ChangeLog.md

MyGUI v3.4.4

Widgets

• Fixed TabItem child widgets not being clickable in some cases (regression introduced in v3.4.3)

Other

• Fixed build with MYGUI_USE_FREETYPE=OFF
• Fixed build with static Ogre

MyGUI v3.4.3

Core

• Allow passing lambdas into MyGUI::newDelegate without explicitly wrapping them into std::function

Widgets

• Add missing eventClipboardChanged when trying to cut/copy with no text selected
• Fixed rare crash when changing widget style after it was clicked in the same frame
• Fixed TabItem left disabled when rapidly switching between tabs
• Improve performance of the TabControl tabs switching
• Fixed ignoring "FontHeight" property when "FontName" is also set
• Move MyGUI::DEFAULT to deprecated, add TabControl::DEFAULT_WIDTH instead

Platforms

• Fix build with Ogre 14

Tools

• Minor fixes for macOS
• Use macOS Command key in tools

Other

• Switch to C++17
• Use string_view, unique_ptr and some other stuff
• Various code improvements, including range base for migration and some other minor stuff
• Add some missing MYGUI_DONT_USE_OBSOLETE checks for deprecated stuff
• Remove MYGUI_DEBUG_MODE from headers to avoid issues with mixed debug/release builds

MyGUI v3.4.2

Core

• Add missing MYGUI_EXPORT for ControllerRepeatClick (was not linking in non-static builds)
• Use commands for key combinations on EditBox, provide macOS proper bindings
• Add support for string_view in UString

Widgets

• ComboBox and ListBox: make "AddItem" use LanguageManager::replaceTags same way it is done for caption properties
• EditBox: Allow text input while holding Ctrl (Allow key combinations involving CTRL that produce printable characters)

Platforms

• OpenGL: Fix build with libX11-free wayland setup
• Ogre: Correct vertex color order for ogre 13

Demos and Tools

• Use SDL_WINDOWEVENT_FOCUS_GAINED/SDL_WINDOWEVENT_FOCUS_LOST events for better detection when window should have low FPS
• Fix macOS resources paths, do not use MACOSX_BUNDLE
• Fix various deprecated or incorrect resources usage

Other

• Add missing MYGUI_EXPORT to fix C4275 warnings
• Various minor build fixes and improvements
• Enable more warnings in MYGUI_HIGH_LEVEL_WARNINGS mode
• Use GNUInstallDirs to install includes

MyGUI v3.4.1

Core

• Implement new MSDF font, that lets use render huge fonts without having big textures, also allows using only one texture for all sizes (see Demo_MsdfFont)
• Add new eventWidgetDestroyed
• Add support for custom shaders for each render item, used for subskin (so far used only for MSDF fonts)
• Add support for Unicode code points outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane (code points above 2^16, represented by two UTF-16 code units)
• Allow std::function in the MyGUI::newDelegate
• Allow const functions and const classes in the MyGUI::newDelegate
• Make most getters const
• Fix UB in RotatingSkin::_rebuildGeometry when all vertices are cropped
• Fix eventMouseButtonClick being triggered even when mouse is pressed not over widget
• Fix InputManager::injectMouseMove returning true when mouse is pressed, but there is no focused widget
• Fix bug with Popup widget being picked by mouse, when it is invisible because of invisible parent
• Fix Widget::setDepth call making Overlapped child widgets not visible

Widgets

• ListBox: fix getWidgetByIndex when not all widgets are visible
• EditBox: fix getFontHeight always returning 0
• EditBox: fix rare bug with text selection when holding mouse and changing text
• EditBox: fix scroll position when selecting text below
• Button: make Button without "normal_checked" skin display "pushed" skin (fixes button visual state when setStateSelected(true) is called)
• Window: add borders snapping, when resizing it (previously only move was snapping borders)

Platforms

• Ogre:
  • make it possible to use OGRE_RESOURCEMANAGER_STRICT=1 mode (always specify resource group)
  • other minor performance improvements
  • use Ogre::Renderable to render Gui, this fixes several issues with recent Ogre version
  • fix RTT render with RenderSystem_DirectX11
• All: make all interfaces const-correct. Warning: custom render platforms outside of MyGUI repo must be updated to match new virtual functions API

