Call for testing: 1.6 release

[ogoffart]

We're glad to announce that we'll soon be releasing Version 1.6 of Slint.

Here are some of the highlights:

• The live preview design mode drag&drop got improved with support for dragging from and into layouts
• Text stroke
• Added support for HSV accessors to color as well as a function to create a color from HSV
• Improved accessibility support with support for accessible action
• Added Palette.color-scheme as a property to get or set the dark mode.
• Added a clear-focus() function
• Exposed the raw window handle in Rust
• Python package uploaded in Pypi
• Android text edit integration gets handle and edit menu
• More in the CHANGELOG

Before we proceed with the official release, we want to ensure its stability. We would greatly value your assistance in testing your application with this new version.

Rust

For Rust users, please include the following in your Cargo.toml (or .cargo/config.toml):

[patch.crates-io]
slint = { git = "https://github.com/slint-ui/slint" }
slint-build = { git = "https://github.com/slint-ui/slint" }

Please note: All Slint dependencies need to be on the same revision. To update and run, use cargo update and cargo run. Make sure the log shows you are building Slint 1.6.

C++

For C++ users with a binary package, you can download the binary from the latest nightly build artifact on https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/actions/workflows/nightly_snapshot.yaml

If you're building from source with FetchContent, change the GIT_TAG to master:

FetchContent_Declare(
    Slint
    GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/slint-ui/slint.git
    GIT_TAG master  # Change this to master
    SOURCE_SUBDIR api/cpp
)

Remember to remove your build directory and re-run cmake.

Javascript

Use version 1.6.0-nightly of the slint-ui npm package

Python (New!!!)

Alpha version of Slint available on pypi

Editor extension

For VSCode, you can download the "Slint (Nightly)" extension from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. Note that you need to disable or uninstall the non-nightly one.

For other editors, you can get the nightly version with:

cargo install --git https://github.com/slint-ui/slint slint-lsp

Or download the binary from the nightly artifact at https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/actions/workflows/nightly_snapshot.yaml

Online demos and docs

• Docs: https://slint.dev/snapshots/master/docs
• Slintpad: https://slint.dev/snapshots/master/editor
• Demos: links from https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/tree/master/examples

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You can give your feedback by filling a GitHub issue or via chat.

We look forward to hearing about any issues you encounter (although we hope there won't be many!). Your feedback is invaluable in helping us improve Slint. Thank you for your continued support.