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Roadmap

We (textualize.io) are actively building and maintaining Textual.

We have many new features in the pipeline. This page will keep track of that work.

Features

High-level features we plan on implementing.

• Accessibility
  • Integration with screen readers
  • Monochrome mode
  • High contrast theme
  • Color-blind themes
• Command palette
  • Fuzzy search
• Configuration (.toml based extensible configuration format)
• Console
• Devtools
  • Integrated log
  • DOM tree view
  • REPL
• Reactive state abstraction
• Themes
  • Customize via config
  • Builtin theme editor

Widgets

Widgets are key to making user-friendly interfaces. The builtin widgets should cover many common (and some uncommon) use-cases. The following is a list of the widgets we have built or are planning to build.

• Buttons
  • Error / warning variants
• Color picker
• Checkbox
• Content switcher
• DataTable
  • Cell select
  • Row / Column select
  • API to update cells / rows
  • Lazy loading API
• Date picker
• Drop-down menus
• Form Widget
  • Serialization / Deserialization
  • Export to attrs objects
  • Export to PyDantic objects
• Image support
  • Half block
  • Braille
  • Sixels, and other image extensions
• Input
  • Validation
  • Error / warning states
  • Template types: IP address, physical units (weight, volume), currency, credit card etc
• Select control (pull-down)
• Markdown viewer
  • Collapsible sections
  • Custom widgets
• Plots
  • bar chart
  • line chart
  • Candlestick chars
• Progress bars
  • Style variants (solid, thin etc)
• Radio boxes
• Spark-lines
• Switch
• Tabs
• TextArea (multi-line input)
  • Basic controls
  • Indentation guides
  • Smart features for various languages
  • Syntax highlighting