Draft - WebUI 2.5.0 Beta - Status

[hassandraga]

*** [ ! ] THIS IS A DRAFT - PLEASE SUGGEST UPDATES IF ANY ***

Team Planning: WebUI (view)

New Features

• In addition to using web browsers as GUI, now WebUI supports WebView as well (Proposed by @nater0000)
• Automatically refresh the UI when any file in the root folder gets changed (Proposed by @nater0000)
• In addition to int, bool, and string, now WebUI support float (Proposed by @crystalthoughts)
• Control how to receive UI events, single thread or multi-threads (Proposed by @dgllghr)
• Setup a custom proxy (By @osljw)
• Easy global config using the new config() API
• Get the argument counts
• The pre-built archives now come with the HTTPS TLS version

New APIs

• webui_show_wv()
• webui_set_event_blocking()
• webui_get_best_browser()
• webui_set_proxy()
• webui_get_count()
• webui_get_float_at()
• webui_get_float()
• webui_return_float()
• webui_set_config()
• enum webui_config
• webui_open_url()
• webui_start_server()
• webui_browser_exist()
• webui_script_client()
• webui_run_client()
• webui_close_client()
• webui_navigate_client()
• webui_show_client()
• webui_send_raw_client()
• All details and descriptions are in webui.h

Breaking Changes

• ...

Renamed

• enum webui_browsers to enum webui_browser
• enum webui_runtimes to enum webui_runtime
• enum webui_events to enum webui_event

Bugs Fix

• webui.js causes infinite-reload when using SvelteKit (Reported by @sensiblearts)
• Missing propre redirect when requesting a folder /subFolder to /subFolder/index.html (Reported by @nater0000)

[ttytm]

Added a new wrapper for this version.

https://github.com/webui-dev/swift-webui

Most of the heavy work is done. There is not much work left to have the full API finished. The basic already run nicely on Linux and Windows. The compiler just has some complains on macos with civetweb.

Regarding the macos failure, it's available in the wrappers CI run. Input on how to approach it is very welcome.

[hassandraga]

Thank you @ttytm, that is a great work 👍

[ttytm]

So far, I'm experiencing the best C and C++ interoperability with Swift.
With the editor properly set up, I'm getting type definitions, symbol references, and code completions for C code directly from Swift.

For the wrapper, it was possible to implement the "native" response return type feature today:

func handleResp(e: Event) -> Int {
	let count: Int = try! e.getArg()
	return count * 2
}
...
win.bind("handleResp", handleResp)

Ref.: https://github.com/webui-dev/swift-webui/blob/fb24f7e8d962e5f9f2d34b17ed8b780ca64a4742/Examples/CallSwiftFromJS/main.swift#L75-L78