lots cleaner code between the plugin

Queue() around SetText is helping userspace crashing
    merge forceDump(bool) into Dump()
    debugging output configuration is pretty clean
    keep cutting down duplicate things
    --gui-verbose flag works
    make label "standard" code
    add debug.FreeOSMemory()
    move the GO language internals to display in the GUI
    update push to do tags and go to github.com/wit-go/
    remove the other license file
        it might be confusing golang.org and github
    proper WidgetType
    added a Quit() button

Signed-off-by: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>

LICENSE.md

@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
-
-I don't want it to be possible to make closed source forks of this.
-If you need to use this in a proprietary GO application, then
-compile this as a plugin. The BSD license is bad for core GO libraries.
-
-(GO now supports plugins as of version 1.8)
-https://medium.com/@henvic/opensource-and-go-what-license-f6b36c201854

Makefile

@@ -19,11 +19,12 @@ deb:
 	-wit mirrors
 
 examples:   \
+	all \
 	cmds-buttonplugin \
 	cmds-console-ui-helloworld \
 	cmds-helloworld \
-	cmds-debug \
+	cmds-textbox \
-	cmds-textbox
+	cmds-debug
 
 cmds-buttonplugin:
 	make -C cmds/buttonplugin
@@ -35,20 +36,21 @@ cmds-helloworld:
 	make -C cmds/helloworld
 
 cmds-debug:
-	make -C cmds/debug
+	-make -C cmds/debug
 
 cmds-textbox:
 	make -C cmds/textbox
 
 # sync repo to the github backup
 # git remote add github git@github.com:witorg/gui.git
+# git remote add github2 git@github.com:wit-go/gui.git
 github:
 	git push origin master
+	git push github2 master
+	git push github2 --tags
 	git push github master
-	git push github devel
-	git push github jcarr
 	@echo
-	@echo check https://github.com/witorg/gui
+	@echo check https://github.com/wit-go/gui
 	@echo
 
 doc:

README-goreadme.md

@@ -145,41 +145,41 @@ var WARN bool
 
 ## Functions
 
+### func [DebugWidgetWindow](/debug_widget.go#L7)
+
+`func DebugWidgetWindow(w *Node)`
+
 ### func [DebugWindow](/debug_window.go#L9)
 
 `func DebugWindow()`
 
 Creates a window helpful for debugging this package
 
-### func [GetDebug](/debug.go#L20)
+### func [Delete](/common.go#L66)
 
-`func GetDebug() bool`
+`func Delete(c *Node)`
 
-### func [GolangDebugWindow](/example_window_golang_debug.go#L10)
+### func [Indent](/debug.go#L123)
-
-`func GolangDebugWindow()`
-
-### func [Indent](/debug.go#L120)
 
 `func Indent(a ...interface{})`
 
-### func [InitPlugins](/main.go#L35)
+### func [InitPlugins](/main.go#L46)
 
 `func InitPlugins(names []string)`
 
-### func [LoadToolkit](/plugin.go#L53)
+### func [LoadToolkit](/plugin.go#L56)
 
 `func LoadToolkit(name string) bool`
 
 loads and initializes a toolkit (andlabs/ui, gocui, etc)
 
-### func [Main](/main.go#L76)
+### func [Main](/main.go#L87)
 
 `func Main(f func())`
 
 This should not pass a function
 
-### func [Queue](/main.go#L106)
+### func [Queue](/main.go#L117)
 
 `func Queue(f func())`
 
@@ -194,31 +194,25 @@ For example: gui.Queue(NewWindow())
 
 `func SetDebug(s bool)`
 
-### func [SetDebugChange](/debug.go#L52)
+### func [SetDebugChange](/debug.go#L58)
 
 `func SetDebugChange(s bool)`
 
 This passes the debugChange flag to the toolkit plugin
 
-### func [SetDebugToolkit](/debug.go#L37)
+### func [SetDebugToolkit](/debug.go#L43)
 
 `func SetDebugToolkit(s bool)`
 
 This passes the debugToolkit flag to the toolkit plugin
 
-### func [ShowDebugValues](/debug.go#L66)
+### func [ShowDebugValues](/debug.go#L72)
 
 `func ShowDebugValues()`
 
-### func [StandardClose](/main.go#L119)
+### func [StandardExit](/main.go#L136)
 
-`func StandardClose(n *Node)`
+`func StandardExit()`
-
-The window is destroyed but the application does not quit
-
-### func [StandardExit](/main.go#L125)
-
-`func StandardExit(n *Node)`
 
 The window is destroyed but the application does not quit
 
@@ -239,7 +233,7 @@ This goroutine can be used like a watchdog timer
 
 This struct can be used with the go-arg package
 
-### type [GuiConfig](/structs.go#L30)
+### type [GuiConfig](/structs.go#L33)
 
