Applications News about applications built with Slint cargo-ui Cargo-UI has seen a new release: Version 0.3.2. Highlights include better completion of crate names in the text field used to add crates to a project as well as a updated slint...
Slint 0.2.2 Release This week we released version 0.2.2 of Slint. A short summary for on-lookers can be found at Reddit, while the CHANGELOG file has a more detailed summary for users of Slint. So this week has seen many fixes to prepare fo...
This week we started to work towards making Slint applications accessible. We are in early stages, but the work is already visible in the accessibility branch on Github. The first PR "Start working on accessibility: The compiler part (#1193...
The keyboard focus handling we had implemented last week saw some polish. Tab-focus in action Tab-focus should now work with more widgets -- both use the Qt as well as the fluent style. The nightly web demos were also fixed to properly forw...
We hope you had happy Easter holidays! Slint UI Library New Features Add a reset function to the model notifier (#1179) corelib: allow to use i32 for coordinate instead of f32 (#1163) The prepare scene time for the scene that changes to the...
Slint UI Library Documentation Start a page with examples and recipes (#1090) This is the beginning of a page to collect common things users need to do, in a format that they can copy & paste into their application code. There's a lot more...
News and Blog Posts We are Silver Members of the Rust Foundation now! See our blog for the full announcement. Olivier wrote a technical deep-dive on how we ported Slint to a micro-controllers. Slint UI Library GL Backend optimizations GL ba...
Slint UI Library Keyboard handling on the Web The big feature this week was making text input fields work with mobile browsers. This is done by adding an hidden <input> element to the WASM GL backend, which makes the browser show the virtua...
Slint UI Library This week the demos saw some polish, especially the 7guis one. Microcontroller Units (MCU) The printerdemo_mcu running on a Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040 with 264K of RAM) We adapted the Printer Demo UI so it is usable on our s...
Slint 0.2.1 Release We released a bug-fix release with version 0.2.1 on Thursday. The release mostly contains bug fixes, but also has a couple of features: Global singletons in .slint code may now refer to other global singletons TextInput...
News Slint has documented all the licenses used in the code base using SPDX markup. We use the REUSE tool made by the FSFe and are now fully compliant and carry the badge . We had the honor to contribute to the imakefoss Twitter account las...
February 25, 2022 by Olivier Goffart We added a compat mandatory feature (enabled by default) to help with keeping our crates backwards compatible. TL;DR [features] default = ["compat", "foobar"] compat = [] In the next release we can add m...
SixtyFPS became Slint We skipped last week's weekly since we already had an announcement out: SixtyFPS became Slint and we released Version 0.2! It was exciting for us to see the reactions on Reddit, HackerNews and even at Heise, a well-res...
February 10, 2022 by The Slint Team We're renaming SixtyFPS to Slint Why change? In Spring 2020, we started SixtyFPS to create a new GUI framework for Desktop and Embedded devices. In almost two years we've made thirteen releases, won many...