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• New Widgets
  • Grid, Fixed
  • ListView, ColumnView
  • RadioGroup, Calendar, SpinButton
  • Spinner (by @SirOlaf), LevelBar
  • adw.AboutWindow (with major additions by @nylki)
• All of the following widgets were wrapped by @PhilippMDoerner. Thank you very much!
  • CenterBox, ActionBar, Expander
  • SearchEntry, PasswordEntry, EditableLabel
  • Scale, EmojiChooser
  • ProgressBar
  • Video, MediaStream and MediaControls
  • libadwaita
    • adw.OverlaySplitView, adw.PreferencesPage, adw.Banner
    • adw.PasswordEntryRow, adw.SwitchRow
    • adw.StatusPage
• Support custom CSS classes (by @PhilippMDoerner)
• The new owlkettle/playground module automatically generates interactive controls for all fields of a widget and allows you to quickly experiment with the functionality of widgets. It is already integrated into most widget examples. (by @PhilippMDoerner)
• Load CSS Stylesheets from Strings
• Add Window.fullscreened field (by @aleksrutins)
• Allow selecting multiple files in FileChooserDialog
• Add private and onlyState modifiers
• Fix memory leaks (by @PhilippMDoerner)
• Add startupEvents and shutdownEvents (by @PhilippMDoerner)
• Documentation
  • nimibook Documentation Website (by @PhilippMDoerner)
  • Windows Installation Instructions (by @RickBarretto and @michaelsbradleyjr)
  • Documentation for wrapping new widgets (by @PhilippMDoerner)
  • Application Architecture Guide

A migration guide with a list of breaking changes can be found here.

• Fixes for Nim devel (by @planetis-m)
• Add DropDown widget
• Send notifications with sendNotification
• Basic threading support using redrawFromThread
• Timeouts using addGlobalTimeout and idle tasks using addGlobalIdleTask
• Add ContextMenu widget
• Add Picture widget for displaying images
  • Basic support for loading, saving and editing images with GdkPixbuf
• Support negative numbers, modulo and exponentiation in FormulaEntry
• libadwaita support
  • Add adw.EntryRow, adw.ComboRow and adw.ExpanderRow
  • Add adw.WindowSurface (Adw.Window)
  • Add adw.Flap widget
  • Add adw.SplitButton
• Documentation
  • Add an overview of all examples (with images of the example applications)
  • Write many new examples for using dialogs, complex widgets and other features of owlkettle
  • Tooling documentation (by @PhilippMDoerner)
  • Internal documentation (by @PhilippMDoerner)

• Documentation shows all adders for a widget
• You can add a tooltip to a widget using the BaseWidget.tooltip field
• Use camelCase instead of snake_case
• Support formatted text in TextBuffer/TextView
• Add hAlign and vAlign layout properties
• Build with Nim devel (by @planetis-m)
• New Widgets
  • GlArea: Render 3d scenes with OpenGL
  • LinkButton: Display clickable links
  • dataentries.NumberEntry: An entry for numeric values
  • dataentries.FormulaEntry: A version of NumberEntry which can evaluate mathematical expression such as 1 + 2 * 3
  • Overlay: Display widgets over of each other
  • PopoverMenu: A popover which can display menus and nested submenus
  • ModelButton: An entry in a PopoverMenu
  • adw.Avatar: Display profile pictures/icons
  • adw.Clamp: Limits the width of its child widget
  • adw.PreferencesGroup: A group of rows for displaying e.g. application settings
  • adw.ActionRow: A row in an adw.PreferencesGroup

Version 2.0.0 of owlkettle upgrades to GTK 4 and adds basic support for libadwaita apps. Since this is a breaking change, you will need to update your apps to work with the new version. A guide for migrating to owlkettle 2.0.0 is available here.

• Support cairo text extents
• Add select_font_face to cairo wrapper

• More examples
• Add dark theme setting
• Add Label.line_wrap field
• Add Label.use_markup field
• Load css stylesheets
• Add FlowBox and FlowBoxChild
• Using ListBoxRow is now optional
• Add CI workflow for tesing (by @jiro4989)

• Refactor macros in guidsl module (thanks to @beef331)
• Custom icon search paths
• Handle keyboard events in DrawingArea
• Add ModelButton
• Add MessageDialog
• Add AboutDialog
• Fix compiler warnings
• Support GApplication
• Custom Dialogs
• Copy text to clipboard

• Only print generated code when -d:owlkettle_debug flag is passed (by @beef331)
• Document cross-compiling (by @beef331)
• Add Entry.activate event (by @beef331)
• Add Entry.visibility and Entry.invisible_char fields (by @SolitudeSF)
• Add ListBox.selected field and ListBox.select event
• Add BaseWidget
• Support cairo surfaces and patterns
• Add ColorChooserDialog

• Add Window.close event
• Add Icon.pixel_size property
• Add app_launcher example (thanks to @beef331)
• Show correct error locations in gui macro (thanks to @ire4ever1190)
• Add HeaderBar.custom_title field
• Add ListBoxRow.activate event

Initial release