CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project are documented in this file.

Unreleased

Changed

Added

Fixed

• TextInput now show the Text mouse cursor
• In Flickable, added a small delay before passing the Press pointer event to the children

0.3.0 - 2022-09-14

Breaking Changes

• mod now works on any numeric type, not only integers.
• Minimum rust version is now 1.60.
• The "backend-gl-*" Rust crate features for configuring the GL renderer have been changed and split by renderer.
• VecModel::remove now returns the removed element.
• slint::invoke_from_event_loop and slint::quit_event_loop now return a Result.

Added

• Added the platform module providing API to use slint on bare metal with a software renderer.
• Added an experimental Skia renderer.
• Button: Add a checkable property that turns the button into a toggle button. Use the new checked property to query whether the toggle button is pressed down or not.
• Added support for slint::Window::set_position and slint::Window::position to set and get the placement of the window on the screen.
• Added slint::Window::scale_factor() as getter to read the system device pixel ratio.
• Added support for slint::Window::set_size and slint::Window::size to set and get the size of the window on the screen.
• Added slint::Window::dispatch_event and slint::WindowEvent to be able to manually send a mouse or touch event to a window.
• Added animation-tick().
• SharedString implements std::fmt::Write and added slint::format!.
• Image can now be rotated with the rotation-* properties.
• Use docking widgets and integration of slint-lsp into the Online Code Editor.

Fixed

• Fixed Ctrl+Backspace/Ctrl+Del not deleting words in text input elements.
• Resizing of live-preview window in the IDE integrations.
• Preferred size of the TabWidget in the fluent style take in account the size of the tabs (#1363).
• Fixed cursor behavior when typing the Enter key at the end of a TextEdit (#1318).
• Fixed a memory leak of images when using the GL backend.
• Fixed starting and stopping slint::Timer from withing their callback (#1532).

0.2.5 - 2022-07-06

Changed

• Interpreter: Implement TryFrom<Value> instead of TryInto for Value (#1258)

Added

• Added the Model Adapters FilterModel and MapModel.
• Added @radial-gradient(circle, ...)
• Added read-only property to TextInput, TextEdit and LineEdit.
• VSCode extension can be installed as a web extension. (eg, from https://vscode.dev)
• LSP: completion of @ macros
• LSP: completion of element that require an import
• Basic accessibility support using the accessible- properties

Fixed

• GL backend: Fixed animation sometimes not starting from input event (#1255)
• C++ fix compilation when writing to the model data
• Fix mouse exit events not triggered by scrolling a Flickable (#1107)

0.2.4 - 2022-05-09

• Fixed crash when opening a native (Qt) ComboBox

0.2.3 - 2022-05-09

Fixed

• Fixed crashes with the Qt backend in release mode. (#1230)
• Fixed panic when drop-shadow is used in a ListView (#1233)
• Fixed combining a brush and a color to always convert to brush, to avoid loosing gradient information (#1235)
• Fixed properties not having the right default value when set by some states (#1237)
• Fixed properties with multiples aliases, and default values.
• Enable fontdb's fontconfig feature to fix finding some fonts (#1240)

0.2.2 - 2022-05-04

Changed

• On wasm, the input event are handled via a hidden <input> element, allowing the keyboard to show on mobile platform
• The size of the window is kept when reloading a window in the preview (instead of being reset to the preferred size)
• Minimum rust version is now 1.59

Added

• Support for keyboard focus with the tab key
• Support more keyboard shortcut in the editing element
• Added From<&str> and From<SharedString> to StandardListViewItem to make creation and modification of StandardListView's models easier.
• Added on_close_requested function to Window to register callbacks that are emitted when the user tries to close a window.
• Added VecModel::set_vec to replace the entire contents with new data.
• Added a cache-rendering-hint boolean property that can be applied to any element, to hint to the renderer that it should cache the element and its children into a cached layer. This may speed up rendering of complex sub-trees if they rarely change.
• The brighter and lighter functions also work on values of type brush.
• Added a reset function to C++'s Model, Rust's ModelNotify and JS's ModelPeer
• Added a row_data_tracked function to ModelExt (an extension to the Model trait)

