Re: Demo for The Art of Reflection released (a 3D game and engine fully written in D)
On Friday, 24 May 2024 at 17:45:31 UTC, Lewis wrote: Hello! Not sure if it's of interest, but I've been developing a 3D game and engine in D for a few years, and finally have a demo up on Steam for anyone interested in poking around (Windows only unfortunately). [...] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2290770/The_Art_of_Reflection/ I've just played through the demo, it's impressive! It's a pleasantly confusing experience and my brain hurts now. Also, it works perfectly fine on Linux via Proton.
Re: Fluid 0.6.0 — UI library for D
On Wednesday, 7 February 2024 at 12:49:31 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote: On Wednesday, 7 February 2024 at 07:43:58 UTC, cookiewitch wrote: Windows: * Static Windows libraries for Freetype have been replaced with dynamic ones, which makes it a lot easier to compile. I am working on a PR that makes working with static libraries easier https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/15479 That's good to know! Sadly the issue with Freetype static libraries is something with the C/C++ Microsoft runtime. I forgot to mention it's specific to LDC — as DMD has no trouble at all.
Re: Fluid 0.6.0 — UI library for D
On Thursday, 25 January 2024 at 12:33:31 UTC, cookiewitch wrote: Fluid is a library I started developing 3 years ago when I joined the D community, after failing to find a suitable library for my gamedev project. Developing user interfaces through websites, games or applications is something I've spent a significant amount of time in the past, so I saw this as an opportunity for developing a solution that combines the best aspects of different frameworks I have previously used, whereas targeted at web browsers, mobile applications, games or desktop. Similarly to how many praise D for being both great for prototyping and amazingly scalable, I found that I would love to build something that shares both of those traits. [...] I've just released 0.6.2, which is focused on cross-platform fixes. Windows: * Static Windows libraries for Freetype have been replaced with dynamic ones, which makes it a lot easier to compile. macOS: * Freetype should now work correctly on both Intel and Apple Silicon. * Compiling using DMD has been marked as unsupported and Fluid will refuse to compile by default. Use `Fluid_Force` to override. * Disable coordinate scaling, since macOS does that automatically; Apps should now scale correctly on Retina screens. * Implement analog scroll, scrolling should now feel far better.
Re: Fluid 0.6.0 — UI library for D
On Wednesday, 31 January 2024 at 06:38:17 UTC, aberba wrote: On Thursday, 25 January 2024 at 12:33:31 UTC, cookiewitch wrote: Fluid is a library I started developing 3 years ago when I joined the D community, after failing to find a suitable library for my gamedev project. Developing user interfaces through websites, games or applications is something I've spent a significant amount of time in the past, so I saw this as an opportunity for developing a solution that combines the best aspects of different frameworks I have previously used, whereas targeted at web browsers, mobile applications, games or desktop. Similarly to how many praise D for being both great for prototyping and amazingly scalable, I found that I would love to build something that shares both of those traits. [...] Could you have a small documentation website? Could even be based on something like GitHub pages or readthedocs (https://readthedocs.io). I didn't work on proper documentation yet, you can however view what there is at dpldocs.info: https://fluid.dpldocs.info/fluid.html Right now the best learning resource is the showcase, available at `dub run fluid:showcase`
Re: Fluid 0.6.0 — UI library for D
Fluid is a library I started developing 3 years ago when I joined the D community, after failing to find a suitable library for my gamedev project. Developing user interfaces through websites, games or applications is something I've spent a significant amount of time in the past, so I saw this as an opportunity for developing a solution that combines the best aspects of different frameworks I have previously used, whereas targeted at web browsers, mobile applications, games or desktop. Similarly to how many praise D for being both great for prototyping and amazingly scalable, I found that I would love to build something that shares both of those traits. [...] I have fixed reported Windows build problems, and now distribute Freetype binaries alongside the package. I've also updated dparse, fixing the LDC build. This means `dub run fluid:showcase` should now work out-of-the-box on both Linux and Windows. That's not the case for the showcase on macOS, but the DUB init template ought to work. If you want to run the showcase `brew install raylib` and then try `dub run fluid:showcase-raylib`. I will soon look into non-GL rendering to help improve this. Sorry to everybody who ran into these issues, and thank you for your patience!
