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/*
Package gui implements a abstraction layer for Go visual elements.
Definitions:
- Toolkit: the underlying GUI library (MacOS gui, Windows gui, gtk, qt, etc)
- Node: A binary tree of all the underlying widgets
Principles:
- Make code using this package simple to use
- Hide complexity internally here
- Isolate the GUI toolkit
- Widget names should try to match [Wikipedia Graphical widget]
- When in doubt, search upward in the binary tree
- It's ok to guess. Try to do something sensible.
# Debian Build
This worked on debian sid (mate-desktop) on 2023/12/03
I didn't record the dependances needed (gtk-dev)
export GO111MODULE="off"
go get go.wit.com/gui
When I am working on toolkit plugins, then I work
directly from ~/go/src/go.wit.com/gui/
Hello World Example
// This creates a simple hello world window
package main
import (
"log"
"go.wit.com/gui"
)
var myGui *gui.Node // This is the beginning of the binary tree of widgets
// go will sit here until the window exits
func main() {
myGui = gui.New().Default()
helloworld()
}
// This initializes the first window, a group and a button
func helloworld() {
window := myGui.NewWindow("hello world")
group := window.NewGroup("foo bar")
group.NewButton("hello", func() {
log.Println("world")
})
}
Hopefully this code example will remain syntactically
consistant.
External Toolkits
- andlabs - https://github.com/andlabs/ui
- gocui - https://github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui
The next step is to allow this to work against go-gtk and go-qt.
TODO: Add Fyne, WASM, native macos & windows, android and
hopefully also things like libSDL, faiface/pixel, slint
# Bugs
"The author's idea of friendly may differ to that of many other people."
-- quote from the minimalistic window manager 'evilwm'
# References
Useful links and other
external things which might be useful
* [Wikipedia Graphical widget](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_widget)
* [GO Style Guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/go/index) Code this way
* [MS Windows Application Library Kit](https://github.com/lxn/walk)
* [Federated git pull](https://github.com/forgefed/forgefed) Hopefully this will work for me with gitea
* [Github mirror](https://github.com/wit-go/gui) This repo on mirror. Hopefully I won't have to use this.
* [WIT GO projects](https://go.wit.com/) Attempt to model go.uber.org
*/
package gui
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