Fixed

• Fixed application of the opacity property evenly to child elements (#725).
• Windows: Fixed font lookup of strings including several scripts (eg, containing asian characters)
• Fixed PopupWindow in a repeater (#1113, #1132)
• LSP: do not always resize the preview window to its preferred each time the code is modified

0.2.1 - 2022-03-10

Added

• C++ interpreter API: added a Value::Value(int) constructor
• Global singletons in .slint files may now refer to other global singletons
• Added input-type property to TextInput and LineEdit that allows for characters to be replaced in password fields
• The SpinBox widget now handles up and down key events

Fixed

• TouchArea::has-hover is now properly set to false when the mouse leaves the window
• Fixed some cases of panics with 'Constant property being changed'
• Fixed Flickable animation
• Better compilation error when selecting unknown styles
• Fixed duplicated key event for some keys (such as tab) with the GL backend
• Improved property optimizations by inlining some bindings and remove more unused properties

0.2.0 - 2022-02-10

This version changes some APIs in incompatible ways. For details how to migrate your application code, see the C++ migration guide as well as the Rust migration guide for the sixtyfps crate and for the slint-interpreter crate.

Changed

• Minimum rust version is now 1.56
• C++ compiler requires C++20
• In the C++ interpreter API std::span is used for callbacks arguments, instead of sixtyfps::Slice
• Model::row_data will now return a Option<T> / std::optional<T> instead of a plain T.
• Model::model_tracker no longer has a default implementation.
• The deprecated methods Model::attach_peer and ModelNotify::attach were removed.
• The interpreter does not differentiate anymore between Value::Array and Value::Model everything is a Value::Model, which now contains a ModelRc
• In Rust, slint::SharedPixelBuffer and slint::SharedImageBuffer now use a u32 instead of usize for width, height and stride.
• In Rust and C++, slint::Image::size() now returns an integer size type.
• sixtyfps::interpreter::CallCallbackError was renamed to slint::interpreter::InvokeCallbackError
• Some deprecation warning in .60 became hard errors
• Replace ModelHandle with ModelRc
• slint::interpreter::ComponentInstance in Rust now implements slint::ComponentHandle. This removes sixtyfps_interpreter::WeakComponentInstance in favor of slint_interpreter::Weak<slint_interpreter::ComponentInstance>.
• For the Rust API crate, the Rust Interpreter API crate, the backend-gl, x11, and wayland features were renamed to backend-gl-all, backend-gl-x11, and backend-gl-wayland.
• For the C++ CMake interface, the SIXTYFPS_BACKEND_GL, SIXTYFPS_FEATURE_X11, and SIXTYFPS_FEATURE_WAYLAND options were renamed to SLINT_BACKEND_GL_ALL, SLINT_FEATURE_BACKEND_GL_X11, and SLINT_FEATURE_BACKEND_GL_WAYLAND.
• The animation loop-count property was replaced by iteration-count (which is the same as loop-count plus one)

Added

• TextEdit::font-size and LineEdit::font-size have been added to control the size of these widgets.
• Added slint::Window::set_rendering_notifier to get a callback before and after a new frame is being rendered.
• Added slint::Window::request_redraw() to schedule redrawing of the window contents.

Fixed

• Models initialized from arrays are now also mutable when run in the interpreter.
• Fixed compilation error when accessing object members of array through the array index syntax

0.1.6 - 2022-01-21

Changed

• Breaking: The internal key code for the keys left, right, home and end has changed. This was undocumented, but if you were handling this in the FocusScope event, these keys will now be ignored. Use the Keys.LeftArrow and other code exposed in the Keys namespace instead.
• For sixtyfps::Timer (C++ and Rust), it's now possible to call restart() after a timer has been stopped previously by calling stop().
• Property access in .60 was optimized by doing more constant propagation.

