After 9 months of development and 252 commits later, finally 0.7.0 gets to see the sunlight! This is the biggest update to Fluid yet, almost twice as big as 0.6.0, and also almost half the size of Fluid itself. In fact, so big, that I decided to delay some of the changes to a separate future update; too big.

Fluid is a general-purpose user interface library. It is D first, and comes with Raylib support. While largely a work in progress, and of pre-release quality, it's already mostly stable and ready for use.

Measurement and rendering uses the TextRuler struct (frankly more important than the Fluid-centric StyledText one we keep discussing), which I hope to keep super simple so it can be easily manipulated by the user.

It keeps track of the pen position and text size.

The idea is TextRuler is fed pieces of unbreakable content ("words") which may be text, but it can be anything of known width. A textual word would be first measured and then placed in the ruler to place it in the correct spot in the text.

Whatever manipulates the ruler, like the Text struct, could handle other pieces through a hook that would run between words. I imagine it would have a signature like void delegate(ref TextRuler, WordSize). inline-block-like content (images, buttons, etc.) would increase line height and add a single "word" both matching the image's size. inline elements could add multiple words. float content could be simulated by inserting a word on every line at its supposed location, and thus would even support non-rectangular elements anywhere within the line.

As for TextRulerCache I mentioned earlier, I'm almost sure I've ironed out all the quirks and bugs. I think it's OK now, but certainly coding a pretty weird and complex data structure while having a fever wasn't my brightest idea.

On Monday, 18 November 2024 at 14:27:41 UTC, cookiewitch wrote:

What about the majority of languages which do not use spaces? Do they submit all of their text in one huge block? And surely basing your rendering idioms around the English concept of a word is surely a bit exclusionary, no?

On Monday, 18 November 2024 at 14:27:41 UTC, cookiewitch wrote:

Good luck keeping it simple!

What about the majority of languages which do not use spaces? Do they submit all of their text in one huge block? And surely basing your rendering idioms around the English concept of a word is surely a bit exclusionary, no?

Do you think it is reasonable for you to effectively guilt trip him about being exclusionary?