Upcoming Changes

Last updated 2022/09. This is a higher-level list of intent. Refer to TODO.txt for a more detailed list.

Viewport

• Improve Viewport branch toward merging in Master (1.90? 2.00?) (#1542).

DPI

• Better DPI support (current solution is for user to load font + scale style according to DPI). (#1676)

Navigation, Controls

• Improve gamepad and keyboard controls. (#787)
• Inputs: Input ownership and routing system (2022).
• Shortcuts: menus/global-style shortcuts.
• Shortcuts: alt-style local shortcuts.
• Menus: once menus are able to handle their shortcuts (aka recursing in non-visible menus) we could envision Mac-style menu searching.

Docking

• Improve/rewrite Docking (merge 2.00?) (#2109)

Text/Fonts

• Finish work/design on backend texture update (#3761.
• Incremental font atlas updates.
• Rewrite better text primitives.

Styling

• Improve styling support (easier to add more colors, basic inheritance system, cache float4->ImU32 conversions).
• Improve basic render primitives (allow for gradients, etc.).
• Optimize basic render primitives (e.g. using 8-way texture for curved shapes, borders, circles) to reduce CPU +vertices cost.

Bindings

• Release "dear_bindings" ease the generation of language bindings (e.g. C), as an "v3" alternative to https://github.com/cimgui/cimgui

Automation, Tests

• Release Dear ImGui Test Engine (Q3-Q4 2022).

Misc

• Selection: Finish/merge range-selection/multi-selection API (1.90?), to support Shift+Click, Shift+Arrow, etc. with clipping.