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

.gitignore

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 *.swp
+*.so
+*.pb.go
+*.patch
 go.mod
 go.sum
 gocui

.plugin

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+// plugin

Makefile

@@ -1,11 +1,31 @@
-all: plugin
-	ldd ../gocui.so
+VERSION = $(shell git describe --tags)
+BUILDTIME = $(shell date +%Y.%m.%d)
 
-plugin:
-	GO111MODULE=off go build -v -buildmode=plugin -o ../gocui.so
+all: clean goimports vet gocui
+	@ldd gocui.so
 
-pluginreal:
-	go build -v -buildmode=plugin -o ~/go/lib/toolkits/gocui.so
+vet:
+	@GO111MODULE=off go vet
+	@echo this go plugin builds okay
+
+gocui:
+	GO111MODULE=off go build -v -x -buildmode=plugin -o gocui.so \
+		-ldflags "-X main.VERSION=${VERSION} -X main.BUILDTIME=${BUILDTIME} -X gui.GUIVERSION=${VERSION}"
+
+install:
+	go build -buildmode=plugin -o ~/go/lib/gocui-${VERSION}.so \
+		-ldflags "-X main.VERSION=${VERSION} -X main.BUILDTIME=${BUILDTIME} -X gui.GUIVERSION=${VERSION}"
+	cd ~/go/lib && ln -f -s gocui-${VERSION}.so gocui.so
+
+# for testing custom golang
+custom:
+	# GO111MODULE=off go build -v
+	GO111MODULE=off go build -v -work -buildmode=blah
+
+clean:
+	rm -f gocui *.so go.*
+	rm -f *.pb.go *.patch
+	go-mod-clean --purge
 
 # Test the README.md & doc.go file
 # this runs pkgsite, the binary that does dev.go.dev
@@ -27,3 +47,7 @@ redomod:
 	rm -f go.*
 	GO111MODULE= go mod init
 	GO111MODULE= go mod tidy
+
+proto:
+	autogenpb --proto gocuiView.proto
+	make goimports

README.md

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
 # a console toolkit around gocui
 
+* to build, run 'make build'
+* TODO: make a way to trigger plugin builds. 'package plugin' maybe?
+
 [terminals that support ture color](https://github.com/termstandard/colors#truecolor-support-in-output-devices)
+[more info about color](https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/10/01/terminal-colours/)

add.go

@@ -1,94 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	log "go.wit.com/log"
-	"go.wit.com/toolkits/tree"
-	"go.wit.com/widget"
-)
-
-var fakeStartWidth int = me.FakeW
-var fakeStartHeight int = me.TabH + me.FramePadH
-
-// setup fake labels for non-visible things off screen
-func setFake(n *tree.Node) {
-	var w *guiWidget
-	w = n.TK.(*guiWidget)
-	w.isFake = true
-
-	w.gocuiSetWH(fakeStartWidth, fakeStartHeight)
-
-	fakeStartHeight += w.gocuiSize.Height()
-	// TODO: use the actual max hight of the terminal window
-	if fakeStartHeight > 24 {
-		fakeStartHeight = me.TabH
-		fakeStartWidth += me.FakeW
-	}
-}
-
-// set the widget start width & height
-// func (n *node) addWidget(n *tree.Node) {
-func addWidget(n *tree.Node) {
-	var nw *guiWidget
-	nw = n.TK.(*guiWidget)
-	log.Log(INFO, "setStartWH() w.id =", n.WidgetId, "n.name", n.String())
-	switch n.WidgetType {
-	case widget.Root:
-		log.Log(INFO, "setStartWH() rootNode w.id =", n.WidgetId, "w.name", n.String())
-		nw.color = &colorRoot
-		setFake(n)
-		return
-	case widget.Flag:
-		nw.color = &colorFlag
-		setFake(n)
-		return
-	case widget.Window:
-		nw.frame = false
-		// nw.color = &colorWindow
-		nw.setColor(&colorWindow)
-		wRoot := me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
-		wRoot.redoWindows(0, 0)
-		// TODO: record the first window here?
-		// do initial setup of helper widgets here:
-		if me.dropdownV == nil {
-			me.dropdownV = makeDropdownView("addWidget() ddview")
-		}
-		return
-	case widget.Tab:
-		nw.color = &colorTab
-		// redoWindows(0,0)
-		return
-	case widget.Button:
-		nw.color = &colorButton
-	case widget.Checkbox:
-		nw.color = &colorCheckbox
-	case widget.Dropdown:
-		nw.color = &colorDropdown
-	case widget.Combobox:
-		nw.color = &colorCombobox
-	case widget.Box:
-		nw.color = &colorBox
-		nw.isFake = true
-		setFake(n)
-		return
-	case widget.Grid:
-		nw.color = &colorGrid
-		nw.isFake = true
-		setFake(n)
-		return
-	case widget.Group:
-		nw.color = &colorGroup
-		nw.frame = false
-		return
-	case widget.Label:
-		nw.color = &colorLabel
-		nw.frame = false
-		return
-	default:
-		/*
-			if n.IsCurrent() {
-				n.updateCurrent()
-			}
-		*/
-	}
-	nw.showWidgetPlacement("addWidget()")
-}

checkbox.go

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
 package main
 
 import (
@@ -6,48 +9,32 @@ import (
 	"go.wit.com/widget"
 )
 
+// this comes from the application
 func setChecked(n *tree.Node, b bool) {
 	if n.WidgetType != widget.Checkbox {
 	}
+
+	n.State.Checked = b
 	var tk *guiWidget
 	tk = n.TK.(*guiWidget)
 
-	if tk.node.State.Label == "" {
-		tk.node.State.Label = "BLANK"
+	tk.setCheckbox()
+}
+
+// redraw the checkbox
+func (tk *guiWidget) setCheckbox() {
+	if tk.WidgetType() != widget.Checkbox {
+		log.Log(WARN, "setCheckbox() being run on widget:", tk.WidgetType())
+		return
 	}
-	if tk.node.State.Checked {
-		log.Log(WARN, "setCheckbox() got true", tk.node.State.Checked)
-		tk.labelN = "X " + tk.node.State.Label
+	if tk.Checked() {
+		log.Log(WARN, "setCheckbox() got true", tk.Checked())
+		tk.labelN = "X " + tk.GetLabel()
 	} else {
-		log.Log(WARN, "setCheckbox() got false", tk.node.State.Checked)
-		tk.labelN = "  " + tk.node.State.Label
+		log.Log(WARN, "setCheckbox() got false", tk.Checked())
+		tk.labelN = "_ " + tk.GetLabel()
 	}
 
 	tk.Hide()
 	tk.Show()
 }
-
-// redraw the checkbox
-func (w *guiWidget) setCheckbox() {
-	if w.node.WidgetType != widget.Checkbox {
-		log.Log(WARN, "setCheckbox() being run on widget:", w.node.WidgetType)
-		return
-	}
-	if w.node.State.Label == "" {
-		w.node.State.Label = "BLANK"
-	}
-	if w.node.State.Checked {
-		log.Log(WARN, "setCheckbox() got true", w.node.State.Checked)
-		w.labelN = "X " + w.node.State.Label
-		// w.changed = true
-	} else {
-		log.Log(WARN, "setCheckbox() got false", w.node.State.Checked)
-		w.labelN = "  " + w.node.State.Label
-		// w.changed = true
-	}
-	// t := len(w.labelN) + 3
-	// w.gocuiSize.w1 = w.gocuiSize.w0 + t
-
-	w.Hide()
-	w.Show()
-}

click.go

@@ -1,229 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"errors"
-
-	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
-	"go.wit.com/log"
-	"go.wit.com/widget"
-)
-
-func (w *guiWidget) doWidgetClick() {
-	switch w.WidgetType {
-	/*
-		case widget.Root:
-			// THIS IS THE BEGINING OF THE LAYOUT
-			log.Log(GOCUI, "doWidgetClick()", w.String())
-			wRoot := me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
-			wRoot.redoWindows(0, 0)
-		case widget.Flag:
-			log.Log(GOCUI, "doWidgetClick() FLAG widget name =", w.String())
-			log.Log(GOCUI, "doWidgetClick() if this is the dropdown menu, handle it here?")
-	*/
-	case widget.Window:
-		log.Log(GOCUI, "doWidgetClick() START on window", w.String())
-		// if the user clicked on the current window, do nothing
-		/* Ignore this for now and redraw the window anyway
-		if me.currentWindow == w {
-			if !w.active {
-				return
-			}
-		}
-		*/
-
-		// if there is a current window, hide it
-		if me.currentWindow != nil {
-			me.currentWindow.setColor(&colorWindow)
-			me.currentWindow.hideWidgets()
-			me.currentWindow.isCurrent = false
-		}
-
-		// now set this window as the current window
-		me.currentWindow = w
-		me.currentWindow.isCurrent = true
-
-		// draw the current window
-		log.Log(GOCUI, "doWidgetClick() set currentWindow to", w.String())
-		w.setColor(&colorActiveW)
-		w.DrawAt(3, 2)
-		w.placeWidgets(3, 2) // compute the sizes & places for each widget
-		w.active = false
-		w.showWidgets()
-		/*
-			hideFake()
-			showDebug = true
-		*/
-	case widget.Group:
-		if w.active {
-			w.active = false
-			w.placeWidgets(w.startW, w.startH)
-			w.showWidgets()
-		} else {
-			w.active = true
-			for _, child := range w.children {
-				child.hideWidgets()
-			}
-		}
-		// w.dumpTree("click end")
-	case widget.Checkbox:
-		if w.node.State.Checked {
-			log.Log(WARN, "checkbox is being set to false")
-			w.node.State.Checked = false
-			w.setCheckbox()
-		} else {
-			log.Log(WARN, "checkbox is being set to true")
-			w.node.State.Checked = true
-			w.setCheckbox()
-		}
-		me.myTree.SendUserEvent(w.node)
-	case widget.Grid:
-		newR := w.realGocuiSize()
-
-		// w,h := n.logicalSize()
-		// w := newR.w1 - newR.w0
-		// h := newR.h1 - newR.h0
-
-		w.placeGrid(newR.w0, newR.h0)
-		w.showWidgets()
-	case widget.Box:
-		// w.showWidgetPlacement(logNow, "drawTree()")
-		if w.node.State.Direction == widget.Horizontal {
-			log.Log(GOCUI, "BOX IS HORIZONTAL", w.String())
-		} else {
-			log.Log(GOCUI, "BOX IS VERTICAL", w.String())
-		}
-		w.placeWidgets(w.startW, w.startH)
-		w.toggleTree()
-	case widget.Button:
-		// doUserEvent(n)
-		me.myTree.SendFromUser(w.node)
-	case widget.Combobox:
-		log.Log(GOCUI, "do the combobox here")
-		w.showDropdown()
-		me.dropdownW = w
-	case widget.Dropdown:
-		log.Log(GOCUI, "do the dropdown here")
-		w.showDropdown()
-		me.dropdownW = w
-	default:
-	}
-}
-
-func click(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-	mouseW, mouseH := me.baseGui.MousePosition()
-
-	log.Log(GOCUI, "click() START gocui name:", v.Name())
-	w := findUnderMouse()
-
-	// if the dropdown view is visable, process it no matter what
-	if me.dropdownV.Visible() {
-		me.dropdownV.dropdownClicked(mouseW, mouseH)
-	}
-	if w == me.dropdownV {
-		return nil
-	}
-
-	if w == nil {
-		log.Error(errors.New("click() could not find widget for view =" + v.Name()))
-	} else {
-		log.Log(GOCUI, "click() Found widget =", w.node.WidgetId, w.String(), ",", w.labelN)
-		w.doWidgetClick()
-	}
-
-	rootTK := me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
-	realTK := rootTK.findWidgetByView(v)
-	if realTK == nil {
-		log.Error(errors.New("toolkit click() out of reality with gocui. v.Name() not in binary tree " + v.Name()))
-		log.Log(GOCUI, "click() END FAILURE ON gocui v.Name =", v.Name())
-		// return nil // otherwise gocui exits
-	}
-
-	// double check the widget view really still exists
-	nameTK := rootTK.findWidgetByName(v.Name())
-	if nameTK == nil {
-		log.Error(errors.New("toolkit click() out of reality with gocui. v.Name() not in binary tree " + v.Name()))
-		return nil
-	}
-	if nameTK.v == nil {
-		log.Log(GOCUI, "click() maybe this widget has had it's view distroyed?", nameTK.cuiName, nameTK.WidgetType)
-		log.Log(GOCUI, "yep. it's gone now")
-		return nil
-	}
-
-	// SetCurrentView dies if it's sent an non-existent view
-	if _, err := g.SetCurrentView(v.Name()); err != nil {
-		log.Log(GOCUI, "click() END v.Name =", v.Name(), "err =", err)
-		// return err // return causes gocui.MainLoop() to exit. Do we ever want that to happen here?
-		return nil
-	}
-
-	log.Log(GOCUI, "click() END gocui name:", v.Name())
-	return nil
-}
-
-func findUnderMouse() *guiWidget {
-	var widgets []*guiWidget
-	var f func(w *guiWidget)
-	w, h := me.baseGui.MousePosition()
-
-	// find buttons that are below where the mouse button click
-	f = func(widget *guiWidget) {
-		// ignore widgets that are not visible
-		if widget.Visible() {
-			if (widget.gocuiSize.w0 <= w) && (w <= widget.gocuiSize.w1) &&
-				(widget.gocuiSize.h0 <= h) && (h <= widget.gocuiSize.h1) {
-				widgets = append(widgets, widget)
-			}
-		}
-
-		for _, child := range widget.children {
-			f(child)
-		}
-	}
-	rootW := me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
-	f(rootW)
-
-	var found *guiWidget
-	// widgets has everything that matches
-	for _, w := range widgets {
-		// prioritize window buttons. This means if some code covers
-		// up the window widgets, then it will ignore everything else
-		// and allow the user (hopefully) to redraw or switch windows
-		// TODO: display the window widgets on top
-		if w.WidgetType == widget.Window {
-			return w
-		}
-		// w.showWidgetPlacement("findUnderMouse() FOUND")
-		found = w
-	}
-	return found
-}
-
-// find the widget under the mouse click
-func ctrlDown(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-	var found *guiWidget
-	// var widgets []*node
-	// var f func (n *node)
-	found = findUnderMouse()
-	if me.ctrlDown == nil {
-		setupCtrlDownWidget()
-
-		var tk *guiWidget
-		tk = me.ctrlDown.TK.(*guiWidget)
-		tk.labelN = found.String()
-		tk.cuiName = "ctrlDown"
-		// me.ctrlDown.parent = me.rootNode
-	}
-	var tk *guiWidget
-	tk = me.ctrlDown.TK.(*guiWidget)
-	if found == nil {
-		found = me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
-	}
-	tk.labelN = found.String()
-	newR := found.realGocuiSize()
-	tk.gocuiSize.w0 = newR.w0
-	tk.gocuiSize.h0 = newR.h0
-	tk.gocuiSize.w1 = newR.w1
-	tk.gocuiSize.h1 = newR.h1
-	return nil
-}

color.go

@@ -1,181 +1,309 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
 package main
 
 import (
 	"math/rand"
 
 	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
-
 	"go.wit.com/log"
 )
 
-//w.v.SelBgColor = gocui.ColorCyan
-//color.go:       w.v.SelFgColor = gocui.ColorBlack
-//color.go:               w.v.BgColor = gocui.ColorGreen
+// simple colors for light and dark
 
-type colorT struct {
-	frame gocui.Attribute
-	fg    gocui.Attribute
-	bg    gocui.Attribute
-	selFg gocui.Attribute
-	selBg gocui.Attribute
-	name  string
-}
+// information about how terminfo works
+// https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/10/01/terminal-colours/
 
-var none gocui.Attribute = gocui.AttrNone
-var lightPurple gocui.Attribute = gocui.GetColor("#DDDDDD")    // light purple
-var darkPurple gocui.Attribute = gocui.GetColor("#FFAA55")     // Dark Purple
-var heavyPurple gocui.Attribute = gocui.GetColor("#88AA55")    // heavy purple
-var powdererBlue gocui.Attribute = gocui.GetColor("#B0E0E6")   // w3c 'powerder blue'
-var superLightGrey gocui.Attribute = gocui.GetColor("#55AAFF") // super light grey
-
-// Standard defined colors from gocui:
-// ColorBlack ColorRed ColorGreen ColorYellow ColorBlue ColorMagenta ColorCyan ColorWhite
-
-// v.BgColor = gocui.GetColor("#111111") // crazy red
-// v.BgColor = gocui.GetColor("#FF9911") // heavy red
-// v.SelBgColor = gocui.GetColor("#FFEE11") // blood red
-
-// v.BgColor = gocui.GetColor("#55AAFF") // super light grey
-// v.BgColor = gocui.GetColor("#FFC0CB") // 'w3c pink' yellow
-
-//	Normal Text                             On mouseover
-//
-// Widget Frame         Text              background              Text           background
-var colorWindow colorT = colorT{
-	frame: none,
-	fg:    gocui.ColorBlue,
-	bg:    none,
-	selFg: none,
-	selBg: powdererBlue,
-	name:  "normal window",
-}
-var colorActiveW colorT = colorT{none, none, powdererBlue, none, powdererBlue, "active window"}
-
-var colorTab colorT = colorT{gocui.ColorBlue, gocui.ColorBlue, none, none, powdererBlue, "normal tab"}
-var colorActiveT colorT = colorT{gocui.ColorBlue, none, powdererBlue, none, powdererBlue, "active tab"}
-
-var colorLabel colorT = colorT{none, none, superLightGrey, none, superLightGrey, "normal label"}
-var colorGroup colorT = colorT{none, none, superLightGrey, none, superLightGrey, "normal group"}
-
-var colorDisabled colorT = colorT{
-	frame: superLightGrey,
-	fg:    superLightGrey,
-	bg:    superLightGrey,
-	selFg: gocui.ColorBlack,
-	selBg: gocui.ColorBlack,
-	name:  "disabled widget",
-}
-
-var colorButton colorT = colorT{
-	frame: gocui.ColorGreen,
-	fg:    none,
-	bg:    gocui.ColorWhite,
-	selFg: gocui.ColorGreen,
-	selBg: gocui.ColorBlack,
-	name:  "normal button",
-}
-
-var colorDropdown colorT = colorT{
-	frame: gocui.ColorYellow,
-	fg:    none,
-	bg:    gocui.ColorWhite,
-	selFg: gocui.ColorYellow,
-	selBg: gocui.ColorBlack,
-	name:  "normal button",
-}
-
-var colorCombobox colorT = colorT{
-	frame: gocui.ColorBlue,
-	fg:    none,
-	bg:    gocui.ColorWhite,
-	selFg: gocui.ColorBlue,
-	selBg: gocui.ColorBlack,
-	name:  "normal button",
-}
-
-var colorCheckbox colorT = colorT{
-	frame: gocui.ColorRed,
-	fg:    none,
-	bg:    gocui.ColorWhite,
-	selFg: gocui.ColorRed,
-	selBg: gocui.ColorBlack,
-	name:  "normal checkbox",
-}
-
-// widget debugging colors. these widgets aren't displayed unless you are debugging
-var colorRoot colorT = colorT{gocui.ColorRed, none, powdererBlue, none, gocui.ColorBlue, "debug root"}
-var colorFlag colorT = colorT{gocui.ColorRed, none, powdererBlue, none, gocui.ColorGreen, "debug flag"}
-var colorBox colorT = colorT{gocui.ColorRed, none, lightPurple, none, gocui.ColorCyan, "debug box"}
-var colorGrid colorT = colorT{gocui.ColorRed, none, lightPurple, none, gocui.ColorRed, "debug grid"}
-var colorNone colorT = colorT{none, none, none, none, none, "debug none"}
-
-// actually sets the colors for the gocui element
-// the user will see the colors change when this runs
+// TODO: move all this to a protobuf
 // TODO: add black/white only flag for ttyS0
-// TODO: or fix kvm/qemu serial console & SIGWINCH.
-// TODO: and minicom and uboot and 5 million other things.
-// TODO: maybe enough of us could actually do that if we made it a goal.
-// TODO: start with riscv boards and fix it universally there
-// TODO: so just a small little 'todo' item here
-func (tk *guiWidget) setColor(newColor *colorT) {
-	if tk.color == newColor {
-		// nothing to do since the colors have nto changed
-		return
+// TODO: fix kvm/qemu serial console & SIGWINCH.
+// TODO: check minicom (doesn't work)
+// TODO: fix riscv boards
+
+// DONE ON ENABLE() WIDGET
+// restores the last saved color and makes it active
+func (tk *guiWidget) restoreEnableColor() {
+	if tk.color == nil {
+		tk.color = new(colorT)
 	}
-	tk.color = newColor
+	tk.color.frame = tk.colorLast.frame
+	tk.color.fg = tk.colorLast.fg
+	tk.color.bg = tk.colorLast.bg
+	tk.color.selFg = tk.colorLast.selFg
+	tk.color.selBg = tk.colorLast.selBg
+
+	tk.activateColor()
+}
+
+// DONE ON DISABLE() WIDGET
+// makes the button look disabled
+func (tk *guiWidget) setColorDisable() {
+	if tk.color == nil {
+		tk.color = new(colorT)
+	}
+	// save the current color
+	tk.color.frame = superLightGrey
+	tk.color.fg = gocui.ColorBlack
+	tk.color.bg = superLightGrey
+	tk.color.selFg = superLightGrey
+	tk.color.selBg = superLightGrey
+	tk.activateColor()
+}
+
+// sets the current gocui highlight colors
+func (tk *guiWidget) activateColor() {
 	if tk.v == nil {
 		return
 	}
+	tk.v.FrameColor = tk.color.frame
+	tk.v.FgColor = tk.color.fg
+	tk.v.BgColor = tk.color.bg
+	tk.v.SelFgColor = tk.color.selFg
+	tk.v.SelBgColor = tk.color.selBg
+}
+
+// saves the color and makes it active
+func (tk *guiWidget) updateColor() {
+	if tk.v == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	if tk.color != nil {
+		tk.colorLast.frame = tk.color.frame
+		tk.colorLast.fg = tk.color.fg
+		tk.colorLast.bg = tk.color.bg
+		tk.colorLast.selFg = tk.color.selFg
+		tk.colorLast.selBg = tk.color.selBg
+	}
+	tk.activateColor()
+}
+
+// Below are all the colors. TODO: move to protobuf and save in a config file
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) setColorWindowFrame() {
 	if tk.color == nil {
-		log.Log(NOW, "Set the node to color = nil")
-		tk.color = &colorNone
+		tk.color = new(colorT)
 	}
-	log.Log(NOW, "Set the node to color =", tk.color.name)
-	tk.Show()
-}
-
-func (w *guiWidget) disableColor() {
-	if w.color != &colorDisabled {
-		w.defaultColor = w.color
-	}
-	w.setColor(&colorDisabled)
-}
-
-func (w *guiWidget) enableColor() {
-	w.setColor(w.defaultColor)
-}
-
-func (w *guiWidget) setDefaultHighlight() {
-	if w.v == nil {
-		log.Log(ERROR, "SetColor() failed on view == nil")
-		return
-	}
-	w.v.SelBgColor = gocui.ColorGreen
-	w.v.SelFgColor = gocui.ColorBlack
-}
-
-func randColor() gocui.Attribute {
-	colors := []string{"Green", "#FFAA55", "Yellow", "Blue", "Red", "Black", "White"}
-	i := rand.Intn(len(colors))
-	log.Log(NOW, "randColor() i =", i)
-	return gocui.GetColor(colors[i])
-}
-
-func (w *guiWidget) redoColor(draw bool) {
-	if w == nil {
-		return
+	if me.dark { // use a dark color palette
+		tk.color.frame = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.fg = gocui.ColorBlack
+		tk.color.bg = gocui.ColorBlack
+		tk.color.selFg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.selBg = gocui.AttrNone
+	} else {
+		tk.color.frame = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.fg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.bg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.selFg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.selBg = gocui.AttrNone
 	}
 