Demos and Tools

• Add new SdlBaseManager, that is used for all platforms base code instead of multiple BaseManager-s with duplicate code
• Remove no longer needed and no longer used OIS, Win32 and Win32+OIS input systems only SDL2 can is used in demos now

Tools

• LayoutEditor: fix multi language support

Demos

• New Demo_MsdfFont
• Make all demos with 3d render work with the latest Ogre

Other

• Use GNUInstallDirs to determine where libraries should be installed
• Use precompiled headers from CMake 3.16, enable precompiled headers on all target platforms
• Remove many outdated or not used CMake options and scripts

MyGUI v3.4.0

Core

• Added LanguageManager::getLanguages
• Fix lost key focus event not being triggered sometimes
• Fix inconsistency: _riseMouseButtonMove was using Layer coordinates (most of the time). _riseMouseButtonReleased/Pressed were using absolute coordinates.
• Other InputManager events fixes.
• Minor MacOS build fixes.
• Cleaner and much faster logic for adding and removing render items (it was the performance bottleneck when working with many items on screen).

Widgets

• ScrollBar: Fixed wrong tracking area bug.
• Button: make Button with key focus (can be set only manually through code) have highlighted state.
• ItemBox: add possibility to not update ItemBox content when working with items (huge speed boost, when adding/removing many in single frame)
• EditText: add support for alpha in text and text shadow colours (multiplied with widget's alpha).
• ItemBox: add options to hide ItemBox scroll bars (same as for ScrollView and EditBox).
• MultiListBox: slightly advanced and more flexible custom compare function.
• EditBox: add Ctrl+Left/Right hotkey support (moves cursor to next word).
• MultiListBox: add eventNotifyItem.

Platforms

• OpenGL3Platform: Added new rendering platform.
• OpenGLESPlatform: Added new rendering platform.
• Emscripten support (works for Ogre and all OpenGL platforms).
• OgrePlatform: Many minor build-related fixes and imrovements, including newer Ogre support and better CMake scripts.
• DirectX 11 and OpenGL3: Fixed application window resizing in editors and demos.
• All platforms: Fix possible stack overflow in ***DataManager::getDataPath.
• All platforms: better VertexBuffer reallocation strategy for all platforms (in ::lock call, not in ::setVertexCount).
• All platforms: Various minor fixes and code cleanup.

Resources

• ResourceManualFont: Added setTexture.
• ResourceTrueTypeFont: Optimize TrueTupeFont render speed (half getGlyphInfo search time).
• ResourceTrueTypeFont: Remove no longer needed freetype bytecode bug fix.

Tools

• LayoutEditor: Fixed "[DEFAULT]" value not being handles properly (was colored white in ComboBox, was saved in layout).
• LayoutEditor: Other minor fixes and improvements.

Demos

• Added SDL2 support.

Other

• Switched to C++11: various related code improvements and cleanups.

MyGUI v3.2.2

Core

• Fixed eventChangeMouseFocus and eventChangeKeyFocus not being triggered in certain cases.

Widgets

• ComboBox: Fixed mouse events incorrectly going to the widget below the ComboBox when clicking on an item.
• ScrollBar: Added button repeat support, ScrollBar buttons will trigger repeatedly so long as the mouse is held down.

Platforms

• OpenGLPlatform: Added option to use system GLEW library.
• OgrePlatform: Improved performance of OgreDataManager::isDataExist.
• OgrePlatform: Fixed build failure regarding boost libraries used by Ogre not being found.

Resources

• ResourceManualFont: Added API to create a ResourceManualFont in code rather than from XML.

Tools

• Fixed broken file dialog directory listing on Linux and make sure files are sorted.

MyGUI v3.2.1

Core

• Added events to clipboard manager: eventClipboardRequested, eventClipboardChanged.
• Added API access to child LayerNodes.
• Added pointer to ControllerItem in all controller events.
• Key focus will be reset when the key focus widget is hidden.
• Fixed incorrectly detecting double click when clicking on different widgets.
• Fixed a memory leak when creating or changing widgets in several cases.
• Fixed a lot of warnings from cppcheck.
• Other minor fixes.
• Remove possibility to compile without std::typeinfo (no longer needed for android, MYGUI_RTTI_DISABLE_TYPE_INFO option removed).
• Remove -msse from compiler flags.

