20th to 26th of March 2023

Spotlight: Ferrous Systems, Slint, and QNX

Our friends at Ferrous Systems blogged about their QNX demo for Embedded World:

Slint Library

New Features

C++: Implement creation of image from raw data (#2378)
C++: Support more image file formats (#2398)
Interpreter: Support more image formats in the viewer, previewer, and nodejs bindings (#2401)

Tooling

online editor: Add support for importing from and exporting to GitHub Gists (#2403)
online_editor: Add energy monitor demo (#2383)

Changes to the `.slint` Language

layouting: Change the default behavior of widgets when not in a layout: They should have their preferred size (#2386)
compiler: turn a warning into an error (#2387)

Fixes

Fix software renderer with native style (#2405)
Fixes #2404
software_renderer: return the modified region from the render call (#2406)
Also add a test for partial rendering

Closes #2389
accessibility: Do not freeze trying to find items at position (#2384)
Fixes: #2195
femtovg: Speedup TextEdit with many lines (#2393)
Fix compilation of Rust generated code when the generated code uses a return statement inside a block (#2395)
Report warnings from the slint! macro (#2399)
Fix support on GLX displays with FemtoVG (#2400)
Introduce full error handling in the FemtoVG and Skia renderers (#2402)

Documentation

Fix missing navigation sidebar in the Slint language docs (#2385)
Disable automatic example preview in the docs for Safari (#2392)
Switch to the Furo theme for the Slint Language and C++ documentation (#2396)
Slint docs style cleanups (#2397)

Janitor Work

PRs: #2368, #2388

Statistics

51 patches committed in 21 pull requests by 3 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