GrooCSS - New Features/Release Notes

New in 1.0-M4

Added missing Pseudo-Elements and some missing properties (caret-color, appearance, and user-select). Pseudo-elements can be added using ** syntax. Also updated Translator and added PlaceholderProcessor (copies any ::placeholder to ::-webkit-input-placeholder) and fixed a bug in processing.

You must add PlaceholderProcessor to your Processors manually - it's not there by default.

Also fixed a bug which made new extensions methods not working in custom Gradle builds.

New in 1.0-M3

This release fixed bugs in the Gradle plugin and added support for groovy scripts "without the base".

The "without the base" feature should allow you to define a groocss file that starts with org.groocss.GrooCSS.process { and ends with } and if GrooCSS is defined as a dependency to your project you should now have IDE code completion (in IntelliJ IDEA for example).

New in 1.0-M2

The ability to provide custom Processors and validators as well as the inclusion of a DefaultValidator and optional validator.

The ability to use 10.percent or 10 %_ to create percent measurements.

New in 1.0-M1

Used extension modules to extend String, Integer, and Number classes to enhance code completion and add new features.

This allows for the following syntax for example:

'div p.test a'.$ { /*DSL*/ } or 'div p.test a'.sg { /*DSL*/ } and 'aabbcc'.color //becomes a org.groocss.Color

New in 0.12

Gradle GroocssTask now extends Copy task and supports -t option (requires Gradle 4)

Support for transitions using closures. Ex: transition {flex '2s'} {borderColor '1s' ease '0'}

Improvements to the CSS Translator

New in 0.11

The ability to import other groocss files is supported by importFile, importStream, and importString methods which take a parameter map and input. For example:

importFile otherCss.absoluteFile, linkColor: '#456789'

This would allow you to make a "template file" for example with variables replaced in multiple ways.

There are also "raw" and "comment" commands, for including raw CSS and comments respectively.

New in 0.10

Added option (convertUnderline) to convert all underlines in style-classes to dashes.
Added ability to use three or more element selectors without xor.
Added ability to configure to use some element names as style-classes just in case you need "main" for example to be used as a style-class.

New in 0.7-0.9

Added mix, tint, shade, and greyscale methods.
Added saturate, desaturate, fadein, fadeout, fade, and hue, saturation and brightness methods.
Added many colors methods: rgba, hsl, hsla, lighten, darken, etc.

New "styles" method for creating unattached styles (re: issue #3)
Added varieties of convert and process that take String, In/OutputStreams, and Reader/PrintWriter (re: issue #2)
Added limited support for using spaces and ~ syntax in Selector definition (limited to two elements)

Better pseudo-class support with %
Measurements are now fully supported including math between different compatible types.
Added Gradle Plugin
Some measurement values are validated (for example, passing 10.deg to maxWidth will throw an AssertionError).

Last updated: 31 July 2019