Added

• Color names can now be accessed through the Colors namespace (in .60).
• Math function are now available through the Math namespace (in .60).
• TouchArea gained a mouse-cursor property to change the mouse cursor.
• C++: Added SIXTYFPS_VERSION_MAJOR/SIXTYFPS_VERSION_MINOR/SIXTYFPS_VERSION_PATCH version macros.
• More special keyboard key codes are provided in the FocusScope, and special keys are handled
• start(), stop(), running() and a default constructor for C++ sixtyfps::Timer
• Added math functions log, and pow.
• Property animations now have a delay property, which will delay the start of the animation. Use this to create sequential animations.
• Rust: Added sixtyfps::VecModel::insert(&self, index, value).
• C++: Added sixtyfps::VecModel::insert(index, value).
• Added ability to access elements of a model with the [index] syntax.

Fixed

• Memory leak in C++.
• Native style: Colors are updated automatically when the Windowing system switches to and from dark mode (#687)
• Ctrl/Command+X in text fields copies the selected text to the clipboard and deletes it (cut).
• Improved native ComboBox look.
• Fixed panics or compilation error when using two way bindings on global properties.

0.1.5 - 2021-11-24

Changed

• The sixtyfps compiler no longer "inline" all the elements, resulting in faster compilation time and smaller binaries.
• Implemented basic constant propagation in the sixtyfps compiler

Fixed

• The Slider's changed callback was not being called with the fluent style (#621).
• Fixed compilation error in C++'s sixtyfps::blocking_invoke_from_main_loop when the callable returns void (#623).
• Improve rendering quality on High-DPI screens on Windows when using Qt.
• Fixed linking errors when selecting the native style on Windows with C++.
• Fixed the maximization button in the window decoration when a window has a fixed size.

0.1.4 - 2021-10-22

Changed

• The TouchArea now grabs the mouse for every button instead of just the left button.
• The ScrollView's default viewport size is no longer hardcoded to 1000px but depends on the contents.
• In Rust, the sixtyfps::Model trait deprecates the attach_peer function in favor of model_tracker, where all you need to do is return a reference to your sixtyfps::ModelNotify field.

Added

• Enable support for compressed SVG (.svgz).
• Viewer: added possibility to set shell callback handler with --on <callback> <handler>.
• It is now possible to query the length of a model with .length.

Fixed

• Fixed the PointerEvent.kind always being down.
• LineEdit.has-hocus with the native style

0.1.3 - 2021-10-06

Changed

• Due to changes in the build system, the C++ build now requires CMake >= 3.19.
• Fluent style: The Slider and ScrollBar now updates as the mouse moves.
• Parentheses around callable expression is now deprecated.
• Naming a callback without calling it is now a hard error instead of producing error in the generated code.

Added

• New no-frame property of a Window which changes it to borderless/frameless
• sixtyfps-compiler and slint-viewer can read the .60 file content from stdin by passing -
• slint-viewer gained ability to read or save the property values to a json file with --save-data and --load-data
• New StandardButton widget
• New Dialog element
• sixtyfps::Image has now a path() accessor function in Rust and C++ to access the optional path of the file on disk that's backing the image.
• New moved and pointer-event callback in TouchArea
• New AboutSixtyFPS widget

Fixed

• Fixed panic when using TabWidget with Text elements and the native style.
• Fixed panic when calling hide() on a sixtyfps::Window from within a callback triggered by keyboard/mouse input when using the GL backend.
• Rust: The implementation of ModelModel::set_row_data now forward the call to the inner model

0.1.2 - 2021-09-09

Changed

• Apply the default text color from the style for the color of Text and TextInput elements, to contrast correctly with the application of Window's background property.
• LineEdit scrolls to keep the cursor visible
• The clicked callbacks are now only emitted if the release event is within the TouchArea's geometry
• parentheses around the condition are no longer needed in if elements: if condition : Foo { ... }

Added

• One can now set an alias from the root to a global callback
• It is now possible to access properties and callback of exported global objects from the native code (#96)
• C++ API: blocking_invoke_from_event_loop: a blocking version of invoke_from_event_loop
• TextInput can support multiple line by setting single-line to false
• The CMake integration now allows enabling/disabling SixtyFPS library features, such as Wayland support or the dynamic run-time interpreter.
• Added image-rendering property to Image to control how the image is scaled
• TextEdit widget
• Support for semantic tokens in LSP

Fixed

• The interpreter API correctly return an error instead of panicking when setting properties or calling callbacks that don't exist
• The has-hover property is correctly reset the false when releasing the mouse outside the touch area

