egui/CHANGELOG.md

egui changelog

All notable changes to the egui crate will be documented in this file.

NOTE: epaint, eframe, egui_web, egui-winit and egui_glium have their own changelogs!

Unreleased

Added ⭐

• Add horizontal scrolling support to ScrollArea and Window (opt-in).
• TextEdit::layouter: Add custom text layout for e.g. syntax highlighting or WYSIWYG.
• Fonts::layout_job: New text layout engine allowing mixing fonts, colors and styles, with underlining and strikethrough.
• Add feature "serialize" separatedly from "persistence".
• Add egui::widgets::global_dark_light_mode_buttons to easily add buttons for switching the egui theme.
• TextEdit can now be used to show text which can be selectedd and copied, but not edited.
• Add Memory::caches for caching things from one frame to the next.

Changed 🔧

• Label text will now be centered, right-aligned and/or justified based on the layout.
• Hyperlink will now word-wrap just like a Label.
• All Ui:s must now have a finite max_rect.
  • Deprecated: max_rect_finite, available_size_before_wrap_finite and available_rect_before_wrap_finite.
• Painter/Fonts: text layout now expect a color when creating a Galley. You may override that color with Painter::galley_with_color.
• MSRV (Minimum Supported Rust Version) is now 1.54.0.
• By default, DragValue:s no longer show a tooltip when hovered. Change with Style::explanation_tooltips.
• Smaller and nicer color picker.
• ScrollArea will auto-shrink to content size unless told otherwise using ScollArea::auto_shrink.
• By default, Slider's clamp_to_range is set to true.

Fixed 🐛

• Fix wrongly sized multiline TextEdit in justified layouts.
• Fix clip rectangle of windows that don't fit the central area.
• Show tooltips above widgets on touch screens.
• Fix popups sometimes getting clipped by panels.

0.14.2 - 2021-08-28 - Window resize fix

Fixed 🐛

• Fix window resize bug introduced in 0.14.1.

0.14.1 - 2021-08-28 - Layout bug fixes

Added ⭐

• Add Ui::horizontal_top.

Fixed 🐛

• Fix set_width/set_min_width/set_height/set_min_height/expand_to_include_x/expand_to_include_y.
• Make minimum grid column width propagate properly.
• Make sure TextEdit contents expand to fill width if applicable.
• ProgressBar: add a minimum width and fix for having it in an infinite layout.
• Fix sometimes not being able to click inside a combo box or popup menu.

0.14.0 - 2021-08-24 - Ui panels and bug fixes

Added ⭐

• Panels can now be added to any Ui.
• Plot:
  • Line styles.
  • Add show_background and show_axes methods to Plot.
• Progress bar.
• Grid::num_columns: allow the last column to take up the rest of the space of the parent Ui.
• Add an API for dropping files into egui (see RawInput).
• CollapsingHeader can now optionally be selectable.

Changed 🔧

• A single-line TextEdit will now clip text that doesn't fit in it, and scroll.
• Return closure return value from Area::show, ComboBox::show_ui, ComboBox::combo_box_with_label, Window::show, popup::*, menu::menu.
• Only move/resize windows with primary mouse button.
• Tooltips are now moved to not cover the widget they are attached to.

Fixed 🐛

• Fix custom font definitions getting replaced when pixels_per_point is changed.
• Fix lost_focus for TextEdit.
• Clicking the edge of a menu button will now properly open the menu.
• Fix hover detection close to an Area.
• Fix case where Plot's min_auto_bounds could be ignored after the first call to Plot::ui.
• Fix slow startup when using large font files.

Contributors 🙏

• barrowsys
• EmbersArc
• gents83
• lucaspoffo
• mankinskin
• mental32
• mitchmindtree
• parasyte
• rekka
• zu1k

0.13.1 - 2021-06-28 - Plot fixes

Added ⭐

• Plot: you can now set the stroke of a HLine/VLine.

Changed 🔧

• Plot::new now takes an id_source: impl Hash instead of a name: impl ToString. Functionally it is the same.

