arrayfire/forge

📦 Improvements/Modifications

• Handled multiple import configs in Forge Config file - #230
• Improved offline build experience for forge developers - #233
• Added CMake presets for easy development setups - #233

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix angle computation bug for trackball - #227

📦 Improvements/Modifications

• Use glad, glm system packages automatically if available - #226
• A very basic wire-ball of two loops is shown when rotation is being done to better hint the user of the direction of rotation - #227
• Add custom Cursors for zoom and rotation modes to visually aid the user - #227
• Given below are some sample gifs that show arcball hints and custom cursors
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• <img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3270458/116370211-ce1b0400-a827-11eb-811f-17c77eb6735a.gif" width=256 height=256></img><br/>
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🐛 Build Fixes

• Fixed internal CMake targets for static library builds - #225
• Fixed CUDA examples cmake target link keyword - #226

💥 Breaking Changes

• None

📋 Changes

• Removed Hunter package manager support
• Added offline build support: Users can use `forge-full-<VER>.tar.bz2` tar ball to build on systems without network connection. Note that you do need to have the required dependencies installed, `FG_BUILD_OFFLINE` only informs cmake to avoid cloud connection during build.
• Added `vcpkg.json` manifest file to automatically install dependencies under the build folder when `vcpkg` is used. Users can just do the following to fetch and build the project in a single command

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix OpenGL dependency linking in examples - #220
• Remove OpenCL examples - #221
• Fix cpu bubblechart & surface data consistent in all computes - #222

📦 Improvements/Modifications

• Removed Hunter Package Manager Support - #211
• Enable offline build support using cmake option - `FG_BUILD_OFFLINE` - #220

🐛 Build Fixes

• Fix CUDA examples kernel launch call formatting upon observing issue with certain compilers - #217
• Fix find OpenGL cmake module in examples - #219
• Fix Freetype build issue with versions higher than 2.8 - #219

💥 Breaking Changes

• None

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug related to chart axes labels regeneration - #202
• Fixed out of bounds access error in FreeType error lookup - #208
• Fixed Doxygen warnings of obsolete config options

📦 Improvements/Modifications

• Added an internal API to disable axes rendering for certain type of renderings, this change has no user impact - #205

🐛 Build Fixes

• Fixed cl2.hpp header download CMake script - #201
• Code clean, Warning fixes, Removal of dead code - #198 , #208
• Fixed build-type/build-configuration setup for CMake generators - #209

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix a bug where glDeleteBuffer was being called on default frame buffer object - #190

📦 Improvements

• Removes unncessary use of an extra Pixel Buffer Object in save frame buffer implementation - #190
• [Improved](https://github.com/arrayfire/forge/commit/d2f4bc74b134b8bdbf81b3e7f409701fc7dc571e) `colormap_impl` class implementation.

🐛 Build Fixes and Modifications

• glad replaced glbinding as GL function loader - #191
• glm is no longer a dependency to be installed by user as it is a submodule in forge - #192
• A work around fix for Freetype::Freetype target on Ubuntu 16.04 - #193
• Rectified and cleaned up target exports, both build tree & install tree - #195
• Avoid attempting to install dlls on static builds on windows platform - #195
• Arial font is the default font rendered on Windows starting with this release.
• From this release forward, release binaries are automatically generated by ci builds and uploaded to github release notes for new tags.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix chart grid rendering and colors - #185

🐛 Build Fixes and Modifications

• Fix freetype link target if hunter enabled - #185
• glbinding upstream version has been bumped up to v3.0.2 - #184 .
• Modified cmake targets to enable forge's usage as submodule in different git projects.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Removed throw statements from destructors - #154
• Removed experimental glm/transform header which was causing compilation issues with glm-0.9.9 - #180
• Removed unused glm header( was known to cause build issues with latest gcc compiler) - #161
• Fixed compiler warnings by MSVC compiler - #158
• Corrected install paths for CMake targets - #167
• Fixed CMake variable names to be consistent with documentation - #167
• Fixed inclusion of forge targets in the config file - #168
• Fixed cmake script that locates freetype - #171

🐛 Build Fixes and Modifications

• Marked all install cmake variables as advanced - #169
• Removed autoresolution of dependencies in favor of manual install commands - #179
• Fixed FindFreeImage script to handle dlls - #179
• Fixed for dependencies configuration in hunter - #162
• Moved stranded variable/fn definitions into appropriate namespaces - #163
• Added option build forge with static stdc++ & gcc libs - #164
• Refactored CMake build options to have `FG` prefix - #165
• Removed x11 dependency as direct dependency of forge - #166
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📋 Changes

• Fix SOVERSION numbering.
• Add Issue and PR github markdown templates.

✨ Features

• Forge has both C++ and C API. We recommend the C++ API, written atop C API, as the C API is intended to enable easy write of bindings for other languages.
• Full documentation of the library can be found [here](http://arrayfire.org/forge/index.htm).
• Forge exposes all it's objects and function via the namespace `fg`. It has the following main classes.
• `fg::Window` - objects of this class provide the rendering canvas over which other objects are rendered.
• `fg::Image` and `fg::Chart` are the two main rendering objects that drawn on `fg::Window`
• `fg::Image` is a rendering of a simple image to Window.
• `fg::Chart` is base object to which other plotting objects (listed below) are appended and rendered in the order of addition with alpha blending.
• `fg::Histogram` - bar graphs
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📦 Known Issues

• [Rendering issues on Linux OS using AMD GPUs](https://github.com/arrayfire/forge/issues/94)