 `type GuiConfig struct { ... }`
 
@@ -249,14 +243,14 @@ This struct can be used with the go-arg package
 var Config GuiConfig
 ```
 
-### type [Node](/structs.go#L48)
+### type [Node](/structs.go#L54)
 
 `type Node struct { ... }`
 
 The Node is a binary tree. This is how all GUI elements are stored
 simply the name and the size of whatever GUI element exists
 
-#### func [NewWindow](/window.go#L14)
+#### func [NewWindow](/window.go#L15)
 
 `func NewWindow() *Node`
 

button.go

@@ -1,25 +1,9 @@
 package gui
 
+import "git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
+
 func (n *Node) NewButton(name string, custom func()) *Node {
-	newNode := n.New(name, "Button")
+	newNode := n.New(name, toolkit.Button, custom)
-
+	send(n, newNode)
-	newNode.Widget.Custom = func() {
-		log(debugGui, "even newer clicker() name", newNode.Widget)
-		if (custom != nil) {
-			custom()
-		} else {
-			log(debugGui, "wit/gui No callback function is defined for button name =", name)
-		}
-	}
-
-	for _, aplug := range allPlugins {
-		log(debugGui, "gui.NewButton() aplug =", aplug.name, "name =", newNode.Widget.Name)
-		if (aplug.NewButton == nil) {
-			log(debugGui, "\tgui.NewButton() aplug.NewButton = nil", aplug.name)
-			continue
-		}
-		aplug.NewButton(&n.Widget, &newNode.Widget)
-	}
-
 	return newNode
 }

checkbox.go

@@ -1,55 +1,20 @@
 package gui
 
+import "git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
+
 func (n *Node) Checked() bool {
 	n.Dump()
-	return n.checked
+	return n.widget.B
 }
 
-/*
-This was the old code
-	newt.Custom = func () {
-		println("AM IN CALLBACK. SETTING NODE.checked START")
-		if newt.Checked() {
-			println("is checked")
-			c.checked = true
-		} else {
-			println("is not checked")
-			c.checked = false
-		}
-		commonCallback(c)
-		println("AM IN CALLBACK. SETTING NODE.checked END")
-	}
-*/
-
-
 func (n *Node) NewCheckbox(name string) *Node {
-	newNode := n.New(name, "Checkbox")
+	newNode := n.New(name, toolkit.Checkbox, nil)
-	newNode.custom = n.custom
+	send(n, newNode)
-
+	return newNode
-	newNode.Widget.Custom = func() {
+}
-		log(debugChange, "wit go gui checkbox", newNode.Widget)
+
-		if (n.custom != nil) {
+func (n *Node) NewThing(name string) *Node {
-			log(debugChange, "trying parent.custom() callback() name =", name)
+	newNode := n.New(name, toolkit.Button, nil)
-			n.custom()
+	send(n, newNode)
-		} else {
-			log(debugChange, "wit/gui No parent.custom() function is defined for button name =", name)
-		}
-		if (newNode.custom != nil) {
-			log(debugChange, "trying newNode.custom() callback name =", name)
-			newNode.custom()
-		} else {
-			log(debugChange, "wit/gui No newNode.custom() function is defined for button name =", name)
-		}
-	}
-
-	for _, aplug := range allPlugins {
-		log(debugGui, "gui.NewCheckbox() aplug =", aplug.name, "name =", newNode.Widget.Name)
-		if (aplug.NewCheckbox == nil) {
-			log(debugGui, "\tgui.NewCheckbox() aplug.NewCheckbox = nil", aplug.name)
-			continue
-		}
-		aplug.NewCheckbox(&n.Widget, &newNode.Widget)
-	}
-
 	return newNode
 }

cmds/buttonplugin/Makefile

@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 #
 
 run: build
-	./buttonplugin >/tmp/buttonplugin.log 2>&1
+	# ./buttonplugin >/tmp/buttonplugin.log 2>&1
-	# ./buttonplugin
+	./buttonplugin
 
 build-release:
 	go get -v -u -x .

cmds/buttonplugin/main.go

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ func main() {
 	log.Println("Main() END")
 	time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
 	gui.Watchdog()
-	gui.StandardExit(nil)
+	gui.StandardExit()
 }
 
 var counter int = 5
@@ -82,7 +82,9 @@ func buttonWindow() {
 	})
 
 	g.NewButton("gui.GolangDebugWindow()", func () {
-		gui.GolangDebugWindow()
+		// make a seperate window out of this
+		// w.GolangDebugWindow(false)
+		w.GolangDebugWindow(true)
 	})
 
 	g.NewButton("LoadToolkit(andlabs)", func () {

cmds/textbox/main.go

@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ import 	(
 type LogOptions struct {
 	LogFile string
 	Verbose bool
-	// GuiDebug bool `help:"open up the wit/gui Debugging Window"`
-	// GuiDemo bool `help:"open the wit/gui Demo Window"`
 	User string `arg:"env:USER"`
 }
 
@@ -45,11 +43,15 @@ func main() {
 func initGUI() {
 	var w *gui.Node
 	gui.Config.Title = "Hello World"
-	gui.Config.Width = 640
+	gui.Config.Width = 642
-	gui.Config.Height = 480
+	gui.Config.Height = 481
 	gui.Config.Exit = myDefaultExit
 
 	w = gui.NewWindow()
+	w.Custom = func () {
+		log.Println("myDefaultExit(w)")
+		myDefaultExit(w)
+	}
 	w.Dump()
 	addDemoTab(w, "A Simple Tab Demo")
 	addDemoTab(w, "A Second Tab")
@@ -57,6 +59,9 @@ func initGUI() {
 	if (args.GuiDebug) {
 		gui.DebugWindow()
 	}
+	if (args.GuiVerbose) {
+		gui.SetDebug(true)
+	}
 }
 
 func addDemoTab(window *gui.Node, title string) {
@@ -71,18 +76,19 @@ func addDemoTab(window *gui.Node, title string) {
 	dd.AddDropdownName("more 1")
 	dd.AddDropdownName("more 2")
 	dd.AddDropdownName("more 3")
-	dd.OnChanged = func(*gui.Node) {
-		s := dd.GetText()
-		tb.SetText("hello world " + args.User + "\n" + s)
-	}
-
 	g2 = newNode.NewGroup("group 2")
 	tb = g2.NewTextbox("tb")
 	log.Println("tb =", tb.GetText())
-	tb.OnChanged = func(*gui.Node) {
+	tb.Custom = func() {
 		s := tb.GetText()
 		log.Println("text =", s)
 	}
+
+	dd.Custom = func() {
+		s := dd.GetText()
+		log.Println("hello world " + args.User + "\n" + s + "\n")
+		tb.SetText("hello world " + args.User + "\n" + s + "\n")
+	}
 }
 
 func myDefaultExit(n *gui.Node) {

common.go

@@ -1,17 +1,32 @@
 package gui
 
-// import "errors"
+import (
-import "regexp"
+	"regexp"
+	// "errors"
+	// "git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
+)
 
 // functions for handling text related GUI elements
 
 func (n *Node) SetText(str string) bool {
-	log(debugChange, "gui.SetText() value = FIXME. NOT DOING ANYTHING", str)
+	log(debugChange, "gui.SetText() value =", str)
+	n.widget.Action = "Set"
+	n.widget.S = str
+	send(n.parent, n)
+	return true
+}
+
+func (n *Node) AppendText(str string) bool {
+	n.widget.Action = "Set"
+	tmp := n.widget.S + str
+	log(debugChange, "gui.AppendText() value =", tmp)
+	n.widget.S = tmp
+	send(n.parent, n)
 	return true
 }
 
 func (n *Node) GetText() string {
-	return "TODO: GetText() = {}"
+	return n.widget.S
 }
 
 /*
@@ -48,19 +63,18 @@ func normalizeInt(s string) string {
 	return clean
 }
 
+func Delete(c *Node) {
+	c.widget.Action = "Delete"
+	send(c.parent, c)
+}
+
 func commonCallback(n *Node) {
 	// TODO: make all of this common code to all the widgets
-	if (n.OnChanged == nil) {
+	// This might be common everywhere finally (2023/03/01)
-		log(debugChange, "Not Running n.OnChanged(n) == nil")
+	if (n.Custom == nil) {
+		log(debugChange, "Not Running n.Custom(n) == nil")
 	} else {
-		log(debugChange, "Running n.OnChanged(n)")
+		log(debugChange, "Running n.Custom(n)")
-		n.OnChanged(n)
+		n.Custom()
-	}
-
-	if (n.custom == nil) {
-		log(debugChange, "Not Running n.custom(n) == nil")
-	} else {
-		log(debugChange, "Running n.custom()")
-		n.custom()
 	}
 }

debug.go

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ package gui
 // A function dump out the binary tree
 
 import (
-	// "fmt"
+	"strconv"
-	"reflect"
+	"git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
 )
 
 // various debugging flags
@@ -17,14 +17,20 @@ var debugChange bool = false	// shows user events like mouse and keyboard
 var debugPlugin	bool = false
 var debugToolkit bool = false
 
-func GetDebug () bool {
+// func GetDebug () bool {
-	return debugGui
+// 	return debugGui
-}
+// }
 
 func SetDebug (s bool) {
 	debugGui     = s
-	// debugDump = s
+	debugChange  = s
-	// debugNode = s
+	debugDump    = s
+	debugTabs    = s
+	debugPlugin  = s
+	debugNode    = s
+	debugToolkit = s
+	SetDebugChange(s)
+	SetDebugToolkit(s)
 }
 
 /*
@@ -64,12 +70,14 @@ func SetDebugChange (s bool) {
 }
 
 func ShowDebugValues() {
+	// The order here should match the order in the GUI
+	// TODO: get the order from the node binary tree
 	log(true, "Debug        =", debugGui)
+	log(true, "DebugChange  =", debugChange)
 	log(true, "DebugDump    =", debugDump)
-	log(true, "DebugNode =", debugNode)
 	log(true, "DebugTabs    =", debugTabs)
 	log(true, "DebugPlugin  =", debugPlugin)
-	log(true, "DebugChange =", debugChange)
+	log(true, "DebugNode    =", debugNode)
 	log(true, "DebugToolkit =", debugToolkit)
 
 	// dump out the debugging flags for the plugins
@@ -102,14 +110,9 @@ func (n *Node) Dump() {
 	if (n.children != nil) {
 		Indent("children   = ", n.children)
 	}
-	if (n.custom != nil) {
+	if (n.Custom != nil) {
-		Indent("custom     = ", n.custom)
+		Indent("Custom     = ", n.Custom)
 	}
-	Indent("checked    = ", n.checked)
-	if (n.OnChanged != nil) {
-		Indent("OnChanged  = ", n.OnChanged)
-	}
-	Indent("text       = ", reflect.ValueOf(n.text).Kind(), n.text)
 	Indent("NODE DUMP END")
 }
 
@@ -124,15 +127,15 @@ func Indent(a ...interface{}) {
 func (n *Node) dumpWidget() {
 	var info string
 
-	if (n.Widget.Type == "") {
+	info = n.widget.Type.String()
-		n.Widget.Type = "UNDEF"
-	}
-	info = n.Widget.Type
 
-	info += ", " + n.Widget.Name
+	info += ", " + n.widget.Name
-	if (n.Name != n.Widget.Name) {
+	if (n.Name != n.widget.Name) {
 		info += " NAME MISMATCH"
 	}
+	if (n.widget.Type == toolkit.Checkbox) {
+		info += " = " + strconv.FormatBool(n.widget.B)
+	}
 
 	logindent(listChildrenDepth, defaultPadding, n.id, info)
 }

debug_flags.go

@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+package gui
+
+// Let's you toggle on and off the various types of debugging output
+// These checkboxes should be in the same order as the are printed
+func (n *Node) debugFlags(makeWindow bool) {
+	var w, g *Node
+
+	// Either:
+	// make a new window
+	// make a new tab in the existing window
+	if (makeWindow) {
+		Config.Title = "Debug Flags"
+		Config.Width = 300
+		Config.Height = 400
+		w = NewWindow()
+		w.Custom = w.StandardClose
+	} else {
+		w = n.NewTab("Debug Flags")
+	}
+	w.Dump()
+
+	g = w.NewGroup("Debug Flags")
+
+	g.NewButton("Turn on all Debug Flags", func () {
+		SetDebug(true)
+	})
+
+	g.NewButton("Turn off all Debug Flags", func () {
+		SetDebug(false)
+	})
+
+	// generally useful debugging
+	cb1 := g.NewCheckbox("debugGui")
+	cb1.Custom = func() {
+		debugGui = cb1.widget.B
+		log(debugGui, "Custom() n.widget =", cb1.widget.Name, cb1.widget.B)
+	}
+
+	// debugging that will show you things like mouse clicks, user inputing text, etc
+	// also set toolkit.DebugChange
+	cb2 := g.NewCheckbox("debugChange")
+	cb2.Custom = func() {
+		debugChange = cb2.widget.B
+		SetDebugChange(cb2.widget.B)
+		log(debugGui, "Custom() n.widget =", cb2.widget.Name, cb2.widget.B)
+	}
+
+	// supposed to tell if you are going to dump full variable output
+	cb3 := g.NewCheckbox("debugDump")
+	cb3.Custom = func() {
+		debugDump = cb3.widget.B
+		log(debugGui, "Custom() n.widget =", cb3.widget.Name, cb3.widget.B)
+	}
+
+	cb4 := g.NewCheckbox("debugTabs")
+	cb4.Custom = func() {
+		debugTabs = cb4.widget.B
+		log(debugGui, "Custom() n.widget =", cb4.widget.Name, cb4.widget.B)
+	}
+
+	// should show you when things go into or come back from the plugin
+	cb5 := g.NewCheckbox("debugPlugin")
+	cb5.Custom = func() {
+		debugPlugin = cb5.widget.B
+		log(debugGui, "Custom() n.widget =", cb5.widget.Name, cb5.widget.B)
+	}
+
+	cb6 := g.NewCheckbox("debugNode")
+	cb6.Custom = func() {
+		debugNode = cb6.widget.B
+		log(debugGui, "Custom() n.widget =", cb6.widget.Name, cb6.widget.B)
+	}
+
+	// turns on debugging inside the plugin toolkit
+	cb7 := g.NewCheckbox("debugToolkit")
+	cb7.Custom = func() {
+		SetDebugToolkit(cb7.widget.B)
+		log(debugGui, "Custom() n.widget =", cb7.widget.Name, cb7.widget.B)
+	}
+
+	g.NewButton("Dump Debug Flags", func () {
+		ShowDebugValues()
+	})
+}

debug_golang.go

@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
+package gui
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"bytes"
+	// "os"
+	"runtime"
+	"runtime/debug"
+	"runtime/pprof"
+)
+
+func (n *Node) GolangDebugWindow(makeWindow bool) {
+	var w, g, og, outputTextbox *Node
+
+	// Either:
+	// make a new window
+	// make a new tab in the existing window
+	if (makeWindow) {
+		Config.Title = "GO"
+		Config.Width = 300
+		Config.Height = 400
+		w = NewWindow()
+		w.Custom = w.StandardClose
+	} else {
+		w = n.NewTab("GO")
+	}
+	w.Dump()
+
+	g = w.NewGroup("Language Internals")
+
+	g.NewButton("ReadModuleInfo()", func () {
+		tmp, _ := debug.ReadBuildInfo()
+		outputTextbox.SetText(tmp.String())
+	})
+	g.NewButton("debug.PrintStack()", func () {
+		outputTextbox.SetText(string(debug.Stack()))
+	})
+	g.NewButton("pprof.Lookup(goroutine)", func () {
+		buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
+		pprof.Lookup("goroutine").WriteTo(buf, 1)
+		outputTextbox.SetText(buf.String())
+	})
+	g.NewButton("pprof.Lookup(heap)", func () {
+		buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
+		pprof.Lookup("heap").WriteTo(buf, 1)
+		outputTextbox.SetText(buf.String())
+	})
+	g.NewButton("pprof.Lookup(block)", func () {
+		buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
+		pprof.Lookup("block").WriteTo(buf, 1)
+		outputTextbox.SetText(buf.String())
