Expyriment 0.5.0 released!

[Florian Krause]

Expyriment 0.5.0 has just been released! This is a milestone release with many new features and fixes.

New Features:
- new io class: TextMenu
- new function: expyriment.get_system_info()
- new function in control: get_defaults()
- new method in ButtonBox: check()
- new methods in io.Mouse: wait_event, wait_motion
- new misc modules: geometry and statistics
- new Cedrus Response Devices support in io.extras
- new test suite:
  - new method in control: run_testsuite()
  - the testsuite can write a protocol with all results and information about
    the system
- folder for settings and extra plugins:
  $HOME/.expyriment/ or $HOME/~expyriment/
  - if the file post_import.py exist in this folder it will be executed
    automatically after the import of expyriment
  - extra plugins can be now also included in the folder
    $HOME/.expyriment/<module_name>/  (or ~expyriment)
- command line interface:
  - see "python -m expyriment.cli -h" for help
- better on- and offline documentation:
  - new function: expyriment.show_documentation()
  - new Api Reference Tool (API browse and search GUI)
- new function in misc.data_preprocessing: write_concatenated_data
- ButtonBox and TriggerInput work now optional with bitwise comparisons
- SerialPort and ParallelPort have a get_available_ports() method
- wait callback functions can now also be registered via the experiment
- some new constants
Changed:
- ButtonBox has been replaced by StreamingButtonBox and EventButtonBox
- the experiment is now THE central structure in the framework. Importantly,
  start does not require an experiment anymore and starts instead the
  currently initialized experiment.
- textinput.filter is rename to textinput.ascii_filter
- stimuli.TextBox: Size is now a mandatory parameter
- ending expyriment will now only optionally call sys.exti()
- stimuli.Audio.is_playing() and Audio.wait_end() are replaced by
  control.get_audiosystem_is_playing() and control.wait_end_audiosystem()
- stimuli.Audio.play() now returns a pygame.mixer.Channel object
- control.run_in_develop_mode() is renamed to control.set_develop_mode()
- no config files will be supported anymore
Fixed:
- the Windows installer will now remove all files from an old installation
  before installing
- IDLE will not freeze anymore, when a script crashes
- several attributes/properties were did not appear in the API reference
- major bug in keyboard.check()
- (possibly) fixed is_playing() method in Audio
- ordering of serial ports in SerialPort.get_available_ports()
- visual problems when graphics card is set to do flipping with tripple buffer

Please download the new version from here.

For an overview of some of the new features, see also here.