• Add missing "maximum" property for ttk.progressbar (Thanks to @milia20)
• Fix error when previewing designs with images
• Fix issue preventing unsaved design files from previewing
• Fix error when tkDnD not available for system
• Fix spinbox arrows in preferences (#38)
• Fix shortcut keys not working when capslock is engaged
• Fix some ttk default values causing problems (#43, #44)

Upcoming

• Treeview editor
• Extension widgets
• Python code generation
• Full Mac OS support (only hotkeys support left)
• ttk theme support ✅
• Custom ttk theme support
• In-app notification tray
• Breadcrumbs
• Project workflow

v0.7.0 - Formation Studio

New Features

• You can now multi-select widgets in the designer 🎊.
• Drag selection. You can drag to select multiple widgets at once.
• You can adjust widget stacking order
• Scrollbar helper options
• Localization. You can now change the editor language to simplified Chinese.
• Place layout now supports relative options
• Copying and pasting will generate new widget ids.
• You can now copy platform details in the about window for easy issue reporting by (@ArshavineRoy)
• UI debugging tool is now usable under the formation-dbg command.
• The widget move/resize handle can adapt to the widget type.
• Selected widgets scroll into view in the component tree.
• You can now directly move most objects by dragging without using the handle.

UI improvements

• New refreshed and colorful icons.
• Better layout tracking in designer
• Previews now open in a separate process.

Bug fix

• Fix modal dialog shaking in Linux
• Fix issue with tuple values from ttk widgets
• Fix non-responsive expand all button in component tree

Upcoming

• Treeview editor
• Scrollbar helpers ✅
• Extension widgets
• Python code generation
• Full Mac OS support (only hotkeys support left)
• ttk theme support
• In-app notification tray
• Breadcrumbs
• Project workflow
• Multi-select of widgets ✅
• UI debugging tools ✅

v0.6.3 - Formation Studio

UI Improvements

• Better initial positioning of dialog windows.
• Tweak spinner popup allowing for a smoother and more responsive spinner.
• Change application's dock name to Formation Studio (by @ArshavineRoy)

Bug fix

• Fix issue with loading toplevel containing variables.
• Fix issue causing variables to load too early (#22).
• Fix Alt key always pressed issue (#26).

v0.6.2 - Formation Studio

UI Improvements

• Designer now creates a tk.Tk instead of tk.Toplevel by default. Handles #21
• tk.Tk and tk.Toplevel now start with a dimension of 200x200 when first placed on the designer

Bug fix

• Fix globals handling in debugger
• Fix drag n drop initialization in debugger
• Fix issue with Image.ANTIALIAS removal in PIL >= 10.0.0 by using Image.LANCZOS instead.

v0.6.1 - Formation Studio (Patch)

Bug fix

• Fix issue #20 preventing code generation without lxml
• Prevent file corruption when code generation fails

Upcoming

• Treeview editor
• Scrollbar helpers
• Extension widgets
• Python code generation
• Full Mac OS support (only hotkeys support left)
• ttk theme support
• In-app notification tray
• Breadcrumbs
• Project workflow
• Tabs allowing editing of multiple design files at once ✔️
• Multi-select of widgets
• UI debugging tools (partially complete)
• Custom properties for custom widgets ✔️
• Toplevel widget support ✔️

v0.6.0 Formation Studio

New Features

• Toplevel widget (Tk and Toplevel) support
• You can now specify units for dimension inputs
• Formation debugger can now be accessed through the formation-dbg command
• You can drag and drop files on the designer to open them
• You can now report issues on the help menu

UI improvements

• Number and float inputs now have configured limits
• Pane widths are now restored on startup
• Dialog window centering has been improved

Bug fix

• Fix resource loader appearance on mac
• Fix resource caching on mac

Deprecations and removals

• Support for python 3.6 has been dropped
• lxml is no longer a requirement

Upcoming

• Treeview editor
• Scrollbar helpers
• Extension widgets
• Python code generation
• Full Mac OS support (only hotkeys support left)
• ttk theme support
• In-app notification tray
• Breadcrumbs
• Project workflow
• Tabs allowing editing of multiple design files at once ✔️
• Multi-select of widgets
• UI debugging tools (partially complete)
• Custom properties for custom widgets ✔️
• Toplevel widget support ✔️

v0.5.0 Formation Studio

New Features

• Tabs structure allowing editing of multiple design files at once
• Custom properties for custom widgets
• Configuration of naming conventions for widgets
• Unsaved changes are now indicated

UI improvements

• Proper radiogroup tristate setting
• Better search mechanics in variable pane
• Multisave dialog for saving multiple designs at once

Bug fix

• Fix issue that caused errors when dragging a widget using arrow keys
• Fix memory leak when creating cascade menus

Upcoming

• canvas editor ✔️
• Treeview editor
• Scrollbar helpers
• Extension widgets
• Python code generation
• Full Mac OS support
• ttk theme support
• In-app notification tray
• Breadcrumbs
• Project workflow
• Tabs allowing editing of multiple design files at once ✔️
• Multi-select of widgets
• UI debugging tools (partially complete)
• Custom properties for custom widgets ✔️
• Toplevel widget support

v0.4.0 - Formation Studio

New features

• Custom widget support. You can now use your own custom widgets within the studio
• Metadata for design files and version checks

UI changes and improvements

• Improved component pane mechanics
• Widgets now start with reasonable dimensions when first dragged to design pane
• Added DPI awareness on windows
• Improved app closing time
• Improved tab view mechanics

Bug fixes

• Fix invalid variable property value in checkbutton
• Fix errors when using canvas as a root object
• Fix issue allowing multiple save on exit prompts on linux

Upcoming

• canvas editor ✔️
• Treeview editor
• Scrollbar helpers
• Extension widgets
• Python code generation
• Full Mac OS support
• ttk theme support
• In-app notification tray
• Breadcrumbs
• Project workflow
• Tabs allowing editing of multiple design files at once
• Multi-select of widgets
• UI debugging tools
• Custom properties for custom widgets

v0.3.1 Formation Studio (Bug Fix)

Bug fix

• Fixed and issue causing stylepane to hang on loading screen when selecting canvas item
• Fixed issue causing toplevel tool menu to not update states correctly leaving some menu options
  disabled when they should be enabled

Deprecations and removals

• Removed formation.xml module which was deprecated with the introduction of multi-format support for design files

v0.3.0 - Formation Studio

New features

• Canvas Editing. You can now add, drag position and style canvas items such as polygons. rectangles, images, text and many others on a canvas widget
• Allow other formats for design other than XML.
• JSON design file format support
• Optional undo-redo limit
• Add duplicate command
• Add search to widget hierarchy tree
• Improved tool system for future plugin system
• Help now opens online documentation

UI changes

• Improved preference dialog mechanics
• Improved treeview focus behavior

Platform support

• Improved mac OS support

Bug fixes

• Fix issue preventing restart from being cancelled
• Fix tree view expand icon glitch
• Fix font picker inconsistencies
• Fix issues preventing image intercept from properly handling invalid paths
• Fix issue with stacking order causing widgets to disappear from view when parent it dragged
• Fix text wrap issue with in-place text editor which made it difficult to use

Upcoming

• canvas editor ✔️
• Treeview editor
• Scrollbar helpers
• Extension widgets
• Python code generation
• Full Mac OS support
• ttk theme support
• In-app notification tray
• Breadcrumbs
• Project workflow
• Tabs allowing editing of multiple design files at once
• Multi-select of widgets