giD v0.9.6: WebKit web browser engine binding, GObject property support, and improved docs

[Dejan Lekic]

On Monday, 21 April 2025 at 14:35:37 UTC, Element Green wrote:
> 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).

EG, you rock as always. Thanks for this - amazing job!

However, I think the code you gave as an example is incorrect. It 
should be:

```d
with(new Window) {
   title = "Hello World Example";
   defaultWidth = 200;
   defaultHeight = 200;
   child = new Label("Hello World!");
   self.present;
}
```
(`window.` removed). This is all so nice and clean. Love it!

I wish we did not have to rely on "self" in our code but hey, 
Walter and Co. did
not give us a good alternative... I wish some of the core devs 
actually noticed my post from few weeks ago: 
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/xroybbdawaojiavsqydb@forum.dlang.org

Another example of the new properties in action:
https://codeberg.org/dejan/gid-examples/src/branch/main/adw-simple/source/app.d#L26