-	log.Sleep(.05)
-	w.setDefaultHighlight()
-	// w.setDefaultWidgetColor()
-	w.Show()
-
-	for _, child := range w.children {
-		child.redoColor(draw)
-	}
+	tk.updateColor()
 }
 
+// weird. lots of color problems for me on debian sid using the traditional Andy Herzfield 'gnome'
+func (tk *guiWidget) setColorWindowTitleActive() {
+	if tk.color == nil {
+		tk.color = new(colorT)
+	}
+	if me.dark { // use a dark color palette
+		tk.color.frame = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.fg = gocui.ColorBlue
+		tk.color.bg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.selFg = gocui.ColorWhite
+		tk.color.selBg = gocui.ColorBlue
+	} else {
+		tk.color.frame = gocui.ColorWhite
+		tk.color.fg = gocui.ColorWhite
+		tk.color.bg = gocui.ColorBlue
+		tk.color.selFg = gocui.ColorWhite
+		tk.color.selBg = gocui.ColorBlue
+	}
+
+	tk.updateColor()
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) setColorWindowTitle() {
+	if tk.color == nil {
+		tk.color = new(colorT)
+	}
+	if me.dark { // use a dark color palette
+		tk.color.frame = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.fg = gocui.ColorBlue
+		tk.color.bg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.selFg = gocui.ColorWhite
+		tk.color.selBg = gocui.ColorBlue
+	} else {
+		tk.color.frame = gocui.ColorWhite
+		tk.color.fg = gocui.ColorBlue
+		tk.color.bg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.selFg = gocui.ColorWhite
+		tk.color.selBg = gocui.ColorBlue
+	}
+
+	tk.updateColor()
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) setColorBG() {
+	if tk.color == nil {
+		tk.color = new(colorT)
+	}
+	if me.dark {
+		tk.color.frame = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.fg = gocui.ColorBlack
+		tk.color.bg = gocui.ColorBlack
+		tk.color.selFg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.selBg = gocui.AttrNone
+	} else {
+		tk.color.frame = gocui.ColorWhite
+		tk.color.fg = gocui.ColorWhite
+		tk.color.bg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.selFg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.selBg = gocui.AttrNone
+	}
+
+	tk.updateColor()
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) setColorLabel() {
+	if tk.color == nil {
+		tk.color = new(colorT)
+	}
+	if me.dark {
+		tk.color.frame = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.fg = gocui.ColorWhite
+		tk.color.bg = gocui.ColorBlack
+		tk.color.selFg = gocui.ColorWhite
+		tk.color.selBg = gocui.AttrNone
+	} else {
+		tk.color.frame = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.fg = gocui.ColorBlack
+		tk.color.bg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.selFg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.selBg = gocui.ColorWhite
+	}
+
+	tk.updateColor()
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) setColorButtonDense() {
+	if tk.color == nil {
+		tk.color = new(colorT)
+	}
+	if me.dark {
+		tk.color.frame = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.fg = gocui.ColorBlue
+		tk.color.bg = gocui.ColorBlack
+		tk.color.selFg = gocui.ColorWhite
+		tk.color.selBg = gocui.ColorBlue
+	} else {
+		tk.color.frame = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.fg = gocui.ColorWhite
+		tk.color.bg = gocui.ColorBlue
+		tk.color.selFg = gocui.ColorBlue
+		tk.color.selBg = gocui.AttrNone
+	}
+
+	tk.updateColor()
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) setColorNotifyIcon() {
+	if tk.color == nil {
+		tk.color = new(colorT)
+	}
+	tk.color.frame = gocui.AttrNone
+	tk.color.fg = gocui.ColorWhite
+	tk.color.bg = gocui.ColorBlue
+	tk.color.selFg = gocui.ColorBlue
+	tk.color.selBg = gocui.AttrNone
+
+	tk.updateColor()
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) setColorButton() {
+	if tk.color == nil {
+		tk.color = new(colorT)
+	}
+	if me.dark {
+		tk.color.frame = gocui.ColorBlack
+		tk.color.fg = gocui.ColorBlue
+		tk.color.bg = gocui.ColorBlack
+		tk.color.selFg = gocui.ColorWhite
+		tk.color.selBg = gocui.ColorBlue
+	} else {
+		tk.color.frame = gocui.ColorBlue
+		tk.color.fg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.bg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.selFg = gocui.ColorWhite
+		tk.color.selBg = gocui.ColorBlue
+	}
+
+	tk.updateColor()
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) setColorInput() {
+	if tk.color == nil {
+		tk.color = new(colorT)
+	}
+	if me.dark {
+		tk.color.frame = gocui.ColorYellow
+		tk.color.fg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.bg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.selFg = gocui.ColorYellow
+		tk.color.selBg = gocui.ColorBlack
+	} else {
+		tk.color.frame = gocui.ColorYellow
+		tk.color.fg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.bg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.selFg = gocui.ColorYellow
+		tk.color.selBg = gocui.ColorBlack
+	}
+	tk.updateColor()
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) setColorModal() {
+	if tk.color == nil {
+		tk.color = new(colorT)
+	}
+	if me.dark {
+		tk.color.frame = gocui.ColorRed
+		tk.color.fg = gocui.ColorRed
+		tk.color.bg = gocui.ColorBlack
+		tk.color.selFg = gocui.ColorBlack
+		tk.color.selBg = gocui.AttrNone
+	} else {
+		tk.color.frame = gocui.ColorRed
+		tk.color.fg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.bg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.selFg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.selBg = gocui.ColorWhite
+	}
+	tk.updateColor()
+}
+
+// what genius figured this out?
+func (tk *guiWidget) setColorTextbox() {
+	if tk.color == nil {
+		tk.color = new(colorT)
+	}
+	if me.dark {
+		tk.color.frame = gocui.ColorRed
+		tk.color.fg = gocui.ColorRed
+		tk.color.bg = gocui.ColorBlack
+		tk.color.selFg = gocui.ColorBlack
+		tk.color.selBg = gocui.AttrNone
+	} else {
+		tk.color.frame = gocui.ColorRed
+		tk.color.fg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.bg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.selFg = gocui.AttrNone
+		tk.color.selBg = gocui.ColorWhite
+	}
+	tk.updateColor()
+}
+
+// just notes down here
+
 // what genius figured this out?
 // originally from github.com/dimasma0305/GoFetch
 func get_teminal_color_palette() string {
@@ -195,3 +323,29 @@ func get_teminal_color_palette() string {
 
 	return color1 + " " + color2 + " " + color3 + " " + color4 + " " + color5 + " " + color6 + " " + color7 + " " + color8
 }
+
+func randColor() gocui.Attribute {
+	colors := []string{"Green", "#FFAA55", "Yellow", "Blue", "Red", "Black", "White"}
+	i := rand.Intn(len(colors))
+	log.Log(NOW, "randColor() i =", i)
+	return gocui.GetColor(colors[i])
+}
+
+var none gocui.Attribute = gocui.AttrNone
+var colorNone colorT = colorT{none, none, none, none, none, "debug none"}
+
+var lightPurple gocui.Attribute = gocui.GetColor("#DDDDDD")    // light purple
+var darkPurple gocui.Attribute = gocui.GetColor("#FFAA55")     // Dark Purple
+var heavyPurple gocui.Attribute = gocui.GetColor("#88AA55")    // heavy purple
+var powdererBlue gocui.Attribute = gocui.GetColor("#B0E0E6")   // w3c 'powerder blue'
+var superLightGrey gocui.Attribute = gocui.GetColor("#55AAFF") // super light grey
+
+// Standard defined colors from gocui:
+// ColorBlack ColorRed ColorGreen ColorYellow ColorBlue ColorMagenta ColorCyan ColorWhite
+
+// v.BgColor = gocui.GetColor("#111111") // crazy red
+// v.BgColor = gocui.GetColor("#FF9911") // heavy red
+// v.SelBgColor = gocui.GetColor("#FFEE11") // blood red
+
+// v.BgColor = gocui.GetColor("#55AAFF") // super light grey
+// v.BgColor = gocui.GetColor("#FFC0CB") // 'w3c pink' yellow

color.py

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+def color(num, text):
+    return f"\033[38;5;{num}m{text}\033[0m"
+
+for i in range(300):
+    print(color(i, f"number {i:02}"))

debug.go

@@ -1,53 +1,102 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
 package main
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
+	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
 	"go.wit.com/log"
 	"go.wit.com/widget"
 )
 
 func (w *guiWidget) dumpTree(s string) {
-	// log.Log(ERROR, "dumpTree w", w.node.WidgetId, w.WidgetType, w.String())
+	// log.Log(ERROR, "dump w", w.WidgetId(), w.WidgetType, w.String())
 	if w == nil {
-		log.Log(ERROR, "dumpTree w.TK == nil", w.node.WidgetId, w.WidgetType, w.String())
+		log.Log(ERROR, "dump w.TK == nil", w.WidgetId(), w.WidgetType(), w.String())
 		return
 	}
-	w.showWidgetPlacement("dumpTree() " + s)
+	w.dumpWidget("dumpTree() " + s)
 
 	for _, child := range w.children {
 		child.dumpTree(s)
 	}
 }
 
-func (w *guiWidget) showWidgetPlacement(s string) {
+func (w *guiWidget) dumpWindows(s string) {
+	// log.Log(ERROR, "dump w", w.WidgetId(), w.WidgetType, w.String())
+	if w == nil {
+		log.Log(ERROR, "dump w.TK == nil", w.WidgetId(), w.WidgetType(), w.String())
+		return
+	}
+	if w.WidgetType() == widget.Window {
+		s += fmt.Sprintf(" F(%d,%d)", w.force.w0, w.force.h0)
+		// can't set this here. doesn't work
+		// w.full.w0 = w.force.w0
+		// w.full.h0 = w.force.h0
+		w.dumpWidget("dumpWindow() " + s)
+		w.windowFrame.dumpWidget("dumpFrame() " + s)
+	}
+
+	for _, child := range w.children {
+		child.dumpWindows(s)
+	}
+}
+
+// a standard function to print out information about a widget
+func (tk *guiWidget) dumpWidget(s string) {
 	var s1 string
 	var pId int
-	if w.node.Parent == nil {
-		log.Log(INFO, "showWidgetPlacement() parent == nil", w.node.WidgetId, w.cuiName)
+	// tk.verifyRect()
+	if tk.parent == nil {
+		log.Logf(WARN, "showWidgetPlacement() parent == nil wId=%d cuiName=%s", tk.WidgetId(), tk.cuiName)
 		pId = 0
 	} else {
-		pId = w.node.Parent.WidgetId
+		pId = tk.parent.WidgetId()
 	}
-	s1 = fmt.Sprintf("(wId,pId)=(%2d,%2d) ", w.node.WidgetId, pId)
-	if w.Visible() {
-		sizeW, sizeH := w.Size()
-		s1 += fmt.Sprintf("size=(%2d,%2d)", sizeW, sizeH)
-		s1 += fmt.Sprintf("gocui=(%2d,%2d,%2d,%2d)",
-			w.gocuiSize.w0, w.gocuiSize.h0, w.gocuiSize.w1, w.gocuiSize.h1)
+	s1 = fmt.Sprintf("(wId,pId)=(%4d,%4d) ", tk.WidgetId(), pId)
+	sizeW, sizeH := tk.Size()
+	hide := "S"
+	if tk.Hidden() {
+		hide = "H"
+	}
+	s1 += fmt.Sprintf("size=(%3d,%3d)%s)", sizeW, sizeH, hide)
+	if tk.Visible() {
+		s1 += fmt.Sprintf("gocui=(%3d,%3d,%3d,%3d)",
+			tk.gocuiSize.w0, tk.gocuiSize.h0, tk.gocuiSize.w1, tk.gocuiSize.h1)
 	} else {
-		sizeW, sizeH := w.Size()
-		s1 += fmt.Sprintf("size=(%2d,%2d)", sizeW, sizeH)
-		s1 += fmt.Sprintf("                 ")
+		s1 += fmt.Sprintf("       %3s %3s %3s %3s ", "", "", "", "")
 	}
-	if w.node.Parent != nil {
-		if w.node.Parent.WidgetType == widget.Grid {
-			s1 += fmt.Sprintf("At(%2d,%2d) ", w.node.State.AtW, w.node.State.AtH)
+	s1 += fmt.Sprintf(" full=(%3d,%3d,%3d,%3d)", tk.full.w0, tk.full.h0, tk.full.w1, tk.full.h1)
+	if tk.parent != nil {
+		if tk.parent.WidgetType() == widget.Grid {
+			s1 += fmt.Sprintf("At(%3d,%3d)", tk.GridW(), tk.GridH())
+			s1 += fmt.Sprintf("(%3d,%3d) ", tk.parent.widths[tk.GridW()], tk.parent.heights[tk.GridH()])
+		} else {
+			s1 += fmt.Sprintf("   %3s %3s ", "", "")
+			s1 += fmt.Sprintf(" %3s %3s  ", "", "")
 		}
+	} else {
+		s1 += fmt.Sprintf("   %3s %3s  ", "", "")
 	}
-	tmp := "." + w.String() + ". " + w.cuiName
-	if w.node.WidgetType == widget.Box {
-		tmp = "." + w.node.State.Direction.String() + ". " + w.cuiName
+	var end string
+	if tk.WidgetType() == widget.Box {
+		end = fmt.Sprintf("%-8s %-8s %s %s", tk.WidgetType(), tk.cuiName, tk.Direction().String(), tk.String())
+	} else {
+		end = fmt.Sprintf("%-8s %-8s %s", tk.WidgetType(), tk.cuiName, tk.String())
 	}
-	log.Log(NOW, s1, s, w.node.WidgetType, ",", tmp) //
+	log.Log(GOCUI, s1, s, end)
+}
+
+func printWidgetTree(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	me.treeRoot.ListWidgets()
+	return nil
+}
+
+func printWidgetPlacements(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	w := me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
+	w.dumpTree("MM")
+	w.dumpWindows("WW")
+	return nil
 }

draw.go

@@ -1,112 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"errors"
-	"fmt"
-	"strconv"
-
-	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
-	log "go.wit.com/log"
-)
-
-var toggle bool = true
-
-func (w *guiWidget) DrawAt(offsetW, offsetH int) {
-	w.setColor(&colorActiveW)
-	w.placeWidgets(offsetW, offsetH) // compute the sizes & places for each widget
-	w.active = false
-	w.showWidgets()
-}
-
-func (w *guiWidget) toggleTree() {
-	if toggle {
-		w.drawTree(toggle)
-		toggle = false
-	} else {
-		w.hideWidgets()
-		toggle = true
-	}
-}
-
-// display the widgets in the binary tree
-func (w *guiWidget) drawTree(draw bool) {
-	if w == nil {
-		return
-	}
-	w.showWidgetPlacement("drawTree()")
-	if draw {
-		// w.textResize()
-		w.Show()
-	} else {
-		w.Hide()
-	}
-
-	for _, child := range w.children {
-		child.drawTree(draw)
-	}
-}
-
-// display's the text of the widget in gocui
-// deletes the old view if it exists and recreates it
-func (w *guiWidget) drawView() {
-	var err error
-	log.Log(INFO, "drawView() START", w.WidgetType, w.String())
-	if me.baseGui == nil {
-		log.Log(ERROR, "drawView() ERROR: me.baseGui == nil", w)
-		return
-	}
-
-	if w.cuiName == "" {
-		log.Log(ERROR, "drawView() w.cuiName was not set for widget", w)
-		w.cuiName = strconv.Itoa(w.node.WidgetId) + " TK"
-	}
-	log.Log(INFO, "drawView() labelN =", w.labelN)
-
-	// this deletes the button from gocui
-	me.baseGui.DeleteView(w.cuiName)
-	w.v = nil
-
-	w.textResize()
-	a := w.gocuiSize.w0
-	b := w.gocuiSize.h0
-	c := w.gocuiSize.w1
-	d := w.gocuiSize.h1
-
-	w.v, err = me.baseGui.SetView(w.cuiName, a, b, c, d, 0)
-	if err == nil {
-		w.showWidgetPlacement("drawView()")
-		log.Log(ERROR, "drawView() internal plugin error err = nil")
-		return
-	}
-	if !errors.Is(err, gocui.ErrUnknownView) {
-		w.showWidgetPlacement("drawView()")
-		log.Log(ERROR, "drawView() internal plugin error error.IS()", err)
-		return
-	}
-
-	// this sets up the keybinding for the name of the window
-	// does this really need to be done? I think we probably already
-	// know everything about where all the widgets are so we could bypass
-	// the gocui package and just handle all the mouse events internally here (?)
-	// for now, the w.v.Name is a string "1", "2", "3", etc from the widgetId
-
-	// set the binding for this gocui view now that it has been created
-	// gocui handles overlaps of views so it will run on the view that is clicked on
-	me.baseGui.SetKeybinding(w.v.Name(), gocui.MouseLeft, gocui.ModNone, click)
-
-	// this actually sends the text to display to gocui
-	w.v.Wrap = true
-	w.v.Frame = w.frame
-	w.v.Clear()
-	fmt.Fprint(w.v, w.labelN)
-
-	// if you don't do this here, it will be black & white only
-	if w.color != nil {
-		w.v.FrameColor = w.color.frame
-		w.v.FgColor = w.color.fg
-		w.v.BgColor = w.color.bg
-		w.v.SelFgColor = w.color.selFg
-		w.v.SelBgColor = w.color.selBg
-	}
-	log.Log(INFO, "drawView() END")
-}

dropdown.go

@@ -1,156 +1,115 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
 package main
 
+// simulates a dropdown menu in gocui
+
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
 	log "go.wit.com/log"
 	"go.wit.com/toolkits/tree"
 	"go.wit.com/widget"
 )
 
-func makeDropdownView(ddItems string) *guiWidget {
-	newNode := addDropdown()
-	tk := newNode.TK.(*guiWidget)
-	tk.labelN = ddItems
-	tk.SetText(ddItems)
-	tk.gocuiSize.w0 = 100
-	tk.gocuiSize.w1 = 120
-	tk.gocuiSize.h0 = 15
-	tk.gocuiSize.h1 = 18
-	tk.v, _ = me.baseGui.SetView("ddview",
-		tk.gocuiSize.w0,
-		tk.gocuiSize.h0,
-		tk.gocuiSize.w1,
-		tk.gocuiSize.h1, 0)
-	if tk.v == nil {
-		return tk
-	}
-	tk.v.Wrap = true
-	tk.v.Frame = true
-	tk.v.Clear()
-	fmt.Fprint(tk.v, ddItems)
-	tk.Show()
-	return tk
-}
-
-func addDropdown() *tree.Node {
+// create a new widget in the binary tree
+func makeNewFlagWidget(wId int) *guiWidget {
 	n := new(tree.Node)
 	n.WidgetType = widget.Flag
-	n.WidgetId = 2222
+	n.WidgetId = wId
 	n.ParentId = 0
 
