BETSEE 0.9.2.0 (Luckiest Levin) released.
Significant changes include:
* Simulation configuration dialog improvements. Dialogs creating,
opening, and saving simulation configuration files have been
significantly sanitized, generalized, and improved across the board.
Significant changes include:
* Previously selected dirname persisted. The absolute dirname of the
most recently selected directory (i.e., the directory containing the
simulation configuration file selected by the most recent path
dialog) is now globally persisted to the on-disk backing store of
application settings and reused as the initially selected directory
to which the next path dialog opens by default. This dirname is
persisted across application invocations, effectively serving as a
poor man's substitute for the traditional "File->Recent..." menu of
recently opened files in standard desktop GUI applications,
substantially improving usability.
* Default selected basename sanitized. The basenames of the files
opened and saved by the "File->New Simulation..." and "File->Save
Simulation As..." dialogs now default to sanely YAML-compliant
basenames (e.g., "sim_config.yaml"), improving usability.
* Default selected directory safeguarded. The directory to which all
path dialogs open by default is now effectively guaranteed to exist
(ignoring filesystem race conditions), significantly improving
sanity.
* Simulation configurations creatable. Issue #5, kindly reported by
the ever-faithful Eric Sinton in exhaustive detail, has now been
resolved. The "File->New Simulation..." path dialog correctly
creates new simulation configurations as expected. Thanks, Eric!
* Dependency initialization sanitized. Third-party application
dependencies (e.g., PySide2) are now initialized correctly by the
object-oriented application metadata singleton (i.e., instance of the
"betse.util.app.meta.metaappabc.MetaAppABC" superclass) rather than
procedurely by the antiquated "betsee.lib.guilib" submodule.
* Pip-based installation improved. Setuptools >= 38.2.0, which first
introduced support for wheels, is now hard-required at installation
time. Since the Qt Company necessarily distributes PySide2 (the
principal mandatory dependency of this application) via universal
wheels, this application always effectively required setuptools 38.2.0
or newer at installation. This constraint is now contractually
enforced, substantially improving end user experience (UX) under older
systems.
* Application settings API generalized. The existing
"betsee.util.io.guisettings" submodule now offers the full gamut of
exception handlers, testers, getters, and setters for manipulating
individual settings persisted to this application's settings store.