v0.26.2

https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/releases/tag/v0.26.2

MSRV: 1.74.0 🦀

The minimum supported Rust version of Ratatui is updated from 1.70.0 to 1.74.0.

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List: Scroll Padding 📜

We introduced a new method for List which allows a certain number of items be kept visible above and below the currently selected item while scrolling.

let list = List::new(items).scroll_padding(1);

Demo of the new behavior

(visible on the left side)

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Text: Construct from Iterator 🏗️

Line and Text widgets now implement FromIterator which means you can:

• Construct Line from an iterator of Span

let line = Line::from_iter(vec!["Hello".blue(), " world!".green()]);
let line: Line = iter::once("Hello".blue())
    .chain(iter::once(" world!".green()))
    .collect();

• Construct Text from an iterator of Line

let text = Text::from_iter(vec!["The first line", "The second line"]);
let text: Text = iter::once("The first line")
    .chain(iter::once("The second line"))
    .collect();

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Text: Push Methods 📥

We added the following methods to the Text and Line structs:

• Text::push_line
• Text::push_span
• Line::push_span

This allows for adding lines and spans to a text object without having to call methods on the fields directly, which is useful for incremental construction of text objects.

For example:

let mut line = Line::from("Hello, ");
line.push_span(Span::raw("world!"));
line.push_span(" How are you?");

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Implement Widget for strings 🧶

Widget is now implemented for &str and String, which makes it easier to render strings with no styles as widgets.

Example usage:

terminal.draw(|f| f.render_widget("Hello World!", f.size()))?;

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Span: Rename Methods 🔄

The following Span methods are renamed accordingly to the Rust method naming conventions.

Deprecated usage:

• Span::to_centered_line
• Span::to_left_aligned_line
• Span::to_right_aligned_line

New usage:

• Span::into_centered_line
• Span::into_left_aligned_line
• Span::into_right_aligned_line

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Funding 🧀

We are happy to share that we have received a funding donation from Radicle!

You can read about the details here.

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Other 💼

• Marked various functions as const (#951)
• Respect alignment on Line truncation (#987)
• Don’t render scrollbar on zero length track (#964)
• Fix panic when rendering Text out of bounds (#997)
• Fix highlight_symbol overflow (#949)
• Fix Scrollbar thumb not being visible on long lists (#959)
• Ensure that paragraph correctly renders styled text (#992)
• Applied clippy (pedantic) suggestions

And lastly, we welcome @EdJoPaTo on board as a maintainer! 🥳