giD v0.9.6: WebKit web browser engine binding, GObject property support, and improved docs
Element Green
element at kymorphia.com
Mon Apr 21 14:35:37 UTC 2025
giD v0.9.6 has been released. This release adds a
[WebKit](https://webkit.org/) 6 binding, the popular web browser
engine used in Safari and other popular web browsers (D web
browser anyone?). With the additional support libraries this
brings the total giD library support count to 64.
This release also adds support for GObject property methods which
was added to [gidgen](https://gidgen.dub.pm). Until now these had
not been implemented since there are usually getter/setter
methods also part of most GIR APIs. Some objects rely completely
on GObject properties though which was why support was added and
because it looks elegant as well (especially compared to calling
getProperty/setProperty GObject templates).
**Example:**
```D
with(new Window) {
window.title = "Hello World Example";
window.defaultWidth = 200;
window.defaultHeight = 200;
window.child = new Label("Hello World!");
self.present;
}
```
Some rather significant object renames were also done to make the
API more consistent. This mainly affected classes which use
reserved D names, such as "Object", "Exception", "Error",
"Monitor", etc. Instead of appending the library name to the
class name, "Wrap" is just used. So ObjectG became ObjectWrap.
VariantG was also just named Variant, since a rename is not
required. At this point we don't expect such significant
backwards compatibility breaking changes moving forward to a 1.0
release.
Many improvements were also made to the generated [adrdox
documentation](https://www.kymorphia.com/gid/).
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