 	// store the internal toolkit information
 	tk := new(guiWidget)
 	tk.frame = true
-	tk.labelN = "DropBox text"
 
 	tk.node = n
-	// copy the data from the action message
-	tk.node.State.Label = "DropBox"
+	if tk.node.Parent == nil {
+		tk.node.Parent = me.treeRoot
+	}
 
 	// set the name used by gocui to the id
-	tk.cuiName = "-1 dropbox"
+	tk.cuiName = fmt.Sprintf("%d DR", wId)
 
-	tk.color = &colorFlag
+	tk.setColorInput()
 
 	// add this new widget on the binary tree
 	tk.parent = me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
 	if tk.parent == nil {
-		panic("addDropdown() didn't get treeRoot guiWidget")
+		panic("makeNewFlagWidget() didn't get treeRoot guiWidget")
 	} else {
 		tk.parent.children = append(tk.parent.children, tk)
 	}
 
 	n.TK = tk
-	return n
+	return tk
 }
 
 func (tk *guiWidget) showDropdown() {
-	var ddItems string
+	if me.dropdown.tk == nil {
+		// should only happen once
+		me.dropdown.tk = makeNewFlagWidget(me.dropdown.wId)
+		me.dropdown.tk.dumpWidget("init() dropdown")
+	}
+	if me.dropdown.tk == nil {
+		log.Log(GOCUI, "showDropdown() Is Broken!")
+		return
+	}
+
 	// todo: fix this after switching to protobuf
-	// var items []string
-	// items = tk.node.State.Strings
-	//for i, s := range items {
+	me.dropdown.items = []string{} // zero out whatever was there before
 	for i, s := range tk.node.Strings() {
 		log.Log(GOCUI, "showDropdown()", tk.String(), i, s)
-		ddItems += s + "\n"
+		me.dropdown.items = append(me.dropdown.items, s)
 	}
+	log.Log(GOCUI, "new dropdown items should be set to:", me.dropdown.items)
 
-	log.Log(GOCUI, "new dropdown items should be set to:", ddItems)
-	sizeW, sizeH := tk.Size()
-	log.Log(GOCUI, "showDropdown() size W,H=", sizeW, sizeH)
 	startW, startH := tk.Position()
-	log.Log(GOCUI, "showDropdown() location W,H=", startW, startH)
-	me.dropdownV.MoveToOffset(startW+3, startH+2)
-	me.dropdownV.labelN = ddItems
-	me.dropdownV.Show()
-}
+	log.Log(GOCUI, "showDropdown() SHOWING AT W,H=", startW, startH)
+	me.dropdown.tk.Hide()
+	me.dropdown.tk.MoveToOffset(startW+3, startH+2)
+	me.dropdown.tk.labelN = strings.Join(me.dropdown.items, "\n")
+	me.dropdown.tk.Show()
+	me.dropdown.active = true
+	me.dropdown.callerTK = tk
 
-func hideDDview() error {
-	w, h := me.baseGui.MousePosition()
-	log.Log(GOCUI, "hide dropdown menu() view msgMouseDown (w,h) =", w, h)
-	if me.dropdownV == nil {
-		return gocui.ErrUnknownView
-	}
-	if me.dropdownV.v == nil {
-		return gocui.ErrUnknownView
-	}
-	me.dropdownV.SetVisible(false)
-	return nil
-}
+	r := me.dropdown.tk.gocuiSize // set the 'full' size so that mouse clicks are sent here
+	me.dropdown.tk.full.w0 = r.w0
+	me.dropdown.tk.full.w1 = r.w1
+	me.dropdown.tk.full.h0 = r.h0
+	me.dropdown.tk.full.h1 = r.h1
 
-func showDDview() error {
-	w, h := me.baseGui.MousePosition()
-	log.Log(GOCUI, "show dropdown menu() view msgMouseDown (w,h) =", w, h)
-	if me.dropdownV == nil {
-		return gocui.ErrUnknownView
-	}
-	if me.dropdownV.v == nil {
-		return gocui.ErrUnknownView
-	}
-	me.dropdownV.SetVisible(true)
-	return nil
+	me.dropdown.tk.dumpWidget("showDropdown()")
 }
 
 // if there is a drop down view active, treat it like a dialog box and close it
 func (w *guiWidget) dropdownClicked(mouseW, mouseH int) string {
 	w.Hide()
+	me.dropdown.active = false
 
-	startW, startH := w.Position()
-	log.Log(GOCUI, "dropdownClicked() start (w,h) =", startW, startH)
-	log.Log(GOCUI, "dropdownClicked() at    (w,h) =", mouseW, mouseH)
+	// only need height to figure out what line in the dropdown menu the user clicked
+	_, startH := w.Position()
 
 	itemNumber := mouseH - startH
-	items := strings.Split(w.labelN, "\n")
-	log.Log(GOCUI, "dropdownClicked() look for item", itemNumber, "len(items) =", len(items))
+	items := me.dropdown.items
+	// log.Log(GOCUI, "dropdownClicked() look for item", itemNumber, "len(items) =", len(items))
 	if itemNumber < 1 {
 		return ""
 	}
 
 	if len(items) >= itemNumber {
-		log.Log(GOCUI, "dropdownClicked() found", items[itemNumber-1])
+		// log.Log(GOCUI, "dropdownClicked() found", items[itemNumber-1])
 		if items[itemNumber-1] != "" {
-			if me.dropdownW != nil {
-				log.Log(GOCUI, "dropdownClicked() send event for", me.dropdownW.cuiName, me.dropdownW.WidgetType)
-				me.dropdownW.SetText(items[itemNumber-1])
-				me.dropdownW.node.SetCurrentS(items[itemNumber-1])
-				me.myTree.SendUserEvent(me.dropdownW.node)
+			if me.dropdown.tk != nil {
+				// log.Log(GOCUI, "dropdownClicked() send event for", me.dropdownW.cuiName, me.dropdownW.node.WidgetType)
+				me.dropdown.callerTK.SetText(items[itemNumber-1])
+				me.dropdown.callerTK.node.SetCurrentS(items[itemNumber-1])
+				me.myTree.SendUserEvent(me.dropdown.callerTK.node)
 			}
 		}
 		return items[itemNumber-1]
 	}
 	return ""
 }
-
-func dropdownUnclicked(mouseX, mouseH int) {
-	if me.dropdownV == nil {
-		log.Log(GOCUI, "mouseUp() dropdownV = nil", mouseX, mouseH)
-		return
-	}
-	tk := me.dropdownV
-	log.Log(GOCUI, "mouseUp() view msgMouseDown (check here for dropdown menu click) (w,h) =", mouseX, mouseH)
-	log.Log(GOCUI, "mouseUp() ddview is the thing that was clicked", mouseX, mouseH)
-	log.Log(GOCUI, "mouseUp() find out what the string is here", mouseX, mouseH, tk.gocuiSize.h1)
-}

eventBindings.go

@@ -0,0 +1,234 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"syscall"
+
+	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
+	"go.wit.com/log"
+)
+
+// register how the 'gocui' will work as a GO toolkit plugin
+// all applications will use these keys. they are universal.
+
+// tells 'gocui' where to send events
+func registerHandlers(g *gocui.Gui) {
+	defer func() {
+		if r := recover(); r != nil {
+			log.Info("EVENT BINDINGS recovered in r", r)
+			return
+		}
+	}()
+
+	// mouse handlers
+	g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.MouseLeft, gocui.ModNone, mouseDown)       // normal left mouse down
+	g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.MouseLeft, gocui.ModMouseCtrl, ctrlDown)   // mouse with the ctrl key held down
+	g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.MouseRelease, gocui.ModNone, mouseUp)      // mouse button release
+	g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.MouseWheelUp, gocui.ModNone, wheelsUp)     // mouse button release
+	g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.MouseWheelDown, gocui.ModNone, wheelsDown) // mouse button release
+
+	// Ctrl key handlers
+	g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.KeyCtrlC, gocui.ModNone, doExit)        // CTRL-C : exits the application
+	g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.KeyCtrlV, gocui.ModNone, doPanic)       // CTRL-V : force a panic()
+	g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.KeyCtrlD, gocui.ModNone, openDebuggger) // CTRL-D : open the (D)ebugger
+	keyForced, modForced := gocui.MustParse("ctrl+z")                 // setup ctrl+z
+	g.SetKeybinding("", keyForced, modForced, handle_ctrl_z)          // CTRL-Z :cleverly let's you background gocui (breaks cursor mouse on return)
+	g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.KeyEsc, gocui.ModNone, doEsc)           // escape key
+
+	// regular keys
+	g.SetKeybinding("", 'H', gocui.ModNone, theHelp)                  // 'H' toggles on and off the help menu
+	g.SetKeybinding("", 'O', gocui.ModNone, theStdout)                // 'O' toggle the STDOUT window
+	g.SetKeybinding("", 'D', gocui.ModNone, theDarkness)              // 'D' toggles light/dark mode
+	g.SetKeybinding("", 'q', gocui.ModNone, doExit)                   // 'q' exit
+	g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.KeyTab, gocui.ModNone, tabCycleWindows) // '2' use this to test new ideas
+
+	// stdout keys
+	g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.KeyPgup, gocui.ModNone, stdoutPgup)           // Pgup scroll up the Stdout buffer
+	g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.KeyPgdn, gocui.ModNone, stdoutPgdn)           // Pgdn scroll down the Stdout buffer
+	g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.KeyHome, gocui.ModNone, stdoutHome)           // Pgdn scroll down the Stdout buffer
+	g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.KeyArrowUp, gocui.ModNone, stdoutArrowUp)     // Pgdn scroll down the Stdout buffer
+	g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.KeyArrowDown, gocui.ModNone, stdoutArrowDown) // Pgdn scroll down the Stdout buffer
+
+	// debugging
+	g.SetKeybinding("", '2', gocui.ModNone, theNotsure)            // '2' use this to test new ideas
+	g.SetKeybinding("", 'S', gocui.ModNone, theSuperMouse)         // 'S' Super Mouse mode!
+	g.SetKeybinding("", 'M', gocui.ModNone, printWidgetPlacements) // 'M' list all widgets with positions
+	g.SetKeybinding("", 'L', gocui.ModNone, printWidgetTree)       // 'L' list all widgets in tree view
+	g.SetKeybinding("", 'f', gocui.ModNone, theFind)               // 'f' shows what is under your mouse
+	g.SetKeybinding("", 'd', gocui.ModNone, theLetterD)            // 'd' toggles on and off debugging buttons
+	g.SetKeybinding("", 'q', gocui.ModNone, quit)                  // 'q' only exits gocui. plugin stays alive (?)
+}
+
+// flips on 'super mouse' mode  // this was awesome for debugging gocui. never remove this code.
+// while this is turned on, it will print out every widget found under the mouse
+func theSuperMouse(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	if me.supermouse {
+		log.Log(GOCUI, "supermouse off")
+		me.supermouse = false
+	} else {
+		me.supermouse = true
+		log.Log(GOCUI, "supermouse on")
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// use this to test code ideas // put whatever you want here and hit '2' to activate it
+func theNotsure(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	log.Info("got to theNotsure(). now what? dark =", me.dark)
+	me.refresh = true
+	log.Info("running VerifyParentId()")
+	me.treeRoot.VerifyParentId()
+	/*
+		if me.debug {
+			log.Info("debugging off")
+			me.debug = false
+		} else {
+			log.Info("debugging on")
+			me.debug = true
+		}
+		win := findWindowUnderMouse()
+		if win != nil {
+			win.dumpWidget("found() win. redrawing window:")
+			win.makeWindowActive()
+		}
+	*/
+	return nil
+}
+
+func theDarkness(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	if me.dark {
+		me.dark = false
+		log.Info("you have seen the light")
+	} else {
+		me.dark = true
+		log.Info("you have entered into darkness")
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func wheelsUp(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	// log.Info("private wheels up")
+	me.stdout.pager -= 2
+	if me.stdout.pager < 0 {
+		me.stdout.pager = 0
+	}
+	me.stdout.tk.refreshStdout()
+	return nil
+}
+
+func wheelsDown(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	// log.Info("you've landed")
+	me.stdout.pager += 2
+	if me.stdout.pager > len(me.stdout.outputS) {
+		me.stdout.pager = len(me.stdout.outputS)
+	}
+	me.stdout.tk.refreshStdout()
+	return nil
+}
+
+func tabCycleWindows(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	// log.Info("try to switch windows here")
+	if len(me.allwin) != len(findWindows()) {
+		me.allwin = findWindows()
+	}
+	tk := findNextWindow()
+	if tk == nil {
+		log.Info("findNextWindow() err. returned nil")
+		return nil
+	}
+	tk.makeWindowActive()
+	return nil
+}
+
+func doEsc(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	log.Info("got escape key")
+	if me.dropdown.active {
+		me.dropdown.tk.Hide()
+		me.dropdown.active = false
+		log.Info("escaped from dropdown")
+	}
+	if me.textbox.active {
+		me.textbox.tk.Hide()
+		me.textbox.active = false
+		log.Info("escaped from textbox")
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func theShow(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	var w *guiWidget
+	w = me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
+	w.showWidgets()
+	return nil
+}
+
+func doExit(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	standardExit()
+	return nil
+}
+
+func doPanic(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	log.Log(GOCUI, "do panic() here")
+	standardClose()
+	panic("forced panic in gocui")
+}
+
+func openDebuggger(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	me.myTree.SendEnableDebugger()
+	return nil
+}
+
+func theFind(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	w, h := g.MousePosition()
+	for _, tk := range findByXY(w, h) {
+		// tk.v.BgColor = gocui.ColorGreen
+		tk.dumpWidget("theFind()")
+		// tk.verifyRect()
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// is run whenever anyone hits 'd' (in an open space)
+func theLetterD(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	// widgets that don't have physical existance in
+	// a display toolkit are hidden. In the case
+	// of gocui, they are set as not 'visible' and put offscreen
+	// or have the size set to zero
+	// (hopefully anyway) lots of things with the toolkit
+	// still don't work
+
+	fakeStartWidth = me.FakeW
+	fakeStartHeight = me.TabH + me.FramePadH
+	if me.showDebug {
+		showFake()
+		me.showDebug = false
+	} else {
+		hideFake()
+		me.showDebug = true
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func theHelp(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	if me.showHelp {
+		log.Info("Show the help!")
+		showHelp()
+	} else {
+		log.Info("Hide the help!")
+		hideHelp()
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// todo: find and give credit to the person that I found this patch in their forked repo
+// handle ctrl+z
+func handle_ctrl_z(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	gocui.Suspend()
+	log.Info("got ctrl+z")
+	syscall.Kill(syscall.Getpid(), syscall.SIGSTOP)
+	log.Info("got ctrl+z syscall() done")
+	gocui.Resume()
+	return nil
+}

eventBindingsStdout.go

@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
+	"go.wit.com/log"
+)
+
+func theStdout(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	// me.stdout.pager = 0
+	infos := fmt.Sprintf("pager=%d len(%d) ", me.stdout.pager, len(me.stdout.outputS))
+	infos += fmt.Sprintf("last(%d,%d)", me.stdout.lastW, me.stdout.lastH)
+
+	if me.stdout.outputOnTop {
+		if me.stdout.outputOffscreen {
+			me.stdout.outputOffscreen = false
+			log.Info("stdout moved off screen", infos)
+			me.stdout.lastW = me.stdout.tk.gocuiSize.w0
+			me.stdout.lastH = me.stdout.tk.gocuiSize.h0
+			relocateStdoutOffscreen()
+			return nil
+		} else {
+			me.stdout.outputOffscreen = true
+			log.Info("stdout moved on  screen", infos)
+		}
+		// move the stdout window back onscreen
+		me.stdout.tk.relocateStdout(me.stdout.lastW, me.stdout.lastH)
+		me.stdout.outputOnTop = false
+		setThingsOnTop()
+	} else {
+		me.stdout.outputOnTop = true
+		setThingsOnTop()
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func stdoutPgup(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	me.stdout.pager -= me.stdout.Height() - 2
+	if me.stdout.pager < 0 {
+		me.stdout.pager = 0
+	}
+	tk := me.stdout.tk
+	tk.refreshStdout()
+	return nil
+}
+
+func stdoutHome(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	me.stdout.pager = 0
+	me.stdout.tk.refreshStdout()
+	return nil
+}
+
+func stdoutArrowUp(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	me.stdout.pager += 1
+	me.stdout.tk.refreshStdout()
+	return nil
+}
+
+func stdoutArrowDown(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	me.stdout.pager -= 1
+	me.stdout.tk.refreshStdout()
+	return nil
+}
+
+func stdoutPgdn(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	win := findWindowUnderMouse()
+	if win != nil {
+		if win.full.Height() > 50 {
+			log.Info("paging through really large window pager =", win.window.pager)
+			win.window.pager += 10
+			return nil
+		}
+	}
+	me.stdout.pager += 10
+
+	tk := me.stdout.tk
+	tk.refreshStdout()
+	return nil
+}

eventGocui.go

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-// Copyright 2014 The gocui Authors. All rights reserved.
-// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
-// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
 
 package main
 
@@ -8,7 +7,6 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 
 	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
-
 	"go.wit.com/log"
 )
 
@@ -19,29 +17,11 @@ import (
 // complicated console handling, it sends events here in a clean way.
 // This is equivalent to the linux command xev (apt install x11-utils)
 func gocuiEvent(g *gocui.Gui) error {
-	maxX, maxY := g.Size()
-	mx, my := g.MousePosition()
-	log.Verbose("handleEvent() START", maxX, maxY, mx, my, msgMouseDown)
-	if _, err := g.View("msg"); msgMouseDown && err == nil {
-		moveMsg(g)
-	}
-	if widgetView, _ := g.View("msg"); widgetView == nil {
-		log.Log(NOW, "handleEvent() create output widget now", maxX, maxY, mx, my)
-		makeOutputWidget(g, "this is a create before a mouse click")
-		if me.logStdout != nil {
-			// setOutput(me.logStdout)
-		}
-	} else {
-		log.Verbose("output widget already exists", maxX, maxY, mx, my)
-	}
+	me.ecount += 1
 	mouseMove(g)
-	log.Verbose("handleEvent() END  ", maxX, maxY, mx, my, msgMouseDown)
 	return nil
 }
 
-func dragOutputWindow() {
-}
-
 // turns off the frame on the global window
 func setFrame(b bool) {
 	// TODO: figure out what this might be useful for
@@ -53,6 +33,8 @@ func setFrame(b bool) {
 	v.Frame = b
 }
 