0.13.0 - 2021-06-24 - Better panels, plots and new visual style

Added ⭐

• Plot:
  • More plot items: Arrows, Polygons, Text, Images.
  • Plot legend improvements.
  • Line markers for plots.
• Panels:
  • Add right and bottom panels (SidePanel::right and Panel::bottom).
  • Panels can now be resized.
  • Add an option to overwrite frame of a Panel.
• Improve accessibility / screen reader.
• Add ScrollArea::show_rows for efficient scrolling of huge UI:s.
• Add ScrollArea::enable_scrolling to allow freezing scrolling when editing TextEdit widgets within it
• Add Ui::set_visible as a way to hide widgets.
• Add Style::override_text_style to easily change the text style of everything in a Ui (or globally).
• You can now change TextStyle on checkboxes, radio buttons and SelectableLabel.
• Add support for cint under cint feature.
• Add features extra_asserts and extra_debug_asserts to enable additional checks.
• TextEdit now supports edits on a generic buffer using TextBuffer.
• Add Context::set_debug_on_hover and egui::trace!(ui)

Changed 🔧

• Minimum Rust version is now 1.51 (used to be 1.52)
• Tweaked the default visuals style.
• Plot: Renamed Curve to Line.
• TopPanel::top is now TopBottomPanel::top.
• SidePanel::left no longet takes the default width by argument, but by a builder call.
• SidePanel::left is resizable by default.

Fixed 🐛

• Fix uneven lettering on non-integral device scales ("extortion lettering").
• Fix invisible scroll bar when native window is too narrow for egui.

0.12.0 - 2021-05-10 - Multitouch, user memory, window pivots, and improved plots

Added ⭐

• Add anchors to windows and areas so you can put a window in e.g. the top right corner.
• Make labels interactive with Label::sense(Sense::click()).
• Add Response::request_focus and Response::surrender_focus.
• Add TextEdit::code_editor (VERY basic).
• Pan and zoom plots.
• Add plot legends.
• Users can now store custom state in egui::Memory.
• Add Response::on_disabled_hover_text to show tooltip for disabled widgets.
• Zoom input: ctrl-scroll and (on egui_web) trackpad-pinch gesture.
• Support for raw multi touch events, enabling zoom, rotate, and more. Works with egui_web on mobile devices, and should work with egui_glium for certain touch devices/screens.
• Add (optional) compatibility with mint.

Changed 🔧

• Make Memory::has_focus public (again).
• Plot must now be given a name that is unique within its scope.
• Tab only selects labels if the screen_reader option is turned on.
• Rename ui.wrap to ui.scope.

Fixed 🐛

• Fix defocus-bug on touch screens.
• Fix bug with the layout of wide DragValue:s.

Removed 🔥

• Moved experimental markup language to egui_demo_lib

0.11.0 - 2021-04-05 - Optimization, screen reader & new layout logic

Added ⭐

• You can now give focus to any clickable widget with tab/shift-tab.
  • Use space or enter to click the selected widget.
  • Use arrow keys to adjust sliders and DragValues.
• egui will now output events when widgets gain keyboard focus.
  • This can be hooked up to a screen reader to aid the visually impaired
• Add the option to restrict the dragging bounds of Window and Area to a specified area using drag_bounds(rect).
• Add support for small and raised text.
• Add ui.set_row_height.
• Add DebugOptions::show_widgets to debug layouting by hovering widgets.
• Add ComboBox to more easily customize combo boxes.
• Add Slider::new and DragValue::new to replace old type-specific constructors.
• Add TextEdit::password to hide input characters.

Changed 🔧

• ui.advance_cursor is now called ui.add_space.
• kb_focus is now just called focus.

Fixed 🐛

• Fix some bugs related to centered layouts.
• Fixed secondary-click to open a menu.
• Fix panic for zero-range sliders and zero-speed drag values.
• Fix false id clash error for wrapping text.
• Fix bug that would close a popup (e.g. the color picker) when clicking inside of it.

Deprecated ☢️

• Deprectated combo_box_with_label in favor of new ComboBox.
• Deprectated type-specific constructors for Slider and DragValue (Slider::f32, DragValue::usize etc).

0.10.0 - 2021-02-28 - Plot and polish

Added ⭐

• Add egui::plot::Plot to plot some 2D data.
• Add Ui::hyperlink_to(label, url).
• Sliders can now have a value prefix and suffix (e.g. the suffix "°" works like a unit).
• Context::set_pixels_per_point to control the scale of the UI.
• Add Response::changed() to query if e.g. a slider was dragged, text was entered or a checkbox was clicked.
• Add support for all integers in DragValue and Slider (except 128-bit).

Changed 🔧

• Improve the positioning of tooltips.
• Only show tooltips if mouse is still.
• Slider will now show the value display by default, unless turned off with .show_value(false).
• The Slider value is now a DragValue which when dragged can pick values outside of the slider range (unless clamp_to_range is set).

