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Pietro Gagliardi a23a0f1088 No longer preliminary (I was going to wait until I started the OS X backend, but). 2014-02-25 19:10:43 -05:00
unmigrated Re-added Windows font grabbing code. I won't use it just yet, since I only now realize I don't actually need it for preferred sizes, but eh 2014-02-24 11:55:38 -05:00
LICENSE Added license and README. 2014-02-17 18:38:50 -05:00
README.md No longer preliminary (I was going to wait until I started the OS X backend, but). 2014-02-25 19:10:43 -05:00
button.go Documentation fixups. 2014-02-25 15:43:12 -05:00
callbacks_unix.go Moved to a proper package; main() is now a test and go test -c is used to build. Once I iron out a bug with Windows event handling, I'll add a README. 2014-02-19 11:41:10 -05:00
checkbox.go Added Control.preferredSize() and preferredSize() for all the standard Controls. 2014-02-24 10:56:35 -05:00
combobox.go Split NewCombobox() into separate functions NewCombobox() and NewEditableCombobox(). 2014-02-25 15:13:37 -05:00
comctl_windows.go Removed a stray TODO about a constant in comctl_windows.go. 2014-02-25 13:17:22 -05:00
common_windows.go Added Windows implementation of ProgressBar and the requisite comctl32.dll code. 2014-02-25 08:28:10 -05:00
control.go Added Control.preferredSize() and preferredSize() for all the standard Controls. 2014-02-24 10:56:35 -05:00
controlcandidates.md Added more control candidate information. 2014-02-25 17:55:12 -05:00
controls_windows.go Moved to a proper package; main() is now a test and go test -c is used to build. Once I iron out a bug with Windows event handling, I'll add a README. 2014-02-19 11:41:10 -05:00
dialog.go Moved to a proper package; main() is now a test and go test -c is used to build. Once I iron out a bug with Windows event handling, I'll add a README. 2014-02-19 11:41:10 -05:00
dialog_unix.go Moved to a proper package; main() is now a test and go test -c is used to build. Once I iron out a bug with Windows event handling, I'll add a README. 2014-02-19 11:41:10 -05:00
dialog_windows.go Moved to a proper package; main() is now a test and go test -c is used to build. Once I iron out a bug with Windows event handling, I'll add a README. 2014-02-19 11:41:10 -05:00
grid.go More documentation fixups. 2014-02-25 19:10:09 -05:00
gtkcalls_unix.go Added password entry fields; they are the alternate mode of LineEdit. 2014-02-25 15:06:51 -05:00
gtkcasts_unix.go Added GTK+ implementation of ProgressBar and added a ProgressBar to the test program. 2014-02-25 00:49:08 -05:00
implementation.md Wrote an implementation guide. 2014-02-17 17:38:52 -05:00
init.go Moved to a proper package; main() is now a test and go test -c is used to build. Once I iron out a bug with Windows event handling, I'll add a README. 2014-02-19 11:41:10 -05:00
init_windows.go Added Windows implementation of ProgressBar and the requisite comctl32.dll code. 2014-02-25 08:28:10 -05:00
label.go Added Control.preferredSize() and preferredSize() for all the standard Controls. 2014-02-24 10:56:35 -05:00
layoutplan.md Added a new layout plan for Stack. 2014-02-24 10:22:23 -05:00
lineedit.go Added password entry fields; they are the alternate mode of LineEdit. 2014-02-25 15:06:51 -05:00
listbox.go Added Control.preferredSize() and preferredSize() for all the standard Controls. 2014-02-24 10:56:35 -05:00
listbox_unix.go Moved to a proper package; main() is now a test and go test -c is used to build. Once I iron out a bug with Windows event handling, I'll add a README. 2014-02-19 11:41:10 -05:00
main_test.go Wrote the Grid test and found/fixed one error in Grid's position calculations. (If you compare the previous Windows build with this one, you may not notice a difference; this is because of the default preferred size of Labels being too wide). 2014-02-25 18:57:19 -05:00
menus_windows.go Moved to a proper package; main() is now a test and go test -c is used to build. Once I iron out a bug with Windows event handling, I'll add a README. 2014-02-19 11:41:10 -05:00
plan.md Added version compatibility notes to plan.md. 2014-02-16 16:55:48 -05:00
prefsize_unix.go Added the preferred widget size basework and its GTK+ implementation. 2014-02-23 20:04:33 -05:00
prefsize_windows.go Added most of the Windows implementation of ProgressBar. Now to grab the comctl32.dll stuff. 2014-02-25 01:02:16 -05:00
progressbar.go Added GTK+ implementation of ProgressBar and added a ProgressBar to the test program. 2014-02-25 00:49:08 -05:00
restrictions.md Windows sysData has been adjusted to deal with child controls. Rather than storing the parent window, it is passed as an argument to sysData.make(), which does the child ID allocation. Child IDs are now window-local, getting rid of that restriction. 2014-02-12 21:08:10 -05:00
stack.go Fixed up Grid and Space() documentation. 2014-02-25 19:05:01 -05:00
stdfont_windows.go Re-added Windows font grabbing code. I won't use it just yet, since I only now realize I don't actually need it for preferred sizes, but eh 2014-02-24 11:55:38 -05:00
stdwndclass_windows.go Fixed the unregistered window class error on 64-bit Windows: turns out it was a difference in Go's int vs. what Windows expected (thanks Microsoft for not using your special types here). Fixed all instances of this, even in unmigrated/. Still does not work in wine... 2014-02-21 02:27:59 -05:00
sysdata.go Added password entry fields; they are the alternate mode of LineEdit. 2014-02-25 15:06:51 -05:00
sysdata_unix.go Added password entry fields; they are the alternate mode of LineEdit. 2014-02-25 15:06:51 -05:00
sysdata_windows.go Added password entry fields; they are the alternate mode of LineEdit. 2014-02-25 15:06:51 -05:00
todo.md Added password entry fields; they are the alternate mode of LineEdit. 2014-02-25 15:06:51 -05:00
uitask_unix.go Moved to a proper package; main() is now a test and go test -c is used to build. Once I iron out a bug with Windows event handling, I'll add a README. 2014-02-19 11:41:10 -05:00
uitask_windows.go Got rid of my Windows input lag problems on Windows (triggered by the switch to the concurrent garbage collector sweep routine in the Go runtime) by treating <-uitask as a Windows message itself posted to the message loop thread and not making the message loop a CPU waster. 2014-02-19 22:59:48 -05:00
window.go And the uitask message fixed was the issue all along. Now it works. 2014-02-24 14:16:05 -05:00
windows_windows.go Moved to a proper package; main() is now a test and go test -c is used to build. Once I iron out a bug with Windows event handling, I'll add a README. 2014-02-19 11:41:10 -05:00
winerrors.md More TODO reduction. 2014-02-15 15:41:50 -05:00

