attempt to embedded gocui plugin toolkit

Makefile

@@ -14,10 +14,14 @@ verbose:
 	GO111MODULE=off go build -v -x \
 		-ldflags "-X main.VERSION=${VERSION} -X main.BUILDTIME=${BUILDTIME} -X gui.GUIVERSION=${VERSION}"
 
-install: goimports vet
+install: goimports vet plugin
 	GO111MODULE=off go install \
 		-ldflags "-X main.VERSION=${VERSION} -X main.BUILDTIME=${BUILDTIME} -X gui.GUIVERSION=${VERSION}"
 
+plugin:
+	rm -f resources/*.so
+	cp ~/go/lib/gocui.so resources/
+
 goimports:
 	reset
 	goimports -w *.go

doGui.go

@@ -26,7 +26,13 @@ func debug() {
 }
 
 func doGui() {
+	if me.forge.Config.GetDefaultGui() == "" {
+		me.forge.Config.DefaultGui = "gocui"
+		me.forge.ConfigSave()
+	}
 	me.myGui = gui.New()
+	me.myGui.InitEmbed(resources)
+	me.myGui.SetAppDefaultPlugin(me.forge.Config.DefaultGui) // sets the default GUI plugin to use
 	me.myGui.Default()
 
 	// debug()

main.go

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package main
 // An app to submit patches for the 30 GO GUI repos
 
 import (
+	"embed"
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
@@ -17,6 +18,11 @@ import (
 var VERSION string
 var BUILDTIME string
 
+// this optionally can store the GUI plugins
+//
+//go:embed resources/*
+var resources embed.FS
+
 // used for shell auto completion
 var ARGNAME string = "forge"
 

resources/forge.text

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# this file is automatically re-generated from forge.pb, however,
+# if you want to edit it by hand, you can:
+# stop forge; remove forge.pb; edit forge.text; start forge
+# this will cause the default behavior to fallback to parsing this file for the config
+
+# this file is intended to be used to customize settings on what
+# git repos you have write access to. That is, where you can run 'git push'
+
+ForgeConfigs:  {
+  goPath:  "go.wit.com"
+  writable:  true
+  directory:  true
+}
+repos: {
+  goPath: "go.wit.com/apps/zookeeper"
+  debName: "zookeeper-go"
+}
+xterm:  "xterm"
+xtermArgv:  "-bg"
+xtermArgv:  "black"
+xtermArgv:  "-fg"
+xtermArgv:  "white"
+xtermArgv:  "-geometry"
+xtermArgv:  "140x32"
+xtermArgv:  "-e"