0.9.0 - 2021-02-07 - Light Mode and much more

Added ⭐

• Add support for secondary and middle mouse buttons.
• Add Label methods for code, strong, strikethrough, underline and italics.
• Add ui.group(|ui| { … }) to visually group some widgets within a frame.
• Add Ui helpers for doing manual layout (ui.put, ui.allocate_ui_at_rect and more).
• Add ui.set_enabled(false) to disable all widgets in a Ui (grayed out and non-interactive).
• Add TextEdit::hint_text for showing a weak hint text when empty.
• egui::popup::popup_below_widget: show a popup area below another widget.
• Add Slider::clamp_to_range(bool): if set, clamp the incoming and outgoing values to the slider range.
• Add: ui.spacing(), ui.spacing_mut(), ui.visuals(), ui.visuals_mut().
• Add: ctx.set_visuals().
• You can now control text wrapping with Style::wrap.
• Add Grid::max_col_width.

Changed 🔧

• Text will now wrap at newlines, spaces, dashes, punctuation or in the middle of a words if necessary, in that order of priority.
• Widgets will now always line break at \n characters.
• Widgets will now more intelligently choose wether or not to wrap text.
• mouse has been renamed pointer everywhere (to make it clear it includes touches too).
• Most parts of Response are now methods, so if ui.button("…").clicked { is now if ui.button("…").clicked() {.
• Response::active is now gone. You can use response.dragged() or response.clicked() instead.
• Backend: pointer (mouse/touch) position and buttons are now passed to egui in the event stream.
• DragValue::range is now called clamp_range and also clamps incoming values.
• Renamed Triangles to Mesh.
• The tessellator now wraps the clip rectangle and mesh in struct ClippedMesh(Rect, Mesh).
• Mesh::split_to_u16 now returns a 16-bit indexed Mesh16.

Fixed 🐛

• It is now possible to click widgets even when FPS is very low.
• Tessellator: handle sharp path corners better (switch to bevel instead of miter joints for > 90°).

0.8.0 - 2021-01-17 - Grid layout & new visual style

Added ⭐

• Added a simple grid layout (Grid).
• Added ui.allocate_at_least and ui.allocate_exact_size.
• Added function InputState::key_down.
• Added Window::current_pos to position a window.

Changed 🔧

• New simpler and sleeker look!
• Rename PaintCmd to Shape.
• Replace tuple (Rect, Shape) with tuple-struct ClippedShape.
• Rename feature "serde" to "persistence".
• Break out the modules math and paint into separate crates emath and epaint.

Fixed 🐛

• Fixed a bug that would sometimes trigger a "Mismatching panels" panic in debug builds.
• Image and ImageButton will no longer stretch to fill a justified layout.

0.7.0 - 2021-01-04

Added ⭐

• Add ui.scroll_to_cursor and response.scroll_to_me (#81 by lucaspoffo).
• Add window.id(…) and area.id(…) for overriding the default Id.

Changed 🔧

• Renamed Srgba to Color32.
• All color contructions now starts with from_, e.g. Color32::from_rgb.
• Renamed FontFamily::VariableWidth to FontFamily::Proportional.
• Removed pixels_per_point from FontDefinitions.

Fixed 🐛

• RepaintSignal now implements Sync so it can be sent to a background thread.
• TextEdit widgets are now slightly larger to accommodate their frames.

Deprecated ☢️

• Deprecated color::srgba.

0.6.0 - 2020-12-26

Added ⭐

• Turn off Window title bars with window.title_bar(false).
• ImageButton - ui.add(ImageButton::new(...)).
• ui.vertical_centered and ui.vertical_centered_justified.
• ui.allocate_painter helper.
• Mouse-over explanation to duplicate ID warning.
• You can now easily constrain egui to a portion of the screen using RawInput::screen_rect.
• You can now control the minimum and maixumum number of decimals to show in a Slider or DragValue.
• Add egui::math::Rot2: rotation helper.
• Response now contains the Id of the widget it pertains to.
• ui.allocate_response that allocates space and checks for interactions.
• Add response.interact(sense), e.g. to check for clicks on labels.

Changed 🔧

• ui.allocate_space now returns an (Id, Rect) tuple.
• Arc<Context> has been replaced with CtxRef everywhere.
• Slight tweak of the default Style and font sizes.
• SidePanel::left and TopPanel::top now takes impl Hash as first argument.
• A Window may now cover an existing CentralPanel.
• ui.image now takes impl Into<Vec2> as a size argument.
• Made some more fields of RawInput optional.
• Slider and DragValue uses fewer decimals by default. See the full precision by hovering over the value.
• egui::App: added fn name(&self) and fn clear_color(&self).
• Combo boxes has scroll bars when needed.
• Expand Window + Resize containers to be large enough for last frames content
• ui.columns: Columns now defaults to justified top-to-down layouts.
• Rename Sense::nothing() to Sense::hover().
• Replaced parking_lot dependency with atomic_refcell by default.

