Brisk v0.9.8

Added

• Supported nested menus and improved menu accessibility
• Introduced ListBox widget
• Added new example: WebGPU demo
• Added new example: Dashboard
• Supported rendering UI to an offscreen buffer
• Added option to skip frames when no UI changes occur
• Enabled access to the WebGPU API from Brisk applications
• Introduced WebGpuWidget for displaying 3D content within a widget
• Implemented automatic signed distance field optimizations for Canvas
• Enabled application-wide shortcut support
• Added LinearGradient and RadialGradient classes
• Added new example: Rendering to an external window
• Added new example: Rendering GUI to an external window
• Added new example: Splash screen
• Introduced texture blur functionality
• Enabled measurement of GPU execution time
• Improved uniform scaling support in Matrix
• Enabled drawing rectangles with individual border radii
• Introduced shadow spread and shadow offset properties
• Enabled retrieval of native texture from Image
• Added ability to create a render device for a specific display
• Enabled retrieval of the display associated with a window
• Added support for premultiplying alpha during decoding
• Introduced component actions
• Added Widget::selected property
• Added style variables for focus frame and hint
• Provided full support for Length debug visualization
• Added _fmt user-defined literal for string formatting
• Added a safe nullable pointer wrapper
• Added cpuUsage function
• Allowed use of a custom main function
• Supported reversed subpixel order
• Allowed disabling RTTI for Brisk
• Allowed disabling exceptions for Brisk
• Added app- and vendor-specific folders to the DefaultFolder enum

Changed

• Updated documentation for improved clarity and completeness.
• Refactored SIMD<> for better optimization.
• Made D3D11 backend optional on Win32 when WebGPU is enabled.
• Changed ImageRenderTarget to use BGRA color format (previously RGBA).
• Updated Gradient to use premultiplied colors.
• Set ColorW as the default color type.
• Made Gradient a stack-allocated object.
• Removed RawCanvas in favor of using Canvas universally.
• Added new renderer debug visualization.
• Improved angle gradient antialiasing at the 360°/0° boundary.
• Updated Google Dawn to version 7080.
• Optimized window rendering.
• Refactored color spaces for better consistency.
• Optimized texture blitting.
• Made InputQueue explicitly stored in WidgetTree.
• Enabled receiving non-client mouse clicks.
• Improved focus handling: if a widget does not accept focus, the first descendant that does is selected.
• Split overflow property into overflowScroll and contentOverflow.
• Removed the following classes and functions:
  • PerformanceStatistics
  • DeferredCallback
  • threadScheduler

Fixed

• Reduced blinking when closing a modal window.
• Preserved order in VisualGroup.
• Fixed widget border rendering issues.
• Corrected incbin.h for 32-bit Windows ABI compatibility.
• Allowed closing component windows from any thread.
• Ensured both host and target tools are built during cross-compilation.
• Prevented window centering unless its size is changed.

Renamed

• C++
  • Standardized capitalization for abbreviations, treating them as normal words (e.g., HTTPResponse → HttpResponse).
  • GUIApplication to GuiApplication and GUIWindow to GuiWindow.
  • separateRenderThread to separateUiThread.
  • Palette::light_green to Palette::lightGreen and similar color names.
  • ItemList to Menu.
  • BindingObject to BindableObject.
  • KeyCode::Kp* to KeyCode::Num*.
  • Os*Handle to Native*Handle.
  • setMinimumMaximumSize to setMinimumMaximumSizes.
  • wordWrap function to textWordWrap.
• CMake
  • APPLE_BUNDLE to APPLE_BUNDLE_ID.
• Directories
  • Some directories were also renamed to reflect changes in class naming. If you encounter issues with pulling updates, clone the repository into a separate directory.