README.md

Native UI library for Go

THIS PACKAGE IS UNSTABLE. Though it installs to a package ui, and you can build software in it, it's far from feature-complete, and still in need of testing and crash-fixing. If you can help, please do! Run go test -c to build a test binary which runs a (mostly) feature-complete UI test.

This is a simple library for building cross-platform GUI programs in Go. It targets Windows and all Unix variants (except Mac OS X until further notice) and provides a thread-safe, channel-based API.

The API is no longer frozen; instead I will have to continue without the OS X port and do more work later. Oh well :/

Until then, check todo.md for more.

Future Readme Contents

This is a simple library for building cross-platform GUI programs in Go. It targets Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and other Unixes, and provides a thread-safe, channel-based API. The API itself is minimal; it aims to provide only what is necessary for GUI program design. That being said, suggestions are welcome. Layout is done using various layout managers, and some effort is taken to conform to the target platform's UI guidelines. Otherwise, the library uses native toolkits.

ui aims to run on all supported versions of supported platforms. To be more precise, the system requirements are:

  • Windows: Windows 2000 or newer. The Windows backend uses package syscall and calls Windows DLLs directly, so does not rely on cgo.
  • Mac OS X: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or newer. Objective-C dispatch is done by interfacing with libobjc directly, and thus this uses cgo.
  • Other Unixes: The Unix backend uses GTK+, and thus cgo. It requires GTK+ 3.4 or newer; for Ubuntu this means 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) at minimum. Check your distribution.

ui itself has no outside Go package dependencies; it is entirely self-contained.

To install, simply go get this package. On Mac OS X, make sure you have the Apple development headers. On other Unixes, make sure you have the GTK+ development files (for Ubuntu, libgtk-3-dev is sufficient).

Package documentation is available at http://godoc.org/github.com/andlabs/ui.

The following is an example program to illustrate what programming with ui is like:

(see main_test.go)

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. File issues, pull requests, approach me on IRC (pietro10 in #go-nuts; andlabs elsewhere), etc. Even suggestions are welcome: while I'm mainly drawing from my own GUI programming experience, everyone is different.

If you want to dive in, read implementation.md: this is a description of how the library works. (Feel free to suggest improvements to this as well.) The other .md files in this repository contain various development notes.

Please suggest documentation improvements as well.