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Pixel v0.6 Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-05-30 // almost 7 years ago

  • Finally, approximately a month since the first public Pixel release, we're releasing Pixel 0.6.

    Big thanks to everyone who contributed by sharing ideas, opening issues, or sending pull requests.

    Stats

    • 🚀 Pixel 0.5 was released on April 25
    • ➕ Since then we added 1981 LOC and deleted 469 LOC in 105 commits
    • Gained 478 GitHub stars
    • Closed 19 issues

    🆕 New features

    The main goal of 0.6 was text drawing. This goal was quickly accomplished and perfected over the last month. Few more features landed too.

    💥 Breaking changes

    🚀 Unfortunately, there are a few very important breaking changes in this release too. I decided to included them, because the old ways were starting to annoy me and I felt like these were the right changes to do. Hopefully, there will be no more breaking changes after this.

    ⚡️ All tutorials and examples were updated according to the breaking changes.

    • 🔄 Changed Vec implementation from complex128 to a simple struct. This choice was made because although the complex128 implementation allowed for a very nice addition and subtraction using + and - operators, it complicated pretty much every other operation.
    • ✂ Removed SetMatrix and SetColorMask from Sprite and replaced the simple sprite.Draw(target) signature with sprite.Draw(target, matrix) and sprite.DrawColorMask(target, matrix, mask) methods. This choice was made, because it avoids a lot of typing and eliminates some state. The same change was done for Canvas, although SetMatrix and SetColorMask methods were kept there , because they serve a different purpose.
    • IMDraw properties were changed from methods to fields. So now, instead of imd.Color(colornames.Red) you write imd.Color = colornames.Red. This is more convenient and allows for retrieving the value easily.

    👌 Improvements

    • ➕ Added examples/community directory, for community examples: right now, there's a maze generator by Stephen Chavez
    • 👌 Improved documentation in several places
    • 🛠 Fixed numerous bugs