Fixed 🐛

• The background for CentralPanel will now cover unused space too.
• ui.columns: Improve allocated size estimation.

Deprecated ☢️

• RawInput::screen_size - use RawInput::screen_rect instead.
• left/centered/right column functions on Ui.
• ui.interact_hover and ui.hovered.

0.5.0 - 2020-12-13

Added ⭐

• Emoji support: 1216 different emojis that work in any text.
  • The Demo app comes with a Font Book to explore the available glyphs.
• ui.horizontal_wrapped(|ui| ...): Add widgets on a row but wrap at max_size.
• ui.horizontal_wrapped_for_text: Like ui.horizontal_wrapped, but with spacing made for embedding text.
• ui.horizontal_for_text: Like ui.horizontal, but with spacing made for embedding text.
• egui::Layout now supports justified layouts where contents is also centered, right-aligned, etc.
• ui.allocate_ui(size, |ui| ...): Easily create a child-Ui of a given size.
• SelectableLabel (ui.selectable_label and ui.selectable_value): A text-button that can be selected.
• ui.small_button: A smaller button that looks good embedded in text.
• ui.drag_angle_tau: For those who want to specify angles as fractions of τ (a full turn).
• Add Resize::id_source and ScrollArea::id_source to let the user avoid Id clashes.

Changed 🔧

• New default font: Ubuntu-Light.
• Make it simpler to override fonts in FontDefinitions.
• Remove minimum button width.
• Refactor egui::Layout substantially, changing its interface.
• Calling on_hover_text/on_hover_ui multiple times will stack tooltips underneath the previous ones.
• Text wrapping on labels, buttons, checkboxes and radio buttons is now based on the layout.

Removed 🔥

• Removed the label! macro.

0.4.0 - 2020-11-28

Added ⭐

• TextEdit improvements:
  • Much improved text editing, with better navigation and selection.
  • Move focus between TextEdit widgets with tab and shift-tab.
  • Undo edtis in a TextEdit.
  • You can now check if a TextEdit lost keyboard focus with response.lost_focus.
  • Added ui.text_edit_singleline and ui.text_edit_multiline.
• You can now debug why your Ui is unexpectedly wide with ui.style_mut().debug.show_expand_width = true;

Changed 🔧

• Pressing enter in a single-line TextEdit will now surrender keyboard focus for it.
• You must now be explicit when creating a TextEdit if you want it to be singeline or multiline.
• Improved automatic Id generation, making Id clashes less likely.
• egui now requires modifier key state from the integration
• Added, renamed and removed some keys in the Key enum.
• Fixed incorrect text wrapping width on radio buttons

Fixed 🐛

• Fixed bug where a lost widget could still retain keyboard focus.

0.3.0 - 2020-11-07

Added ⭐

• Panels: you can now create panels using SidePanel, TopPanel and CentralPanel.
• You can now override the default egui fonts.
• Add ability to override text color with visuals.override_text_color.
• The demo now includes a simple drag-and-drop example.
• The demo app now has a slider to scale all of egui.

Changed 🔧

• ui.horizontal(...) etc returns Response.
• Refactored the interface for egui::app::App.
• Windows are now constrained to the screen.
• Context::begin_frame() no longer returns a Ui. Instead put your widgets into a SidePanel, TopPanel, CentralPanel, Window or Area.
• Context::end_frame() now returns shapes that need to be converted to triangles with Context::tessellate().
• Anti-aliasing is now off by default in debug builds.

Removed 🔥

• You can no longer throw windows.

Fixed 🐛

• Fix a bug where some regions would slowly grow for non-integral scales (pixels_per_point).

0.2.0 - 2020-10-10

• Color picker
• Unicode characters in labels (limited by what the default font supports)
• Simple drop-down combo box menu
• Logarithmic sliders
• Optimization: coarse culling in the tessellator
• CHANGED: switch argument order of ui.checkbox and ui.radio

0.1.4 - 2020-09-08

This is when I started the CHANGELOG.md, after almost two years of development. Better late than never.

• Widgets: label, text button, hyperlink, checkbox, radio button, slider, draggable value, text editing
• Layouts: horizontal, vertical, columns
• Text input: very basic, multiline, copy/paste
• Windows: move, resize, name, minimize and close. Automatically sized and positioned.
• Regions: resizing, vertical scrolling, collapsing headers (sections)
• Rendering: Anti-aliased rendering of lines, circles, text and convex polygons.
• Tooltips on hover