kotter

This release is functionally identical to 1.2.0 but has some tweaks that makes the internals of the input system much more robust.

In other words, there's no urgency to update, but there should be no harm, either.

Background

For users, Kotter 1.2.0 works just fine. But there are a handful of milliseconds where the input system...

Technically, this release does not add any major features on top of 1.1.2, but due to issues with the CI failing to work with really old versions of the JDK, we bumped up the Kotlin / JDK versions a bit.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/eeb8009b-9069-4bd3-9d3c-61e9d6e7e56e

Changes

• Made a handful of improvements to the testing library, including adding [its own README](<http...

This release introduces the very powerful grid widget into Kotter.

In other words, you can create tables in Kotter now. :tada:

section {
  // A grid with two columns, each with space for 6 characters
  grid(Cols(6, 6), characters = GridCharacters.CURVED) {
    cell { textLine("Cell1") }
    cell { textLine("Cell2") }
    cell { textLine("Cell3") }
    cell { textLine("Cell...

The biggest change of this release is the new multilineInput method, which lets a user type in input with newlines.

section { 
  black(isBright = true) { text("Send a text message (press CTRL-D when finished)") }
  multilineInput()  
}.runUntilInputEntered { 
  onInputEntered { sendMessage(input.trim()) }
}

![Code sample in action](https://github.com/varabyte/media/raw/m...

:tada: :tada: :tada: Kotter 1.1.0 introduces Kotlin/Native support. :tada: :tada: :tada:

In other words, you can now target the JVM or you can compile against 64-bit Linux, Mac, or Windows hosts directly via the Kotlin multiplatform plugin. Review the README on how to set this up.

If you have an application that is using v1.0.x, be sure to...