From c1c74f51f8ec5a3346508394a12279e2f6cd73bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:52:59 -0500
Subject: seems to do something. notsure.

---
 gui.go | 110 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 110 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 gui.go

diff --git a/gui.go b/gui.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..131bc74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gui.go
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+package fhelp
+
+// initializes logging and command line options
+
+import (
+	"os"
+
+	"go.wit.com/dev/alexflint/arg"
+	"go.wit.com/gui"
+	"go.wit.com/log"
+)
+
+var argGui ArgsGui
+
+/*
+This struct can be used with the go-arg package. These
+are the generic default command line arguments for the 'GUI' package
+*/
+type ArgsGui struct {
+	GuiFhelp   *GuiEmptyCmd `arg:"subcommand:guifhelp"                  help:"open the gui"`
+	GuiPlugin  string       `arg:"--gui"              help:"select the plugin (andlabs,gocui,etc)"`
+	GuiVerbose bool         `arg:"--gui-verbose"      help:"enable all logging"`
+}
+
+type GuiEmptyCmd struct {
+}
+
+/*
+used for command line options.
+This allows you to control the toolkit settings from the command line
+
+	--debugger      # opens the debugger
+	--gui andlabs   # loads the GTK toolkit on linux or Cocoa on mac
+	--gui gocui     # runs your program in the terminal in ncurses-like mode
+*/
+/*
+func ArgToolkit() string {
+	return argGui.GuiPlugin
+}
+
+	func init() {
+		arg.Register(&argGui)
+	}
+
+	// this should never happen because this is before go-args MustParse()
+	if argGui.GuiPluginHack != "" {
+		// does os.Exec() and does not return
+		gui.TestPluginAndExit()
+	}
+*/
+
+// after go-args MustParse & user configuration
+// the gui package can pull out the final settings and init() the GO Plugin GUI Toolkit
+func postMustParse(s string) string {
+	switch s {
+	case "PluginHack":
+	case "VERBOSE":
+		if argGui.GuiVerbose == true {
+			return "true"
+		}
+		return "false"
+	case "DEFAULT":
+		if argGui.GuiPlugin != "" {
+			return argGui.GuiPlugin
+		}
+		return "gocui"
+	case "FILE":
+		return "someplugin"
+	default:
+		return ""
+	}
+	return "unknown"
+}
+
+var prepGui *GuiPrep
+
+type GuiPrep struct {
+	rootn  *gui.Node
+	hidden bool // don't update the toolkits when it's hidden
+	Auto   func([]string)
+}
+
+func Gui() *GuiPrep {
+	if len(os.Args) > 1 && os.Args[1] == "--gui-check-plugin" {
+		gui.TestPluginAndExitNew(os.Args[2])
+		os.Exit(0)
+	}
+	arg.Register(&argGui)
+
+	prepGui = new(GuiPrep)
+	prepGui.rootn = gui.PreInit(postMustParse)
+	return prepGui
+}
+
+func (g *GuiPrep) Start() error {
+	// me.myGui.InitEmbed(resources)
+	if pname, err := g.rootn.Default(); err != nil {
+		if !BuildPlugin("gocui") {
+			log.Info("You can't run the forge GUI since the plugins did not build", pname)
+			return nil
+		}
+		if err := g.rootn.LoadToolkitNew("gocui"); err != nil {
+			log.Info("The plugins built, but still failed to load", pname)
+			return err
+		}
+	} else {
+		log.Info("The plugins built and loaded!", pname)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
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