6th to 12th of February 2023
Spotlight: Rust Foundation Interview
Slint joined the Rust Foundation as a Silver member last year. We finally found time to do the Member Spotlight: A short interview with Olivier, one of our Co-Founders.
Slint UI Library
New Features
- TextInput: Improve mouse interaction with texts (#2179)
Tooling
- Update tree-sitter parser to the new Slint syntax (#2144)
- Update highlight definitions for the Slint language used in text editors (#2205)
- Declare the Slint VS Code extension as stable (#2212)
Fixes
- Harmonize styles & add a test that styles are in sync (#2076)
- Improve error message when trying to create a two-way binding to model data (#2190)
- Fix const detection with two ways binding (#2192)
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Fix run-time panic when combining forward-focus with text rendering in
no_stdenvironments (#2203) -
Platform: Replace the
MAX_BUFFER_AGEconst generic with a runtime enum (#2206) - Rust: Avoid name conflicts between user and internal types (#2208)
- Rust: Make new(), run() and show() report errors from the backend (#2216)
- winit backend: Fix compilation with wayland but not x11 (#2219)
Documentation and Demos
Janitor Work
- C++: use size_t everywhere as index in our models (#2196)
- Replace unwraps in compiler glyph embedding with diagnostics (#2214)
- Sort enums when generating enum docs (#2217)
- Compiler: use the new syntax for builtins.slint (#2221)
Other Crates and Libraries
Contributions to other crates and libraries made by our Slint developers:
FemtoVG
- FemtoVG released version 0.6.0 of its anti-aliased 2D vector drawing library.
Statistics
113 patches committed in 24 pull requests by 4 authors.
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Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for desktop and embedded applications written in Rust, C++, JavaScript, and Python. Find more information at https://slint.dev/ or check out the source code at https://github.com/slint-ui/slint