+// a test. exits gocui, but the application still runs
+// maybe can switch toolkits?
 func quit(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
 	return gocui.ErrQuit
 }

eventMouse.go

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
+
+	"go.wit.com/log"
+)
+
+func mouseUp(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	// useful to debug everything that is being clicked on
+	/*
+		for _, tk := range findByXY(w, h) {
+			tk.dumpWidget("mouseUp()")
+		}
+	*/
+
+	me.mouse.mouseUp = true
+	me.mouse.currentDrag = nil
+
+	if me.mouse.double && (time.Since(me.mouse.down) < me.mouse.doubletime) {
+		me.mouse.double = false
+		doMouseDoubleClick(me.mouse.downW, me.mouse.downH)
+		return nil
+	}
+	me.mouse.double = false
+
+	if time.Since(me.mouse.down) < me.mouse.clicktime {
+		doMouseClick(me.mouse.downW, me.mouse.downH)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// this is where you have to figure out what
+// widget was underneath so you can active
+// the right response for the toolkit user's app
+func mouseDown(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	if me.mouse.mouseUp {
+		if time.Since(me.mouse.down) < me.mouse.doubletime {
+			me.mouse.double = true
+		}
+		me.mouse.mouseUp = false
+		me.mouse.down = time.Now()
+		w, h := g.MousePosition()
+		me.mouse.downW = w
+		me.mouse.downH = h
+
+		win := findWindowUnderMouse()
+		if win != nil {
+			w, h := g.MousePosition()
+			s := fmt.Sprintf("mouse(%d,%d) ", w, h)
+			offW := win.full.w1 - w
+			offH := win.full.h1 - h
+			s += fmt.Sprintf("corner(%d,%d)", offW, offH)
+			if (offW < 3) && (offH < 3) {
+				log.Info("attempting resize on ", s, win.cuiName)
+				me.mouse.resize = true
+				// store the stdout corner for computing the drag size
+				me.stdout.lastW = me.stdout.tk.gocuiSize.w0
+				me.stdout.lastH = me.stdout.tk.gocuiSize.h0
+			} else {
+				// log.Info("mouse down resize off", s)
+				me.mouse.resize = false
+			}
+			win.setAsDragging()
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}

eventMouseClick.go

@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
+	"go.wit.com/log"
+	"go.wit.com/widget"
+)
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) doButtonClick() {
+	if tk.IsEnabled() {
+		tk.dumpWidget("click()") // enable this to debug widget clicks
+		me.myTree.SendFromUser(tk.node)
+	} else {
+		log.Info("button is currently disabled by the application")
+		// tk.dumpWidget("disabled()") // enable this to debug widget clicks
+	}
+}
+
+// handles a mouse click
+func doMouseClick(w int, h int) {
+	// Flag widgets (dropdown menus, etc) are the highest priority. ALWAYS SEND MOUSE CLICKS THERE FIRST
+	// handle an open dropdown menu or text entry window first
+	if me.dropdown.active || me.textbox.active {
+		// can't drag or do anything when dropdown or textbox are visible
+		for _, tk := range findByXY(w, h) {
+			if tk.WidgetId() == me.dropdown.wId {
+				log.Info("got dropdwon click", w, h, tk.cuiName)
+				tk.dropdownClicked(w, h)
+				return
+			}
+			if tk.WidgetId() == me.textbox.wId {
+				log.Info("got textbox click", w, h, tk.cuiName)
+				textboxClosed()
+				return
+			}
+		}
+		log.Info("a dropdown or textbox is active. you can't click anywhere else (otherwise hit ESC)", w, h)
+		return
+	}
+
+	win := findWindowUnderMouse()
+	if win == nil {
+		log.Log(INFO, "click() nothing was at:", w, h)
+		log.Log(INFO, "click() check if", w, h, "is the libnotify icon")
+		if me.notify.icon.tk != nil && me.notify.icon.tk.gocuiSize.inRect(w, h) {
+			log.Log(GOCUI, "click() is libnotify.icon!")
+			if me.notify.icon.active {
+				log.Info("show notify.icon here")
+				setNotifyIconText("[X]")
+				me.notify.icon.active = false
+			} else {
+				log.Info("hide notify.icon here")
+				setNotifyIconText("[ ]")
+				me.notify.icon.active = true
+			}
+			return
+		}
+		if me.notify.clock.tk != nil && me.notify.clock.tk.gocuiSize.inRect(w, h) {
+			log.Log(GOCUI, "click() is the clock!")
+			if me.showHelp {
+				log.Info("show help")
+				showHelp()
+			} else {
+				log.Info("hide help")
+				hideHelp()
+			}
+			return
+		}
+		return
+	}
+	if !win.isWindowActive() {
+		win.makeWindowActive()
+		return
+	} else {
+		// potentally the user is closing the window
+		if win.checkWindowClose(w, h) {
+			return
+		}
+	}
+
+	// look in this window for widgets
+	// widgets have priority. send the click here first
+	for _, tk := range win.findByXYreal(w, h) {
+		switch tk.WidgetType() {
+		case widget.Checkbox:
+			if tk.Checked() {
+				log.Log(WARN, "checkbox is being set to false")
+				tk.SetChecked(false)
+				tk.setCheckbox()
+			} else {
+				log.Log(WARN, "checkbox is being set to true")
+				tk.SetChecked(true)
+				tk.setCheckbox()
+			}
+			me.myTree.SendUserEvent(tk.node)
+			return
+		case widget.Button:
+			tk.doButtonClick()
+			return
+		case widget.Combobox:
+			tk.showDropdown()
+			return
+		case widget.Dropdown:
+			tk.showDropdown()
+			return
+		case widget.Textbox:
+			tk.prepTextbox()
+			return
+		default:
+			// TODO: enable the GUI debugger in gocui
+			// tk.dumpWidget("undef click()") // enable this to debug widget clicks
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// todo: use this?
+func ctrlDown(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	log.Info("todo: clicked with ctrlDown")
+	return nil
+}
+
+func doMouseDoubleClick(w int, h int) {
+	me.mouse.double = false
+	// log.Printf("actually a double click (%d,%d)", w, h)
+
+	if me.dropdown.active || me.textbox.active {
+		// can't drag or do anything when dropdown or textbox are visible
+		log.Info("can't double click. dropdown or textbox is active")
+		return
+	}
+
+	for _, tk := range findByXY(w, h) {
+		if tk.WidgetType() == widget.Window {
+			tk.makeWindowActive()
+			return
+		}
+
+		if tk.WidgetType() == widget.Stdout {
+			if me.stdout.outputOnTop {
+				me.stdout.outputOnTop = false
+				setThingsOnTop()
+			} else {
+				me.stdout.outputOnTop = true
+				setThingsOnTop()
+			}
+			return
+		}
+	}
+}

eventMouseDrag.go

@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
+// 2025 note by jcarr:
+// this is one of the coolest things ever worked with.
+// Personally, I've been working on making a gocui GO plugin
+// so I can use it as a generalized console GUI toolkit.
+//
+// Well done everyone that has contributed to this gocui project !!!
+// I am in your debt. Happy hacking & peace.
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
+	log "go.wit.com/log"
+	"go.wit.com/widget"
+)
+
+// this function uses the mouse position to highlight & unhighlight things
+// this is run every time the user moves the mouse over the terminal window
+func mouseMove(g *gocui.Gui) {
+	// this runs while the user moves the mouse. this highlights text
+	// toggle off all highlight views except for whatever is under the mouse
+	// START HIGHLIGHTING
+	for _, view := range g.Views() {
+		view.Highlight = false
+	}
+	w, h := g.MousePosition()
+	// TODO: try to highlight entire grid rows
+	if v, err := g.ViewByPosition(w, h); err == nil {
+		// block anything from highlighting while a dialog box is open
+		if me.dropdown.active || me.textbox.active {
+			if me.dropdown.tk != nil && me.dropdown.tk.v == v {
+				v.Highlight = true
+			}
+			if me.textbox.tk != nil && me.textbox.tk.v == v {
+				v.Highlight = true
+			}
+		} else {
+			v.Highlight = true
+		}
+	}
+
+	// old hack. create the 'msg' view if it does not yet exist
+	// TODO: put this somewhere more correct
+	if widgetView, _ := g.View("msg"); widgetView == nil {
+		if createStdout(g) {
+			return
+		}
+		return
+	}
+
+	// END HIGHLIGHTING
+
+	// Super Mouse Mode. very useful for debugging in the past. also, just fun
+	if me.supermouse {
+		w, h := g.MousePosition()
+		for _, tk := range findByXY(w, h) {
+			s := fmt.Sprintf("SM (%3d,%3d)", w, h)
+			tk.dumpWidget(s)
+		}
+	}
+
+	if me.mouse.mouseUp {
+		return
+	}
+	// EVERYTHING BELOW THIS IS RELATED TO MOUSE DRAGGING
+
+	// has the mouse been pressed down long enough to start dragging?
+	if time.Since(me.mouse.down) < me.mouse.clicktime {
+		// not dragging
+		return
+	}
+
+	if me.dropdown.active || me.textbox.active {
+		// can't drag
+		return
+	}
+
+	// drag whatever was set to drag
+	if me.mouse.currentDrag != nil {
+		// me.mouse.currentDrag.dumpWidget(fmt.Sprintf("MM (%3d,%3d)", w, h))
+		me.mouse.currentDrag.moveNew()
+		return
+	}
+	log.Info(fmt.Sprintf("gocui gui toolkit plugin error. nothing to drag at (%d,%d)", w, h))
+	return
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) setAsDragging() {
+	me.mouse.currentDrag = tk
+	tk.lastW = tk.gocuiSize.w0
+	tk.lastH = tk.gocuiSize.h0
+}
+
+// this is how the window gets dragged around
+func (tk *guiWidget) moveNew() {
+	w, h := me.baseGui.MousePosition()
+	if tk.WidgetType() == widget.Window {
+		tk.window.wasDragged = true
+
+		// compute the new location based off how far the mouse has moved
+		// since the mouse button was pressed down
+		tk.gocuiSize.w0 = tk.lastW + w - me.mouse.downW
+		tk.gocuiSize.h0 = tk.lastH + h - me.mouse.downH
+		tk.makeWindowActive()
+		return
+	}
+	/*
+		if tk.WidgetType() == widget.Flag {
+			me.baseGui.SetView(tk.cuiName, w-3, h-3, w+20, h+20, 0)
+			// tk.verifyRect()
+			s := fmt.Sprintf("move(%dx%d) %s ###", w, h, tk.cuiName)
+			tk.dumpWidget(s)
+			return
+		}
+	*/
+	if tk.WidgetType() == widget.Stdout {
+		if me.mouse.resize {
+			newW := w - me.stdout.lastW
+			newH := h - me.stdout.lastH
+			me.stdout.w = newW
+			me.stdout.h = newH
+			// log.Info("Resize true", w, h, newW, newH)
+			// me.stdout.lastW = w - me.stdout.mouseOffsetW
+			// me.stdout.lastH = h - me.stdout.mouseOffsetH
+			tk.relocateStdout(me.stdout.lastW, me.stdout.lastH)
+		} else {
+			// compute the new location based off how far the mouse has moved
+			// since the mouse button was pressed down
+			newW := tk.lastW + w - me.mouse.downW
+			newH := tk.lastH + h - me.mouse.downH
+			tk.relocateStdout(newW, newH)
+			// log.Info("Resize false", w, h, newW, newH)
+		}
+		setThingsOnTop() // sets help, Stdout, etc on the top after windows have been redrawn
+	}
+}

fakefile.go

@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"bytes"
-	"errors"
-	"io"
-)
-
-type FakeFile struct {
-	reader *bytes.Reader
-	buffer *bytes.Buffer
-	offset int64
-}
-
-func (f *FakeFile) Read(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
-	n, err = f.reader.ReadAt(p, f.offset)
-	f.offset += int64(n)
-	return n, err
-}
-
-func (f *FakeFile) Write(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
-	n, err = f.buffer.Write(p)
-	f.offset += int64(n)
-	f.reader.Reset(f.buffer.Bytes())
-	return n, err
-}
-
-func (f *FakeFile) Seek(offset int64, whence int) (int64, error) {
-	newOffset := f.offset
-
-	switch whence {
-	case io.SeekStart:
-		newOffset = offset
-	case io.SeekCurrent:
-		newOffset += offset
-	case io.SeekEnd:
-		newOffset = int64(f.buffer.Len()) + offset
-	default:
-		return 0, errors.New("Seek: whence not at start,current or end")
-	}
-	// never can get here right?
-
-	if newOffset < 0 {
-		return 0, errors.New("Seek: offset < 0")
-	}
-
-	f.offset = newOffset
-	return f.offset, nil
-}
-
-func NewFakeFile() *FakeFile {
-	buf := &bytes.Buffer{}
-	return &FakeFile{
-		reader: bytes.NewReader(buf.Bytes()),
-		buffer: buf,
-		offset: 0,
-	}
-}

find.go

@@ -0,0 +1,231 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"slices"
+
+	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
+	log "go.wit.com/log"
+	"go.wit.com/widget"
+)
+
+/*
+	gocui defines the offset like this:
+
+ 	   width -> increases to the right
+	----------------------------------    hieght
+	|            H = 1               |   increases
+	|                                |       |
+	| W = 1                   W = 18 |       |
+	|                                |       v
+	|            H = 5               |   downwards
+	-------------------------------------
+*/
+
+// change over to this name
+// returns all the widgets under (X,H) that are visible
+func findByXY(w int, h int) []*guiWidget {
+	rootW := me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
+
+	// this searches the binary tree recursively (function is right below)
+	return rootW.findByXYreal(w, h)
+}
+
+func (r rectType) inRect(w int, h int) bool {
+	if (r.w0 <= w) && (w <= r.w1) && (r.h0 <= h) && (h <= r.h1) {
+		return true
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// this checks a widget to see if it is under (W,H), then checks the widget's children
+// anything that matches is passed back as an array of widgets
+func (tk *guiWidget) findByXYreal(w int, h int) []*guiWidget {
+	var widgets []*guiWidget
+
+	//	if !tk.Visible() {
+	// ignore widgets that are not visible
+	//	} else {
+
+	// check the location to see if this is under (W,H)
+	// if it is, return this widget
+	// if (tk.gocuiSize.w0 <= w) && (w <= tk.gocuiSize.w1) &&
+	// 	(tk.gocuiSize.h0 <= h) && (h <= tk.gocuiSize.h1) {
+	//		if tk.gocuiSize.inRect(w, h) {
+	//			widgets = append(widgets, tk)
+	//		} else {
+	// if (tk.full.w0 <= w) && (w <= tk.full.w1) &&
+	// 	(tk.full.h0 <= h) && (h <= tk.full.h1) {
+	if tk.full.inRect(w, h) {
+		widgets = append(widgets, tk)
+	}
+	// log.Log(GOCUI, "findByXY() found", widget.WidgetType(), w, h)
+	//		}
+	//	}
+	// tk.verifyRect()
+
+	// search through the children widgets in the binary tree
+	for _, child := range tk.children {
+		widgets = append(widgets, child.findByXYreal(w, h)...)
+	}
+
+	return widgets
+}
+
+// returns all the windows from the root of the binary tree
+func findWindows() []*guiWidget {
+	rootW := me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
+	return rootW.findWindows()
+}
+
+// walk the binary tree looking for WidgetType == Window
+func (tk *guiWidget) findWindows() []*guiWidget {
+	var found []*guiWidget
+
+	if tk.WidgetType() == widget.Window {
+		found = append(found, tk)
+	}
+
+	for _, child := range tk.children {
+		found = append(found, child.findWindows()...)
+	}
+	return found
+}
+
+// used by gocui.TabKey to rotate through the windows
+func findNextWindow() *guiWidget {
+	var found bool
+	if len(me.allwin) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	for _, tk := range me.allwin {
+		if tk.window.active {
+			found = true
+			continue
+		}
+		if found {
+			return tk
+		}
+	}
+	// at the end, loop to the beginning
+	return me.allwin[0]
+}
+
+// find the window under the mouse and only the window under the mouse
+func findWindowUnderMouse() *guiWidget {
+	w, h := me.baseGui.MousePosition()
+
+	if len(me.allwin) != len(findWindows()) {
+		me.allwin = findWindows()
+	}
+
+	// if the stdout window is on top, check it first
+	if me.stdout.outputOnTop {
+		if me.stdout.tk.full.inRect(w, h) {
+			// log.Info(fmt.Sprintf("findWindowUnderMouse() found %s stdout on top (%dx%d)", me.stdout.tk.cuiName, w, h))
+			return me.stdout.tk
+		}
+	}
+
+	/*
+		// print out the window list
+		for _, tk := range me.allwin {
+			log.Info("findWindowUnderMouse() print:", tk.labelN, tk.window.active, tk.window.order)
+		}
+	*/
+
+	// now check if the active window is below the mouse
+	for _, tk := range me.allwin {
+		if tk.window.active {
+			if tk.full.inRect(w, h) {
+				// log.Info(fmt.Sprintf("findWindowUnderMouse() found %s active window (%dx%d)", tk.cuiName, w, h))
+				return tk
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	// well, just find any window then
+	// sorting by order might work?
+	slices.SortFunc(me.allwin, func(a, b *guiWidget) int {
+		return a.window.order - b.window.order
+	})
+
+	/*
+		// print out the window list
+		for _, tk := range me.allwin {
+			log.Info("findWindowUnderMouse() print:", tk.labelN, tk.window.active, tk.window.order)
+		}
+	*/
+	for _, win := range me.allwin {
+		if win.full.inRect(w, h) {
+			// log.Info(fmt.Sprintf("findWindowUnderMouse() found %s window (%dx%d)", win.cuiName, w, h))
+			return win
+		}
+	}
+
+	// okay, no window. maybe the stdout is there?
+	if me.stdout.tk.full.inRect(w, h) {
+		// log.Info(fmt.Sprintf("findWindowUnderMouse() found %s stdout (%dx%d)", me.stdout.tk.cuiName, w, h))
+		return me.stdout.tk
+	}
+
+	// geez. nothing! maybe auto return stdout?
+	log.Info("findWindowUnderMouse() no window found at", w, h)
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) findParentWindow() *guiWidget {
+	if tk.WidgetType() == widget.Window {
+		return tk
+	}
+	if tk.parent == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return tk.parent.findParentWindow()
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) findWidgetByName(name string) *guiWidget {
+	if tk.cuiName == name {
+		return tk
+	}
+	for _, child := range tk.children {
+		found := child.findWidgetByName(name)
+		if found != nil {
+			return found
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) findWidgetByView(v *gocui.View) *guiWidget {
+	if tk.v == v {
+		return tk
+	}
+	if tk.cuiName == v.Name() {
+		log.Log(NOW, "findWidget() error. names are mismatched or out of sync", tk.cuiName)
+		log.Log(NOW, "findWidget() or maybe the view has been deleted")
+		// return tk
+	}
+	for _, child := range tk.children {
+		found := child.findWidgetByView(v)
+		if found != nil {
+			return found
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) findWidgetById(id int) *guiWidget {
+	if tk.WidgetId() == id {
+		return tk
+	}
+	for _, child := range tk.children {
+		found := child.findWidgetById(id)
+		if found != nil {
+			return found
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}

help.go

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-// Copyright 2014 The gocui Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
+// Prior Copyright 2014 The gocui Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
@@ -10,32 +13,47 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
+	log "go.wit.com/log"
 )
 
-var helpText []string = []string{"KEYBINDINGS",
+/*
+	This in helpText doesn't print
+
+	"\x1b[0;32m  \x1b[0m", // this was a test to see what might be
+	// possible with gocui. it doesn't seem to work for me
+*/
+
+var helpText []string = []string{"Help Menu",
 	"",
-	"?: toggle help",
-	"d: toggle debugging",
-	"r: redraw widgets",
-	"s/h: show/hide all widgets",
-	"L: list all widgets",
-	"M: list all widgets positions",
-	"\x1b[0;32m  \x1b[0m",
-	"q: quit()",
-	"p: panic()",
-	"o: show Stdout",
-	"l: log to /tmp/witgui.log",
-	"Ctrl-D: Toggle Debugging",
-	"Ctrl-V: Toggle Verbose Debugging",
-	"Ctrl-C: Exit",
+	"Tab: toggle through windows",
+	"O:   toggle STDOUT",
+	"H:   toggle this gocui menu",
+	"L:   toggle light/dark mode",
+	"CTRL-c: quit()",
 	"",
+	"Debugging:",
+	"S: Supermouse mode",
+	"M: list all widget positions",
+	"L: list all widgets in tree",
 }
 
-func hidehelplayout() {
+func hideHelp() {
+	if me.showHelp {
+		log.Info("help is already down")
+		me.showHelp = true
+		return
+	}
+	me.showHelp = true
 	me.baseGui.DeleteView("help")
 }
 
-func helplayout() error {
+func showHelp() error {
+	if !me.showHelp {
+		log.Info("help is already up")
+		me.showHelp = false
+		return nil
+	}
+	me.showHelp = false
 	g := me.baseGui
 	var err error
 	maxX, _ := g.Size()
@@ -47,17 +65,18 @@ func helplayout() error {
 		}
 	}
 
-	help, err := g.SetView("help", maxX-(newW+me.FramePadW), 0, maxX-1, len(helpText)+me.FramePadH, 0)
+	a := maxX - (newW + me.FramePadW)
+	b := me.notify.help.offsetH
+	c := maxX - 1
+	d := me.notify.help.offsetH + len(helpText) + me.FramePadH
+
+	help, err := g.SetView("help", a, b, c, d, 0)
 	if err != nil {
 		if !errors.Is(err, gocui.ErrUnknownView) {
 			return err
 		}
 		help.SelBgColor = gocui.ColorGreen
 		help.SelFgColor = gocui.ColorBlack
-		// fmt.Fprintln(help, "Enter: Click Button")
-		// fmt.Fprintln(help, "Tab/Space: Switch Buttons")
-		// fmt.Fprintln(help, "Backspace: Delete Button")
-		// fmt.Fprintln(help, "Arrow keys: Move Button")
 
 		fmt.Fprintln(help, strings.Join(helpText, "\n"))
 