Re: Fluid 0.6.0 — UI library for D
On Thursday, 25 January 2024 at 12:33:31 UTC, cookiewitch wrote: Fluid is a library I started developing 3 years ago when I joined the D community, after failing to find a suitable library for my gamedev project. Developing user interfaces through websites, games or applications is something I've spent a significant amount of time in the past, so I saw this as an opportunity for developing a solution that combines the best aspects of different frameworks I have previously used, whereas targeted at web browsers, mobile applications, games or desktop. Similarly to how many praise D for being both great for prototyping and amazingly scalable, I found that I would love to build something that shares both of those traits. [...] Also, thanks to schveiguy, Hipreme, adr and members of the Raylib community for assisting me with this project, providing help and support over Discord, motivating me to work on this, while developing their own fantastic libraries and tools! <3
Fluid 0.6.0 — UI library for D
Fluid is a library I started developing 3 years ago when I joined
the D community, after failing to find a suitable library for my
gamedev project. Developing user interfaces through websites,
games or applications is something I've spent a significant
amount of time in the past, so I saw this as an opportunity for
developing a solution that combines the best aspects of different
frameworks I have previously used, whereas targeted at web
browsers, mobile applications, games or desktop. Similarly to how
many praise D for being both great for prototyping and amazingly
scalable, I found that I would love to build something that
shares both of those traits.
Fluid is a flexible UI library for the D programming language.
Minimal setup. Declarative. Non-intrusive.
```d
auto root = vspace(
.layout!"center",
label(
.layout!"center",
"Hello World from"
),
imageView("./logo.png"),
);
```
Fluid is not standalone, but relies on other libraries to provide
input and output facilities. It comes with build in support for
[Raylib 5][raylib] and [arsd.simpledisplay][sdpy]. Integration is
seamless, as one or two calls do the job.
```d
while (!WindowShouldClose) {
BeginDrawing();
ClearBackground(color!"#fff");
root.draw();
EndDrawing();
}
```
Fluid comes with a number of helpful nodes that you can use to
build your interface. Communicate with the user using `label`,
`button`, `textInput`, `fileInput`, `scrollInput`, and quickly
build layouts using simple and easy to learn `space`, `frame`,
`nodeSlot`, `grid`, `mapSpace`.
Fluid exposes a high-level API, provides layout capabilities that
are responsive-by-default, Unicode support and text rendering
with Freetype2, reliable mouse, keyboard and gamepad support, is
themable, extensible and looks great on HiDPI displays.
Supported platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS*, with plans to
support Android and WASM.
The showcase should be a nice introduction to the library,
describing each feature, providing live examples and code
snippets. It's still a work in progress, so don't expect it to be
complete nor perfect by any means, but I hope to improve it with
further updates.
```
dub run fluid:showcase
```
If you'd like to start a new DUB projects with Fluid, you can
start with a template:
```
dub init -t fluid
```
## Release 0.6.0
While I still have work to do to make Fluid as good as I want it
to be, both in regards of performance and usability, I believe
that 0.6.0, being the biggest update yet, is a breakthrough
moment in Fluid's development, and the library is only about to
gain stability.
Most importantly, 0.6.0 is the first release to no longer
exclusively rely on Raylib. As noted earlier, it's already
possible to use Fluid with [arsd.simpledisplay][sdpy]. This opens
a lot of new possibilities, since Fluid could be used with
*anything* as long as you implement the `FluidBackend` interface.
This release also completely reworked input, making the entire
interface immediately controllable with tabs and arrow keys. All
mouse, keyboard and gamepad binds are configurable and can easily
be used in user-provided nodes via Input Actions. It is also the
first to introduce the new showcase. A full changelog is
available on
https://git.samerion.com/Samerion/Fluid/releases/tag/v0.6.0
## The future
Fluid is still lacking a number of features. Speaking of numbers,
no `numberInput`, for example. But having just reinforced the
code of the library, I think it's a great time to add all that is
now missing, see
. Despite of
this, Fluid is already in a great state and can be used in
practical scenarios. New nodes aren't difficult to add.
The roadmap for Fluid sees just two missing major pre-releases,
with only one of them possibly introducing any greater breaking
changes. The theming system needs a refactor, which I believe
will make it more powerful and easier to use, and I plan to do so
in 0.7.0.
Changes I made to the backend side of Fluid make it possible to
expand the reach of Fluid. I'm interested in making it work with
[Hipreme Engine](https://github.com/MrcSnm/HipremeEngine) because
of the engine's great portability. I'm also very excited to
expand outside of game development and try and make the library
integrate with naive UI frameworks or at least mimic their look.
Later on, along with 0.8.0, I plan to develop a graphical, live
editor for Fluid user interfaces, with support for debugging and
analysis of running programs.
## Maintenance
It's typical for many D projects now that they come and go,
libraries are born out of hobby projects just to be forgotten and
abandoned later. Will this happen to Fluid?
Fluid has mostly been developed in bursts. Development slows
downs or stops