+	})
+	g.NewButton("pprof.Lookup threadcreate", func () {
+		buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
+		pprof.Lookup("threadcreate").WriteTo(buf, 1)
+		outputTextbox.SetText(buf.String())
+	})
+
+	g.NewButton("runtime.ReadMemStats()", func () {
+		outputTextbox.SetText(runtimeReadMemStats())
+	})
+
+	g.NewButton("debug.FreeOSMemory()", func () {
+		var out string = "Before debug.FreeOSMemory():\n\n"
+		out += runtimeReadMemStats()
+		debug.FreeOSMemory()
+		out += "\n\nAfter debug.FreeOSMemory():\n\n"
+		out += runtimeReadMemStats()
+		outputTextbox.SetText(out)
+	})
+
+	g.NewButton("debug.ReadGCStats()", func () {
+		var tmp debug.GCStats
+		var out string
+		debug.ReadGCStats(&tmp)
+		log(tmp)
+		out += fmt.Sprintln("LastGC:", tmp.LastGC, "// time.Time time of last collection")
+		out += fmt.Sprintln("NumGC:", tmp.NumGC, "// number of garbage collections")
+		out += fmt.Sprintln("PauseTotal:", tmp.PauseTotal, "// total pause for all collections")
+		out += fmt.Sprintln("Pause:", tmp.Pause, "// []time.Duration pause history, most recent first")
+		out += fmt.Sprintln("PauseEnd:", tmp.Pause, "// []time.Time pause history, most recent first")
+		out += fmt.Sprintln("PauseQuantiles:", tmp.PauseQuantiles, "// []time.Duration")
+		outputTextbox.SetText(out)
+	})
+
+	g.NewButton("debug.SetTraceback('all')", func () {
+		debug.SetTraceback("all")
+	})
+
+	g.NewButton("panic()", func () {
+		panic("test")
+	})
+
+	g.NewLabel("TODO:")
+
+	g.NewButton("debug.SetMemoryLimit(int)", func () {
+		// TODO:
+		//debug.SetMemoryLimit(1024 * 1024 * 100)
+	})
+
+	g.NewButton("debug.SetMaxStack(int bytes)", func () {
+		// default is apparently 1GB
+	})
+
+	g.NewButton("debug.SetMaxThreads(int)", func () {
+		// default is apparently 10,000
+	})
+
+	g.NewButton("debug.SetTraceback('all')", func () {
+		debug.SetTraceback("all")
+	})
+
+	// deprecated (probably) by String() implementation within golang
+	g.NewButton("dumpModuleInfo() (deprecate)", func () {
+		outputTextbox.SetText(dumpModuleInfo())
+	})
+
+	og = w.NewGroup("output")
+	outputTextbox = og.NewTextbox("outputBox")
+	outputTextbox.Custom = func () {
+		log("custom TextBox() for golang output a =", outputTextbox.widget.S, outputTextbox.id)
+	}
+}
+
+func runtimeReadMemStats() string {
+	var s runtime.MemStats
+	var out string
+	runtime.ReadMemStats(&s)
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("alloc:", s.Alloc, "bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("total-alloc:", s.TotalAlloc, "bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("sys:", s.Sys, "bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("lookups:", s.Lookups)
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("mallocs:", s.Mallocs)
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("frees:", s.Frees)
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("heap-alloc:", s.HeapAlloc, "bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("heap-sys:", s.HeapSys, "bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("heap-idle:", s.HeapIdle,"bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("heap-in-use:", s.HeapInuse, "bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("heap-released:", s.HeapReleased, "bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("heap-objects:", s.HeapObjects)
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("stack-in-use:", s.StackInuse, "bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("stack-sys", s.StackSys, "bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("next-gc: when heap-alloc >=", s.NextGC, "bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("last-gc:", s.LastGC, "ns")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("gc-pause:", s.PauseTotalNs, "ns")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("num-gc:", s.NumGC)
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("enable-gc:", s.EnableGC)
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("debug-gc:", s.DebugGC)
+	return out
+}
+
+func dumpModuleInfo() string {
+	var out string
+	tmp, _ := debug.ReadBuildInfo()
+	if tmp == nil {
+		out += fmt.Sprintln("This wasn't compiled with go module support")
+		return ""
+	}
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("mod.Path         = ", tmp.Path)
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("mod.Main.Path    = ", tmp.Main.Path)
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("mod.Main.Version = ", tmp.Main.Version)
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("mod.Main.Sum     = ", tmp.Main.Sum)
+	for _, value := range tmp.Deps {
+		out += fmt.Sprintln("\tmod.Path    = ", value.Path)
+		out += fmt.Sprintln("\tmod.Version = ", value.Version)
+	}
+	return out
+}

debug_widget.go

@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+package gui
+
+import (
+	"strconv"
+)
+
+func DebugWidgetWindow(w *Node) {
+	var win, g *Node
+
+	title := "ID =" + strconv.Itoa(w.id) + " " + w.widget.Name
+
+	Config.Title = title
+	Config.Width = 300
+	Config.Height = 400
+	win = NewWindow()
+	win.Custom = w.StandardClose
+
+	g = win.NewGroup("Actions")
+
+	g.NewLabel(title)
+	g.NewButton("Dump()", func () {
+		w.Dump()
+	})
+	g.NewButton("Disable()", func () {
+		w.widget.Action = "Disable"
+		send(w.parent, w)
+	})
+	g.NewButton("Enable()", func () {
+		w.widget.Action = "Enable"
+		send(w.parent, w)
+	})
+	g.NewButton("Show()", func () {
+		w.widget.Action = "Show"
+		send(w.parent, w)
+	})
+	g.NewButton("Hide()", func () {
+		w.widget.Action = "Hide"
+		send(w.parent, w)
+	})
+	g.NewButton("Value()", func () {
+		log("w.B =", w.widget.B)
+		log("w.I =", w.widget.I)
+		log("w.S =", w.widget.S)
+	})
+	g.NewButton("Set Value(20)", func () {
+		w.widget.Action = "Set"
+		w.widget.B = true
+		w.widget.I = 20
+		w.widget.S = "Set Value(20)"
+		send(w.parent, w)
+	})
+	g.NewButton("Delete()", func () {
+		Delete(w)
+	})
+}
+
+func (n *Node) debugWidgets(makeWindow bool) {
+	var w, gList, gShow *Node
+
+	// Either:
+	// make a new window
+	// make a new tab in the existing window
+	if (makeWindow) {
+		Config.Title = "Widgets"
+		Config.Width = 300
+		Config.Height = 400
+		w = NewWindow()
+		w.Custom = w.StandardClose
+	} else {
+		w = n.NewTab("Widgets")
+	}
+	w.Dump()
+
+	gList = w.NewGroup("Pick a widget to debug")
+	gShow = w.NewGroup("Added Widgets go here")
+
+	gList.NewButton("Button", func () {
+		a := gShow.NewButton("myButton", func () {
+			log("this code is more better")
+		})
+		DebugWidgetWindow(a)
+	})
+	gList.NewButton("Checkbox", func () {
+		a := gShow.NewCheckbox("myCheckbox")
+		a.Custom = func () {
+			log("custom checkox func a =", a.widget.B, a.id)
+		}
+		DebugWidgetWindow(a)
+	})
+	gList.NewButton("Label", func () {
+		a := gShow.NewLabel("mylabel")
+		DebugWidgetWindow(a)
+	})
+	gList.NewButton("Textbox", func () {
+		a := gShow.NewTextbox("mytext")
+		a.Custom = func () {
+			log("custom TextBox() a =", a.widget.S, a.id)
+		}
+		DebugWidgetWindow(a)
+	})
+	gList.NewButton("Slider", func () {
+		a := gShow.NewSlider("tmp slider", 10, 55)
+		a.Custom = func () {
+			log("custom slider() a =", a.widget.S, a.id)
+		}
+		DebugWidgetWindow(a)
+	})
+	gList.NewButton("Spinner", func () {
+		a := gShow.NewSpinner("tmp spinner", 6, 32)
+		a.Custom = func () {
+			log("custom spinner() a =", a.widget.S, a.id)
+		}
+		DebugWidgetWindow(a)
+	})
+}

debug_window.go

@@ -10,88 +10,16 @@ func DebugWindow() {
 	Config.Title = "go.wit.org/gui debug window"
 	Config.Width = 300
 	Config.Height = 200
-	Config.Exit = StandardClose
 	bugWin = NewWindow()
+	bugWin.Custom = bugWin.StandardClose
 	bugWin.DebugTab("Debug Tab")
 }
 
-var checkd, checkdn, checkdt, checkdtk *Node
+var checkd, checkdn, checkdt, checkdtk, lb1, lb2 *Node
-
+var myButton *Node
-//////////////////////// debug flags //////////////////////////////////
-func debugFlags(n *Node) {
-	var df, checkdn, checkdd, changeCheckbox *Node
-	df = n.NewGroup("Debug Flags")
-	df.NewLabel("flags to control debugging output")
-
-	cb := df.NewCheckbox("debugGui")
-	cb.custom = func() {
-		log(true, "custom ran correctly for =", n.Name)
-		debugGui = true
-	}
-
-	checkdd = df.NewCheckbox("debugDump")
-	checkdd.custom = func() {
-		log(true, "debugDump() custom ran correctly for =", n.Name)
-		debugDump = true
-	}
-
-	checkdn = df.NewCheckbox("debugNode")
-	checkdn.custom = func() {
-		log(true, "debugNode() custom ran correctly for =", n.Name)
-		debugNode = true
-	}
-
-
-	cb = df.NewCheckbox("debugChange")
-	cb.custom = func() {
-		log(true, "checkbox: custom() ran correctly for =", cb.Name)
-		log(true, "START debugChange =", debugChange)
-		if (debugChange) {
-			debugChange = false
-			SetDebugChange(false)
-			log(true, "debugToolkitChange turned off node.Name =", cb.Name)
-		} else {
-			debugChange = true
-			SetDebugChange(true)
-			log(true, "debugToolkitChange turned on Name =", cb.Name)
-		}
-		log(true, "END   debugChange =", debugChange)
-	}
-
-	cb = df.NewCheckbox("debugTabs")
-	cb.custom = func() {
-		log(true, "debugTabs() custom ran correctly for =", n.Name)
-		debugTabs = true
-	}
-
-	cb = df.NewCheckbox("debugPlugin")
-	cb.custom = func() {
-		log(true, "debugPlugin() custom ran correctly for =", n.Name)
-		debugPlugin = true
-	}
-
-	changeCheckbox = df.NewCheckbox("debugToolkit")
-	changeCheckbox.custom = func() {
-		SetDebugToolkit(true)
-	}
-
-	df.NewButton("Debug Toolkit", func() {
-		if (debugToolkit) {
-			SetDebugToolkit(false)
-			log(true, "debugToolkit turned off node.Name =", n.Name)
-		} else {
-			SetDebugToolkit(true)
-			log(true, "debugToolkit turned on Name =", n.Name)
-		}
-	})
-
-	df.NewButton("Dump Debug Flags", func () {
-		ShowDebugValues()
-	})
-}
 
 func (n *Node) DebugTab(title string) *Node {
-	var newN, gog, g1, g2, g3, dd *Node
+	var newN, gog, g1, g2, g3, dd, junk, newThing *Node
 
 	// time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
 	newN = n.NewTab(title)
@@ -101,7 +29,13 @@ func (n *Node) DebugTab(title string) *Node {
 	gog = newN.NewGroup("GOLANG")
 	gog.NewLabel("go language")
 	gog.NewButton("GO Language Debug", func () {
-		GolangDebugWindow()
+		newN.GolangDebugWindow(false)
+	})
+	gog.NewButton("Debug Flags", func () {
+		newN.debugFlags(false)
+	})
+	gog.NewButton("Debug Widgets", func () {
+		newN.debugWidgets(false)
 	})
 
 	gog.NewLabel("wit/gui package")
@@ -109,11 +43,21 @@ func (n *Node) DebugTab(title string) *Node {
 		// DemoToolkitWindow()
 	})
 
-	debugFlags(newN)
+	junk = gog.NewButton("junk", func () {
+		log("click junk, get junk")
+	})
+
+	gog.NewLabel("tmp label")
+
 
 //////////////////////// window debugging things //////////////////////////////////
 	g1 = newN.NewGroup("Current Windows")
 	dd = g1.NewDropdown("Window Dropdown")
+	dd.Custom = func() {
+		name := dd.widget.S
+		bugWin = mapWindows[name]
+		log("The Window was set to", name)
+	}
 	log(debugGui, "dd =", dd)
 
 	// initialize the windows map if it hasn't been
@@ -122,6 +66,7 @@ func (n *Node) DebugTab(title string) *Node {
 	}
 
 	var dump = false
+	var last = ""
 	for _, child := range Config.master.children {
 		log(debugGui, "\t\t", child.id, child.Width, child.Height, child.Name)
 		if (child.parent != nil) {
@@ -134,16 +79,44 @@ func (n *Node) DebugTab(title string) *Node {
 			child.Dump()
 		}
 		dd.AddDropdownName(child.Name)
+		last = child.Name
 		mapWindows[child.Name] = child
 	}
-
+	dd.SetDropdownName(last)
-	dd.SetDropdown(0)
+	dd.NewButton("Delete(junk)", func () {
+		Delete(junk)
+	})
+	dd.NewButton("myButton", func () {
+		gog.NewButton("myButton", func () {
+			log("this code is better")
+		})
+	})
+	dd.NewButton("add Hope", func () {
+		var i int = 1
+		log("add hope?", i)
+		gog.NewButton("hope", func () {
+			i += 1
+			log("write better code", i)
+		})
+	})
+	dd.NewButton("add newThing", func () {
+		var i, j int = 1, 1
+		newThing = gog.NewThing("NewThing")
+		newThing.Custom = func() {
+			f := i + j
+			log("newThing!!! n.widget =", newThing.widget.Name, newThing.widget.B, f)
+			j = i
+			i = f
+		}
+		log("newThing!!! n.widget")
+	})
 
 	g2 = newN.NewGroup("Debug Window")
 	g2.NewButton("SetMargined(tab)", func () {
 		log(debugChange, "START SetMargined(tab)", g2.Name)
 		// name := dd.GetText()
-		name := dd.Widget.S
+		name := dd.widget.S
+		log(true, "name =", name)
 		log(debugChange, "name =", name)
 		log(debugChange, "mapWindows[name] =", mapWindows[name])
 		/*
@@ -154,7 +127,7 @@ func (n *Node) DebugTab(title string) *Node {
 		}
 		*/
 		bugWin = mapWindows[name]
-		log(debugChange, "END dd.Widget.S =", dd.Widget.S)
+		log(debugChange, "END dd.widget.S =", dd.widget.S)
 		// gw.UiTab.SetMargined(*gw.TabNumber, true)
 	})
 	g2.NewButton("Hide(tab)", func () {
@@ -170,6 +143,9 @@ func (n *Node) DebugTab(title string) *Node {
 	g2.NewButton("change Title", func () {
 		// mainWindow.SetText("hello world")
 	})
+	g2.NewButton("Quit", func () {
+		exit()
+	})
 
 	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 	g3 = newN.NewGroup("Node Debug")

dropdown.go

@@ -1,53 +1,46 @@
 package gui
 
+import (
+	"git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
+)
+
+// add a new entry to the dropdown name
 func (n *Node) AddDropdownName(name string) {