@@ -65,6 +84,21 @@ func helplayout() error {
 			return err
 		}
 	}
+	g.SetViewOnTop("help")
 	me.helpLabel = help
+
+	/*
+		if me.treeRoot == nil {
+			log.Info("gogui makeClock() error. treeRoot == nil")
+			return nil
+		} else {
+			if me.stdout.tk == nil {
+				makeOutputWidget(me.baseGui, "made this in showHelp()")
+				msg := fmt.Sprintf("test to stdout from in showHelp() %d\n", me.ecount)
+				me.stdout.Write([]byte(msg))
+				log.Log(NOW, "log.log(NOW) test")
+			}
+		}
+	*/
 	return nil
 }

init.go

@@ -0,0 +1,425 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
+// Copyright 2014 The gocui Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"runtime"
+	"runtime/debug"
+	"runtime/pprof"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
+	"go.wit.com/log"
+)
+
+// sent via -ldflags
+var VERSION string
+var BUILDTIME string
+
+var PLUGIN string = "gocui"
+
+// this is called at the very initial connection
+// between the app and this gocui plugin
+// this is a good place to initialize gocui's default behavior
+func toolkitInit() {
+	log.Log(INFO, "gocui toolkitInit() me.ok =", me.ok)
+	if me.baseGui == nil {
+		log.Info("gocui baseGui is still nil")
+		standardExit()
+	}
+	if me.treeRoot == nil {
+		log.Info("gocui treeRoot is still nil")
+		standardExit()
+	}
+	// w := me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
+	// w.dumpTree("MM")
+	// w.dumpWindows("WW")
+
+	// SETUP HELP START
+	me.baseGui.Update(testRefresh)
+	log.Log(INFO, "gocui toolkitInit() trying showHelp() me.ok =", me.ok)
+	showHelp()
+	hideHelp()
+	// SETUP HELP END
+
+	// SETUP STDOUT START
+	if me.stdout.tk == nil {
+		makeOutputWidget(me.baseGui, "from setThingsOnTop()")
+	}
+
+	// time.Sleep(300 * time.Millisecond)
+	log.Log(INFO, "gocui toolkitInit() me.ok =", me.ok)
+	me.baseGui.Update(testRefresh)
+	if !me.stdout.init {
+		log.Log(INFO, "gocui toolkitInit() stdout.Init me.ok =", me.ok)
+		me.stdout.init = true
+		relocateStdoutOffscreen()
+	}
+	// time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
+	me.stdout.outputOnTop = false
+	setThingsOnTop()
+	// SETUP STDOUT END
+
+	// SETUP BG
+	if me.BG.tk == nil {
+		me.BG.tk = makeNewInternalWidget(me.BG.wId)
+	}
+
+	// SETUP libnotify clock and menu
+	me.notify.clock.once.Do(makeNotifyClock)
+	me.notify.icon.once.Do(makeNotifyIcon)
+
+	// TODO: for some reason, this makes the background doesn't display
+	// PUT INIT DEBUG COOE HERE
+	var toggle bool
+	for i := 0; i < 4; i++ {
+		// enable this to show early debugging
+		// w := me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
+		// w.dumpTree("MM")
+		// w.dumpWindows("WW")
+
+		time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
+		if toggle {
+			toggle = false
+			// log.Info("gocui toolkitInit() put testing true stuff here")
+		} else {
+			toggle = true
+			// log.Info("gocui toolkitInit() put testing false stuff here")
+		}
+		setBottomBG()
+	}
+	// PUT INIT DEBUG COOE HERE END
+
+	// TEST TEXTBOX START
+	// time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
+	log.Log(INFO, "gocui toolkitInit() me.ok =", me.ok)
+	me.baseGui.Update(testRefresh)
+	if me.textbox.tk == nil {
+		log.Log(INFO, "gocui toolkitInit() initTextbox me.ok =", me.ok)
+		initTextbox()
+		me.textbox.tk.prepTextbox()
+	}
+	// TEST TEXTBOX END
+}
+
+func toolkitClose() {
+	me.baseGui.Close()
+}
+
+// a GO GUI plugin should initTree in init()
+// this should be done before the application
+// starts trying to open up a channel
+func init() {
+	me.myTree = initTree()
+
+}
+
+// sets defaults and establishes communication
+// to this toolkit from the wit/gui golang package
+func initPlugin() {
+	defer func() {
+		if r := recover(); r != nil {
+			fmt.Fprintf(me.outf, "PANIC: initPlugin() recovered %v\n", r)
+			return
+		}
+	}()
+
+	var err error
+
+	// read in defaults from config protobuf
+	if val, err := me.myTree.ConfigFind("stdout"); err == nil {
+		if val == "true" {
+			me.stdout.startOnscreen = true
+			// me.stdout.Write([]byte("starting with stdout onscreen\n"))
+		}
+		if val == "disable" {
+			log.Log(INFO, "gocui: attempt to COMPLETELY DISABLE STDOUT LOG")
+			me.stdout.disable = true
+		}
+	}
+	if val, err := me.myTree.ConfigFind("dark"); err == nil {
+		if val == "true" {
+			me.dark = true
+		}
+	} else {
+		// macos iterm2 really only works with dark mode right now
+		if runtime.GOOS == "macos" {
+			me.dark = true
+		}
+	}
+	// todo: make this a tmp file that goes away
+	if !me.stdout.disable {
+		log.Log(INFO, "stdout.disable == true. writing to /tmp/captureMode.log")
+		me.outf, err = os.OpenFile("/tmp/captureMode.log", os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE|os.O_APPEND, 0666)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Info("error opening file:", err)
+			os.Exit(0)
+		}
+		// todo: some early output still goes to the /tmp/ file
+		//time.Sleep(200 * time.Millisecond)
+		log.CaptureMode(me.stdout)
+	}
+	me.starttime = time.Now()
+	log.Log(INFO, "Init() of awesome-gocui")
+
+	// init the config struct default values
+	Set(&me, "default")
+
+	// initial app window settings
+
+	// initial stdout window settings
+	me.stdout.w = 180
+	me.stdout.h = 40
+	me.stdout.lastW = 4
+	me.stdout.lastH = 20
+
+	// just make up unique values for these
+	me.dropdown.wId = -77
+	me.textbox.wId = -55
+	me.stdout.wId = -4
+	me.BG.wId = -22
+
+	// the clock widget id and offset
+	me.notify.clock.wId = -5
+	me.notify.clock.offsetW = 13
+	me.notify.clock.offsetH = 1
+
+	me.notify.icon.wId = -6
+	me.notify.icon.offsetW = 4
+	me.notify.icon.offsetH = 1
+
+	me.notify.help.wId = -7
+	me.notify.help.offsetH = 3
+
+	Set(&me.dropdown, "default")
+	// s := fmt.Sprintln("fake default check =", me.FakeW, "dropdown.Id", me.dropdown.Id)
+	// me.stdout.Write([]byte(s))
+
+	me.mouse.mouseUp = true
+	me.mouse.clicktime = time.Millisecond * 200
+	me.mouse.doubletime = time.Millisecond * 400
+
+	me.newWindowTrigger = make(chan *guiWidget, 1)
+	go newWindowTrigger()
+	go refreshGocui()
+
+	log.Log(NOW, "Init() start pluginChan")
+	if me.stdout.disable {
+		log.Info("Using STDOUT")
+	} else {
+		log.Info("Using gocui STDOUT")
+		os.Stdout = me.outf
+		log.CaptureMode(me.outf)
+	}
+
+	// init gocui
+	g, err := gocui.NewGui(gocui.OutputNormal, true)
+	if err != nil {
+		os.Exit(-1)
+		return
+	}
+	me.baseGui = g
+	g.Cursor = true
+	g.Mouse = true
+
+	// this sets the function that is run on every event. For example:
+	// When you click the mouse, move the mouse, or press a key on the keyboard
+	// This is equivalent to xev or similar to cat /dev/input on linux
+	g.SetManagerFunc(gocuiEvent)
+
+	// register how the 'gocui' will work as a GO toolkit plugin
+	// all applications will use these keys. they are universal.
+	// registered event handlers still have the events sent to gocuiEvent() above
+	registerHandlers(g)
+
+	time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
+
+	if me.outf != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintln(me.outf, "hello world", time.Since(me.starttime))
+	}
+
+	// coreStdout()
+	// createStdout(g)
+	// tell 'tree' that we are okay to start talking to
+	me.myTree.InitOK()
+	me.ok = true // this tells init() it's okay to work with gocui
+
+	go gocuiMain()
+}
+
+// This goroutine sits in gocui's MainLoop()
+func gocuiMain() {
+	defer func() {
+		if r := recover(); r != nil {
+			log.Warn("PANIC ecovered in gocuiMain()", r)
+			if me.outf == nil {
+				debug.PrintStack()
+				pprof.Lookup("goroutine").WriteTo(os.Stdout, 1)
+				panic(os.Stdout)
+			} else {
+				fmt.Fprintf(me.outf, "PANIC recovered in r = %v", r)
+				os.Stderr = me.outf
+				os.Stdout = me.outf
+				debug.PrintStack()
+				pprof.Lookup("goroutine").WriteTo(me.outf, 1)
+				panic(me.outf)
+			}
+		}
+	}()
+
+	// me.stdout.Write([]byte("begin gogui.MainLoop()\n"))
+	if err := me.baseGui.MainLoop(); err != nil && !errors.Is(err, gocui.ErrQuit) {
+		log.Log(NOW, "g.MainLoop() panic err =", err)
+		// normally panic here
+		panic("gocuiTKmainloop OOPS")
+	}
+}
+
+func standardExit() {
+	log.Log(NOW, "standardExit() doing baseGui.Close()")
+	me.baseGui.Close()
+	if me.outf != nil {
+		log.Log(NOW, "standardExit() doing outf.Close()")
+		me.outf.Close()
+	}
+	// log(true, "standardExit() setOutput(os.Stdout)")
+	// setOutput(os.Stdout)
+	log.Log(NOW, "standardExit() send back Quit()")
+	// go sendBackQuit() // don't stall here in case the
+	// induces a delay in case the callback channel is broken
+	time.Sleep(200 * time.Millisecond)
+	log.Log(NOW, "standardExit() exit()")
+	os.Exit(0)
+}
+
+func standardClose() {
+	log.Log(NOW, "standardExit() doing baseGui.Close()")
+	me.baseGui.Close()
+	log.Log(NOW, "standardExit() doing outf.Close()")
+	me.outf.Close()
+	// os.Stdin = os.Stdin
+	// os.Stdout = os.Stdout
+	// os.Stderr = os.Stderr
+	log.Log(NOW, "standardExit() send back Quit()")
+}
+
+func main() {
+}
+
+// this hack is to wait for the application to send something
+// before trying to do anything. todo: rethink this someday
+func waitOK() {
+	for {
+		if me.ok {
+			return
+		}
+		time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond)
+	}
+}
+
+// this hack is to wait for the application to send something
+// before trying to do anything. todo: rethink this someday
+func waitFirstWindow() {
+	for {
+		if me.firstWindowOk {
+			return
+		}
+		time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond)
+	}
+}
+
+// empty function. this triggers gocui to refresh the screen
+func testRefresh(*gocui.Gui) error {
+	// log.Info("in testRefresh")
+	return nil
+}
+
+// refresh the screen 10 times a second
+func refreshGocui() {
+	defer func() {
+		if r := recover(); r != nil {
+			if me.outf == nil {
+				log.Info("INIT PLUGIN recovered in r", r)
+			} else {
+				fmt.Fprintln(me.outf, "INIT PLUGIN recovered in r", r)
+			}
+			return
+		}
+	}()
+	var lastRefresh time.Time
+	lastRefresh = time.Now()
+	me.refresh = false
+	for {
+		time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
+		// log.Info("refresh checking ok")
+		if !me.ok {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// redraw the windows if something has changed
+		if time.Since(lastRefresh) > 1000*time.Millisecond {
+			if me.refresh {
+				log.Log(NOW, "newWindowTrigger() sending refresh to channel")
+				me.newWindowTrigger <- me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
+				me.refresh = false
+			}
+		}
+
+		// this code updates the clock
+		if time.Since(lastRefresh) > 1000*time.Millisecond {
+			// artificially pause clock while dragging.
+			// this is a reminder to make this refresh code smarter
+			// after the switch to protocol buffers
+			me.myTree.Lock()
+			if me.mouse.mouseUp {
+				// log.Info("refresh now on mouseUp")
+				// todo: add logic here to see if the application has changed anything
+				libNotifyUpdate()
+				lastRefresh = time.Now()
+			} else {
+				if time.Since(lastRefresh) > 3*time.Second {
+					libNotifyUpdate()
+					lastRefresh = time.Now()
+				}
+			}
+			me.myTree.Unlock()
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// set the widget start width & height
+
+func newWindowTrigger() {
+	// log.Log(NOW, "newWindowTriggerl() START")
+	for {
+		// log.Log(NOW, "GO plugin toolkit made a new window")
+		select {
+		case tk := <-me.newWindowTrigger:
+			// log.Log(NOW, "newWindowTrigger() got new window", tk.cuiName)
+			// time.Sleep(200 * time.Millisecond)
+			waitOK()
+			me.myTree.Lock()
+			// time.Sleep(200 * time.Millisecond)
+			redoWindows(me.FirstWindowW, me.FirstWindowH)
+			me.firstWindowOk = true
+			if !me.stdout.init {
+				me.stdout.init = true
+				relocateStdoutOffscreen()
+			}
+			if me.textbox.tk == nil {
+				initTextbox()
+				me.textbox.tk.prepTextbox()
+			}
+			tk.makeWindowActive()
+			me.myTree.Unlock()
+		}
+	}
+}

keybindings.go

@@ -1,200 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2014 The gocui Authors. All rights reserved.
-// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
-// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
-
-package main
-
-import (
-	"syscall"
-
-	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
-
-	"go.wit.com/log"
-)
-
-// handle ctrl+z
-func handle_ctrl_z(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-	gocui.Suspend()
-	log.Info("got ctrl+z")
-	syscall.Kill(syscall.Getpid(), syscall.SIGSTOP)
-	gocui.Resume()
-	return nil
-}
-
-func defaultKeybindings(g *gocui.Gui) error {
-	if err := g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.KeyCtrlC, gocui.ModNone, quit); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	// setup ctrl+z
-	keyForced, modForced := gocui.MustParse("ctrl+z")
-	if err := g.SetKeybinding("", keyForced, modForced, handle_ctrl_z); err != nil {
-		log.Error(err)
-	}
-	for _, n := range []string{"but1", "but2", "help", "but3"} {
-		if err := g.SetKeybinding(n, gocui.MouseLeft, gocui.ModNone, showMsg); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-	}
-	if err := g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.MouseRelease, gocui.ModNone, mouseUp); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	// mouseDown() runs whenever you click on an unknown view (?)
-	if err := g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.MouseLeft, gocui.ModNone, mouseDown); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	if err := g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.MouseLeft, gocui.ModMouseCtrl, ctrlDown); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	//	if err := g.SetKeybinding(w.v.Name(), gocui.MouseLeft, gocui.ModNone, click); err != nil {
-	//		return err
-	//	}
-	/*
-		if err := g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.MouseLeft, gocui.ModNone, globalDown); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-	*/
-	if err := g.SetKeybinding("msg", gocui.MouseLeft, gocui.ModNone, msgDown); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	addDebugKeys(g)
-	return nil
-}
-
-func addDebugKeys(g *gocui.Gui) {
-	// show debugging buttons
-	g.SetKeybinding("", 'd', gocui.ModNone,
-		func(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-			fakeStartWidth = me.FakeW
-			fakeStartHeight = me.TabH + me.FramePadH
-			if showDebug {
-				showFake()
-				showDebug = false
-			} else {
-				hideFake()
-				showDebug = true
-			}
-			return nil
-		})
-
-	// display the help menu
-	g.SetKeybinding("", '?', gocui.ModNone,
-		func(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-			if showHelp {
-				helplayout()
-				showHelp = false
-				if me.dropdownV == nil {
-					me.dropdownV = makeDropdownView("addWidget() ddview")
-				}
-				me.dropdownV.Show()
-			} else {
-				me.baseGui.DeleteView("help")
-				showHelp = true
-				me.dropdownV.Hide()
-			}
-			return nil
-		})
-
-	// redraw all the widgets
-	g.SetKeybinding("", 'r', gocui.ModNone,
-		func(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-			var w *guiWidget
-			w = me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
-			if redoWidgets {
-				wRoot := me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
-				wRoot.redoWindows(0, 0)
-				redoWidgets = false
-			} else {
-				w.hideWidgets()
-				redoWidgets = true
-			}
-			return nil
-		})
-
-	// hide all widgets
-	g.SetKeybinding("", 'h', gocui.ModNone,
-		func(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-			var w *guiWidget
-			w = me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
-			w.hideWidgets()
-			return nil
-		})
-
-	// show all widgets
-	g.SetKeybinding("", 's', gocui.ModNone,
-		func(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-			var w *guiWidget
-			w = me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
-			w.showWidgets()
-			return nil
-		})
-
-	// list all widgets
-	g.SetKeybinding("", 'L', gocui.ModNone,
-		func(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-			me.treeRoot.ListWidgets()
-			return nil
-		})
-
-	// list all widgets with positions
-	g.SetKeybinding("", 'M', gocui.ModNone,
-		func(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-			w := me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
-			w.dumpTree("M")
-			return nil
-		})
-
-	// redo windows
-	g.SetKeybinding("", 'w', gocui.ModNone,
-		func(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-			wRoot := me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
-			wRoot.redoWindows(0, 0)
-			return nil
-		})
-
-	// log to output window
-	g.SetKeybinding("", 'o', gocui.ModNone,
-		func(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-			log.Log(ERROR, "TODO: re-implement this")
-			/*
-				if me.logStdout.Visible() {
-					me.logStdout.SetVisible(false)
-					// setOutput(os.Stdout)
-				} else {
-					me.logStdout.SetVisible(true)
-					// setOutput(me.logStdout.tk)
-				}
-			*/
-			return nil
-		})
-
-	// exit
-	g.SetKeybinding("", 'q', gocui.ModNone,
-		func(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-			standardExit()
-			return nil
-		})
-	g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.KeyCtrlC, gocui.ModNone,
-		func(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-			standardExit()
-			return nil
-		})
-	g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.KeyCtrlD, gocui.ModNone,
-		func(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-			if showDebug {
-				me.myTree.SendEnableDebugger()
-			}
-			return nil
-		})
-	g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.KeyCtrlV, gocui.ModNone,
-		func(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-			return nil
-		})
-
-	// panic
-	g.SetKeybinding("", 'p', gocui.ModNone,
-		func(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-			standardClose()
-			panic("forced panic in gocui")
-			return nil
-		})
-}