0.1.1 - 2021-08-19

Changed

• Fixed lookup scope when resolving model expression in for or if constructs: the self element now refers to the correct element instead of the root.
• Rust: default to the native style if Qt is available
• Rust: deprecated SharedVector::as_slice_mut(). Use SharedVector::make_mut_slice() instead.
• The default non-native widget style is now the new "fluent" style.
• The internal normalization of identifiers is using - instead of _, this is an internal change, but it can be seen in error messages. When listing properties the identifiers are preserved. For fields in structures they are normalized.
• Show a compilation error when there are duplicated element ids.
• The clip property can now be any expression.

Added

• ComboBox now has a selected callback.
• Window now has an icon property.
• Added sixtyfps::Weak::upgrade_in_event_loop in the Rust API.
• Added sixtyfps::Model::as_any() in the Rust API.
• Added conversion between sixtyfps::Image and sixtyfps::interpreter::Value in the C++ API.
• Properties of type angle and duration are allowed in the public API.
• Every element now has a visible property.
• Slider now has a changed callback.
• Added TabWidget widget.
• Rust: sixtyfps::Image can now be constructed from image data provided by sixtyfps::SharedPixelBuffer. This enables integrating with other low-level software rendering or the the popular Rust image crate.
• VSCode extension: added an option to specify command line arguments for the LSP.

Fixed

• GridLayout cells with colspan and rowspan respect properly their constraints.
• Don't panic when replacing programmatically text in a TextInput and then editing it.
• The default height of elements in a ListView no longer defaults to 100%.
• Fixed support for *= and /= on types with unit such as length.
• Don't panic when using a self assignment operator on an invalid type - this produces a compiler error instead.
• Fixed angle conversion for values specified in radians, gradians and turns.
• Fixed SharedVector sometimes not allocating big enough storage.

0.1.0 - 2021-06-30

Changed

• Layouts are now conceptually their own elements, meaning that the x and y properties of items within layouts are relative to the layout and no longer to the parent element of layouts.
• The default spacing and padding of layouts is now 0 instead of being specific to the style. There are now HorizontalBox, VerticalBox, GridBox widgets which have default spacing and padding.
• Setting the window height and width properties results in a fixed size. The preferred-width and preferred-height property can be used to set the initial size and the window remains resizable by the user, if the window manager permits.
• Binding loops are now detected at compile-time instead of panic at runtime.
• The viewer binary was renamed to slint-viewer and is now available via cargo install from crates.io.
• The layout properties minimum-width, maximum-height, etc. were renamed to a shorter version min-width, max-height. The old names are still supported as a deprecated alias.

Added

• Warnings are now shown in the online code editor.
• sixtyfps::invoke_from_event_loop was added to the C++ and Rust APIs, to run a function in the UI thread from any thread.
• sixtyfps::run_event_loop() and sixtyfps::quit_event_loop() were added to the Rust and C++ APIs to start and quit the main event loop.
• z property on items.
• The type in two-way bindings can now be omitted.
• It's possible to declare aliases for callbacks (callback clicked <=> other.clicked;)
• abs() function to get the absolute value
• The root element of an if or for can be given a name (if (condition) name := Rectangle {})
• sixtyfps::Image is a new type in the public Rust and C++ API to load images from a path.
• The width and height of images is now accessible via the widthor height of an image type property in .60 files (some-image.source.width)

Fixed

• Fixed Mouse wheel to work on the Flickable element and derivatives.
• Fixed generated C++ code on Windows.
• Calling debug(...) no longer breaks the LSP.
• ComponentDefinition::properties only exposes public properties as documented.
• Many more bugfixes

0.0.6 - 2021-04-27

Changed

• Rectangle::color was deprecated and replaced by Rectangle::background, same for Window::color
• Path::fill-color was renamed to fill, and Path::stroke-color was renamed to stroke, which are now brushes instead of color
• Many other color property became brush in order to support gradients
• the resource type was renamed to image
• Calling a callback is done from C++/Rust with invoke_<name> instead of call_<name>

