v1.3 Released

It is finally here, the 1.3 release is out and ready for you to start building against! If you were waiting for file dialogs, notifications, accordian, splitter or textgrid widgets this is your lucky day. You can also find new APIs for showing splash windows, image scaling and the ability to set cursor and keyboard hints in custom widgets.

This release includes over 1000 commits and represents months of very hard work. Our dedicated contributors have balanced coding, testing and all the challenges that life in lockdown threw at them as well.

Hopefully there is something for everyone in this big update to the Fyne toolkit. We will be working over the coming weeks to create new tutorials and examples of how these new features can support building more complete applications without having to worry about platform specific code.

Added

File open and save dialogs
Add notifications support
Add text wrap support
Add Accordion widget
Add TextGrid widget
Add SplitContainer widget
Add new URI type and handlers for cross-platform data access
Desktop apps can now create splash windows
Add ScaleMode to images, new ImageScalePixels feature for retro graphics
Allow widgets to influence mouse cursor style
Support changing the text on form submit/cancel buttons
Support reporting CapsLock key events
Add OnClosed callback for Dialog
Add new image test helpers for validating render output
Support showing different types of soft keyboard on mobile devices

Changed

Upgraded underlying GLFW library to fix various issues
Add submenu support and hover effects
Default to non-premultiplied alpha (NRGBA) across toolkit
Rename FixedGridLayout to GridWrapLayout (deprecate old API)
Windows redraw and animations continue on window resize and move
New…PopUp() methods are being replaced by Show…Popup() or New…Popup().Show()
Apps started on a goroutine will now panic as this is not supported
On Linux apps now simulate 120DPI instead of 96DPI
Improved fyne_settings scale picking user interface
Reorganised fyne_demo to accomodate growing collection of widgets and containers
Rendering now happens on a different thread to events for more consistent drawing
Improved text selection on mobile devices