libnotify.go

@@ -0,0 +1,292 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
+// this file implements a libnotify-like menu
+// also there is SIGWINCH resizing
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
+	log "go.wit.com/log"
+	"go.wit.com/toolkits/tree"
+	"go.wit.com/widget"
+)
+
+// create a new widget in the binary tree
+func makeNewInternalWidget(wId int) *guiWidget {
+	if me.treeRoot == nil {
+		log.Info("GOGUI Init ERROR. treeRoot == nil")
+		return nil
+	}
+	n := new(tree.Node)
+	n.WidgetType = widget.Flag
+	n.WidgetId = wId
+	n.ParentId = 0
+
+	// store the internal toolkit information
+	tk := new(guiWidget)
+	tk.frame = true
+
+	tk.node = n
+	tk.node.Parent = me.treeRoot
+
+	// set the name used by gocui to the id
+	tk.cuiName = fmt.Sprintf("%d DR", wId)
+
+	tk.setColorInput()
+
+	// add this new widget on the binary tree
+	tk.parent = me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
+	if tk.parent == nil {
+		panic("makeNewFlagWidget() didn't get treeRoot guiWidget")
+	} else {
+		tk.parent.children = append(tk.parent.children, tk)
+	}
+
+	n.TK = tk
+	return tk
+}
+
+func makeNotifyClock() {
+	if me.treeRoot == nil {
+		log.Info("gogui makeClock() error. treeRoot == nil")
+		return
+	}
+	me.notify.clock.tk = makeNewInternalWidget(me.notify.clock.wId)
+	// me.notify.clock.tk.dumpWidget("init() clock")
+	me.notify.clock.tk.MoveToOffset(0, 0)
+	me.notify.clock.tk.labelN = time.Now().Format("15:04:05")
+	me.notify.clock.tk.frame = false
+	me.notify.clock.tk.setColorLabel()
+	me.notify.clock.tk.Show()
+	me.notify.clock.active = true
+	// me.notify.clock.tk.dumpWidget("notifyClock()")
+
+}
+
+func makeNotifyIcon() {
+	if me.treeRoot == nil {
+		log.Info("gogui makeClock() error. treeRoot == nil")
+		return
+	}
+	me.notify.icon.tk = makeNewInternalWidget(me.notify.icon.wId)
+	// me.notify.icon.tk.dumpWidget("init() menu")
+	w, _ := me.baseGui.Size()
+	me.notify.icon.tk.MoveToOffset(w-5, me.notify.icon.offsetH)
+	me.notify.icon.tk.labelN = "[ ]"
+	me.notify.icon.tk.frame = false
+	me.notify.icon.tk.setColorNotifyIcon()
+	me.notify.icon.tk.Show()
+	me.notify.icon.active = true
+	// me.notify.icon.tk.dumpWidget("notifyIcon()")
+
+}
+
+func libNotifyUpdate() {
+	if me.baseGui == nil {
+		log.Info("libNotifyUpdate error baseGui == nil")
+		return
+	}
+
+	// refresh GOCUI
+	me.baseGui.Update(testRefresh)
+	// me.baseGui.UpdateAsync(testRefresh) // Async option. probably don't need this?
+
+	if me.notify.clock.tk == nil {
+		log.Info("libNotifyUpdate error clock.tk == nil")
+		return
+	}
+
+	// check for SIGWINCH. If so, move the libnotify clock
+	w, h := me.baseGui.Size()
+	if me.winchW != w || me.winchH != h {
+		if me.winchW == 0 && me.winchH == 0 {
+			// this isn't really SIGWINCH. This is the app starting
+		} else {
+			log.Printf("gocui: long live SIGWINCH! (w,h) is now (%d,%d)\n", w, h)
+		}
+		me.winchW = w
+		me.winchH = h
+		me.notify.clock.tk.MoveToOffset(w-me.notify.clock.offsetW, me.notify.clock.offsetH)
+		me.notify.clock.tk.Hide()
+		me.notify.clock.tk.Show()
+
+		sigWinchBG()
+		sigWinchIcon()
+	}
+
+	// update the time
+	me.notify.clock.tk.v.Clear()
+	me.notify.clock.tk.labelN = time.Now().Format("15:04:05")
+	me.notify.clock.tk.v.WriteString(me.notify.clock.tk.labelN)
+	hardDrawAtgocuiSize(me.notify.clock.tk)
+	// hardDrawUnderMouse(me.notify.clock.tk, "clock")
+	// log.Info("libNotifyUpdate updated clock", me.notify.clock.tk.labelN)
+
+	if me.notify.icon.tk == nil {
+		log.Info("libNotifyUpdate error menu.tk == nil")
+		return
+	}
+	if me.notify.icon.tk.v == nil {
+		log.Info("libNotifyUpdate error menu.tk.v == nil")
+		return
+	}
+
+	// update the menu
+	hardDrawAtgocuiSize(me.notify.icon.tk)
+	me.notify.icon.tk.setColorNotifyIcon()
+	me.baseGui.SetViewOnTop(me.notify.icon.tk.v.Name())
+	me.baseGui.SetViewOnTop(me.notify.clock.tk.v.Name())
+}
+
+func setNotifyIconText(s string) {
+	me.notify.icon.tk.v.Clear()
+	me.notify.icon.tk.labelN = s
+	me.notify.icon.tk.v.WriteString(me.notify.icon.tk.labelN)
+	hardDrawAtgocuiSize(me.notify.icon.tk)
+	me.notify.icon.tk.setColorNotifyIcon()
+	me.baseGui.SetViewOnTop(me.notify.icon.tk.v.Name())
+	log.Info("setNotifyIconText() updated menu to:", me.notify.icon.tk.labelN)
+}
+
+// in the very end of redrawing things, this will place the help and stdout on the top or botton
+// depending on the state the user has chosen
+func setThingsOnTop() {
+	if me.showHelp { // terrible variable name. FIXME
+		// log.Info("help does not exist")
+	} else {
+		me.baseGui.SetViewOnTop("help")
+	}
+
+	if me.notify.clock.tk != nil {
+		me.baseGui.SetViewOnTop(me.notify.clock.tk.v.Name())
+	}
+
+	if me.notify.icon.tk != nil {
+		if me.notify.icon.tk.v != nil {
+			me.baseGui.SetViewOnTop(me.notify.icon.tk.v.Name())
+		}
+	}
+
+	if me.stdout.tk == nil {
+		makeOutputWidget(me.baseGui, "from setThingsOnTop()")
+	}
+	if me.stdout.tk == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	if me.stdout.tk.v == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	if me.dark {
+		me.stdout.tk.v.FgColor = gocui.ColorWhite
+		me.stdout.tk.v.BgColor = gocui.ColorBlack
+	} else {
+		me.stdout.tk.v.FgColor = gocui.ColorBlack
+		me.stdout.tk.v.BgColor = gocui.AttrNone
+	}
+
+	if me.stdout.outputOnTop {
+		me.baseGui.SetViewOnTop("msg")
+	} else {
+		me.baseGui.SetViewOnBottom("msg")
+	}
+	if me.stdout.startOnscreen {
+		// log.Info("THIS TRIGGERS STDOUT") // todo: make a proper init() & move this there
+		me.stdout.tk.relocateStdout(me.stdout.lastW, me.stdout.lastH)
+		me.stdout.startOnscreen = false
+	}
+	setBottomBG()
+}
+
+// useful for debuggging
+func hardDrawUnderMouse(tk *guiWidget, name string) {
+	if tk.v != nil {
+		tk.Hide()
+	}
+	w, h := me.baseGui.MousePosition()
+	a := w
+	b := h
+	c := w + 8
+	d := h + 4
+	var err error
+	tk.v, err = me.baseGui.SetView(tk.cuiName, a, b, c, d, 0)
+	if err == nil {
+		log.Info("hardDrawUnderMouse() err ok widget", tk.cuiName)
+		tk.dumpWidget("hard draw err")
+	}
+	tk.v.Frame = false
+	tk.v.Clear()
+	tk.v.WriteString(tk.labelN + "\n" + name)
+}
+
+func hardDrawAtgocuiSize(tk *guiWidget) {
+	if tk.v != nil {
+		tk.Hide()
+	}
+	a := tk.gocuiSize.w0
+	b := tk.gocuiSize.h0
+	c := tk.gocuiSize.w1
+	d := tk.gocuiSize.h1
+	var err error
+	tk.v, err = me.baseGui.SetView(tk.cuiName, a, b, c, d, 0)
+	if err == nil {
+		log.Info("hardDrawAtgocuiSize() err ok widget", tk.cuiName)
+		tk.dumpWidget("hard draw err")
+	}
+	tk.v.Frame = false
+	tk.v.Clear()
+	tk.v.WriteString(tk.labelN)
+	log.Verbose("hardDrawAtgocuiSize() err ok widget", tk.cuiName, a, b, c, d, tk.v.Name())
+}
+
+func sigWinchIcon() {
+	w, _ := me.baseGui.Size()
+	me.notify.icon.tk.MoveToOffset(w-me.notify.icon.offsetW, me.notify.icon.offsetH)
+	me.notify.icon.tk.Hide()
+	me.notify.icon.tk.Show()
+}
+
+func sigWinchBG() {
+	tk := me.BG.tk
+	w, h := me.baseGui.Size()
+	a := -1
+	b := -1
+	c := w + 1
+	d := h + 1
+	var err error
+	tk.v, err = me.baseGui.SetView(tk.cuiName, a, b, c, d, 0)
+	if err == nil {
+		if tk.v == nil {
+			tk.dumpWidget("drawView() err")
+			log.Log(ERROR, "drawView() internal plugin error err = nil")
+		}
+		return
+	}
+	log.Log(INFO, "background resized to", a, b, c, d)
+}
+
+// find the "BG" widget and set it to the background on the very very bottom
+func setBottomBG() {
+	if me.BG.tk == nil {
+		log.Info("background tk widget not initialized")
+		return
+	}
+	tk := me.BG.tk
+	// log.Info("found BG. setting to bottom", tk.cuiName)
+	if tk.v == nil {
+		sigWinchBG()
+		return
+	}
+	if me.dark {
+		tk.v.BgColor = gocui.ColorBlack
+	} else {
+		tk.v.BgColor = gocui.ColorWhite
+	}
+	tk.v.Clear()
+	me.baseGui.SetViewOnBottom(tk.cuiName)
+	w, h := me.baseGui.Size()
+	me.baseGui.SetView(tk.cuiName, -1, -1, w+1, h+1, 0)
+}

log.go

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
 package main
 
 /*
@@ -8,8 +11,6 @@ import (
 	"go.wit.com/log"
 )
 
-var outputS []string
-
 var NOW *log.LogFlag
 var INFO *log.LogFlag
 var GOCUI *log.LogFlag
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ func init() {
 	full := "go.wit.com/gui"
 	short := "gocui"
 
-	GOCUI = log.NewFlag("GOCUI", false, full, short, "gocui internals")
+	GOCUI = log.NewFlag("GOCUI", true, full, short, "gocui internals")
 
 	full = "go.wit.com/toolkits/gocui"
 	short = "gocui"

main.go

@@ -1,192 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2014 The gocui Authors. All rights reserved.
-// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
-// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
-
-package main
-
-import (
-	"errors"
-	"os"
-	"runtime/debug"
-
-	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
-	"go.wit.com/log"
-	"go.wit.com/toolkits/tree"
-)
-
-func queueToolkitClose() {
-	me.baseGui.Close()
-}
-
-func queueSetChecked(n *tree.Node, b bool) {
-	setChecked(n, b)
-}
-
-// sets defaults and establishes communication
-// to this toolkit from the wit/gui golang package
-func init() {
-	log.Log(INFO, "Init() of awesome-gocui")
-
-	// init the config struct default values
-	Set(&me, "default")
-
-	// Set(&me, "dense")
-
-	me.myTree = tree.New()
-	me.myTree.PluginName = "gocui"
-
-	me.myTree.NodeAction = newaction
-	me.myTree.Add = newAdd
-	me.myTree.SetTitle = newSetTitle
-	me.myTree.SetLabel = newSetLabel
-	me.myTree.SetText = newSetText
-	me.myTree.AddText = newAddText
-	me.myTree.SetChecked = queueSetChecked
-	me.myTree.ToolkitClose = queueToolkitClose
-
-	log.Log(NOW, "Init() start pluginChan")
-	log.Sleep(.1) // probably not needed, but in here for now under development
-	go mainGogui()
-	log.Sleep(.1) // probably not needed, but in here for now under development
-}
-
-func standardExit() {
-	log.Log(NOW, "standardExit() doing baseGui.Close()")
-	me.baseGui.Close()
-	log.Log(NOW, "standardExit() doing outf.Close()")
-	outf.Close()
-	// log(true, "standardExit() setOutput(os.Stdout)")
-	// setOutput(os.Stdout)
-	log.Log(NOW, "standardExit() send back Quit()")
-	// go sendBackQuit() // don't stall here in case the
-	// induces a delay in case the callback channel is broken
-	log.Sleep(1)
-	log.Log(NOW, "standardExit() exit()")
-	os.Exit(0)
-}
-
-func standardClose() {
-	log.Log(NOW, "standardExit() doing baseGui.Close()")
-	me.baseGui.Close()
-	log.Log(NOW, "standardExit() doing outf.Close()")
-	outf.Close()
-	os.Stdin = os.Stdin
-	os.Stdout = os.Stdout
-	os.Stderr = os.Stderr
-	log.Log(NOW, "standardExit() send back Quit()")
-}
-
-var outf *os.File
-
-func main() {
-}
-
-var origStdout *os.File
-var origStderr *os.File
-
-func mainGogui() {
-	defer func() {
-		if r := recover(); r != nil {
-			log.Warn("YAHOOOO Recovered in guiMain application:", r)
-			log.Warn("Recovered from panic:", r)
-			me.baseGui.Close()
-			me.myTree.SendToolkitPanic()
-
-			// attempts to control STDOUT
-			/*
-			// allow gocui to close if possible, then print stack
-			log.Sleep(1)
-			me.myTree.SendToolkitLoad("nocui")
-			log.Sleep(3)
-			os.Stdout = origStdout
-			os.Stderr = origStderr
-			log.Warn("Stack trace:")
-			debug.PrintStack()
-
-			// attempt to switch to the nocui toolkit
-			log.Sleep(1)
-			// panic("BUMMER")
-			*/
-			return
-		}
-	}()
-	// attempts to control STDOUT
-	/*
-	var err error
-	log.Log(INFO, "main() start Init()")
-
-	outf, err = os.OpenFile("/tmp/witgui.log", os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE|os.O_APPEND, 0666)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Error(err, "error opening file: %v")
-		os.Exit(0)
-	}
-	origStdout = os.Stdout
-	os.Stdout = outf
-	defer outf.Close()
-
-	// setOutput(outf)
-	// log("This is a test log entry")
-
-	ferr, _ := os.OpenFile("/tmp/witgui.err", os.O_APPEND|os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY, 0664)
-	origStderr = os.Stderr
-	os.Stderr = ferr
-	*/
-	gocuiMain()
-}
-
-// This initializes the gocui package
-// it runs SetManagerFunc which passes every input
-// event (keyboard, mouse, etc) to the function "gocuiEvent()"
-func gocuiMain() {
-	defer func() {
-		if r := recover(); r != nil {
-			log.Warn("YAHOOOO Recovered in gocuiMain()", r)
-			log.Warn("Recovered from panic:", r)
-			me.baseGui.Close()
-
-			// allow gocui to close if possible, then print stack
-			log.Sleep(1)
-			os.Stdout = origStdout
-			os.Stderr = origStderr
-			me.myTree.SendToolkitPanic()
-			log.Warn("Stack trace:")
-			debug.PrintStack()
-			// panic("BUMMER 2")
-
-			// attempt to switch to the nocui toolkit
-			log.Sleep(1)
-			me.myTree.SendToolkitLoad("nocui")
-			log.Sleep(3)
-			me.myTree.SendToolkitLoad("nocui")
-			// panic("BUMMER")
-			return
-		}
-	}()
-	g, err := gocui.NewGui(gocui.OutputNormal, true)
-	if err != nil {
-		return
-	}
-	defer g.Close()
-
-	me.baseGui = g
-
-	g.Cursor = true
-	g.Mouse = true
-
-	// this sets the function that is run on every event. For example:
-	// When you click the mouse, move the mouse, or press a key on the keyboard
-	// This is equivalent to xev or similar to cat /dev/input on linux
-	g.SetManagerFunc(gocuiEvent)
-
-	if err := defaultKeybindings(g); err != nil {
-		// normally panic here
-		log.Log(NOW, "defaultKeybindings(g) panic err =", err)
-		panic("gocuiTKdefaultkeybindings OOPS")
-	}
-
-	if err := g.MainLoop(); err != nil && !errors.Is(err, gocui.ErrQuit) {
-		log.Log(NOW, "g.MainLoop() panic err =", err)
-		// normally panic here
-		panic("gocuiTKmainloop OOPS")
-	}
-}

mouse.go

@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2014 The gocui Authors. All rights reserved.
-// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
-// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
-
-package main
-
-import (
-	"errors"
-	"fmt"
-
-	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
-
-	"go.wit.com/log"
-)
-
-// this function uses the mouse position to highlight & unhighlight things
-// this is run every time the user moves the mouse over the terminal window
-func mouseMove(g *gocui.Gui) {
-	mx, my := g.MousePosition()
-	for _, view := range g.Views() {
-		view.Highlight = false
-	}
-	if v, err := g.ViewByPosition(mx, my); err == nil {
-		v.Highlight = true
-	}
-}
-
-func msgDown(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-	initialMouseX, initialMouseY = g.MousePosition()
-	log.Log(GOCUI, "msgDown() X,Y", initialMouseX, initialMouseY)
-	if vx, vy, _, _, err := g.ViewPosition("msg"); err == nil {
-		xOffset = initialMouseX - vx
-		yOffset = initialMouseY - vy
-		msgMouseDown = true
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-func mouseUp(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-	w, h := g.MousePosition()
-
-	dropdownUnclicked(w, h)
-	if msgMouseDown {
-		msgMouseDown = false
-		if movingMsg {
-			movingMsg = false
-			return nil
-		} else {
-			g.DeleteView("msg")
-		}
-	} else if globalMouseDown {
-		globalMouseDown = false
-		g.DeleteView("globalDown")
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-func mouseDown(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-	mx, my := g.MousePosition()
-	if vx0, vy0, vx1, vy1, err := g.ViewPosition("msg"); err == nil {
-		if mx >= vx0 && mx <= vx1 && my >= vy0 && my <= vy1 {
-			return msgDown(g, v)
-		}
-	}
-	globalMouseDown = true
-	maxX, _ := g.Size()
-	findUnderMouse()
-	msg := fmt.Sprintf("mouseDown() Mouse really down at: %d,%d", mx, my)
-	// dropdownClicked(mx, my)
-	x := mx - len(msg)/2
-	if x < 0 {
-		x = 0
-	} else if x+len(msg)+1 > maxX-1 {
-		x = maxX - 1 - len(msg) - 1
-	}
-	log.Log(GOCUI, "mouseDown() about to write out message to 'globalDown' view. msg =", msg)
-	if v, err := g.SetView("globalDown", x, my-1, x+len(msg)+1, my+1, 0); err != nil {
-		if !errors.Is(err, gocui.ErrUnknownView) {
-			return err
-		}
-		v.WriteString(msg)
-	}
-	return nil
-}

node.go

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"go.wit.com/widget"
+)
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) WidgetType() widget.WidgetType {
+	if tk.node == nil {
+		return widget.Label
+	}
+	return tk.node.WidgetType
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) WidgetId() int {
+	return tk.node.WidgetId
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) GetLabel() string {
+	return tk.node.GetLabel()
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) IsEnabled() bool {
+	return tk.node.IsEnabled()
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) Checked() bool {
+	return tk.node.State.Checked
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) Hidden() bool {
+	if tk.node == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	if tk.parent == nil {
+		return tk.node.Hidden()
+	}
+	if tk.parent.WidgetId() == 0 {
+		return tk.node.Hidden()
+	}
+	if tk.parent.Hidden() {
+		return true
+	}
+	return tk.node.Hidden()
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) Direction() widget.Orientation {
+	return tk.node.State.Direction
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) GridW() int {
+	return tk.node.State.AtW
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) GridH() int {
+	return tk.node.State.AtH
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) SetChecked(b bool) {
+	tk.node.State.Checked = b
+}

place.go

@@ -1,19 +1,45 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
 package main
 
 import (
 	"strings"
 
 	"go.wit.com/log"
-	"go.wit.com/toolkits/tree"
 	"go.wit.com/widget"
 )
 
+/*
+	gocui defines the offset like this:
+
+ 	   width -> increases to the right
+	----------------------------------    hieght
+	|            H = 1               |   increases
+	|                                |       |
+	| W = 1                   W = 18 |       |
+	|                                |       v
+	|            H = 5               |   downwards
+	-------------------------------------
+*/
+
+// moves the gocui view to the W and H offset on the screen
+func (tk *guiWidget) MoveToOffset(W, H int) {
+	tk.gocuiSetWH(W, H)
+}
+
+// returns where the corner of widget starts (upper left)
+func (tk *guiWidget) Position() (int, int) {
+	return tk.gocuiSize.w0, tk.gocuiSize.h0
+}
+
 func (w *guiWidget) placeBox(startW int, startH int) {
-	if w.WidgetType != widget.Box {
+	if w.WidgetType() != widget.Box {
 		return
 	}
-	// tk.dumpTree("beforebox")
 
+	w.full.w0 = startW
+	w.full.h0 = startH
 	newW := startW
 	newH := startH
 
@@ -24,7 +50,7 @@ func (w *guiWidget) placeBox(startW int, startH int) {
 		// re-get the Size (they should not have changed, but maybe they can?)
 		// TODO: figure this out or report that they did
 		sizeW, sizeH = child.Size()
-		if w.node.State.Direction == widget.Vertical {
+		if w.Direction() == widget.Vertical {
 			log.Log(INFO, "BOX IS VERTICAL  ", w.String(), "newWH()", newW, newH, "child()", sizeW, sizeH, child.String())
 			// expand based on the child height
 			newH += sizeH
@@ -35,7 +61,6 @@ func (w *guiWidget) placeBox(startW int, startH int) {
 		}
 		log.Log(INFO, "BOX END   size(W,H) =", sizeW, sizeH, "new(W,H) =", newW, newH)
 	}
-	// tk.dumpTree("afterbox")
 }
 
 func (tk *guiWidget) placeWidgets(startW int, startH int) (int, int) {
@@ -45,37 +70,57 @@ func (tk *guiWidget) placeWidgets(startW int, startH int) (int, int) {
 	if me.treeRoot == nil {
 		return 0, 0
 	}
+	if tk.Hidden() {
+		return 0, 0
+	}
 
 	tk.startW = startW
 	tk.startH = startH
 
-	switch tk.WidgetType {
+	switch tk.WidgetType() {
 	case widget.Window:
-		newW := startW
-		newH := startH
-		var maxH int = 0
+		tk.full.w0 = startW
+		tk.full.h0 = startH
+		startW += -2
+		startH += 3
 		for _, child := range tk.children {
-			child.placeWidgets(newW, newH)
-			sizeW, sizeH := child.Size()
-			if sizeW < 20 {
-				sizeW = 20
-			}
-			newW += sizeW
-			if sizeH > maxH {
-				maxH = sizeH
-			}
+			child.placeWidgets(startW, startH)
+			sizeW, _ := child.Size()
+			startW += sizeW + 4 // add the width to move the next widget over
 