Added

• @linear-gradient can be used to have gradients on rectangle and paths
• Image::colorize allows to apply a color filter on image
• 0 can be converted to anything with units
• Support power of unit in intermediate expression. (eg: 3px * width / height is now supported but used to be an error)
• Support for else if
• The path fill rule can now be specified using Path::fill-rule.
• Support for letter-spacing in Text/TextInput elements.
• rgb() / rgba()
• Layout in Flickable
• LSP server with Live Preview and basic auto completion
• The viewer tool gained the --auto-reload argument
• Window.default-font-weight
• Added opacity property that can be applied to elements
• Added clip property in Rectangle, including clipping for rounded rectangle
• API to load dynamically .60 files from C++ and Rust, including a way to embed sixtyfps widgets in Qt applications
• Preferred size in Layouts
• Math functions such as sin, cos, sqrt, ...
• New printer demo design
• Ability to load custom fonts using import statements

Fixed

• Image::image-fit's cover and contains variant are fixed to match the CSS spec
• Flickable without scrollbar
• Multiplying and dividing different units.
• Many more bugfixes

0.0.5 - 2021-01-29

Changed

• Renamed "signal" to "callback"
• And calling a callback is done from C++/Rust with call_<name> instead of emit_<name>
• Renamed "SharedArray" to "SharedVector" in the C++/Rust API
• Renamed Slider min and max property to minimum and maximum
• The graphics rendering backend was changed to use femtovg or Qt
• Renamed initial-focus to forward-focus as focus related property on elements
• The "align-" prefix was removed from TextHorizontalAlignment and TextVerticalAlignment. Either change align-left to left or qualify with TextHorizontalAlignment.left.
• img!"..." is replaced by @image-url("...")
• $children is replaced by @children

Added

• title property to the Window element
• color property to the Window element
• maximum/minimum properties to the SpinBox
• strings can contain escape codes
• FocusScope to handle key events
• return statements
• Text word wrap and elide
• drop-shadow-* properties (limited to Rectangle at the moment)
• Color.brighter / Color.darker
• Window.default-font-family and Window.default-font-size

0.0.4 - 2020-12-14

Changed

• Changed Rust build.rs API to use an opaque compiler configuration type
• With Rust, image resources are embedded in the binary by default.
• Updated winit version
• Updated Neon Version

Fixed

• Fixed animations sometimes stopping mid-way.
• Fixed rendering of C++ components
• Fixed disabled widgets

0.0.3 - 2020-12-09

Changed

• In C++, the generated component is now wrapped by a ComponentHandle smart pointer that acts like std::shared_ptr. New instances are created using T::create().
• In Rust, the generated component implements Clone and acts like an Rc. sixtyfps::Weak can be used to hold weak references.
• ARGBColor was renamed RgbaColor
• width and height` of some builtin elements now default to 100% of the parent element.

Added

• Allow dashes in identifiers (#52)
• VerticalLayout / HorizontalLayout
• Placeholder text in LineEdit
• global components (#96)
• Clip element
• ComboBox element
• PopupWindow element
• Image element: New source-clip-{x, y, width, height} properties
• sixtyfps::Timer in Rust API
• Transitions are now implemented
• round/ceil/floor/mod/max/min/cubic-bezier functions
• Signals can have return a value
• has_hover property in TouchArea
• font-weight property on Text
• viewbox-x/y/width/height and clip properties for Path

0.0.2 - 2020-10-22

Changed

• Default to the native style in the viewer, if available.
• Changed the name of the common logical pixel unit from lx to px. The less often used physical pixel has now the phx suffix.

Added

• Add support for more keyboard shortcuts to TextInput.
• Added a current_item to StandardListView.
• API cleanup in sixtyfps-node

Fixed

• Fix occasional hang when navigating in TextInput fields with the cursor keys.
• Fix access to aliased properties from within for and if expressions.
• Fix ScrollView being scrollable when it shouldn't.
• Fix appearance of natively styled scrollbars.
• Allow converting an object type to another even if it is missing some properties.
• Add missing frame drawing around ScrollView.
• Fix Clipping in scroll views in WASM builds.
• Fix resizing of ListView.
• Many more bugfixes

0.0.1 - 2020-10-13

• Initial release.