Fluid 0.7.0 has been released!

[cookiewitch]

On Thursday, 24 October 2024 at 12:02:00 UTC, IchorDev wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 October 2024 at 11:15:16 UTC, cookiewitch wrote:
>> After 9 months of development and 252 commits later, finally 
>> 0.7.0 gets to see the sunlight!
>
> This project certainly seems promising, although I’m rather 
> worried about how many classes there are with almost no data—so 
> many allocations for what could just be a struct with function 
> pointers, no? That’s how FreeType does ‘inheritance’ in pure C.

Fluid nodes aren't just pointers to functions, so no. I think 
switching to struct based code would intensely increase Fluid's 
complexity, both for me and anyone trying to start using it. I 
don't think it's worth it.

> Anyway, at this stage, how difficult is it to make a custom 
> Fluid backend? (e.g. SDL2 for input or a different renderer)

The backend API still isn't very polished. It's not difficult, 
but it takes some time to prepare. I also regret choosing a 
Raylib-like API rather than an event-based on. I want to change 
that in a later update, probably 0.8.0 or 0.9.0.

> Also does this project have proper text layout support? I 
> noticed there’s a dependency on FreeType; but FreeType doesn’t 
> do layout, only rendering. I’m about to release 
> [BindBC-Pango](https://github.com/BindBC/bindbc-pango) if you 
> need a text layout engine. They’re absolutely imperative for 
> acceptable internationalisation support.

That is true, Fluid can only do the basic left-to-right text 
layout right now. To be frank, it isn't even able to center or 
right align text. So far I've opted for Freetype, because I'm 
more familiar with APIs of its kind and I wanted to save some of 
my time, but it might be about time I tried Pango. Thank you for 
your work on the bindings, I'll check them out!