Sunday, December 31, 2023

Glimmer DSL for SWT 4.30.0.0

Glimmer DSL for SWT 4.30.0.0 (JRuby Desktop Development Cross-Platform Native GUI Framework) is the quarterly major release that supports a new version of Eclipse SWT (version 4.30, released in December 2023).

Below is a screenshot of the Hello, Code Text! sample, which is written in Ruby using Glimmer DSL for SWT)

Change Log for glimmer-dsl-swt gem version 4.30.0.0:

  • Upgrade to SWT 4.30
  • Upgrade to JDK 21
  • Upgrade to JRuby 9.4.5.0 with Ruby 3.1 support
  • Upgrade to Glimmer 2.7.4
  • Avoid loading the entirety of facets when scaffolding or listing gems (speeding up performance of glimmer list and scaffold commands)
  • Fix Mandelbrot Fractal sample on Windows as it crashes if run from within VirtualBox due to attempting to access Concurrent.physical_processor_count, which has been changed to Concurrent.processor_count
  • Fix dimensions of Weather sample on Linux

More Sample Screenshots:




Happy New Year and Happy Glimmering!


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