 	for _, aplug := range allPlugins {
-		log(debugGui, "gui.AddDropdownName() aplug =", aplug.name, "name =", name)
+		log(debugPlugin, "AddDropdownName() aplug =", aplug.name, "name =", name)
 		if (aplug.AddDropdownName == nil) {
-			log(debugGui, "\tgui.AddDropdownName() aplug.NewDropdown = nil", aplug.name)
+			log(debugPlugin, "\taplug.AddDropdownName() = nil")
 			continue
 		}
-		aplug.AddDropdownName(&n.Widget, name)
+		aplug.AddDropdownName(&n.widget, name)
 	}
-
-	if (n.Widget.Custom == nil) {
-		n.SetDropdownChange( func() {
-			log(debugChange, "gui.Dropdown change() REAL Custom() name =", name)
-			log(debugChange, "gui.Dropdown change() REAL n.Widget.S =", n.Widget.S)
-		})
-	}
-	// TODO, this makes functions over and over for each dropdown menu
-	/*
-	n.Widget.Custom = func() {
-		log(debugChange, "gui.Dropdown change() START Custom() name =", name)
-		log(debugChange, "gui.Dropdown change() START n.Widget.S =", n.Widget.S)
-	}
-	*/
 }
 
-func (n *Node) SetDropdown(s any) {
+// Set the dropdown menu to 'name'
-	log(debugGui, "gui.SetDropdown() TODO: make this work. s =", s)
+func (n *Node) SetDropdownName(name string) {
-}
+	log(debugGui, "SetDropdownName() work. name =", name)
-
+	for _, aplug := range allPlugins {
-func (n *Node) SetDropdownChange(f func()) {
+		log(debugPlugin, "SetDropdownName() aplug =", aplug.name, "name =", name)
-	n.Widget.Custom = f
+		if (aplug.SetDropdownName == nil) {
+			log(true, "\taplug.SetDropdownName() aplug = nil")
+			continue
+		}
+		aplug.SetDropdownName(&n.widget, name)
+	}
 }
 
 func (n *Node) NewDropdown(name string) *Node {
-	newNode := n.New(name, "Dropdown")
+	newNode := n.New(name, toolkit.Dropdown, nil) 
 
 	for _, aplug := range allPlugins {
-		log(debugGui, "gui.NewDropdown() aplug =", aplug.name, "name =", newNode.Widget.Name)
+		log(debugGui, "gui.NewDropdown() aplug =", aplug.name, "name =", newNode.widget.Name)
 		if (aplug.NewDropdown == nil) {
 			log(debugGui, "\tgui.NewDropdown() aplug.NewDropdown = nil", aplug.name)
 			continue
 		}
-		aplug.NewDropdown(&n.Widget, &newNode.Widget)
+		aplug.NewDropdown(&n.widget, &newNode.widget)
 	}
 
 	// TODO, this doesn't work for some reason (over-written by plugin?)
-	newNode.Widget.Custom = func() {
-		log(true, "gui.NewDropdown() START Custom()")
-	}
 	return newNode
 }

example_window_golang_debug.go

@@ -1,104 +0,0 @@
-package gui
-
-import (
-	"os"
-	"runtime"
-	"runtime/debug"
-	"runtime/pprof"
-)
-
-func GolangDebugWindow() {
-	var w, t *Node
-
-	Config.Title = "Go Language Debug Window"
-	Config.Width = 400
-	Config.Height = 400
-	Config.Exit = StandardClose
-	w = NewWindow()
-
-	t = w.NewTab("Debug Tab")
-	log("debugWindow() START")
-
-
-	///////////////////////////////  Column DEBUG GOLANG   //////////////////////
-	g := t.NewGroup("GO Language")
-
-	g.NewButton("runtime.Stack()", func () {
-		log("\tSTART")
-		buf := make([]byte, 1<<16)
-		runtime.Stack(buf, true)
-		log("\t %s", buf)
-		log("\tEND")
-	})
-	g.NewButton("dumpModuleInfo()", func () {
-		log("\tSTART")
-		dumpModuleInfo()
-		log("\tEND")
-	})
-	g.NewButton("debug.PrintStack()", func () {
-		log("\tSTART")
-		debug.PrintStack()
-		log("\tEND")
-	})
-	g.NewButton("pprof.Lookup(goroutine)", func () {
-		log("\tSTART")
-		pprof.Lookup("goroutine").WriteTo(os.Stdout, 1)
-		log("\tEND")
-	})
-	g.NewButton("pprof.Lookup(heap)", func () {
-		log("\tSTART")
-		pprof.Lookup("heap").WriteTo(os.Stdout, 1)
-		log("\tEND")
-	})
-	g.NewButton("pprof.Lookup(block)", func () {
-		log("\tSTART")
-		pprof.Lookup("block").WriteTo(os.Stdout, 1)
-		log("\tEND")
-	})
-	g.NewButton("pprof.Lookup threadcreate", func () {
-		log("\tSTART")
-		pprof.Lookup("threadcreate").WriteTo(os.Stdout, 1)
-		log("\tEND")
-	})
-	g.NewButton("runtime.ReadMemStats", func () {
-		var s runtime.MemStats
-		runtime.ReadMemStats(&s)
-		log("alloc: %v bytes\n", s.Alloc)
-		log("total-alloc: %v bytes\n", s.TotalAlloc)
-		log("sys: %v bytes\n", s.Sys)
-		log("lookups: %v\n", s.Lookups)
-		log("mallocs: %v\n", s.Mallocs)
-		log("frees: %v\n", s.Frees)
-		log("heap-alloc: %v bytes\n", s.HeapAlloc)
-		log("heap-sys: %v bytes\n", s.HeapSys)
-		log("heap-idle: %v bytes\n", s.HeapIdle)
-		log("heap-in-use: %v bytes\n", s.HeapInuse)
-		log("heap-released: %v bytes\n", s.HeapReleased)
-		log("heap-objects: %v\n", s.HeapObjects)
-		log("stack-in-use: %v bytes\n", s.StackInuse)
-		log("stack-sys: %v bytes\n", s.StackSys)
-		log("next-gc: when heap-alloc >= %v bytes\n", s.NextGC)
-		log("last-gc: %v ns\n", s.LastGC)
-		log("gc-pause: %v ns\n", s.PauseTotalNs)
-		log("num-gc: %v\n", s.NumGC)
-		log("enable-gc: %v\n", s.EnableGC)
-		log("debug-gc: %v\n", s.DebugGC)
-	})
-}
-
-func dumpModuleInfo() {
-	tmp, _ := debug.ReadBuildInfo()
-	if tmp == nil {
-		log("This wasn't compiled with go module support")
-		return
-	}
-	log("mod.Path         = ", tmp.Path)
-	log("mod.Main.Path    = ", tmp.Main.Path)
-	log("mod.Main.Version = ", tmp.Main.Version)
-	log("mod.Main.Sum     = ", tmp.Main.Sum)
-	for _, value := range tmp.Deps {
-		log("\tmod.Path    = ", value.Path)
-		log("\tmod.Version = ", value.Version)
-	}
-}
-

group.go

@@ -1,22 +1,14 @@
 package gui
 
+import (
+	"git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
+)
+
 // TODO: which name is better. AddGroup or NewGroup ?
 // first reaction is NewGroup
 func (n *Node) NewGroup(name string) *Node {
 	var newNode *Node
-	newNode = n.New(name, "Group")
+	newNode = n.New(name, toolkit.Group, nil)
-
+	send(n, newNode)
-	log(debugGui, "toolkit.NewGroup() START", name)
-
-
-	log(debugGui, "gui.Node.NewGroup()", name)
-	for _, aplug := range allPlugins {
-		log(debugGui, "gui.Node.NewGroup() toolkit plugin =", aplug.name)
-		if (aplug.NewGroup == nil) {
-			continue
-		}
-		aplug.NewGroup(&n.Widget, &newNode.Widget)
-	}
-
 	return newNode
 }

label.go

@@ -1,19 +1,14 @@
 package gui
 
-// import "errors"
+import (
-// import "regexp"
+	"git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
+)
 
 func (n *Node) NewLabel(text string) *Node {
-	newNode := n.New(text, "Label")
+	newNode := n.New(text, toolkit.Label, func() {
-
+		log(debugChange, "TextBox changed", text)
-	for _, aplug := range allPlugins {
+	})
-		log(debugGui, "gui.NewLabel() aplug =", aplug.name, "name =", newNode.Widget.Name)
-		if (aplug.NewLabel == nil) {
-			log(debugGui, "\tgui.NewLabel() aplug.NewLabel = nil", aplug.name)
-			continue
-		}
-		aplug.NewLabel(&n.Widget, &newNode.Widget)
-	}
 
+	send(n, newNode)
 	return newNode
 }

log.go

@@ -98,8 +98,9 @@ func log(a ...any) {
 	if (a == nil) {
 		return
 	}
-	var blah bool
+
-	if (reflect.TypeOf(a[0]) == reflect.TypeOf(blah)) {
+	var tbool bool
+	if (reflect.TypeOf(a[0]) == reflect.TypeOf(tbool)) {
 		// golog.Println("\t a[0] = bool")
 		if (a[0] == false) {
 			return

main.go

@@ -16,20 +16,31 @@ const Yaxis = 1 // stack things vertically
 var res embed.FS
 
 func init() {
-	debugGui = true
+	log("init() has been run")
-	log(debugGui, "gui.init() has been run")
 
 	Config.counter = 0
 	Config.prefix = "wit"
-
+	Config.Width = 640
-	title := "guiBinaryTree"
+	Config.Height = 480
-	w     := 640
-	h     := 480
 
 	// Populates the top of the binary tree
-	Config.master = addNode(title, w, h)
+	Config.master = addNode("guiBinaryTree")
-	// Config.master.Dump()
+
-	debugGui = false
+	go doGuiChan()
+}
+
+func doGuiChan() {
+	for {
+		select {
+		case <-Config.ActionCh1:
+			log(true, "CHANNEL ACTION 1  !!!!!")
+			return
+		case <-Config.ActionCh2:
+			log(true, "CHANNEL ACTION 2  !!!!!")
+			return
+		default:
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 func InitPlugins(names []string) {
@@ -116,21 +127,21 @@ func Queue(f func()) {
 }
 
 // The window is destroyed but the application does not quit
-func StandardClose(n *Node) {
+func (n *Node) StandardClose() {
 	log(debugGui, "wit/gui Standard Window Close. name =", n.Name)
-	log(debugGui, "wit/gui Standard Window Close. n.custom exit =", n.custom)
+	log(debugGui, "wit/gui Standard Window Close. n.Custom exit =", n.Custom)
 }
 
 // The window is destroyed but the application does not quit
-func StandardExit(n *Node) {
+func StandardExit() {
-	log(debugGui, "wit/gui Standard Window Exit. running os.Exit()")
+	log("wit/gui Standard Window Exit. running os.Exit()")
-	log(debugGui, "gui.Node.StandardExit() attempt to exit each toolkit plugin")
+	log("gui.Node.StandardExit() attempt to exit each toolkit plugin")
 	for i, aplug := range allPlugins {
-		log(debugGui, "gui.Node.NewButton()", i, aplug)
+		log("gui.Node.NewButton()", i, aplug)
 		if (aplug.Quit != nil) {
 			aplug.Quit()
 		}
 	}
 
-	exit("StandardExit")
+	exit(0)
 }

node.go

@@ -1,15 +1,30 @@
 package gui
 
-// import "git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
+import "git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
 
 /*
 	generic function to create a new node on the binary tree
 */
-func (n *Node) New(title string, t string) *Node {
+func (n *Node) New(title string, t toolkit.WidgetType, custom func()) *Node {
 	var newN *Node
 
-	newN = addNode(title, n.Width, n.Height)
+	newN = addNode(title)
-	newN.Widget.Type = t
+	newN.widget.Type = t
+	newN.widget.Action = "New"
+	newN.Custom = custom
+
+	// TODO: This should not be defined for each widget. This has to be stupid
+	// or wait a second, is this where I send something to a channel?
+	newN.widget.Custom = func() {
+		if (newN.Custom == nil) {
+			log(debugChange, "newT.Custom() == nil. Not doing anything. SEND SOMETHING TO THE CHANNEL")
+			return
+		}
+		log(debugChange, "newT.Custom() START SEND SOMETHING TO THE CHANNEL widget.Name =", newN.widget.Name)
+		// send something to the channel here????
+		newN.Custom()
+		log(debugChange, "newT.Custom() END   SEND SOMETHING TO THE CHANNEL widget.Name =", newN.widget.Name)
+	}
 
 	n.Append(newN)
 	newN.parent = n
@@ -19,20 +34,10 @@ func (n *Node) New(title string, t string) *Node {
 /*
 	raw create function for a new node struct
 */
-func addNode(title string, width int, height int) *Node {
+func addNode(title string) *Node {
 	n := new(Node)
-
 	n.Name = title
-	n.Width = width
+	n.widget.Name = title
-	n.Height = height
-
-	n.Widget.Name = title
-	n.Widget.Width = width
-	n.Widget.Height = height
-
-	// no longer a string
-	// id := Config.prefix + strconv.Itoa(Config.counter)
-	// n.id = id
 
 	n.id = Config.counter
 	Config.counter += 1

plugin.go

@@ -26,21 +26,24 @@ type aplug struct {
 	MainOk bool
 
 	Init func()
-	Main func(func ())
+	// TODO: make Main() main() and never allow the user to call it
-	Queue func(func ())
+	// run plugin.Main() when the plugin is loaded
+	Main func(func ())	// this never returns. Each plugin must have it's own goroutine
+	Queue func(func ())	// Should this return right away? Should it wait (can it wait?)
 	Quit func()
-	NewWindow func(*toolkit.Widget)
+	// NewWindow func(*toolkit.Widget)
+
+	// simplifies passing to the plugin
+	Send func(*toolkit.Widget, *toolkit.Widget)
+
 	NewButton func(*toolkit.Widget, *toolkit.Widget)
 	NewGroup func(*toolkit.Widget, *toolkit.Widget)
 	NewCheckbox func(*toolkit.Widget, *toolkit.Widget)
 	NewTab func(*toolkit.Widget, *toolkit.Widget)
-	NewLabel func(*toolkit.Widget, *toolkit.Widget)
-	NewTextbox func(*toolkit.Widget, *toolkit.Widget)
-	NewSlider func(*toolkit.Widget, *toolkit.Widget)
-	NewSpinner func(*toolkit.Widget, *toolkit.Widget)
 
 	NewDropdown func(*toolkit.Widget, *toolkit.Widget)
 	AddDropdownName func(*toolkit.Widget, string)
+	SetDropdownName func(*toolkit.Widget, string)
 
 	SetDebugToolkit func(bool)
 	SetDebugChange func(bool)
@@ -73,27 +76,27 @@ func LoadToolkit(name string) bool {
 	// newPlug.Ok = true
 	newPlug.name = name
 
-	// map all the functions
+	// deprecate Init(?)
 	newPlug.Init = loadFuncE(&newPlug, "Init")
-	newPlug.Quit = loadFuncE(&newPlug, "Quit")
 
-	// this should be laodFuncE()
+	// should make a goroutine that never exits
 	newPlug.Main  = loadFuncF(&newPlug, "Main")
+
+	// should send things to the goroutine above
 	newPlug.Queue = loadFuncF(&newPlug, "Queue")
 
-	newPlug.NewWindow = loadFunc1(&newPlug, "NewWindow")
+	// unload the plugin and restore state
+	newPlug.Quit = loadFuncE(&newPlug, "Quit")
 
-	newPlug.NewButton = loadFunc2(&newPlug, "NewButton")
+	// Sends a widget (button, checkbox, etc) and it's parent widget
-	newPlug.NewGroup = loadFunc2(&newPlug, "NewGroup")
+	// This includes instructions like "Add", "Delete", "Disable", etc
-	newPlug.NewCheckbox = loadFunc2(&newPlug, "NewCheckbox")
+	newPlug.Send = loadFunc2(&newPlug, "Send")
-	newPlug.NewTab = loadFunc2(&newPlug, "NewTab")
+
-	newPlug.NewLabel = loadFunc2(&newPlug, "NewLabel")
+	// newPlug.NewGroup = loadFunc2(&newPlug, "NewGroup")
-	newPlug.NewTextbox = loadFunc2(&newPlug, "NewTextbox")
-	newPlug.NewSlider = loadFunc2(&newPlug, "NewSlider")
-	newPlug.NewSpinner = loadFunc2(&newPlug, "NewSpinner")
 
 	newPlug.NewDropdown = loadFunc2(&newPlug, "NewDropdown")
 	newPlug.AddDropdownName = loadFuncS(&newPlug, "AddDropdownName")
+	newPlug.SetDropdownName = loadFuncS(&newPlug, "SetDropdownName")
 
 	newPlug.SetDebugToolkit = loadFuncB(&newPlug, "SetDebugToolkit")
 	newPlug.SetDebugChange = loadFuncB(&newPlug, "SetDebugChange")