Widgets

• Added Depth property for child widgets, that can be used for rendering order.
• Added eventChangeCoord event.
• Fixed Enabled property not being inherited from parent widgets.
• ListBox: Added eventNotifyItem for key or mouse press on item widgets.
• ListBox: Added getWidgetByIndex public API to allow item widget access from outside.
• EditBox: Fixed several keyboard shortcuts (such as copy & paste) not working when key and text events are injected separately by the user.
• ImageBox: Added getImageSize method.
• ScrollBar: Added WheelPage property for mouse wheel scroll step.

SubWidgets

• PolygonalSkin: Added stroke support for drawing dashed lines (can be seen in UnitTest_Spline).
• RotatingSkin: Added properties to skin XML.

Resources

• ResourceTrueTypeFont: Added Distance parameter for margin between glyphs in generated font texture.
• ResourceImageSet, ResourceTrueTypeFont: Added public API to allow creating in code rather than from XML.
• ResourceManualFont: Added support to set glyph size separately rather than deriving it from image coordinates.

Skins

• Added Dark skin (used by default in Tools).
• Added Black skin.
• Minor updates to other skins.

Tools

• Significant improvements to LayoutEditor, FontEditor, ImageEditor and SkinEditor.

Demos

• Minor updates to several demos.

UnitTests

• Added DataInfoTest.

Platforms

• Added Dummy platform.
• Various fixes for DirectX11 platform.
• Slightly refactored OpenGL platform.
• Added DataMemoryStream class.

Other

• Updated C# wrapper.
• Switched from LGPL to MIT license.
• Documentation improvements.

MyGUI v3.2.0

Core

• MyGUI can be compiled without std::typeinfo.
• Fixed an alignment bug on non-screen layers (for example on the RTT layer).
• Fixed bug with widgets on same layer changing their draw order.

Widgets

• DDContainer: Added a resetDrag method that stops a drag operation programmatically.
• TextBox: Added optional text shadow.
• EditBox: Fixed incorrect text display when the text area was lower than the font height.
• EditBox: Reset Redo changes when text was changed.
• Canvas: Fixed incorrect destruction.
• ProgressBar: Fixed a problem that caused the progress value to be displayed incorrectly after the widget was resized.

SubWidgets

• RotatingSkin: Fixed incorrect display due to swapped UV coordinates.

Resources

• ResourceTrueTypeFont:
  • Decreased texture memory usage (typically by 50% or more).
  • Improved startup and runtime performance.
  • Added support for Windows FON/FNT bitmap fonts and for embedded SBIT bitmaps in TrueType fonts.
  • Added support for enhanced glyph metrics, typographically correct line spacing, and overlapping glyphs; e.g., "fj".
  • Implemented the ability to specify the code point used as a substitute for missing code points (now defaults to the "Not Defined" glyph instead of "Space").
  • Implemented subpixel positioning.
  • Added useful default values for several properties.
  • Deprecated several properties that are no longer useful.
  • Fixed problems that made it impossible to use whitespace characters other than "Space" and "Tab".
  • Fixed several crashes and memory leaks.
  • Replaced an assertion with a log message when a font cannot be loaded.
• ResourceManualFont:
  • Added support for enhanced glyph metrics and overlapping glyphs; e.g., "fj".
  • Implemented the ability to specify the code point used as a substitute for missing code points.

Wraps

• BaseLayout works properly when it's completely empty.

Plugins

• Updated the BerkeliumWidget plugin.

Tools

• Various fixes in LayoutEditor.
• FontViewer:
  • Added support for all of the new features in ResourceTrueTypeFont and ResourceManualFont.
  • Added support for additional font types: *.ttc, *.otf, *.pfa, *.fon, and *.fnt.
  • Redesigned the user interface.
  • Implemented automatic generation of the output filenames when saving.
  • Fixed several crashes and memory leaks.

Platforms

• Keep solid mode when Ogre is in wireframe.
• Fixed a few bugs in the OpenGL platform (buffers not cleaned up).
• New DirectX11 platform prototype.