 		}
-		return newW - startW, maxH
+		return startW, startH
 	case widget.Tab:
 	case widget.Grid:
-		return tk.placeGrid(startW, startH)
+		// tk.dumpWidget(fmt.Sprintf("PlaceGridS(%d,%d)", startW, startH))
+		// if you reset the values here, grid horizontal stacking doesn't work anymore
+		// tk.widths = make(map[int]int)  // how tall each row in the grid is
+		// tk.heights = make(map[int]int) // how wide each column in the grid is
+		newW, newH := tk.placeGrid(startW, startH)
+		tk.full.w0 = newW
+		tk.full.h0 = newH
+		tk.full.w1 = newW
+		tk.full.h1 = newH
+		// tk.dumpWidget(fmt.Sprintf("PlaceGridE(%d,%d)", newW, newH))
+		return newW, newH
 	case widget.Box:
 		tk.placeBox(startW, startH)
+		tk.full.w0 = startW
+		tk.full.h0 = startH
+		tk.full.w1 = startW
+		tk.full.h1 = startH
+		// tk.dumpWidget(fmt.Sprintf("PlaceBox(%d,%d)", startW, startH))
 		return 0, 0
+	case widget.Stdout:
+		tk.setStdoutWH(startW, startH)
+		return tk.gocuiSize.Width(), tk.gocuiSize.Height()
 	case widget.Group:
 		// move the group to the parent's next location
 		tk.gocuiSetWH(startW, startH)
+		tk.full.w0 = startW
+		tk.full.h0 = startH
+		tk.full.w1 = startW
+		tk.full.h1 = startH
 
 		newW := startW + me.GroupPadW
 		newH := startH + 1 // normal hight of the group label
@@ -94,7 +139,27 @@ func (tk *guiWidget) placeWidgets(startW int, startH int) (int, int) {
 			}
 			log.Log(INFO, "REAL HEIGHT sizeW:", sizeW, "sizeH:", sizeH)
 		}
-		return maxW, newH - startH
+		newH = newH - startH
+		// tk.dumpWidget(fmt.Sprintf("PlaceGroup(%d,%d)", maxW, newH))
+		return maxW, newH
+	case widget.Button:
+		if tk.isWindowDense() && tk.isInGrid() {
+			tk.frame = false
+			// tk.color = nil
+			// tk.defaultColor = nil
+			/*
+				if tk.IsEnabled() {
+					tk.setColorButtonDense()
+				} else {
+					tk.setColorDisable()
+				}
+			*/
+			// if tk.full.Height() > 0 {
+			tk.full.h1 = tk.full.h0
+			// }
+		}
+		tk.gocuiSetWH(startW, startH)
+		return tk.gocuiSize.Width(), tk.gocuiSize.Height()
 	default:
 		tk.gocuiSetWH(startW, startH)
 		return tk.gocuiSize.Width(), tk.gocuiSize.Height()
@@ -102,25 +167,58 @@ func (tk *guiWidget) placeWidgets(startW int, startH int) (int, int) {
 	return 0, 0
 }
 
+func (tk *guiWidget) isWindowDense() bool {
+	if tk.WidgetType() == widget.Window {
+		return tk.window.dense
+	}
+	if tk.parent == nil {
+		return true
+	}
+	return tk.parent.isWindowDense()
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) isInGrid() bool {
+	if tk.WidgetType() == widget.Grid {
+		return true
+	}
+	if tk.parent == nil {
+		return true
+	}
+	return tk.parent.isInGrid()
+}
+
 func (w *guiWidget) placeGrid(startW int, startH int) (int, int) {
 	// w.showWidgetPlacement("grid0:")
-	if w.WidgetType != widget.Grid {
+	if w.WidgetType() != widget.Grid {
 		return 0, 0
 	}
 
+	dense := w.isWindowDense()
+
+	w.full.w0 = startW
+	w.full.h0 = startH
+
 	// first compute the max sizes of the rows and columns
 	for _, child := range w.children {
 		childW, childH := child.placeWidgets(child.startW, child.startH)
 
 		// set the child's realWidth, and grid offset
-		if w.widths[child.node.State.AtW] < childW {
-			w.widths[child.node.State.AtW] = childW
+		if w.widths[child.GridW()] < childW {
+			w.widths[child.GridW()] = childW
 		}
-		if w.heights[child.node.State.AtH] < childH {
-			w.heights[child.node.State.AtH] = childH
+		if w.heights[child.GridH()] < childH {
+			w.heights[child.GridH()] = childH
 		}
+		if dense {
+			if w.heights[child.GridH()] > 0 {
+				w.heights[child.GridH()] = 1
+			} else {
+				w.heights[child.GridH()] = 0
+			}
+		}
+
 		// child.showWidgetPlacement("grid: ")
-		log.Log(INFO, "placeGrid:", child.String(), "child()", childW, childH, "At()", child.node.State.AtW, child.node.State.AtH)
+		log.Log(INFO, "placeGrid:", child.String(), "child()", childW, childH, "At()", child.GridW(), child.GridH())
 	}
 
 	var maxW int = 0
@@ -132,12 +230,12 @@ func (w *guiWidget) placeGrid(startW int, startH int) (int, int) {
 
 		var totalW, totalH int
 		for i, w := range w.widths {
-			if i < child.node.State.AtW {
+			if i < child.GridW() {
 				totalW += w
 			}
 		}
 		for i, h := range w.heights {
-			if i < child.node.State.AtH {
+			if i < child.GridH() {
 				totalH += h
 			}
 		}
@@ -153,11 +251,13 @@ func (w *guiWidget) placeGrid(startW int, startH int) (int, int) {
 			maxH = totalH
 		}
 
-		log.Log(INFO, "placeGrid:", child.String(), "new()", newW, newH, "At()", child.node.State.AtW, child.node.State.AtH)
+		log.Log(INFO, "placeGrid:", child.String(), "new()", newW, newH, "At()", child.GridW(), child.GridH())
 		child.placeWidgets(newW, newH)
 		// child.showWidgetPlacement("grid2:")
 	}
 	// w.showWidgetPlacement("grid3:")
+	w.full.w1 = startW + maxW
+	w.full.h1 = startH + maxH
 	return maxW, maxH
 }
 
@@ -165,9 +265,11 @@ func (w *guiWidget) placeGrid(startW int, startH int) (int, int) {
 func (w *guiWidget) realGocuiSize() *rectType {
 	var f func(tk *guiWidget, r *rectType)
 	newR := new(rectType)
+
+	outputW, outputH := w.Size()
 	// initialize the values to opposite
-	newR.w0 = 80
-	newR.h0 = 24
+	newR.w0 = outputW
+	newR.h0 = outputH
 	if me.baseGui != nil {
 		maxW, maxH := me.baseGui.Size()
 		newR.w0 = maxW
@@ -201,6 +303,7 @@ func (w *guiWidget) realGocuiSize() *rectType {
 	return newR
 }
 
+/*
 func textSize(n *tree.Node) (int, int) {
 	var tk *guiWidget
 	tk = n.TK.(*guiWidget)
@@ -214,35 +317,21 @@ func textSize(n *tree.Node) (int, int) {
 	}
 	return width, height
 }
-
-// moves the gocui view the W and H offset on the screen
-/*
-	gocui defines the offset like this:
-
- 	   width -> increases to the right
-	----------------------------------    hieght
-	|            H = 1               |   increases
-	|                                |       |
-	| W = 1                   W = 18 |       |
-	|                                |       v
-	|            H = 5               |   downwards
-	-------------------------------------
 */
-// change over to this name
-func (tk *guiWidget) MoveToOffset(W, H int) {
-	tk.gocuiSetWH(W, H)
-}
-
-// returns where the corner of widget starts (upper left)
-func (tk *guiWidget) Position() (int, int) {
-	return tk.gocuiSize.w0, tk.gocuiSize.h0
-}
 
 func (tk *guiWidget) gocuiSetWH(sizeW, sizeH int) {
-	w := len(widget.GetString(tk.value))
-	lines := strings.Split(widget.GetString(tk.value), "\n")
+	w := len(tk.GetLabel())
+	lines := strings.Split(tk.GetLabel(), "\n")
 	h := len(lines)
 
+	if tk.Hidden() {
+		tk.gocuiSize.w0 = 0
+		tk.gocuiSize.h0 = 0
+		tk.gocuiSize.w1 = 0
+		tk.gocuiSize.h1 = 0
+		return
+	}
+
 	// tk := n.tk
 	if tk.isFake {
 		tk.gocuiSize.w0 = sizeW
@@ -264,3 +353,10 @@ func (tk *guiWidget) gocuiSetWH(sizeW, sizeH int) {
 		tk.gocuiSize.h1 = tk.gocuiSize.h0 + h + 1
 	}
 }
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) setStdoutWH(sizeW, sizeH int) {
+	tk.gocuiSize.w0 = sizeW
+	tk.gocuiSize.h0 = sizeH
+	tk.gocuiSize.w1 = tk.gocuiSize.w0 + me.stdout.w
+	tk.gocuiSize.h1 = tk.gocuiSize.h0 + me.stdout.h
+}

plugin.go

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
 package main
 
 import (
-	// if you include more than just this import
-	// then your plugin might be doing something un-ideal (just a guess from 2023/02/27)
+	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
 	"go.wit.com/log"
 	"go.wit.com/toolkits/tree"
 	"go.wit.com/widget"
@@ -32,20 +34,26 @@ func newAdd(n *tree.Node) {
 			w = n.TK.(*guiWidget)
 		}
 	*/
-	// w.setColor(&colorDisabled)
 	w := n.TK.(*guiWidget)
 	w.Show()
+	me.refresh = true // testing code to see if refresh can work
 }
 
-func newSetTitle(n *tree.Node, s string) {
-	newSetText(n, s)
+// for gocui as a GUI plugin, SetTitle & SetLabel are identical to SetText
+func setTitle(n *tree.Node, s string) {
+	setText(n, s)
+	me.refresh = true // testing code to see if refresh can work
 }
 
-func newSetLabel(n *tree.Node, s string) {
-	newSetText(n, s)
+func setLabel(n *tree.Node, s string) {
+	setText(n, s)
+	me.refresh = true // testing code to see if refresh can work
 }
 
-func newSetText(n *tree.Node, s string) {
+// setText() and addText() are simple. They take the event sent
+// to the GO plugin from the application and lookup the plugin structure
+// then pass that event to gocui. This is the transfer point
+func setText(n *tree.Node, s string) {
 	if n == nil {
 		log.Warn("Tree Error: Add() sent n == nil")
 		return
@@ -56,9 +64,10 @@ func newSetText(n *tree.Node, s string) {
 	}
 	w := n.TK.(*guiWidget)
 	w.SetText(s)
+	me.refresh = true // testing code to see if refresh can work
 }
 
-func newAddText(n *tree.Node, s string) {
+func addText(n *tree.Node, s string) {
 	if n == nil {
 		log.Warn("Tree Error: Add() sent n == nil")
 		return
@@ -69,51 +78,7 @@ func newAddText(n *tree.Node, s string) {
 	}
 	w := n.TK.(*guiWidget)
 	w.AddText(s)
-}
-
-func newaction(n *tree.Node, atype widget.ActionType) {
-	log.Log(INFO, "newaction() START", atype)
-	if n == nil {
-		log.Warn("Tree Error: Add() sent n == nil")
-		return
-	}
-	if n.TK == nil {
-		log.Warn("Tree sent an action on a widget we didn't seem to have.")
-		// do this init here again? Probably something
-		// went wrong and we should reset the our while gocui.View tree
-		n.TK = initWidget(n)
-	}
-	w := n.TK.(*guiWidget)
-	switch atype {
-	case widget.Show:
-		w.Show()
-	case widget.Hide:
-		w.Hide()
-	case widget.Move:
-		log.Log(NOW, "attempt to move() =", atype, n.WidgetType, n.ProgName())
-	case widget.ToolkitClose:
-		log.Log(NOW, "attempting to close the plugin and release stdout and stderr")
-		standardClose()
-	case widget.Enable:
-		w.enable = true
-		w.enableColor()
-	case widget.Disable:
-		w.enable = false
-		w.disableColor()
-	case widget.Delete:
-		if w == nil {
-			return
-		} else {
-			w.hideWidgets()
-			w.deleteNode()
-		}
-		n.DeleteNode()
-		wRoot := me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
-		wRoot.redoWindows(0, 0)
-	default:
-		log.Log(ERROR, "newaction() UNHANDLED Action Type =", atype, "WidgetType =", n.WidgetType, "Name =", n.ProgName())
-	}
-	log.Log(INFO, "newaction() END", atype, n.String())
+	me.refresh = true // testing code to see if refresh can work
 }
 
 func (w *guiWidget) deleteGocuiViews() {
@@ -151,45 +116,131 @@ func (w *guiWidget) AddText(text string) {
 	}
 	w.vals = append(w.vals, text)
 	for i, s := range w.vals {
-		log.Log(NOW, "AddText()", w.String(), i, s)
+		log.Log(INFO, "AddText()", w.String(), i, s)
 	}
 	w.SetText(text)
 }
 
-func (w *guiWidget) SetText(text string) {
+func (tk *guiWidget) SetText(text string) {
 	var changed bool = false
-	if w == nil {
+	if tk == nil {
 		log.Log(NOW, "widget is nil")
 		return
 	}
-	if w.labelN != text {
-		w.labelN = text
+	if tk.labelN != text {
+		tk.labelN = text
 		changed = true
 	}
+	tk.node.State.Label = text
 	if !changed {
 		return
 	}
 
-	if w.Visible() {
-		w.textResize()
-		w.Hide()
-		w.Show()
+	if tk.Visible() {
+		tk.textResize()
+		tk.Hide()
+		tk.Show()
 	}
 }
 
-func (w *guiWidget) Set(val any) {
-	if w == nil {
-		log.Log(WARN, "Set() w == nil. val =", val)
+func (tk *guiWidget) GetText() string {
+	if tk == nil {
+		log.Log(NOW, "widget is nil")
+		return ""
+	}
+	// deprecate this
+	if tk.labelN != "" {
+		return tk.labelN
+	}
+	if tk.node == nil {
+		// return gocui.view name?
+		return tk.cuiName
+	}
+	if tk.GetLabel() != "" {
+		return tk.GetLabel()
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+func hideDisable() {
+	if me.textbox.tk == nil {
+		initTextbox()
+		me.textbox.tk.prepTextbox()
+	}
+
+	me.textbox.tk.Hide()
+	me.textbox.tk.enable = false
+	me.textbox.tk.node.State.Enable = false
+	me.textbox.active = false
+	me.baseGui.SetCurrentView("help")
+	// me.baseGui.DeleteView(me.textbox.tk.cuiName)
+	// me.baseGui.DeleteView(me.textbox.tk.v.Name())
+}
+
+func showDisable() {
+	if me.textbox.tk == nil {
+		initTextbox()
+		me.textbox.tk.prepTextbox()
+	}
+	r := new(rectType)
+	r.w0 = 2
+	r.h0 = 1
+	r.w1 = r.w0 + 24
+	r.h1 = r.h0 + 2
+	me.textbox.tk.forceSizes(r)
+	me.textbox.tk.Show() // actually makes the gocui view. TODO: redo this
+	// log.Info("textbox should be shown")
+	// showTextbox("Running...")
+	// me.textbox.tk.dumpWidget("shown?")
+
+	me.textbox.tk.setColorModal()
+	me.textbox.tk.v.Clear()
+	me.textbox.tk.v.WriteString("Running...")
+
+	me.textbox.tk.v.Editable = true
+	me.textbox.tk.v.Wrap = true
+
+	me.baseGui.SetView(me.textbox.tk.cuiName, r.w0, r.h0, r.w1, r.h1, 0)
+	me.baseGui.SetCurrentView(me.textbox.tk.v.Name())
+
+	// bind the enter key to a function so we can close the textbox
+	me.baseGui.SetKeybinding(me.textbox.tk.v.Name(), gocui.KeyEnter, gocui.ModNone, theCloseTheTextbox)
+
+	me.textbox.active = true
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) Disable() {
+	if tk == nil {
+		log.Log(NOW, "widget is nil")
 		return
 	}
-	log.Log(INFO, "Set() value =", val)
 
-	w.value = val.(string)
-	if w.node.WidgetType == widget.Checkbox {
-		w.node.State.Checked = widget.GetBool(val)
-		w.setCheckbox()
-	}
-	if w.node.WidgetType == widget.Label {
-		w.labelN = widget.GetString(val)
+	switch tk.WidgetType() {
+	case widget.Box:
+		showDisable()
+		return
+	case widget.Button:
+		tk.setColorDisable()
+		return
+	default:
+		tk.dumpWidget("fixme: disable")
+	}
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) Enable() {
+	if tk == nil {
+		log.Log(NOW, "widget is nil")
+		return
+	}
+
+	switch tk.WidgetType() {
+	case widget.Box:
+		hideDisable()
+		return
+	case widget.Button:
+		tk.restoreEnableColor()
+		return
+	default:
+		tk.dumpWidget("fixme: enable")
 	}
 }

showStdout.go

@@ -1,117 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"errors"
-	"fmt"
-
-	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
-
-	"go.wit.com/log"
-	"go.wit.com/widget"
-)
-
-var outputW int = 180
-var outputH int = 24
-
-func moveMsg(g *gocui.Gui) {
-	mx, my := g.MousePosition()
-	if !movingMsg && (mx != initialMouseX || my != initialMouseY) {
-		movingMsg = true
-	}
-	g.SetView("msg", mx-xOffset, my-yOffset, mx-xOffset+outputW, my-yOffset+outputH+me.FramePadH, 0)
-	me.startOutputW = mx - xOffset
-	me.startOutputH = my - yOffset
-	g.SetViewOnBottom("msg")
-}
-
-func showMsg(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
-	var l string
-	var err error
-
-	log.Log(NOW, "showMsg() v.name =", v.Name())
-	if _, err := g.SetCurrentView(v.Name()); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	_, cy := v.Cursor()
-	if l, err = v.Line(cy); err != nil {
-		l = ""
-	}
-
-	makeOutputWidget(g, l)
-	return nil
-}
-
-func makeOutputWidget(g *gocui.Gui, stringFromMouseClick string) *gocui.View {
-	maxX, maxY := g.Size()
-
-	if me.treeRoot == nil {
-		// keep skipping this until the binary tree is initialized
-		return nil
-	}
-
-	if me.logStdout == nil {
-		a := new(widget.Action)
-		a.ProgName = "stdout"
-		a.WidgetType = widget.Stdout
-		a.WidgetId = -3
-		a.ParentId = 0
-		// n := addNode(a)
-		n := me.myTree.AddNode(a)
-		n.TK = initWidget(n)
-		me.logStdout = n
-
-		var tk *guiWidget
-		tk = me.logStdout.TK.(*guiWidget)
-		// tk.gocuiSize.w0 = maxX - 32
-		// tk.gocuiSize.h0 = maxY / 2
-		tk.gocuiSize.w0 = me.startOutputW
-		tk.gocuiSize.h0 = me.startOutputH
-		tk.gocuiSize.w1 = tk.gocuiSize.w0 + outputW
-		tk.gocuiSize.h1 = tk.gocuiSize.h0 + outputH
-	}
-	v, err := g.View("msg")
-	if v == nil {
-		log.Log(NOW, "makeoutputwindow() this is supposed to happen. v == nil", err)
-	} else {
-		log.Log(NOW, "makeoutputwindow() msg != nil. WTF now? err =", err)
-	}
-
-	// help, err := g.SetView("help", maxX-32, 0, maxX-1, 13, 0)
-	// v, err = g.SetView("msg", 3, 3, 30, 30, 0)
-
-	if me.startOutputW == 0 {
-		me.startOutputW = maxX - 32
-	}
-	if me.startOutputW == 0 {
-		me.startOutputH = maxY / 2
-	}
-
-	// v, err = g.SetView("msg", maxX-32, maxY/2, maxX/2+outputW, maxY/2+outputH, 0)
-	v, err = g.SetView("msg", me.startOutputW, me.startOutputH, maxX/2+outputW, maxY/2+outputH, 0)
-	if errors.Is(err, gocui.ErrUnknownView) {
-		log.Log(NOW, "makeoutputwindow() this is supposed to happen?", err)
-	}
-
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Log(NOW, "makeoutputwindow() create output window failed", err)
-		return nil
-	}
-
-	if v == nil {
-		log.Log(NOW, "makeoutputwindow() msg == nil. WTF now? err =", err)
-		return nil
-	} else {
-		var tk *guiWidget
-		tk = me.logStdout.TK.(*guiWidget)
-		tk.v = v
-	}
-
-	v.Clear()
-	v.SelBgColor = gocui.ColorCyan
-	v.SelFgColor = gocui.ColorBlack
-	fmt.Fprintln(v, "figure out how to capture STDOUT to here\n"+stringFromMouseClick)
-	g.SetViewOnBottom("msg")
-	// g.SetViewOnBottom(v.Name())
-	return v
-}

size.go

@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
 package main
 
 import (
+	"fmt"
+
 	"go.wit.com/widget"
 )
 
@@ -13,16 +18,16 @@ func (tk *guiWidget) Size() (int, int) {
 	}
 
 	// don't count hidden widgets in size calculations
-	if tk.node.Hidden() {
+	if tk.Hidden() {
 		return 0, 0
 	}
 
-	switch tk.WidgetType {
+	switch tk.WidgetType() {
 	case widget.Window:
 		var maxH int = 0
 		var maxW int = 0
 		for _, child := range tk.children {
-			if tk.node.Hidden() {
+			if tk.Hidden() {
 				continue
 			}
 			sizeW, sizeH := child.Size()
@@ -43,7 +48,7 @@ func (tk *guiWidget) Size() (int, int) {
 		maxH := tk.gocuiSize.Height()
 
 		for _, child := range tk.children {
-			if tk.node.Hidden() {
+			if tk.Hidden() {
 				continue
 			}
 			sizeW, sizeH := child.Size()
@@ -57,8 +62,15 @@ func (tk *guiWidget) Size() (int, int) {
 		return maxW + me.GroupPadW + 3, maxH
 	case widget.Label:
 		return len(tk.String()) + 2, 1
+	case widget.Textbox:
+		return len(tk.String()) + 10, 3 // TODO: compute this based on 'window dense'
 	case widget.Checkbox:
-		return len(tk.String()) + 2, 3
+		return len(tk.String()) + 2, 3 // TODO: compute this based on 'window dense'
+	case widget.Button:
+		if tk.isWindowDense() {
+			return len(tk.String()) + 2, 0
+		}
+		return len(tk.String()) + 2, 3 // TODO: compute this based on 'window dense'
 	}
 	if tk.isFake {
 		return 0, 0
@@ -67,25 +79,23 @@ func (tk *guiWidget) Size() (int, int) {
 }
 
 func (w *guiWidget) sizeGrid() (int, int) {
-	if w.node.Hidden() {
+	if w.Hidden() {
 		return 0, 0
 	}
 