@@ -275,3 +278,16 @@ func loadfile(filename string) *plugin.Plugin {
 	log(debugGui, "plugin WORKED =", filename)
 	return plug
 }
+
+// Sends a widget and what to do with it to the plugin
+// parent = n, child = c
+func send(p *Node, c *Node) {
+	for _, aplug := range allPlugins {
+		log(debugPlugin, "Send() aplug =", aplug.name, "name =", c.widget.Name)
+		if (aplug.Send == nil) {
+			log(debugPlugin, "\tSend() failed (aplug.Selete = nil) for", aplug.name)
+			continue
+		}
+		aplug.Send(&c.parent.widget, &c.widget)
+	}
+}

slider.go

@@ -1,22 +1,16 @@
 package gui
 
+import (
+	"git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
+)
+
 func (n *Node) NewSlider(name string, x int, y int) *Node {
-	newNode := n.New(name, "Slider")
+	newNode := n.New(name, toolkit.Slider, func() {
-	newNode.Widget.X = x
+		log(debugGui, "even newer clicker() name in NewSlider name =", name)
-	newNode.Widget.Y = y
+	})
-
+	newNode.widget.X = x
-	newNode.Widget.Custom = func() {
+	newNode.widget.Y = y
-		log(debugGui, "even newer clicker() name in NewSlider", newNode.Widget)
-	}
-
-	for _, aplug := range allPlugins {
-		log(debugGui, "gui.NewSlider() aplug =", aplug.name, "name =", newNode.Widget.Name)
-		if (aplug.NewSlider == nil) {
-			log(debugGui, "\tgui.NewSlider() aplug.NewSlider = nil", aplug.name)
-			continue
-		}
-		aplug.NewSlider(&n.Widget, &newNode.Widget)
-	}
 
+	send(n, newNode)
 	return newNode
 }

spinner.go

@@ -1,22 +1,16 @@
 package gui
 
+import (
+	"git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
+)
+
 func (n *Node) NewSpinner(name string, x int, y int) *Node {
-	newNode := n.New(name, "Spinner")
+	newNode := n.New(name, toolkit.Spinner, func() {
-	newNode.Widget.X = x
+		log(debugGui, "even newer clicker() name in NewSpinner name =", name)
-	newNode.Widget.Y = y
+	})
-
+	newNode.widget.X = x
-	newNode.Widget.Custom = func() {
+	newNode.widget.Y = y
-		log(debugGui, "even newer clicker() name in NewSpinner", newNode.Widget)
-	}
-
-	for _, aplug := range allPlugins {
-		log(debugGui, "gui.NewSpinner() aplug =", aplug.name, "name =", newNode.Widget.Name)
-		if (aplug.NewSpinner == nil) {
-			log(debugGui, "\tgui.NewSpinner() aplug.NewSpinner = nil", aplug.name)
-			continue
-		}
-		aplug.NewSpinner(&n.Widget, &newNode.Widget)
-	}
 
+	send(n, newNode)
 	return newNode
 }

structs.go

@@ -25,8 +25,11 @@ var Config GuiConfig
 type GuiArgs struct {
 	Toolkit []string `arg:"--toolkit" help:"The order to attempt loading plugins [gocui,andlabs,gtk,qt]"`
 	GuiDebug bool `arg:"--gui-debug" help:"debug the GUI"`
+	GuiVerbose bool `arg:"--gui-verbose" help:"enable all GUI flags"`
 }
 
+// var verbose GuiArgs.GuiDebug
+
 type GuiConfig struct {
 	// This is the master node. The Binary Tree starts here
 	master	*Node
@@ -41,6 +44,9 @@ type GuiConfig struct {
 	depth      int
 	counter    int  // used to make unique ID's
 	prefix     string
+
+	ActionCh1 chan int
+	ActionCh2 chan int
 }
 
 // The Node is a binary tree. This is how all GUI elements are stored
@@ -48,7 +54,7 @@ type GuiConfig struct {
 type Node struct {
 	id     int
 
-	Widget	toolkit.Widget
+	widget	toolkit.Widget
 
 	// deprecate these and use toolkit.Widget
 	Name   string
@@ -56,16 +62,15 @@ type Node struct {
 	Height int
 
 	// this function is run when there are mouse or keyboard events
-	OnChanged func(*Node)
+	Custom func()
 
 	parent	*Node
 	children []*Node
 
 	// is keeping
 	// deprecate these things if they don't really need to exist
-	custom    func()
+	// checked   bool
-	checked   bool
+	// text      string
-	text      string
 }
 
 func (n *Node) Parent() *Node {

tab.go

@@ -1,22 +1,15 @@
 package gui
 
 import (
+	"git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
 )
 
 // This function should make a new node with the parent and
 // the 'tab' as a child
 
 func (n *Node) NewTab(text string) *Node {
-	newNode := n.New(text, "Tab")
+	newNode := n.New(text, toolkit.Tab, nil)
-
-	for _, aplug := range allPlugins {
-		log(debugGui, "gui.NewTab() aplug =", aplug.name, "name =", newNode.Widget.Name)
-		if (aplug.NewTab == nil) {
-			log(debugGui, "\tgui.NewTab() aplug.NewTab = nil", aplug.name)
-			continue
-		}
-		aplug.NewTab(&n.Widget, &newNode.Widget)
-	}
 
+	send(n, newNode)
 	return newNode
 }

textbox.go

@@ -1,20 +1,14 @@
 package gui
 
+import (
+	"git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
+)
+
 func (n *Node) NewTextbox(name string) *Node {
-	newNode := n.New(name, "Textbox")
+	newNode := n.New(name, toolkit.Textbox, func() {
-
+		log(debugGui, "wit/gui clicker()NewTextBox BUT IS EMPTY. FIXME name =", name)
-	newNode.Widget.Custom = func() {
+	})
-		log(debugGui, "wit/gui clicker()NewTextBox BUT IS EMPTY. FIXME", newNode.Widget)
-	}
-
-	for _, aplug := range allPlugins {
-		log(debugGui, "gui.NewTextbox() aplug =", aplug.name, "name =", newNode.Widget.Name)
-		if (aplug.NewTextbox == nil) {
-			log(debugGui, "\tgui.NewTextbox() aplug.NewTextbox = nil", aplug.name)
-			continue
-		}
-		aplug.NewTextbox(&n.Widget, &newNode.Widget)
-	}
 
+	send(n, newNode)
 	return newNode
 }

toolkit/andlabs/box.go

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ func (t *andlabsT) GetBox() *ui.Box {
 // create a new box
 func (t *andlabsT) NewBox() *andlabsT {
 	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolbox.NewBox() START create default")
-	t.Dump()
+	t.Dump(debugToolkit)
 	if (t.uiGroup != nil) {
 		log(debugToolkit, "\tgui.Toolbox.NewBox() is a Group")
 		var newTK andlabsT
@@ -49,6 +49,6 @@ func (t *andlabsT) NewBox() *andlabsT {
 		return &newT
 	}
 	log(debugToolkit, "\tgui.Toolbox.NewBox() FAILED. Couldn't figure out where to make a box")
-	t.Dump()
+	t.Dump(debugToolkit)
 	return nil
 }

toolkit/andlabs/button.go

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
 )
 
-func NewButton(parentW *toolkit.Widget, w *toolkit.Widget) {
+func newButton(parentW *toolkit.Widget, w *toolkit.Widget) {
 	var t, newt *andlabsT
 	var b *ui.Button
 	log(debugToolkit, "gui.andlabs.NewButton()", w.Name)
@@ -25,19 +25,11 @@ func NewButton(parentW *toolkit.Widget, w *toolkit.Widget) {
 
 	b = ui.NewButton(w.Name)
 	newt.uiButton = b
+	newt.tw = w
+	newt.parent = t
 
 	b.OnClicked(func(*ui.Button) {
-		log(debugChange, "TODO: SHOULD LEAVE Button click HERE VIA channels. button name =", w.Name)
+		newt.commonChange(newt.tw)
-		log(debugChange, "FOUND WIDGET =", w)
-		if (w.Custom == nil) {
-			log(debugChange, "WIDGET DOES NOT have Custom()")
-			log(debugChange, "TODO: NOTHING TO DO button name =", w.Name)
-			return
-		}
-		// t.Dump()
-		// newt.Dump()
-		log(debugChange, "Running w.Custom()")
-		w.Custom()
 	})
 
 	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolbox.NewButton() about to append to Box parent t:", w.Name)
@@ -55,3 +47,41 @@ func NewButton(parentW *toolkit.Widget, w *toolkit.Widget) {
 
 	mapWidgetsToolkits(w, newt)
 }
+
+func doButton(p *toolkit.Widget, c *toolkit.Widget) {
+	if broken(c) {
+		return
+	}
+	if (c.Action == "New") {
+		newButton(p, c)
+		return
+	}
+	ct := mapToolkits[c]
+	if (ct == nil) {
+		log(true, "Trying to do something on a widget that doesn't work or doesn't exist or something", c)
+		return
+	}
+	if ct.broken() {
+		log(true, "Button() ct.broken", ct)
+		return
+	}
+	if (ct.uiButton == nil) {
+		log(true, "Button() uiButton == nil", ct)
+		return
+	}
+	log(true, "Going to attempt:", c.Action)
+	switch c.Action {
+	case "Enable":
+		ct.uiButton.Enable()
+	case "Disable":
+		ct.uiButton.Disable()
+	case "Show":
+		ct.uiButton.Show()
+	case "Hide":
+		ct.uiButton.Hide()
+	case "Set":
+		ct.uiButton.SetText(c.S)
+	default:
+		log(true, "Can't do", c.Action, "to a Button")
+	}
+}

toolkit/andlabs/checkbox.go

@@ -1,36 +1,29 @@
 package main
 
-import "git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
+import (
+	"git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
+	"github.com/andlabs/ui"
+	_ "github.com/andlabs/ui/winmanifest"
+)
 
-import "github.com/andlabs/ui"
+func (t andlabsT) NewCheckbox(w *toolkit.Widget) *andlabsT {
-import _ "github.com/andlabs/ui/winmanifest"
+	log(debugToolkit, "NewCheckbox()", w.Name, w.Type)
-
-func (t andlabsT) NewCheckbox(name string, f func()) *andlabsT {
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.NewCheckbox()", name)
 	var newt andlabsT
+	newt.tw = w
 
 	if t.broken() {
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	c := ui.NewCheckbox(name)
+	c := ui.NewCheckbox(w.Name)
 	newt.uiCheckbox = c
 	newt.uiBox = t.uiBox
 	t.uiBox.Append(c, stretchy)
-	// newt.Custom = f
 
 	c.OnToggled(func(spin *ui.Checkbox) {
-		// log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.NewCheckbox() clicked", name)
+		newt.tw.B = newt.Checked()
-		newt.commonChange("Checkbox")
+		log(debugChange, "val =", newt.tw.B)
-		/*
+		newt.commonChange(newt.tw)
-		if (f != nil) {
-			log(debugToolkit, "Run custom() here", f)
-			log(SPEW, f)
-			f()
-		} else {
-			log(debugToolkit, "No custom() function here")
-		}
-		*/
 	})
 
 	return &newt
@@ -45,25 +38,52 @@ func (t andlabsT) Checked() bool {
 }
 
 func NewCheckbox(parentW *toolkit.Widget, w *toolkit.Widget) {
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.andlabs.NewCheckbox()", w.Name)
+	log(debugToolkit, "NewCheckbox()", w.Name)
 
 	t := mapToolkits[parentW]
 	if (t == nil) {
-		listMap()
+		listMap(debugError)
+		return
 	}
-	newt := t.NewCheckbox(w.Name, w.Custom)
+	newt := t.NewCheckbox(w)
-	newt.Custom = w.Custom
-	/*
-	if (w.Custom != nil) {
-		log(true, "go.andlabs.NewCheckbox() toolkit struct == nil. name=", parentW.Name, w.Name)
-		log(true, "Run custom() START here", w.Custom)
-		w.Custom()
-		log(true, "Run custom() END")
-		// exit("ran it here")
-	} else {
-		log(true, "No custom() function here")
-		// exit("nothing here")
-	}
-	*/
 	mapWidgetsToolkits(w, newt)
 }
+
+func doCheckbox(p *toolkit.Widget, c *toolkit.Widget) {
+	if broken(c) {
+		return
+	}
+	if (c.Action == "New") {
+		NewCheckbox(p, c)
+		return
+	}
+	ct := mapToolkits[c]
+	if (ct == nil) {
+		log(true, "Trying to do something on a widget that doesn't work or doesn't exist or something", c)
+		return
+	}
+	if ct.broken() {
+		log(true, "checkbox() ct.broken", ct)
+		return
+	}
+	if (ct.uiCheckbox == nil) {
+		log(true, "checkbox() uiCheckbox == nil", ct)
+		return
+	}
+	log(true, "Going to attempt:", c.Action)
+	switch c.Action {
+	case "Enable":
+		ct.uiCheckbox.Enable()
+	case "Disable":
+		ct.uiCheckbox.Disable()
+	case "Show":
+		ct.uiCheckbox.Show()
+	case "Hide":
+		ct.uiCheckbox.Hide()
+	case "Set":
+		ct.uiCheckbox.SetText(c.S)
+		ct.uiCheckbox.SetChecked(c.B)
+	default:
+		log(true, "Can't do", c.Action, "to a checkbox")
+	}
+}

toolkit/andlabs/common.go

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 package main
 
+import (
+	"git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
+)
+
 // This is important. This sets the defaults for the gui. Without this, there isn't correct padding, etc
 func init() {
 	// Can you pass values to a plugin init() ? Otherwise, there is no way to safely print
@@ -7,79 +11,52 @@ func init() {
 	setDefaultBehavior(true)
 }
 
-func (t andlabsT) commonChange(widget string) {
+func (t andlabsT) commonChange(tw *toolkit.Widget) {
-	s := t.String()
+	log(debugChange, "commonChange() START widget   =", t.Name, t.Type)
-	log(debugChange, "commonChange() START widget   =", widget)
+	if (tw == nil) {
-	log(debugChange, "commonChange() t.String =", s)
+		log(true, "commonChange() What the fuck. there is no widget t.tw == nil")
-	if (t.OnChanged != nil) {
-		// log(debugChange, "commonChange() toolkit.OnChanged() START")
-		// t.OnChanged(&t)
-		exit("OnChanged is not implemented. TODO: FIX THIS")
 		return
 	}
-	if (t.Custom != nil) {
+	if (tw.Custom == nil) {
-		log(debugChange, "commonChange() START toolkit.Custom()")
+		log(debugChange, "commonChange() END    Widget.Custom() = nil", t.tw.Name, t.tw.Type)
-		t.Custom()
-		log(debugChange, "commonChange() END toolkit.Custom()")
 		return
 	}
-	if (widget == "Checkbox") {
+	tw.Custom()
-		log(debugChange, "commonChange() END Need to read the Checkbox value")
+	log(debugChange, "commonChange() END   Widget.Custom()", t.tw.Name, t.tw.Type)
-		return
-	}
-	if (widget == "Dropdown") {
-		t.getDropdown()
-		if (t.tw == nil) {
-			log(debugChange, "commonChange() END tw.Custom == nil")
-		}
-		if (t.tw.Custom == nil) {
-			log(debugChange, "commonChange() END Dropdown (no custom())")
-		}
-		t.tw.Custom()
-		log(debugChange, "commonChange() END Dropdown")
-		return
-	}
-	log(debugChange, "commonChange() t.String =", s)
-	log(debugChange, "commonChange() ENDED without finding any callback")
-}
-
-func (t *andlabsT) getDropdown() {
-	log(debugChange, "commonChange() Need to read the dropdown menu")
-	if (t.uiCombobox == nil) {
-		log(debugChange, "commonChange() END BAD NEWS. t.uiCombobox == nil")
-		return
-	}
-	i := t.uiCombobox.Selected()
-	log(debugChange, "commonChange() t.uiCombobox = ", i)
-	if (t.tw == nil) {
-		log(debugChange, "commonChange() END tw = nil")
-		return
-	}
-	t.tw.S = t.String()
-	log(debugChange, "commonChange() END tw = ", t.tw)
-	return
 }
 
 // does some sanity checks on the internal structs of the binary tree
