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# ui: platform-native GUI library for Go
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# This package is still very much WIP.
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As of December 2015 the previous package ui API that has been around since this repo was started is no longer being supported. It is being replaced with a much more stable API built around my libui; see below.
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If you still want to use the old package ui, you can get the package under the `pre-libui` tag. Keep in mind that it's not stable, buggy, and **no longer supported**. If you do continue, make sure that instances of `ui.Window` escape to the heap to avoid some of the issues.
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If you want to play around with this new package ui, you'll need to install libui manually. Clone that repo and `make` (with GNU make) libui, then:
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- On Windows, merely copy out\libui.dll to the root of this repo.
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- On OS X, copy out/libui.dylib to the root of this repo as libui.0.dylib and symlink it to libui.dylib
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- On other Unixes, copy out/libui.so to the eroot of this reop as libui.so.0 and symlink it to libui.so
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and then copy ui.h to the top of this repo as well. (You may symlink any files instead of copying if so choose.)
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Stable releases of package ui will have all these files built in; these steps are only necessary for master builds.
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# New README
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This is a library that aims to provide simple GUI software development in Go.
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It is based on my [libui](https://github.com/andlabs/libui), a simple cross-platform library that does the same thing, but written in C. **You must include this library in your binary distributions.**
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It runs on/requires:
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- Windows: cgo, Windows Vista and newer
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- Mac OS X: cgo, Mac OS X 10.7 and newer
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- other Unixes: cgo, GTK+ 3.4 and newer
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It also requires Go 1.5 or newer (due to various bugs in cgo that were fixed only starting with 1.5).
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(this README needs some work)
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# Installation
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# Documentation
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The in-code documentation needs improvement. I have written a [tutorial](https://github.com/andlabs/ui/wiki/Getting-Started) in the Wiki.
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# Updates
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