Fluid 0.7.0 has been released!

[cookiewitch]

On Friday, 25 October 2024 at 12:21:14 UTC, IchorDev wrote:
> On Friday, 25 October 2024 at 09:44:18 UTC, cookiewitch wrote:
>> On Thursday, 24 October 2024 at 12:02:00 UTC, IchorDev wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> I will check in again once that's done. :)
>
>>> 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!
>
> No problem! Only thing holding me from putting it on dub is 
> that its dependency BindBC-GLib has no README yet.
> BindBC-Pango comes with an example that should adequately 
> demonstrate the basics of how to make use of it with FreeType's 
> renderer. If you want to make your own renderer, I've 
> translated enough of GObject's macros into string mixin 
> generators that you can sub-class Pango's base render class 
> like you would in C without any extra hassle [...]

Looking through Pango's documentation and code, [integrating it 
with Fluid might be 
tricky](https://git.samerion.com/Samerion/Fluid/issues/197). This 
topic is also complex and there are things I don't understand 
about Pango's approach that I can't find an explanation of. This 
is probably something I'll have to spend a lot of time on to get 
a proper grasp of.

I'd really appreciate it if there were some other, more 
comprehensive learning resources. Do you know any?