 // TODO: probably this should not panic unless it's running in devel mode (?)
+// TODO: redo this now that WidgetType is used and send() is used to package plugins
 func (t *andlabsT) broken() bool {
+	if (t.parent != nil) {
+		return false
+	}
 	if (t.uiBox == nil) {
 		if (t.uiWindow != nil) {
-			log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.UiBox == nil. This is an empty window. Try to add a box")
+			log(debugToolkit, "UiBox == nil. This is an empty window. Try to add a box")
 			t.NewBox()
 			return false
 		}
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.UiBox == nil. I can't add a widget without a place to put it")
+		log(true, "UiBox == nil. I can't add a widget without a place to put it")
 		// log(debugToolkit, "probably could just make a box here?")
 		// corruption or something horrible?
+		t.Dump(true)
 		panic("wit/gui toolkit/andlabs func broken() invalid goroutine access into this toolkit?")
 		panic("wit/gui toolkit/andlabs func broken() this probably should not cause the app to panic here (?)")
 		return true
 	}
 	if (t.uiWindow == nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.UiWindow == nil. I can't add a widget without a place to put it (IGNORING FOR NOW)")
+		log(debugToolkit, "UiWindow == nil. I can't add a widget without a place to put it (IGNORING FOR NOW)")
-		forceDump(t)
+		t.Dump(debugToolkit)
 		return false
 	}
 	return false
 }
+func broken(w *toolkit.Widget) bool {
+	if (w == nil) {
+		log(true, "widget == nil. I can't do anything widget")
+		return true
+	}
+	return false
+}

toolkit/andlabs/debug.go

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 package main
 
-// import "git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
+import "git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
 
 import "github.com/davecgh/go-spew/spew"
 
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ var margin bool // add space around the frames of windows
 
 var debugToolkit bool
 var debugChange bool
+var debugPlugin bool
+var debugError bool = true
 // var DebugToolkit bool
 
 // This is important. This sets the defaults for the gui. Without this, there isn't correct padding, etc
@@ -59,42 +61,35 @@ func (t *andlabsT) String() string {
 	return t.GetText()
 }
 
-func forceDump(t *andlabsT) {
-	tmp := debugToolkit
-	debugToolkit = true
-	t.Dump()
-	debugToolkit = tmp
-}
-
 func (t *andlabsT) GetText() string {
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.GetText() Enter debugToolkit=", debugToolkit)
+	log(debugToolkit, "GetText() Enter debugToolkit=", debugToolkit)
 	if (t.uiEntry != nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.uiEntry.Text() =", t.uiEntry.Text())
+		log(debugToolkit, "uiEntry.Text() =", t.uiEntry.Text())
 		return t.uiEntry.Text()
 	}
 	if (t.uiMultilineEntry != nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.uiMultilineEntry.Text() =", t.uiMultilineEntry.Text())
+		log(debugToolkit, "uiMultilineEntry.Text() =", t.uiMultilineEntry.Text())
 		text := t.uiMultilineEntry.Text()
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.uiMultilineEntry.Text() =", text)
+		log(debugToolkit, "uiMultilineEntry.Text() =", text)
 		t.text = text
 		return text
 	}
 	if (t.uiCombobox != nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.uiCombobox() =", t.text)
+		log(debugToolkit, "uiCombobox() =", t.text)
 		return t.text
 	}
 	return ""
 }
 
 func (t *andlabsT) SetText(s string) bool {
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Text() SetText() Enter")
+	log(debugToolkit, "Text() SetText() Enter")
 	if (t.uiEntry != nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Value() =", t.uiEntry.Text)
+		log(debugToolkit, "Value() =", t.uiEntry.Text)
 		t.uiEntry.SetText(s)
 		return true
 	}
 	if (t.uiMultilineEntry != nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Value() =", t.uiMultilineEntry.Text)
+		log(debugToolkit, "Value() =", t.uiMultilineEntry.Text)
 		t.uiMultilineEntry.SetText(s)
 		return true
 	}
@@ -103,91 +98,101 @@ func (t *andlabsT) SetText(s string) bool {
 
 func sanity(t *andlabsT) bool {
 	if (debugToolkit) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Value() Enter")
+		log(debugToolkit, "Value() Enter")
 		scs := spew.ConfigState{MaxDepth: 1}
 		scs.Dump(t)
 	}
 	if (t.uiEntry == nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Value() =", t.uiEntry.Text)
+		log(debugToolkit, "Value() =", t.uiEntry.Text)
 		return false
 	}
 	return true
 }
 
 func (t *andlabsT) SetValue(i int) bool {
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.SetValue() START")
+	log(debugToolkit, "SetValue() START")
 	if (sanity(t)) {
 		return false
 	}
-	t.Dump()
+	t.Dump(debugToolkit)
 	// panic("got to toolkit.SetValue")
 	return true
 }
 
 func (t *andlabsT) Value() int {
 	if (debugToolkit) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Value() Enter")
+		log(debugToolkit, "Value() Enter")
 		scs := spew.ConfigState{MaxDepth: 1}
 		scs.Dump(t)
 	}
 	if (t == nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Value() can not get value t == nil")
+		log(debugToolkit, "Value() can not get value t == nil")
 		return 0
 	}
 	if (t.uiSlider != nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Value() =", t.uiSlider.Value)
+		log(debugToolkit, "Value() =", t.uiSlider.Value)
 		return t.uiSlider.Value()
 	}
 	if (t.uiSpinbox != nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Value() =", t.uiSpinbox.Value)
+		log(debugToolkit, "Value() =", t.uiSpinbox.Value)
 		return t.uiSpinbox.Value()
 	}
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Value() Could not find a ui element to get a value from")
+	log(debugToolkit, "Value() Could not find a ui element to get a value from")
 	return 0
 }
 
-func (t *andlabsT) Dump() {
+func (t *andlabsT) Dump(b bool) {
-	if ! debugToolkit {
+	if ! b {
 		return
 	}
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Dump() Name  = ", t.Name, t.Width, t.Height)
+	log(b, "Name  = ", t.Name, t.Width, t.Height)
 	if (t.uiBox != nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Dump() uiBox      =", t.uiBox)
+		log(b, "uiBox      =", t.uiBox)
 	}
 	if (t.uiButton != nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Dump() uiButton    =", t.uiButton)
+		log(b, "uiButton    =", t.uiButton)
 	}
 	if (t.uiCombobox != nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Dump() uiCombobox  =", t.uiCombobox)
+		log(b, "uiCombobox  =", t.uiCombobox)
 	}
 	if (t.uiWindow != nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Dump() uiWindow    =", t.uiWindow)
+		log(b, "uiWindow    =", t.uiWindow)
 	}
 	if (t.uiTab != nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Dump() uiTab       =", t.uiTab)
+		log(b, "uiTab       =", t.uiTab)
 	}
 	if (t.uiGroup != nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Dump() uiGroup     =", t.uiGroup)
+		log(b, "uiGroup     =", t.uiGroup)
 	}
 	if (t.uiEntry != nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Dump() uiEntry     =", t.uiEntry)
+		log(b, "uiEntry     =", t.uiEntry)
 	}
 	if (t.uiMultilineEntry != nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Dump() uiMultilineEntry =", t.uiMultilineEntry)
+		log(b, "uiMultilineEntry =", t.uiMultilineEntry)
 	}
 	if (t.uiSlider != nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Dump() uiSlider    =", t.uiSlider)
+		log(b, "uiSlider    =", t.uiSlider)
 	}
 	if (t.uiCheckbox != nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Dump() uiCheckbox  =", t.uiCheckbox)
+		log(b, "uiCheckbox  =", t.uiCheckbox)
 	}
-	if (t.OnExit != nil) {
+	widgetDump(b, t.tw)
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Dump() OnExit      =", t.OnExit)
+}
-	}
+
-	if (t.Custom != nil) {
+func widgetDump(b bool, w *toolkit.Widget) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Dump() Custom      =", t.Custom)
+	if (w == nil) {
-	}
+		log(b, "widget = nil")
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Dump() c         =", t.c)
+		return
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Dump() val       =", t.val)
+	}
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.Dump() text      =", t.text)
+
+	log(b, "widget.Name        =", w.Name)
+	log(b, "widget.Action      =", w.Action)
+	log(b, "widget.Type        =", w.Type)
+	log(b, "widget.Custom      =", w.Custom)
+	log(b, "widget.B           =", w.B)
+	log(b, "widget.I           =", w.I)
+	log(b, "widget.Width       =", w.Width)
+	log(b, "widget.Height      =", w.Height)
+	log(b, "widget.X           =", w.X)
+	log(b, "widget.Y           =", w.Y)
 }

toolkit/andlabs/dropdown.go

@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
 package main
 
-import "github.com/andlabs/ui"
+import (
-import _ "github.com/andlabs/ui/winmanifest"
+	"github.com/andlabs/ui"
+	_ "github.com/andlabs/ui/winmanifest"
+	"git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
+)
 
-import "git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
+func (t *andlabsT) NewDropdown(w *toolkit.Widget) *andlabsT {
-
-func (t *andlabsT) NewDropdown(title string) *andlabsT {
-	// make new node here
 	var newt andlabsT
-
+	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolbox.NewDropdown() START", w.Name)
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolbox.NewDropdownCombobox()", title)
 
 	if t.broken() {
 		return nil
 	}
 
+	newt.tw = w
 	s := ui.NewCombobox()
 	newt.uiCombobox = s
 	newt.uiBox = t.uiBox
@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@ func (t *andlabsT) NewDropdown(title string) *andlabsT {
 	s.OnSelected(func(spin *ui.Combobox) {
 		i := spin.Selected()
 		if (newt.val == nil) {
-			log(debugToolkit, "make map didn't work")
+			log(debugChange, "make map didn't work")
 			newt.text = "error"
 		}
-		newt.text = newt.val[i]
+		newt.tw.S = newt.val[i]
-		newt.commonChange("Dropdown")
+		newt.commonChange(newt.tw)
 	})
 
 	return &newt
@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ func (t *andlabsT) AddDropdownName(title string) {
 		return
 	}
 	t.val[t.c] = title
+
+	// If this is the first menu added, set the dropdown to it
+	if (t.c == 0) {
+		log(debugChange, "THIS IS THE FIRST Dropdown", title)
+		t.uiCombobox.SetSelected(1)
+	}
 	t.c = t.c + 1
 }
 
@@ -57,11 +63,10 @@ func NewDropdown(parentW *toolkit.Widget, w *toolkit.Widget) {
 	t := mapToolkits[parentW]
 	if (t == nil) {
 		log(debugToolkit, "go.andlabs.NewDropdown() toolkit struct == nil. name=", parentW.Name, w.Name)
-		listMap()
+		listMap(debugToolkit)
+		return
 	}
-	newt := t.NewDropdown(w.Name)
+	newt := t.NewDropdown(w)
-	newt.Custom = w.Custom
-	newt.tw = w
 	mapWidgetsToolkits(w, newt)
 }
 
@@ -71,18 +76,21 @@ func AddDropdownName(w *toolkit.Widget, s string) {
 	t := mapToolkits[w]
 	if (t == nil) {
 		log(debugToolkit, "go.andlabs.AddDropdownName() toolkit struct == nil. name=", w.Name, s)
-		listMap()
+		listMap(debugToolkit)
+		return
 	}
 	t.AddDropdownName(s)
 }
 
-func SetDropdown(w *toolkit.Widget, i int) {
+func SetDropdownName(w *toolkit.Widget, s string) {
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.andlabs.SetDropdown()", i)
+	log(debugChange, "gui.andlabs.SetDropdown()", w.Name, ",", s)
 
 	t := mapToolkits[w]
 	if (t == nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "go.andlabs.SetDropdown() toolkit struct == nil. name=", w.Name, i)
+		log(debugError, "ERROR: SetDropdown() FAILED mapToolkits[w] == nil. name=", w.Name, s)
-		listMap()
+		listMap(debugError)
+		return
 	}
-	t.SetDropdown(i)
+	t.SetDropdown(1)
+	t.tw.S = s
 }

toolkit/andlabs/group.go

@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@ import (
 	_ "github.com/andlabs/ui/winmanifest"
 )
 
-func NewGroup(parentW *toolkit.Widget, w *toolkit.Widget) {
+func newGroup(parentW *toolkit.Widget, w *toolkit.Widget) {
 	log(debugToolkit, "gui.andlabs.NewGroup()", w.Name)
 
 	t := mapToolkits[parentW]
 	if (t == nil) {
 		log(debugToolkit, "go.andlabs.NewGroup() toolkit struct == nil. name=", parentW.Name, w.Name)
-		listMap()
+		listMap(debugToolkit)
 	}
 	newt := t.NewGroup(w.Name)
 	mapWidgetsToolkits(w, newt)
@@ -23,18 +23,23 @@ func NewGroup(parentW *toolkit.Widget, w *toolkit.Widget) {
 func (t andlabsT) NewGroup(title string) *andlabsT {
 	var newt andlabsT
 
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolbox.NewGroup() create", title)
+	log(debugToolkit, "NewGroup() create", title)
 
 	g := ui.NewGroup(title)
 	g.SetMargined(margin)
 
 	if (t.uiBox != nil) {
+		// TODO: temporary hack to make the output textbox 'fullscreen'
+		if (title == "output") {
+			t.uiBox.Append(g, true)
+		} else {
 			t.uiBox.Append(g, stretchy)
+		}
 	} else if (t.uiWindow != nil) {
 		t.uiWindow.SetChild(g)
 	} else {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.ToolboxNode.NewGroup() node.UiBox == nil. I can't add a range UI element without a place to put it")
+		log(debugError, "NewGroup() node.UiBox == nil. I can't add a range UI element without a place to put it")
-		log(debugToolkit, "probably could just make a box here?")
+		log(debugError, "probably could just make a box here?")
 		exit("internal wit/gui error")
 	}
 
@@ -47,8 +52,5 @@ func (t andlabsT) NewGroup(title string) *andlabsT {
 	newt.uiWindow = t.uiWindow
 	newt.Name = title
 
