/* Package gui implements a abstraction layer for Go visual elements. Definitions: * Toolkit: the underlying GUI library (MacOS gui, Windows gui, gtk, qt, etc) * Node: A binary tree of all the underlying widgets Principles: * Make code using this package simple to use * Hide complexity internally here * Isolate the GUI toolkit * Widget names should try to match [Wikipedia Graphical widget] * When in doubt, search upward in the binary tree * It's ok to guess. Try to do something sensible. Quick Start // This creates a simple hello world window package main import ( "log" "git.wit.org/wit/gui" ) var window *gui.Node // This is the beginning of the binary tree of widgets // go will sit here until the window exits func main() { gui.Init() gui.Main(helloworld) } // This initializes the first window and 2 tabs func helloworld() { gui.Config.Title = "Hello World golang wit/gui Window" gui.Config.Width = 640 gui.Config.Height = 480 window := gui.NewWindow() addTab(window, "A Simple Tab Demo") addTab(window, "A Second Tab") } func addTab(w *gui.Node, title string) { tab := w.NewTab(title) group := tab.NewGroup("foo bar") group.NewButton("hello", func() { log.Println("world") }) } Debian Build This worked on debian sid on 2022/10/20 I didn't record the dependances needed GO111MODULE="off" go get -v -t -u git.wit.org/wit/gui cd ~/go/src/git.wit.org/wit/gui/cmds/helloworld/ GO111MODULE="off" go build -v -x ./helloworld Toolkits * andlabs - https://github.com/andlabs/ui * gocui - https://github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui The next step is to allow this to work against go-gtk and go-qt. TODO: Add Fyne, WASM, native macos & windows, android and hopefully also things like libSDL, faiface/pixel, slint Bugs "The author's idea of friendly may differ to that of many other people." -- quote from the minimalistic window manager 'evilwm' References Useful links and other external things which might be useful [Wikipedia Graphical widget]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_widget [Github mirror]: https://github.com/witorg/gui [Federated git pull]: https://github.com/forgefed/forgefed [GO Style Guide]: https://google.github.io/styleguide/go/index * [Wikipedia Graphical widget] * [Github mirror] * [Federated git pull] * [GO Style Guide] */ package gui