MyGUI v3.2.0 RC1

Core

• Skin properties were simplified for more convenient creation in the editor.
• All widgets events is now multidelegates.
• Support of right mouse button drag.
• If MyGUI is built from svn revision log file also contain svn revision (in addition to version).
• Fixed bug with texture creation for fonts.
• Other minor additions and bug-fixes.

Managers

• LanguageManager now replace tags recursively.
• Fixed bug in LanguageManager when missing language was selected.

Resources

• Add Layout resource, layouts loaded and parsed only once at first use.
• All resource files now have "MyGUI_" prefix to avoid naming conflicts.

Widgets

• VScroll and HScroll replaced with single ScrollBar class.
• Edit renamed into EditBox.
• List renamed into ListBox.
• MenuCtrl renamed into MenuControl.
• MultiList renamed into MultiListBox.
• Progress renamed into ProgressBar.
• StaticImage renamed into ImageBox.
• StaticText renamed into TextBox.
• Tab renamed into TabControl.
• New Window property Moveable.
• Message moved from Core to Common.
• MultiListBox now support different modes of columns resizing.
• Button properties StateCheck and ButtonPressed replaced with single property StateSelected.
• ListBox and ComboBox now support ToolTip.
• Menu items can be checked now, tick icon appears.
• Property AlignVert renamed into VerticalAlignment.
• Hidden widget lose input and focus.
• Active elements visualisation in list now properly respond to changes in the list.
• All text related properties was moved from Widget to TextBox.

SubWidgets

• All widgets now have Colour property that colours whole widget.
• RawRect subwidget was removed.
• Implemented PolygonalSkin sub widget for lines and splines drawing.

Tools

• SkinEditor added.
• All skins created in SkinEditor.
• LayoutEditor now support projects creation.
• Possibility to create MultiListBox columns in LayoutEditor.
• Possibility to create PopupMenu\MenuBar in LayoutEditor.
• Colour selection window added in LayoutEditor.
• Show skin preview in LayoutEditor.
• Scaling support in LayoutEditor.
• Possibility to change widget's type in LayoutEditor.
• Possibility to add custom properties in LayoutEditor.
• Removed check for unique name in LayoutEditor (not required any more).
• FontViewer now same generated font in two formats: as ttf + xml that use freetype in runtime for texture generation and as manual font (texture and glyphs description)

Platforms

• BasisManager for OpenGL and DirectX now properly display Win32 window content without bugs with offset.
• Fixed memory leak in OpenGL's and DirectX's DataManager.
• Possibility to save texture in OpenGL.
• Fix typo in names vertext -> vertex.

Plugins

• Awesomium plugin removed (not LGPL anymore).

UnitTests

• New UnitTest for PolygonalSkin.
• New UnitTest for RotatingSkin.

CMake

• New MYGUI_CHECK_MEMORY_LEAKS option for memory leaks detection in debug mode (MSVC only).
• New MYGUI_USE_PROJECT_FOLDERS option for project folders inside generated solution (MSVC only).
• UnitTest and Demos options were renames.
• Win32 input used by default in demos/tools under windows instead of OIS (OIS input still used in other platforms).

MyGUI v3.0.1

License

• in LGPL added exclusion for static linking for possibility to use MyGUI in apps for iPhone
• all Media except some files created not by MyGUI dev tean is licensed under MIT now

Core

• Refactoring to reduce the possbility of bugs (based on info from static analyzers).

Renders

• Support of textures created inside Ogre (wrapping of existing texture)

Widget

• added getCaptionWidget to Window: retun pointer to Window caption for text control (fonts and it's size)
• RenderBoxScene fixed
• fixed bug with Disabled widgets that was rendered as not disabled

Managers

• added log message if skin used for widget wasn't found.