-	t.Dump()
-	newt.Dump()
-	// panic("toolkit.NewGroup")
 	return &newt
 }

toolkit/andlabs/label.go

@@ -7,66 +7,74 @@ import (
 	"git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
 )
 
-var pwLabel *toolkit.Widget
+func newLabel(parentW *toolkit.Widget, w *toolkit.Widget) {
-var wLabel *toolkit.Widget
+	var newt *andlabsT
-var tmpNewt *andlabsT
+	log(debugToolkit, "NewLabel()", w.Name)
 
-func NewLabel(parentW *toolkit.Widget, w *toolkit.Widget) {
-	pwLabel = parentW
-	wLabel = w
-	tmpNewt = new(andlabsT)
-	tmpNewt.Width = 10
-	log(debugToolkit, "mapWidgets in ui.QueueMain() START newt =", tmpNewt.Width, tmpNewt)
-	if (tmpNewt == nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "mapWidgets WHY THE HELL IS THIS NIL?", tmpNewt.Width, tmpNewt)
-	}
-	ui.QueueMain(newLabel)
-
-	log(true, "sleep(.2) HACK. TODO: wrap spinlock around andlabs.ui goroutine")
-	// log(true, "sleep(.2) HACK. TODO: verify newLabel() is running inside andlabs/ui goroutine") // verified that worked
-	sleep(.2)
-	log(debugToolkit, "mapWidgets parentW/wLabel =", pwLabel)
-	log(debugToolkit, "mapWidgets new/newt =", tmpNewt)
-	mapWidgetsToolkits(w, tmpNewt)
-
-	/*
 	t := mapToolkits[parentW]
 	if (t == nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "go.andlabs.NewDropdown() toolkit struct == nil. name=", parentW.Name, w.Name)
+		listMap(debugError)
-		listMap()
+		log(debugError, "ERROR newLabel() listMap()")
-	}
+		log(debugError, "ERROR FFFFFFFFFFFF listMap()")
-	newt := t.NewDropdown(w.Name)
+		log(debugError, "ERROR FFFFFFFFFFFF listMap()")
-	mapWidgetsToolkits(w, newt)
-	*/
-}
-
-func newLabel() {
-	var t, newt *andlabsT
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.andlabs.NewButton()", wLabel.Name)
-
-	t = mapToolkits[pwLabel]
-	if (t == nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "go.andlabs.NewButton() toolkit struct == nil. name=", pwLabel.Name, wLabel.Name)
 		return
 	}
 
+	log(debugToolkit, "NewLabel()", w.Name)
 	if t.broken() {
 		return
 	}
-	newt = tmpNewt
 
-	newt.uiLabel = ui.NewLabel(wLabel.Name)
+	newt = new(andlabsT)
+
+	c := ui.NewLabel(w.Name + " FIX")
+	newt.uiLabel = c
+
 	newt.uiBox = t.uiBox
+	newt.tw = w
+	if (defaultBehavior) {
+		t.uiBox.Append(c, stretchy)
+	}
 
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolbox.NewButton() about to append to Box parent t:", wLabel.Name)
+	mapWidgetsToolkits(w, newt)
-	t.Dump()
+}
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolbox.NewButton() about to append to Box new t:", wLabel.Name)
-	newt.Dump()
 
-	if (t.uiBox != nil) {
+
-		t.uiBox.Append(newt.uiLabel, false)
+func doLabel(p *toolkit.Widget, c *toolkit.Widget) {
-	} else {
+	if broken(c) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "ERROR: wit/gui andlabs couldn't place this label in a box")
 		return
 	}
+	if (c.Action == "New") {
+		newLabel(p, c)
+		return
+	}
+	ct := mapToolkits[c]
+	if (ct == nil) {
+		log(true, "Trying to do something on a widget that doesn't work or doesn't exist or something", c)
+		return
+	}
+	if ct.broken() {
+		log(true, "Label() ct.broken", ct)
+		return
+	}
+	if (ct.uiLabel == nil) {
+	
+		log(true, "Label() uiLabel == nil", ct)
+		return
+	}
+	log(true, "Going to attempt:", c.Action)
+	switch c.Action {
+	case "Enable":
+		ct.uiLabel.Enable()
+	case "Disable":
+		ct.uiLabel.Disable()
+	case "Show":
+		ct.uiLabel.Show()
+	case "Hide":
+		ct.uiLabel.Hide()
+	case "Set":
+		ct.uiLabel.SetText(c.S)
+	default:
+		log(true, "Can't do", c.Action, "to a Label")
+	}
 }

toolkit/andlabs/log.go

@@ -98,9 +98,8 @@ func log(a ...any) {
 	if (a == nil) {
 		return
 	}
-	var blah bool
+	var tbool bool
-	if (reflect.TypeOf(a[0]) == reflect.TypeOf(blah)) {
+	if (reflect.TypeOf(a[0]) == reflect.TypeOf(tbool)) {
-		// golog.Println("\t a[0] = bool")
 		if (a[0] == false) {
 			return
 		}
@@ -111,7 +110,9 @@ func log(a ...any) {
 		// a = a[1:]
 		a[0] = "WIT/GUI/Toolkit"
 		if (debugToolkit) {
-			spew.Dump(a)
+			scs := spew.ConfigState{MaxDepth: 1}
+			scs.Dump(a)
+			// spew.Dump(a)
 		}
 		return
 	}

toolkit/andlabs/main.go

@@ -32,20 +32,19 @@ func Main(f func()) {
 // For example: Queue(NewWindow())
 //
 func Queue(f func()) {
-	log(debugToolkit, "Sending function to ui.QueueMain() (using gtk via andlabs/ui)")
+	log(debugToolkit, "Sending function to ui.QueueMain()")
-	log("THIS MIGHT BREAK")
+	log(true, "THIS DOES BREAK. TODO: wrap this")
 	ui.QueueMain(f)
 	// f()
 }
 
 func Init() {
-	log(debugToolkit, "should Init() here")
+	log(debugToolkit, "Init()")
 
 	mapWidgets = make(map[*andlabsT]*toolkit.Widget)
 	mapToolkits = make(map[*toolkit.Widget]*andlabsT)
 }
 
 func Quit() {
-	log(debugToolkit, "should Quit() here")
+	log(debugToolkit, "Quit() TODO: close the toolkit cleanly")
-	// myExit(nil)
 }

toolkit/andlabs/plugin.go

@@ -1,49 +1,104 @@
 package main
 
-import (
+// if you include more than just this import
-	"git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
+// then your plugin might be doing something un-ideal (just a guess from 2023/02/27)
-)
+import "git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
 
-// This is a map between the widgets in wit/gui and the internal structures of gocui
+// import "github.com/andlabs/ui"
+// import _ "github.com/andlabs/ui/winmanifest"
 
-var mapWidgets map[*andlabsT]*toolkit.Widget
+//
-var mapToolkits map[*toolkit.Widget]*andlabsT
+// This should be called ?
-
+// Pass() ?
-// This lists out the know mappings
+// This handles all interaction between the wit/gui package (what golang knows about)
-func listMap() {
+// and this plugin that talks to the OS and does scary and crazy things to make
-	log(debugToolkit, "listMap() HERE")
+// a GUI on whatever OS or whatever GUI toolkit you might have (GTK, QT, WASM, libcurses)
-	log(debugToolkit, "listMap() HERE")
+//
-	log(debugToolkit, "listMap() HERE mapWidgets()")
+// Once you are here, you should be in a protected goroutine created by the golang wit/gui package
-	for t, w := range mapWidgets {
+//
-		log(debugToolkit, "andlabs =", t.Name, "widget =", w.Name)
+// TODO: make sure you can't escape this goroutine
+//
+func Send(p *toolkit.Widget, c *toolkit.Widget) {
+	if (p == nil) {
+		log(debugPlugin, "Send() parent = nil")
+	} else {
+		log(debugPlugin, "Send() parent =", p.Name, ",", p.Type)
 	}
-	log(debugToolkit, "listMap() HERE mapToolkits()")
+	log(debugPlugin, "Send() child  =", c.Name, ",", c.Action, ",", c.Type)
-	for w, t := range mapToolkits {
+
-		log(debugToolkit, "andlabs =", t, "widget =", w.Name)
+	switch c.Type {
-		forceDump(t)
+	case toolkit.Window:
+		newWindow(c)
+	case toolkit.Tab:
+		newTab(p, c)
+	case toolkit.Group:
+		newGroup(p, c)
+	case toolkit.Button:
+		doButton(p, c)
+	case toolkit.Checkbox:
+		doCheckbox(p, c)
+	case toolkit.Label:
+		newLabel(p, c)
+	case toolkit.Textbox:
+		doTextbox(p, c)
+	case toolkit.Slider:
+		newSlider(p, c)
+	case toolkit.Spinner:
+		newSpinner(p, c)
+	default:
+		log(true, "unknown parent =", p.Name, p.Type)
+		log(true, "unknown child  =", c.Name, c.Type)
+		log(true, "Don't know how to do", c.Type, "yet")
 	}
 }
 
-func mapWidgetsToolkits(w *toolkit.Widget, t *andlabsT) {
+// delete the child widget from the parent
-	if (mapToolkits[w] == nil) {
+// p = parent, c = child
-		mapToolkits[w] = t
+func destroy(p *toolkit.Widget, c *toolkit.Widget) {
-	} else {
+	log(true, "delete()", c.Name, c.Type)
-		log(debugToolkit, "WTF: mapToolkits was sent nil. this should not happen w =", w)
+
-		log(debugToolkit, "WTF: mapToolkits was sent nil. this should not happen t =", t.Width)
+	pt := mapToolkits[p]
-		log(debugToolkit, "WTF: mapToolkits map already set to ", mapToolkits[w])
+	ct := mapToolkits[c]
-		panic("WTF mapWidgetsToolkits() w == nil")
+	if (ct == nil) {
+		log(true, "delete FAILED (ct = mapToolkit[c] == nil) for c", c.Name, c.Type)
+		// this pukes out a whole universe of shit
+		// listMap()
+		return
 	}
 
-	if (mapWidgets[t] == nil) {
+	switch ct.Type {
-		mapWidgets[t] = w
+	case toolkit.Button:
+		log(true, "Should delete Button here:", c.Name)
+		log(true, "Parent:")
+		pt.Dump(true)
+		log(true, "Child:")
+		ct.Dump(true)
+		if (pt.uiBox == nil) {
+			log(true, "Don't know how to destroy this")
 		} else {
-		log(debugToolkit, "WTF: mapWidgets already installed. w =", w)
+			log(true, "Fuck it, destroy the whole box", pt.Name)
-		log(debugToolkit, "WTF: mapWidgets already installed. t =", t.Width, t)
+			// pt.uiBox.Destroy() // You have a bug: You cannot destroy a uiControl while it still has a parent.
-		log(SPEW, &t)
+			pt.uiBox.SetPadded(false)
-		log(SPEW, t)
+			pt.uiBox.Delete(4)
-		log(SPEW, *t)
+			ct.uiButton.Disable()
-		log(debugToolkit, "WTF: mapWidgets already mapped to", mapWidgets[t])
+			// ct.uiButton.Hide()
-		log(SPEW, mapWidgets[t])
+			ct.uiButton.Destroy()
-		panic("WTF. mapWidget andlabs toolkit already mapped to gui toolkit")
+		}
+
+	case toolkit.Window:
+		log(true, "Should delete Window here:", c.Name)
+	default:
+		log(true, "Don't know how to delete c =", c.Type, c.Name)
+		log(true, "Don't know how to delete pt =", pt.Type, pt.Name, pt.uiButton)
+		log(true, "Don't know how to delete ct =", ct.Type, ct.Name, ct.uiButton)
+		log(true, "Parent:")
+		pt.Dump(true)
+		log(true, "Child:")
+		ct.Dump(true)
+		log(true, "Fuckit, let's destroy a button", c.Name, c.Type)
+		if (ct.uiButton != nil) {
+			pt.uiBox.Delete(4)
+			ct.uiButton.Destroy()
+		}
 	}
 }

toolkit/andlabs/slider.go

@@ -7,31 +7,32 @@ import (
 	_ "github.com/andlabs/ui/winmanifest"
 )
 
-func (t andlabsT) NewSlider(title string, x int, y int) *andlabsT {
+func (t andlabsT) newSlider(w *toolkit.Widget) *andlabsT {
 	// make new node here
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.NewSpinbox()", x, y)
+	log(debugToolkit, w.Name, w.Type, w.X, w.Y)
 	var newt andlabsT
 
 	if (t.uiBox == nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.ToolkitNode.NewGroup() node.UiBox == nil. I can't add a range UI element without a place to put it")
+		log(debugToolkit, "node.UiBox == nil. I can't add a range UI element without a place to put it")
 		log(debugToolkit, "probably could just make a box here?")
 		exit("internal golang wit/gui/toolkit error")
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	s := ui.NewSlider(x, y)
+	s := ui.NewSlider(w.X, w.Y)
 	newt.uiSlider = s
 	newt.uiBox = t.uiBox
+	newt.tw = w
 	t.uiBox.Append(s, stretchy)
 
 	s.OnChanged(func(spin *ui.Slider) {
-		newt.commonChange("Slider")
+		newt.commonChange(newt.tw)
 	})
 
 	return &newt
 }
 
-func NewSlider(parentW *toolkit.Widget, w *toolkit.Widget) {
+func newSlider(parentW *toolkit.Widget, w *toolkit.Widget) {
 	var newt *andlabsT
 	log(debugToolkit, "gui.andlabs.NewTab()", w.Name)
 
@@ -40,6 +41,6 @@ func NewSlider(parentW *toolkit.Widget, w *toolkit.Widget) {
 		log(debugToolkit, "go.andlabs.NewTab() toolkit struct == nil. name=", parentW.Name, w.Name)
 		return
 	}
-	newt = t.NewSlider(w.Name, w.X, w.Y)
+	newt = t.newSlider(w)
 	mapWidgetsToolkits(w, newt)
 }

toolkit/andlabs/spinner.go

@@ -1,27 +1,43 @@
 package main
 
-import "github.com/andlabs/ui"
+import (
-import _ "github.com/andlabs/ui/winmanifest"
+	"git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
 
-func (t andlabsT) NewSpinner(title string, x int, y int) *andlabsT {
+	"github.com/andlabs/ui"
+	_ "github.com/andlabs/ui/winmanifest"
+)
+
+func (t andlabsT) newSpinner(w *toolkit.Widget) *andlabsT {
 	// make new node here
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.NewSpinner()", x, y)
+	log(debugToolkit, "newSpinner()", w.X, w.Y)
 	var newt andlabsT
 
 	if (t.uiBox == nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "gui.ToolkitNode.NewSpinner() node.UiBox == nil. I can't add a range UI element without a place to put it")
+		log(debugToolkit, "newSpinner() node.UiBox == nil. I can't add a range UI element without a place to put it")
-		exit("internal golang wit/gui error")
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	s := ui.NewSpinbox(x, y)
+	s := ui.NewSpinbox(w.X, w.Y)
 	newt.uiSpinbox = s
 	newt.uiBox = t.uiBox
+	newt.tw = w
 	t.uiBox.Append(s, stretchy)
 
 	s.OnChanged(func(s *ui.Spinbox) {
-		newt.commonChange("Spinner")
+		newt.commonChange(newt.tw)
 	})
 
 	return &newt
 }
+
+func newSpinner(parentW *toolkit.Widget, w *toolkit.Widget) {
+	var newt *andlabsT
+
+	t := mapToolkits[parentW]
+	if (t == nil) {
+		log(debugToolkit, "go.andlabs.NewTab() toolkit struct == nil. name=", parentW.Name, w.Name)
+		return
+	}
+	newt = t.newSpinner(w)
+	mapWidgetsToolkits(w, newt)
+}

toolkit/andlabs/structs.go

@@ -10,31 +10,27 @@ type andlabsT struct {
 	id     string
 
 	Name   string
+	Type   toolkit.WidgetType
 	Width  int
 	Height int
 	tw	*toolkit.Widget
-
+	parent	*andlabsT
-	OnChanged func(*andlabsT)
-	OnExit    func(*andlabsT)
-
-	Custom  func()
 
 	uiBox     *ui.Box
-	uiBox2    *ui.Box	// temporary hack while implementing tabs
 	uiButton  *ui.Button
 	uiControl *ui.Control
 	uiCombobox *ui.Combobox
 	uiCheckbox *ui.Checkbox
 	uiEntry   *ui.Entry
-	uiMultilineEntry   *ui.MultilineEntry
 	uiGroup   *ui.Group
 	uiLabel   *ui.Label
 	uiSlider  *ui.Slider
 	uiSpinbox *ui.Spinbox
 	uiTab     *ui.Tab
-	uiText    *ui.EditableCombobox
