SD: SFML 3

Introduction

This page should help aggregate some of the open work points, especially when it's easily lost in the forum or among various other issues. It should also aid as a guide to stay focused on prio #1 and #2 topics, instead of running after the shiny #3 features. Prio #3 features should essentially be considered out-of-scope until everything in #1 and #2 are tackled.

Overview

• Roadmap
• GitHub Project
• GitHub Milestone

Priorities

• Priorities #1
  • C++17 Support
  • Deprecations
• Priorities #2
  • API Breaking Changes
  • Testing
• Priorities #3
  • Non API Breaking Changes

Open Work

Priorities #1

• Move semantics
  • 📝 Create an overview section
  • Audio Module (Draft)
  • sf::Shader (Outdated)
  • sf::WindowBase & sf::Window (Closed)
  • sf::WindowBase & sf::Window (Closed)
• Scoped Enums
  • 📝 Create an overview section
  • Network Module (Ready)
  • sf::PrimitiveType (Closed)
• Error Handling
  • 📝 Continue Solution Design weighing pros and cons
  • Ongoing discussion
  • Forum thread on assertions
  • Forum thread on logging discussion
  • Forum thread on why SFML doesn't use exceptions
  • Exceptions in SFML 3
• Additional C++17 Improvements?
  • 📝 Define additional SFML API improvements using C++11/14/17 features in the Solution Design
  • Improve sf::Time interoperability with <chrono>
• Improve Dependency Management
  • 📝 Document the trade-offs by the different options
  • Forum thread discussion
  • GitHub issue discussion
• Improve Documentation
  • Create official "Getting Started" pages for Android & iOS
  • Create an official "Getting Started" page with CMake alone (consider the CMake SFML Project Template)
  • Update all tutorials to use modern C++ paradigms
  • Consider enhancing tutorials with new features since their original creation

Priorities #2

• Window States & Styles
  • 📝 Finalize the Solution Design
  • Forum thread
  • Relevant discussion on GitHub
  • Reference Implementation
• WaitEvent Cancellation Token?
  • 📝 Document alternative APIs and whether they are breaking or not
  • Forum discussion
• Revisit sf::Font <-> sf::Text <-> sf::Texture Friendship
  • 📝 Document alternative APIs
  • Forum discussion
  • Original pull request
  • Merged pull request
• Increase test coverage as much as possible
  • See the SFML Test Strategy
  • See the Codecov report
  • Investigate Integration Test support, see TGUI's implementation
• Overhaul sf::IpAddress
  • Feature discussion
  • Pull request (Open)
• Multiple Rendering Backends
  • 📝 Document the different possibilities and approaches, especially consider necessary API changes to lay the ground work, maybe the implementation can be done for SFML 3.1 then?
  • Pull request (Draft)

Priorities #3

• sf::LineShape
• Pausable sf::Clock
• Get Monitor / Screen Information
• Support text formatting of common types
• Support GamePad Mapping DB
• OpenAL Effects
• Opus Codec Support