Quality, naming improvements

What's New in v2.47.4

• Massive overhaul of the naming conventions. Some prefix is now used only for purely abstract interfaces
• More unit tests
• Reduce use of multiple inheritance
• Bug fixes (fix hover gesture collisions, better signals logic, etc.)

C++ Improved Render Performance (+50fps)

What's New in v2.47.3

• Performance improvements: + 50fps in unlocked render speeds
• Unify on std::vector over std::list
• Pass Config structs by const reference, not value
• Reduce usage of shared pointers and copying shared pointers
• Moved old Unity and Godot code into Experimental folder for now (C++ is now the preferred language)

Improvements

What's New in v2.47.2

• New QuickBuilder::OrthoStandardConfig
• New QuickBuilder:: ImGui for attaching an ImGui render func to a world node
• Bug fixes for camera coordinate calculations and scaling, UI events in hiDPI window
• QuickBehavior renamed to BehaviorBuilder
• More use of const
• More unit tests

v2.47.1

What's New in v2.47.1

• Improvements for SomeUpdatable/OnUpdatable/Playable patterns to avoid hidden side effects
• QuickBuild renamed to QuickBuilder
• Fixes for Xcode 26
• QuickTimeline renamed to TimelineBuilder
• New Date type to wrap unix time
• FileManager improvements
• StreamReader for reading big endian files on a little endian system
• StreamWriter for writing big endian files on a little endian system
• Reduce use of multiple inheritance in favor of composition where possible

C++: Faster Render Engine, App::New()

What's New in v2.47

• New App type for quick building apps. Building an app is now as simple as:

App::New().qb.Circle(100, Color::red);

• Significant render system cleanup and improvements, leading to up to 4x faster render speeds

• All SDL supported texture image formats are now supported like Index8 pngs, etc.

• Show render processors for camera in imGui

• Show isEnabled checkbox for components in imGui

C++: Improved Render pipeline

What's New in v2.46

• Reduce # of copies of render models -> 30% fps boost for some scenes
• Move render processor pipeline from render pass to main camera, so that eventually offscreen cameras can have their own separate render pipeline

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C++: Mac Setup Instructions, Bug fixes

What's New in v2.45.1

• Added setup instructions to readme for installing frameworks and running Mac Xcode project
• Bug fixes for text justification
• Optimization: Freeze(bool) option for ImRenderer to freeze immediate renders in place
• Updated submodules to latest releases
• MatrixPieceHandler has a new Config init
• ModelColor improvements

Note: I plan to add Windows build support eventually, but I am limited by time.

C++: Graphs, Minesweeper Examples + Scale/SizeWithWindow

What's New in v2.45

C++ Updates

• New Examples: MineSweeper, Animated Graphs

• ScaleWithWindow, SizeWithWindow now scale/resize World component when window resizes

• Naming cleanup, bug fixes

• Improvements: document logic

• ImageApp now supports flip image vertical and save PNG

• More unit tests

• MatrixBoardView: ForEachPiece + coordinate conversion fixes

• Ctrl+Tab hides/shows imGUi in editor

• NEW: SDLLoadBitmapOperation

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C++: Grid View Layout, Colored Text, Duck Slider, Tool Tips

What's New in v2.44

• New: Slider theme view, Hover Tool tips

• ImRenderer adds SetStrokeColor

• ImRenderer supports rendering a texture directly (instead of by id)

• New: FixedGridViewLayout for simple grid layouts

• Slider control now supports drag gesture along entire track, not just the thumb

• New: TextRenderer now supports setting colors for characters inside text

• New: AttributedString

• New: .Background, .Overlay support in ViewBuilder

• Improved shader loading. Shaders are now loaded along with other resources

• Reduce use of shared_pointer where we don't need it

• Lots of additional unit tests + code reviews for general code quality improvement

• New: SomeMaterialRenderer so ImRenderer can have its own logic path

• WIP: ImageAppScene for loading and browsing images (eventually will support filters like flip/crop, etc)

• Separate vertex shaders are merged into a single shader

• Moved code that isn't ready into Experimental

• Naming updates for convenience

• QOL: show subscribed signal handlers in inspector

• Startup flow improvements, code organization improvements

• Resource loading and cataloging improvements

• Start taking advantage of std::format for string formatting

• Factory, Class, ClassRegistry improvements

• New: Document, DocumentBundle, File for opening and saving documents

• All mesh builders have been code reviewed and tested

• UIPlanner now supports dynamic views that update dynamically as their values change

C++: More PhaseKit UI (Beta) + Better Immediate Mode Renderer

What's New in v2.43

• ViewBuilder and ThemeBuilder are now joined together (easier to build views)
• ViewBuilder now supports: progress bar, progress circle, image toggle button, radio button group, segmented picker, dial control, switch toggle
• Immediate mode renderer now supports path caps, round path corners, poly frames, lines, rounded rectangles, rounded corner shapes, and capsules
• Renamed DegreesAngle to WithDegrees
• New Lerp utility func
• More mesh builders for round rects, capsule, etc. Several bug fixes for mesh builders + more unit tests

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