 	uiWindow  *ui.Window
-	UiWindowBad  *ui.Window
+	// UiWindowBad  *ui.Window // erase this
+	uiMultilineEntry   *ui.MultilineEntry
+	uiEditableCombobox    *ui.EditableCombobox
 
 	// used as a counter to work around limitations of widgets like combobox
 	// this is probably fucked up and in many ways wrong because of unsafe goroutine threading

toolkit/andlabs/tab.go

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ func (t *andlabsT) newTab(name string) *andlabsT {
 	if (t.uiTab == nil) {
 		// this means you have to make a new tab
 		log(debugToolkit, "gui.toolkit.NewTab() GOOD. This should be the first tab:", name)
-		newt = newTab(t.uiWindow, name)
+		newt = rawTab(t.uiWindow, name)
 		t.uiTab = newt.uiTab
 	} else {
 		// this means you have to append a tab
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ func (t *andlabsT) newTab(name string) *andlabsT {
 	newt.Name = name
 
 	log(debugToolkit, "t:")
-	t.Dump()
+	t.Dump(debugToolkit)
 	log(debugToolkit, "newt:")
-	newt.Dump()
+	newt.Dump(debugToolkit)
 
 	return newt
 }
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ func tabSetMargined(tab *ui.Tab) {
 	}
 }
 
-func newTab(w *ui.Window, name string) *andlabsT {
+func rawTab(w *ui.Window, name string) *andlabsT {
 	var t andlabsT
 	log(debugToolkit, "gui.toolkit.NewTab() ADD", name)
 
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ func (t *andlabsT) appendTab(name string) *andlabsT {
 	return &newT
 }
 
-func NewTab(parentW *toolkit.Widget, w *toolkit.Widget) {
+func newTab(parentW *toolkit.Widget, w *toolkit.Widget) {
 	var newt *andlabsT
 	log(debugToolkit, "gui.andlabs.NewTab()", w.Name)
 

toolkit/andlabs/textbox.go

@@ -5,19 +5,32 @@ import "git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
 import "github.com/andlabs/ui"
 import _ "github.com/andlabs/ui/winmanifest"
 
-func (t andlabsT) NewTextbox(name string) *andlabsT {
+func newTextbox(parentW *toolkit.Widget, w *toolkit.Widget) {
-	var newt andlabsT
+	log(debugToolkit, "NewTexbox()", w.Name)
 
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.NewTextbox()", name)
+	t := mapToolkits[parentW]
+	if (t == nil) {
+		listMap(debugError)
+		log(debugError, "newTextbox() listMap()")
+		log(debugError, "FFFFFFFFFFFF listMap()")
+		log(debugError, "FFFFFFFFFFFF listMap()")
+	}
+	// t.NewTextbox(w)
+// func (t andlabsT) NewTextbox(w *toolkit.Widget) *andlabsT {
+	var newt *andlabsT
+	newt = new(andlabsT)
+
+	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolkit.NewTextbox()", w.Name)
 	if t.broken() {
-		return nil
+		return
 	}
 
 	c := ui.NewNonWrappingMultilineEntry()
 	newt.uiMultilineEntry = c
 
 	newt.uiBox = t.uiBox
-	newt.Name = name
+	newt.Name = w.Name
+	newt.tw = w
 	if (defaultBehavior) {
 		t.uiBox.Append(c, true)
 	} else {
@@ -25,41 +38,59 @@ func (t andlabsT) NewTextbox(name string) *andlabsT {
 	}
 
 	c.OnChanged(func(spin *ui.MultilineEntry) {
-		newt.commonChange("Textbox")
+		w.S = newt.uiMultilineEntry.Text()
+		// this is still dangerous
+		// newt.commonChange(newt.tw)
+		log(debugChange, "Not yet safe to trigger on change for ui.MultilineEntry")
 	})
-
-	return &newt
-}
-
-func NewTextbox(parentW *toolkit.Widget, w *toolkit.Widget) {
-	var t, newt *andlabsT
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.andlabs.NewTextbox()", w.Name)
-
-	t = mapToolkits[parentW]
-	if (t == nil) {
-		log(debugToolkit, "go.andlabs.NewTextbox() toolkit struct == nil. name=", parentW.Name, w.Name)
-		return
-	}
-
-	if t.broken() {
-		return
-	}
-	newt = new(andlabsT)
-
-	newt.uiLabel = ui.NewLabel(w.Name)
-	newt.uiBox = t.uiBox
-
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolbox.NewTextbox() about to append to Box parent t:", w.Name)
-	t.Dump()
-	log(debugToolkit, "gui.Toolbox.NewTextbox() about to append to Box new t:", w.Name)
-	newt.Dump()
-
-	if (t.uiBox != nil) {
-		t.uiBox.Append(newt.uiLabel, false)
-	} else {
-		log(debugToolkit, "ERROR: wit/gui andlabs couldn't place this Textbox in a box")
-		return
-	}
-
 	mapWidgetsToolkits(w, newt)
 }
+
+
+func doTextbox(p *toolkit.Widget, c *toolkit.Widget) {
+	if broken(c) {
+		return
+	}
+	if (c.Action == "New") {
+		newTextbox(p, c)
+		return
+	}
+	ct := mapToolkits[c]
+	if (ct == nil) {
+		log(true, "Trying to do something on a widget that doesn't work or doesn't exist or something", c)
+		return
+	}
+	if ct.broken() {
+		log(true, "Textbox() ct.broken", ct)
+		return
+	}
+	if (ct.uiMultilineEntry == nil) {
+		log(debugError, "Textbox() uiMultilineEntry == nil", ct)
+		return
+	}
+	// the dns control panel isn't crashing anymore (?)
+	Queue(ct.doSimpleAction)
+}
+
+func (t *andlabsT) doSimpleAction() {
+	if (t.tw == nil) {
+		log(true, "doSimpleAction() got an empty widget")
+		log(true, "THIS SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN")
+		panic("crap. panic. widget == nil")
+	}
+	log(debugChange, "Going to attempt:", t.tw.Action)
+	switch  t.tw.Action {
+	case "Enable":
+		t.uiMultilineEntry.Enable()
+	case "Disable":
+		t.uiMultilineEntry.Disable()
+	case "Show":
+		t.uiMultilineEntry.Show()
+	case "Hide":
+		t.uiMultilineEntry.Hide()
+	case "Set":
+		t.uiMultilineEntry.SetText(t.tw.S)
+	default:
+		log(debugError, "Can't do", t.tw.Action, "to a Textbox")
+	}
+}

toolkit/andlabs/widget.go

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
+)
+
+// This is a map between the widgets in wit/gui and the internal structures of gocui
+
+var mapWidgets map[*andlabsT]*toolkit.Widget
+var mapToolkits map[*toolkit.Widget]*andlabsT
+
+// This lists out the know mappings
+func listMap(b bool) {
+	log(b, "listMap() HERE")
+	log(b, "listMap() HERE")
+	for t, w := range mapWidgets {
+		log(b, "andlabs =", t.Name, "widget =", w.Name)
+	}
+	log(debugToolkit, "listMap() HERE mapToolkits()")
+	for w, t := range mapToolkits {
+		log(b, "andlabs =", t, "widget =", w.Name)
+		t.Dump(b)
+	}
+	log(b, "listMap() HERE mapWidgets()")
+	log(b, "listMap() HERE FIXME. output too big")
+}
+
+func mapWidgetsToolkits(w *toolkit.Widget, t *andlabsT) {
+	if ((mapToolkits[w] == nil) && (mapWidgets[t] == nil)) {
+		log(debugToolkit, "map a new widget", w, t)
+		mapToolkits[w] = t
+		mapWidgets[t] = w
+		return
+	}
+
+	if (mapToolkits[w] != nil) {
+		tw := mapToolkits[w]
+		if (tw == nil) {
+			// logic corruption somewhere? Have you been deleting things recently?
+			log(true, "mapToolkits[w] is set, but mapWidgets[t] is nil")
+			panic("WTF mapWidgets[t] == nil")
+		}
+		log(true, "mapToolkits[w] is", tw)
+		if (tw == nil) {
+			log(true, "BAD map? mapWidgets[w] tw == nil")
+		} else {
+			log(true, "BAD map? mapWidgets[w] is", tw)
+			tw.Dump(true)
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (mapWidgets[t] != nil) {
+		wt := mapWidgets[t]
+		if (mapToolkits[w] == nil) {
+			// logic corruption somewhere? Have you been deleting things recently?
+			log(true, "mapWidgets[t] is set, but mapToolkits[w] is nil")
+			panic("WTF mapToolkits[w] == nil")
+		}
+		if (wt == nil) {
+			log(true, "BAD map? mapWidgets[t] wt == nil")
+		} else {
+			log(true, "BAD map? mapWidgets[t] is", wt)
+			widgetDump(true, wt)
+		}
+	}
+	log(debugToolkit, "map of widget worked", w.Type, ",", w.Name, ",", w.Action)
+}

toolkit/andlabs/window.go

@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ func (t *andlabsT) ErrorWindow(msg1 string, msg2 string) {
 	ui.MsgBoxError(t.uiWindow, msg1, msg2)
 }
 
-func NewWindow(w *toolkit.Widget) {
+func newWindow(w *toolkit.Widget) {
-	var t *andlabsT
+	var newt *andlabsT
 
 	log(debugToolkit, "toolkit NewWindow", w.Name, w.Width, w.Height)
 
@@ -24,34 +24,23 @@ func NewWindow(w *toolkit.Widget) {
 		log(debugToolkit, "wit/gui plugin error. widget == nil")
 		return
 	}
-	t = new(andlabsT)
+	newt = new(andlabsT)
-	// t = NewWindow2(w.Name, w.Width, w.Height)
+	newt.tw = w
 
-// func NewWindow2(title string, x int, y int) *andlabsT {
 	// menubar bool is if the OS defined border on the window should be used
 	win := ui.NewWindow(w.Name, w.Width, w.Height, menubar)
 	win.SetBorderless(canvas)
 	win.SetMargined(margin)
 	win.OnClosing(func(*ui.Window) bool {
-		log(debugToolkit, "ui.Window().OnExit() SHOULD ATTEMPT CALLBACK here")
+		newt.commonChange(newt.tw)
-		t.Dump()
-		if (w.Custom != nil) {
-			w.Custom()
 		return true
-		}
-		// if (w.Event != nil) {
-		// 	w.Event(w)
-		// 	return true
-		// }
-		log(debugToolkit, "andlabs.ui.Window().OnClosing() was not defined")
-		return false
 	})
 	win.Show()
-	t.uiWindow = win
+	newt.uiWindow = win
-	t.UiWindowBad = win // deprecate this as soon as possible
+	// newt.UiWindowBad = win // deprecate this as soon as possible
-	t.Name = w.Name
+	newt.Name = w.Name
 
-	mapWidgetsToolkits(w, t)
+	mapWidgetsToolkits(w, newt)
 	return
 }
 

toolkit/widget.go

@@ -11,8 +11,19 @@ package toolkit
 // Event() seems like a good name.
 // Could a protobuf be used here? (Can functions be passed?)
 type Widget struct {
-	Name   string
+	Name   string   // "New", "Delete", "Set", aka something to do
-	Type   string	// after lots of back and forth, a simple string
+	Action string   // "New", "Delete", "Set", aka something to do
+	// Type   string	// after lots of back and forth, a simple string
+	Type  WidgetType
+
+	// This is how the values are passed back and forth
+	// values from things like checkboxes & dropdown's
+	// The string is also used to set the button name
+	B	bool
+	I	int
+	// maybe safe if there is correctly working Custom() between goroutines
+	// (still probably not, almost certainly not)
+	S	string // not safe to have 'S'
 
 	// This GUI is intended for simple things
 	// We are not laying out PDF's here
@@ -22,49 +33,61 @@ type Widget struct {
 	X      int
 	Y      int
 
-	// latest attempt
+	// Put space around elements to improve look & feel
+	Margin	bool
+
+	// Make widgets fill up the space available
+	Expand	bool
+
+	// latest attempt. seems to work so far (2023/02/28)
+	// Hopefully this will be the barrier between the goroutines
 	Custom    func()
-
-	// This might be useful to simplify retrieving 
-	// values from things like checkboxes & dropdown's
-	B	bool
-	I	int
-	S	string
-
-	// other things I've tried
-	// Event     func(*Widget) *Widget
-//	OnChanged func(*Widget)
-//	Custom    func(*Widget)
-//	OnExit    func(*Widget)
 }
 
-/*
+type WidgetType int
-type Widget int
 
 // https://ieftimov.com/post/golang-datastructures-trees/
 const (
-	Unknown Widget = iota
+	Unknown WidgetType = iota
 	Window
 	Tab
+	Group
 	Frame
-	Dropbox
+	Button
-	Spinner
+	Checkbox
+	Dropdown
 	Label
+	Textbox
+	Slider
+	Spinner
 )
 
-func (s Widget) String() string {
+func (s WidgetType) String() string {
 	switch s {
 	case Window:
 		return "Window"
 	case Tab:
 		return "Tab"
+	case Group:
+		return "Group"
 	case Frame:
 		return "Frame"
+	case Button:
+		return "Button"
+	case Checkbox:
+		return "Checkbox"
+	case Dropdown:
+		return "Dropdown"
 	case Label:
 		return "Label"
-	case Dropbox:
+	case Textbox:
-		return "Dropbox"
+		return "Textbox"
+	case Slider:
+		return "Slider"
+	case Spinner:
+		return "Spinner"
+	case Unknown:
+		return "Unknown"
 	}
-	return "unknown"
+	return "GuiToolkitTUndefinedType"
 }
-*/

window.go

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package gui
 
 import (
+	"git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
 )
 
 //import toolkit "git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit/andlabs"
@@ -13,39 +14,33 @@ import (
 // my guess).
 func NewWindow() *Node {
 	var newNode *Node
+	var custom func()
 
-	title := Config.Title
+	// If the user didn't set a custom Exit() use the standard exit() function
-	// Windows are created off of the master node of the Binary Tree
+	// This makes sure the GUI properly closes everything (GTK, QT, console ui, etc exit)
-	newNode = Config.master.New(title, "Window")
-
-	newNode.Widget.Width     = Config.Width
-	newNode.Widget.Height    = Config.Height
-
 	if (Config.Exit != nil) {
-		log("setting a custom exit")
+		log(debugGui, "setting a custom exit")
-		newNode.custom = func() {
+		custom = func() {
+			log(debugChange, "Running a custom exit()", Config.Exit)
+			log(debugChange, "Running a custom exit() Config.Title =", Config.Title)
+			log(debugChange, "Running a custom exit() Config.Width =", Config.Width)
 			Config.Exit(newNode)
 		}
 	} else {
-		log("not setting a custom exit")
+		log(debugGui, "setting the standard exit")
+		custom = func () {
+			log(debugChange, "Running StandardExit()")
+			StandardExit()
 		}
-
-	if (newNode.custom == nil) {
-		newNode.custom = func () {StandardExit(newNode)}
 	}
+	// Windows are created off of the master node of the Binary Tree
+	newNode = Config.master.New(Config.Title, toolkit.Window, custom)
 
-	newNode.Widget.Custom = newNode.custom
+	newNode.widget.Width     = Config.Width
+	newNode.widget.Height    = Config.Height
 
-	log(debugGui, "gui.Node.Window()", title)
+	log(debugGui, "Window()", Config.Title)
-
-	for _, aplug := range allPlugins {
-		log(debugGui, "gui.Node.NewWindow() toolkit plugin =", aplug.name)
-		if (aplug.NewWindow == nil) {
-			log(debugGui, "gui.Node.NewWindow() is nil")
-			continue
-		}
-		aplug.NewWindow(&newNode.Widget)
-	}
 
+	send(nil, newNode)
 	return newNode
 }