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Changelog ​

All notable changes to textmode.js are documented here. For full details, see the GitHub releases page.

0.3.1 - (2025-09-27) ​

  • Rolled out full touch event handling across taps, swipes, pinches, rotates, and raw touch streams. See the refreshed event handling guide for the full API surface.
  • Introduced textmodifier.cursor so sketches can adjust the canvas cursor dynamically for drawing, selection, or custom UI states.
  • Experimental: charColor and cellColor now accept an alpha component.

0.3.0 - (2025-09-22) ​

  • Added keyboard and mouse input events, paving the way for interactive sketches (touch input planned next).
  • Introduced offscreen framebuffers plus an image importer with adjustable brightness conversion, both drawable through textmodifier.image.
    • Enables multi-stage shader workflows and feedback loops on top of the new framebuffer pipeline.
  • Shipped an overlay mode that converts existing <canvas> or <video> sources to textmode, including the realtime textmodifier.overlay helper.
  • Added WOFF font format support for custom fonts in addition to TTF and OTF.
  • Updated docs and examples covering events, advanced rendering, and framework integrations.

0.2.0 - (2025-09-13) ​

  • First public release of textmode.js, delivering a zero-dependency, TypeScript-first creative coding library.
  • Published the documentation site, examples, and the dedicated web editor at editor.textmode.art.