Utility

• fixed loading on non-existing textures for widgets picking

Wraps

• New option to generate wrappers with CMake

Plugins

• optional AwesomiumPlugin and HikariPlugin option added to CMake config

Resources

• fixed bug with incorrect font rendering on some old videocards : TrueType font now rendered into R8G8B8A8 on videocards that doesn't support L8A8 (OgreRender)

MyGUI v3.0.0

Core

• rendering separated from core

Widgets

• removed widget RenderBox - moved into Common as wrapper
• new widget ListCtrl - base widget for lists with OwnDraw, horizontal scroll and lines with different height support
• new widget ListBox - list implementation with horizontal scroll (based on ListCtrl)

Managers

• new FactoryManager - manager creates instances of objects that implements IObject (resources, widgets, controllers, etc.)
• new DataManager - possibility to create your own type or data source

Controllers

• controllers support deserialization, possibility to create through XML

Resources

• new resource type ImageSetPointer for creating cursors based on ImageSet with animation support
• new resource type ManualPointer for creating cursors based on texture
• new resource type TrueTypeFont for creating true type fonts
• new resource type ManualFont for creating fonts based on texture
• new resource type Skin for skin description

SubWidgets

• new SubWidget RotateSkin with rotating geometry support

Tools

• improved LayoutEditor, controllers support

Demos

• Demo_Pointers - demonstration of cursor contexts and W32 cursors
• Demo_RenderBox - demonstration of RenderBox usage (camera view inside widget, model view inside widget)

Plugins

• Plugin_AwesomiumWidget - sample plugin implementation for Awesomium (html inside widget)
• Plugin_HikariWidget - sample plugin implementation for Hikari (Flash inside widget)

UnitTests

• UnitTest_Layers - sample of using GUI inside 3D scene
• UnitTest_RTTLayers - sample of rendering Layer into texture
• UnitTest_TextureAnimation - sample of RTT node, for caching or for animating whole window
• UnitTest_TreeControl - sample implementation of tree control (author : Pavel Turin)

MyGUI v2.2.3

SubWidgets

• subwidget EditText was reimplemented
  • word wrap support in edit mode
  • cursor and text selecting with ManualFont

Widget

• fixed problem with inherited Disabled and Visible conditions

MyGUI v2.2.2

Core

• widget hierarchy changed - style added:
  • Child - child widget, cropped by parent widget borders, no overlapping (used by default for child widgets)
  • Popup - popup widget, have parent widget, but not cropped on its borders
  • Overlapped - child widget, cropped by parent widget borders, can overlap (used by default for root widgets)
• support of detaching and attaching of widgets, possibility to change skin or style in runtime
• added fast RTTI

Widgets

• new widget DDContainer - base class for all widgets that have drag'n'drop
• new widget MenuCtrl - base class for all menus (such as MenuBar or PopupMenu)
• new widget MenuBar
• new widget ScrllView
• Widgets tool-tip support
• StaticImage animation support

Managers

• new ResourceManager - allows to load user resources (for example ResourceImageSet)
• new LanguageManager - allows to replace tags in layouts with strings loaded from language files, manual creating and replacing tags
• PointerManager - support animated pointers
• FontManager - support of loading custom fonts from texture

Controllers

• ControllerPosition improved, Jump move mode added

Resources

• new resource type ResourceImageSet - used for group of images, with animation, loads through XML

SubWidgets

• new subwidget RawRect for direct access to quad vertices
• new subwidget TileRect for tiling

Others

• all widgets-containers have Any (like boost::any) for storing user info about item (for example ComboBox items, Menu items)
• configuration files versions in XML
• two new themes for skin

Wrappers

• BaseLayout - base class for layout wrapper
• BaseItemBox - base class for ItemBox wrapper
• added PanelView - made using wrappers

Tools

• LayoutEditor - external resources support, several interface improvements
• added ImageSetViewer for ResourceImageSet viewing

Demos

• Demo_Colour - colour selection control, RawRect subwidget and colouring in text
• Demo_Console - simple console implementation for changing some widget properties
• Demo_Controllers - ControllerFadeAlpha and ControllerPosition examples
• Demo_Font - true-type font generation with possibility to save into MyGUI font configuration file
• Demo_Gui - demonstration of using different widgets and styles (something like Ogre Demo_Gui)
• Demo_ItemBox - ItemBox, BaseItemBox wrapper, ToolTip, external user resource loaded through XML
• Demo_PanelView - PanelView control implementation
• Demo_Picking - widget with mouse picking creation
• Demo_PluginStrangeButton - plugin an user widget
• Demo_ScrollView - ScrollView examples
• Demo_Themes - new MyGUI themes for skin
• Demo_StaticImage - simple ImageSet viewer implementation