Version 0.9.2

Minor update following 0.9.0

⚫ Fixed screen occasionally becoming black on some monitors by insetting the expected screen height by -1.

👉 For full feature overview, see v0.9.0

Version 0.9.1

Minor update following 0.9.0

📝 Improved examples

📚 Refined README

👉 For full feature overview, see v0.9.0

Version 0.9.0

UI Elements v0.9.0 Release Notes

Released: June 30, 2025

🚀 Major Features

• Fix rendering to work with new versions of talon beta
• Added elements table, th, tr, td, window, checkbox, link, component, style
• Added state.use_local for component
• Redid documentation and tutorials
• New "elements test" landing
• Storybook previews with copy/paste code
• Added highlight_style to customize behavior instead of a simple overlay
• Better typography and icon support
• Added simple dev tools
• Rendering improvments
• Minimum version support - min_version passed to ui_elements_show

📊 Statistics

• 79 commits since v0.8.0
• Development period: April 2 - June 30, 2025

Version 0.8.0

Add position and z_index

What's Changed

• Add position property with support for static (default), relative, absolute, fixed
• left, right, top, bottom supported with position property.
• Add z_index property

Version 0.7.0

Add scrolling + box_model_v2

What's Changed

• Add overflow, overflow_y properties for scrolling e.g. div(overflow_y="scroll", max_height=400)
• Update dashboard example with scrolling and dragging (Say "elements test" to try it)
• Add autofocus property to auto focus inputs, and disable focusing inputs by default
• Add tab hold to continuosly cycle through elements
• Change focus outline to white

Internals

• Now using box_model_v2 under the hood, with new pipline algorithm for scalability of new features
• Add render manager with queue

Full Changelog: v0.6.0...v0.7.0

Version 0.6.0

Add dragging, focus outlines, and basic keyboard accessibility

What's Changed

• Add properties draggable and drag_handle. Also draggable across multiple screens.
• Add focus outlines for currently focused interactive element
• Add tab, shift+tab, esc, space, enter, up, down basic keyboard accessibility
• Cascade properties that should be cascaded, such as font_size and color

Full Changelog: v0.5.0...v0.6.0

v0.5.0

icon & svg support + active_window

What's Changed

• add active_window element so you can restrict contents to an existing open window
• add icon element with 25 defaults icons, which uses new actions.user.ui_elements_svg behind the scenes.
• separate property validation per element
• add actions.user.ui_elements_svg
• add svg, path, rect, circle, line, polyline, polygon returned from actions.user.ui_elements_svg

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.5.0

Version 0.4.0

Version 0.4.0 – Initial Public Release

This release introduces talon-ui-elements, a python library for creating stateful overlays and UIs with HTML/CSS/React-like syntax for Talon.

Features

• 8 Example UIs
• HTML-like elements such as div, text, button, input_text
• 40+ CSS-like properties such as width, background_color, margin, padding_left, flex_direction
• Reactive utilties state, effect, and ref
• Talon actions for setting text, highlighting elements, and changing state
• Voice activated hints displayed on all buttons and text inputs

Known Limitations

• No dragging
• No scrolling
• No keyboard accessibility