 	// first compute the max sizes of the rows and columns
 	for _, child := range w.children {
-		if w.node.Hidden() {
+		if w.Hidden() {
 			continue
 		}
 		sizeW, sizeH := child.Size()
 
-		sizeW += 2
-
 		// set the child's realWidth, and grid offset
-		if w.widths[child.node.State.AtW] < sizeW {
-			w.widths[child.node.State.AtW] = sizeW
+		if w.widths[child.GridW()] < sizeW {
+			w.widths[child.GridW()] = sizeW
 		}
-		if w.heights[child.node.State.AtH] < sizeH {
-			w.heights[child.node.State.AtH] = sizeH
+		if w.heights[child.GridH()] < sizeH {
+			w.heights[child.GridH()] = sizeH
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -102,21 +112,21 @@ func (w *guiWidget) sizeGrid() (int, int) {
 }
 
 func (w *guiWidget) sizeBox() (int, int) {
-	if w.WidgetType != widget.Box {
+	if w.WidgetType() != widget.Box {
 		return 0, 0
 	}
-	if w.node.Hidden() {
+	if w.Hidden() {
 		return 0, 0
 	}
 	var maxW int = 0
 	var maxH int = 0
 
 	for _, child := range w.children {
-		if w.node.Hidden() {
+		if w.Hidden() {
 			continue
 		}
 		sizeW, sizeH := child.Size()
-		if child.node.State.Direction == widget.Vertical {
+		if child.Direction() == widget.Vertical {
 			maxW += sizeW
 			if sizeH > maxH {
 				maxH = sizeH
@@ -130,3 +140,269 @@ func (w *guiWidget) sizeBox() (int, int) {
 	}
 	return maxW + me.BoxPadW, maxH
 }
+
+/*
+var wtf bool
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) verifyRect() bool {
+	if !tk.Visible() {
+		// log.Info("verifyRect() tk is not visible", tk.cuiName)
+		return false
+	}
+	vw0, vh0, vw1, vh1, err := me.baseGui.ViewPosition(tk.cuiName)
+	if err != nil {
+		// log.Printf("verifyRect() gocui err=%v cuiName=%s v.Name=%s", err, tk.cuiName, tk.v.Name())
+		vw0, vh0, vw1, vh1, err = me.baseGui.ViewPosition(tk.v.Name())
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Printf("verifyRect() ACTUAL FAIL gocui err=%v cuiName=%s v.Name=%s", err, tk.cuiName, tk.v.Name())
+			return false
+		}
+		// return false
+	}
+	var ok bool = true
+	if vw0 != tk.full.w0 {
+		// log.Info("verifyRect() FIXING w0", tk.cuiName, vw0, vw1, vh0, vh1, tk.gocuiSize.w0, "w0 =", vw0)
+		tk.full.w0 = vw0
+		ok = false
+	}
+	if vw1 != tk.full.w1 {
+		// log.Info("verifyRect() FIXING w1", tk.cuiName, vw0, vw1, vh0, vh1, tk.gocuiSize.w1, "w1 =", vw1)
+		tk.full.w1 = vw1
+		ok = false
+	}
+	if vh0 != tk.full.h0 {
+		// log.Info("verifyRect() FIXING h0", tk.cuiName, vw0, vw1, vh0, vh1, tk.gocuiSize.h0)
+		tk.full.h0 = vh0
+		ok = false
+	}
+	if vh1 != tk.full.h1 {
+		// log.Info("verifyRect() FIXING h1", tk.cuiName, vw0, vw1, vh0, vh1, tk.gocuiSize.h1)
+		tk.full.h1 = vh1
+		ok = false
+	}
+	if !ok {
+		// log.Info("verifyRect() NEED TO FIX RECT HERE", tk.cuiName)
+		// tk.dumpWidget("verifyRect() FIXME")
+	}
+	// log.Printf("verifyRect() OK cuiName=%s v.Name=%s", tk.cuiName, tk.v.Name())
+	return true
+}
+*/
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) setFullSize() bool {
+	r := tk.getFullSize()
+
+	if tk.Hidden() {
+		p := tk.parent
+		if p != nil {
+			// tk.full.w0 = p.full.w0
+			// tk.full.w1 = p.full.w1
+			// tk.full.h0 = p.full.h0
+			// tk.full.h1 = p.full.h1
+			tk.full.w0 = 0
+			tk.full.w1 = 0
+			tk.full.h0 = 0
+			tk.full.h1 = 0
+		} else {
+			tk.full.w0 = 0
+			tk.full.w1 = 0
+			tk.full.h0 = 0
+			tk.full.h1 = 0
+		}
+		return false
+	}
+
+	var changed bool
+	if tk.full.w0 != r.w0 {
+		tk.full.w0 = r.w0
+		changed = true
+	}
+	// widget might be forced to a certain location
+	if tk.full.w0 < tk.force.w0 {
+		tk.gocuiSize.w0 = tk.force.w0
+		tk.full.w0 = tk.force.w0
+		changed = false
+	}
+	if tk.full.w1 != r.w1 {
+		tk.full.w1 = r.w1
+		changed = true
+	}
+	if tk.full.h0 != r.h0 {
+		tk.full.h0 = r.h0
+		changed = true
+	}
+	// widget might be forced to a certain location
+	if tk.full.h0 < tk.force.h0 {
+		tk.gocuiSize.h0 = tk.force.h0
+		tk.full.h0 = tk.force.h0
+		changed = false
+	}
+	if tk.full.h1 != r.h1 {
+		tk.full.h1 = r.h1
+		changed = true
+	}
+	if tk.WidgetType() == widget.Button {
+		tk.full.h1 = tk.full.h0 + 1
+	}
+	if tk.isWindowDense() && tk.isInGrid() {
+		tk.full.h1 = tk.full.h0
+	}
+	if changed {
+		tk.dumpWidget(fmt.Sprintf("setFullSize(changed)"))
+	}
+	return changed
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) gridFullSize() rectType {
+	var r rectType
+	var first bool = true
+	for _, child := range tk.children {
+		cr := child.getFullSize()
+		if cr.Width() == 0 && cr.Height() == 0 {
+			// ignore widgets of zero size?
+			continue
+		}
+		if first {
+			// use the lowest width and hight from children widgets
+			r.w0 = cr.w0
+			r.h0 = cr.h0
+			r.w1 = cr.w1
+			r.h1 = cr.h1
+			first = false
+			// child.dumpWidget(fmt.Sprintf("grid(f)"))
+			continue
+		}
+		// child.dumpWidget(fmt.Sprintf("grid()"))
+		// use the lowest width and hight from children widgets
+		if r.w0 > cr.w0 {
+			r.w0 = cr.w0
+		}
+		if r.h0 > cr.h0 {
+			r.h0 = cr.h0
+		}
+		// use the highest width and hight from children widgets
+		if r.w1 < cr.w1 {
+			r.w1 = cr.w1
+		}
+		if r.h1 < cr.h1 {
+			r.h1 = cr.h1
+		}
+	}
+	tk.full.w0 = r.w0
+	tk.full.w1 = r.w1
+	tk.full.h0 = r.h0
+	tk.full.h1 = r.h1
+	return r
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) buttonFullSize() rectType {
+	var r rectType
+	r.w0 = tk.gocuiSize.w0
+	r.w1 = tk.gocuiSize.w1
+	r.h0 = tk.gocuiSize.h0
+	r.h1 = tk.gocuiSize.h1
+
+	// try setting the full values here ? is this right?
+	tk.full.w0 = r.w0
+	tk.full.w1 = r.w1
+	tk.full.h0 = r.h0
+	tk.full.h1 = r.h1
+
+	// total hack. fix this somewhere eventually correctly
+	if tk.isWindowDense() { // total hack. fix this somewhere eventually correctly
+		tk.full.h0 += 1         // total hack. fix this somewhere eventually correctly
+		tk.full.h1 = tk.full.h0 // total hack. fix this somewhere eventually correctly
+	}
+
+	return r
+}
+
+// this checks a widget to see if it is under (W,H), then checks the widget's children
+// anything that matches is passed back as an array of widgets
+func (tk *guiWidget) getFullSize() rectType {
+	var r rectType
+
+	if tk.Hidden() {
+		/*
+			p := tk.parent
+			if p != nil {
+				return p.full
+			}
+		*/
+		var r rectType
+		r.w0 = 0
+		r.w1 = 0
+		r.h0 = 0
+		r.h1 = 0
+		return r
+	}
+
+	if tk.WidgetType() == widget.Grid {
+		return tk.gridFullSize()
+	}
+
+	// these are 'simple' widgets
+	// the full size is exactly what gocui uses
+	switch tk.WidgetType() {
+	case widget.Label:
+		r := tk.buttonFullSize()
+		r.w1 += 5
+		return r
+	case widget.Button:
+		r := tk.buttonFullSize()
+		r.w1 += 5
+		return r
+	case widget.Checkbox:
+		return tk.buttonFullSize()
+	case widget.Dropdown:
+		r := tk.buttonFullSize()
+		r.w1 += 7 // TODO: fix this to be real
+		return r
+	default:
+	}
+
+	if tk.v == nil {
+		r.w0 = tk.full.w0
+		r.w1 = tk.full.w1
+		r.h0 = tk.full.h0
+		r.h1 = tk.full.h1
+	} else {
+		r.w0 = tk.gocuiSize.w0
+		r.w1 = tk.gocuiSize.w1
+		r.h0 = tk.gocuiSize.h0
+		r.h1 = tk.gocuiSize.h1
+	}
+
+	// search through the children widgets in the binary tree
+	for _, child := range tk.children {
+		cr := child.getFullSize()
+		/* this didn't make things work either
+		if child.v == nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		*/
+		// use the lowest width and hight from children widgets
+		if r.w0 > cr.w0 {
+			r.w0 = cr.w0
+		}
+		if r.h0 > cr.h0 {
+			r.h0 = cr.h0
+		}
+		// use the highest width and hight from children widgets
+		if r.w1 < cr.w1 {
+			r.w1 = cr.w1
+		}
+		if r.h1 < cr.h1 {
+			r.h1 = cr.h1
+		}
+
+	}
+
+	// try setting the full values here ? is this right?
+	tk.full.w0 = r.w0
+	tk.full.w1 = r.w1
+	tk.full.h0 = r.h0
+	tk.full.h1 = r.h1
+
+	return r
+}

stdoutShow.go

@@ -0,0 +1,227 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
+
+	"go.wit.com/log"
+	"go.wit.com/widget"
+)
+
+func createStdout(g *gocui.Gui) bool {
+	if me.stdout.tk == nil {
+		makeOutputWidget(g, "this is a create before a mouse click")
+		// me.logStdout.v.Write([]byte(msg))
+
+		// this will show very early debugging output
+		// keep this code commented out but do not remove it. when it doubt, this will be the Light of Elendil
+		// NEVER REMOVE THIS CODE
+
+		msg := fmt.Sprintf("test out gocuiEvent() %d\n", me.ecount)
+		me.stdout.tk.Write([]byte(msg))
+
+		log.Log(NOW, "logStdout test out")
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
+func coreStdout() {
+	if me.stdout.tk != nil {
+		return
+	}
+	a := new(widget.Action)
+	a.ProgName = "2stdout2"
+	a.WidgetType = widget.Stdout
+	a.WidgetId = me.stdout.wId
+	a.ParentId = 0
+	// n := addNode(a)
+	n := me.myTree.AddNode(a)
+	me.stdout.tk = initWidget(n)
+
+	tk := me.stdout.tk
+	tk.gocuiSize.w0 = me.stdout.lastW
+	tk.gocuiSize.h0 = me.stdout.lastH
+	tk.gocuiSize.w1 = tk.gocuiSize.w0 + me.stdout.w
+	tk.gocuiSize.h1 = tk.gocuiSize.h0 + me.stdout.h
+}
+
+func makeOutputWidget(g *gocui.Gui, stringFromMouseClick string) *gocui.View {
+	if me.treeRoot == nil {
+		// keep skipping this until the binary tree is initialized
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	coreStdout()
+
+	if me.stdout.tk == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	v, err := g.View("msg")
+	if v == nil {
+		// log.Log(NOW, "makeoutputwindow() this is supposed to happen. v == nil", err)
+	} else {
+		log.Log(NOW, "makeoutputwindow() msg != nil. WTF now? err =", err)
+		return v
+	}
+
+	rect := me.stdout.tk.gocuiSize
+	v, err = g.SetView("msg", rect.w0, rect.h0, rect.w1, rect.h1, 0)
+
+	if errors.Is(err, gocui.ErrUnknownView) {
+		// log.Log(NOW, "makeoutputwindow() this is supposed to happen?", err)
+	}
+
+	if err != nil {
+		if v == nil {
+			log.Log(NOW, "makeoutputwindow() BAD: v == nil && err =", err)
+		}
+		log.Log(NOW, "makeoutputwindow() create output window failed", err)
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	if v == nil {
+		log.Log(NOW, "makeoutputwindow() msg == nil. WTF now? err =", err)
+		return nil
+	} else {
+		me.stdout.tk.v = v
+	}
+
+	v.Clear()
+	v.SelBgColor = gocui.ColorCyan
+	v.SelFgColor = gocui.ColorBlack
+	fmt.Fprintln(v, "figure out how to capture STDOUT to here\n"+stringFromMouseClick)
+	// g.SetViewOnBottom("msg")
+	// setBottomBG()
+
+	me.stdout.tk.v = v
+	me.stdout.tk.DrawAt(me.stdout.lastW, me.stdout.lastH)
+	relocateStdoutOffscreen()
+	/*
+		if me.stdout.outputOffscreen {
+			me.stdout.tk.relocateStdout(me.stdout.lastW, me.stdout.lastH)
+		} else {
+			relocateStdoutOffscreen()
+		}
+	*/
+	return v
+}
+
+func relocateStdoutOffscreen() {
+	if me.stdout.tk == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	if !me.stdout.disable {
+		log.Info("Using gocui STDOUT")
+		log.CaptureMode(me.stdout.tk)
+	}
+	newW := 10
+	newH := 0 - me.stdout.h - 4
+	me.stdout.tk.relocateStdout(newW, newH)
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) relocateStdout(w int, h int) {
+	w0 := w
+	h0 := h
+	w1 := w + me.stdout.w
+	h1 := h + me.stdout.h
+
+	tk.gocuiSize.w0 = w0
+	tk.gocuiSize.w1 = w1
+	tk.gocuiSize.h0 = h0
+	tk.gocuiSize.h1 = h1
+
+	tk.full.w0 = w0
+	tk.full.w1 = w1
+	tk.full.h0 = h0
+	tk.full.h1 = h1
+
+	me.baseGui.SetView("msg", w0, h0, w1, h1, 0)
+	// me.baseGui.SetViewOnBottom("msg")
+}
+
+// from the gocui devs:
+// Write appends a byte slice into the view's internal buffer. Because
+// View implements the io.Writer interface, it can be passed as parameter
+// of functions like fmt.Fprintf, fmt.Fprintln, io.Copy, etc. Clear must
+// be called to clear the view's buffer.
+
+func (w stdout) Height() int {
+	if w.tk == nil {
+		return 40
+	}
+	return w.tk.gocuiSize.Height() - 2
+}
+
+func (w stdout) Write(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
+	me.writeMutex.Lock()
+	defer me.writeMutex.Unlock()
+
+	lines := strings.Split(strings.TrimSpace(string(p)), "\n")
+	me.stdout.outputS = append(me.stdout.outputS, lines...)
+	if me.outf != nil {
+		fmt.Fprint(me.outf, string(p))
+	}
+
+	return len(p), nil
+}
+
+func (w *guiWidget) Write(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
+	lines := strings.Split(strings.TrimSpace(string(p)), "\n")
+	if me.outf != nil {
+		fmt.Fprint(me.outf, string(p))
+	}
+
+	if w == nil {
+		me.stdout.outputS = append(me.stdout.outputS, lines...)
+		return len(p), nil
+	}
+	w.tainted = true
+	me.writeMutex.Lock()
+	defer me.writeMutex.Unlock()
+
+	me.stdout.outputS = append(me.stdout.outputS, lines...)
+
+	tk := me.stdout.tk
+	if tk == nil {
+		return len(p), nil
+	}
+	if tk.v == nil {
+		// redo this old code
+		v, _ := me.baseGui.View("msg")
+		if v != nil {
+			tk.v = v
+		}
+		return len(p), nil
+	}
+	tk.refreshStdout()
+	return len(p), nil
+}
+
+// lets the user page up and down through the stdout buffer
+func (tk *guiWidget) refreshStdout() {
+	if len(me.stdout.outputS) < me.stdout.h+me.stdout.pager {
+		// log.Info(fmt.Sprintf("buffer too small=%d len(%d)", me.stdout.pager, len(me.stdout.outputS)))
+		var cur []string
+		cur = append(cur, me.stdout.outputS...)
+		slices.Reverse(cur)
+		tk.v.Clear()
+		fmt.Fprintln(tk.v, strings.Join(cur, "\n"))
+		return
+	}
+
+	var cur []string
+	// chop off the last lines in the buffer
+	chop := len(me.stdout.outputS) - (me.stdout.pager + me.stdout.h)
+	cur = append(cur, me.stdout.outputS[chop:chop+me.stdout.h]...)
+	slices.Reverse(cur)
+	tk.v.Clear()
+	fmt.Fprintln(tk.v, strings.Join(cur, "\n"))
+}

structs.go

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-// LICENSE: same as the go language itself
-// Copyright 2023 WIT.COM
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
 
 // all structures and variables are local (aka lowercase)
 // since the plugin should be isolated to access only
@@ -10,102 +10,150 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"os"
 	"reflect"
 	"strconv"
-	"strings"
 	"sync"
+	"time"
 
 	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
 
-	"go.wit.com/log"
+	"go.wit.com/lib/protobuf/guipb"
+	log "go.wit.com/log"
 	"go.wit.com/toolkits/tree"
 	"go.wit.com/widget"
 )
 
+var initOnce sync.Once // run initPlugin() only once
+
 // It's probably a terrible idea to call this 'me'
+// 2025 note: doesn't seem terrible to call this 'me' anymore. notsure.
 var me config
 
-var showDebug bool = true
-var showHelp bool = true
-var redoWidgets bool = true
-
-// This is the window that is currently active
-// var currentWindow *tree.Node
-
+// todo: move all this to a protobuf. then, redo all this mess.
+// it got me here, but now it's time to clean it up for good
+// I can't get a GO plugins that use protobuf to load yet (versioning mismatch)
 type config struct {
-	baseGui *gocui.Gui // the main gocui handle
-	// rootNode *node      // the base of the binary tree. it should have id == 0
-
-	treeRoot *tree.Node // the base of the binary tree. it should have id == 0
-	myTree   *tree.TreeInfo
-
-	ctrlDown      *tree.Node // shown if you click the mouse when the ctrl key is pressed
-	currentWindow *guiWidget // this is the current tab or window to show
-	logStdout     *tree.Node // where to show STDOUT
-	startOutputW  int
-	startOutputH  int
-	helpLabel     *gocui.View
-
-	// this is a floating widget that we show whenever the user clicks on a
-	// dropdown menu or combobox
-	// the dropdown widget to select dropdrown lists
-	dropdownV *guiWidget
-	dropdownW *guiWidget // grab the dropdown choices from this widget
-
-	// When the widget has a frame, like a button, it adds 2 lines runes on each side
-	// so you need 3 char spacing in each direction to not have them overlap
-	// the amount of padding when there is a frame
-	FramePadW int `default:"1" dense:"0"`
-	FramePadH int `default:"1" dense:"0"`
-
-	PadW int `default:"1" dense:"0"`
-	PadH int `default:"1" dense:"0"`
-
-	// how far down to start Window or Tab headings
-	WindowW int `default:"8" dense:"0"`
-	WindowH int `default:"-1"`
-	TabW    int `default:"5" dense:"0"`
-	TabH    int `default:"1" dense:"0"`
-
-	// additional amount of space to put between window & tab widgets
-	WindowPadW int `default:"8" dense:"0"`
-	TabPadW    int `default:"4" dense:"0"`
-
-	// additional amount of space to indent on a group
-	GroupPadW int `default:"2" dense:"1"`
-
-	// additional amount of space to indent on a group
-	BoxPadW int `default:"2" dense:"1"`
-
-	// additional amount of space to indent on a group
-	GridPadW int `default:"2" dense:"1"`
-
-	// the raw beginning of each window (or tab)
-	RawW int `default:"1"`
-	RawH int `default:"5"`
-
-	// offset for the hidden widgets
-	FakeW int `default:"20"`
-
-	padded    bool // add space between things like buttons
-	bookshelf bool // do you want things arranged in the box like a bookshelf or a stack?
-	canvas    bool // if set to true, the windows are a raw canvas
-	menubar   bool // for windows
-	stretchy  bool // expand things like buttons to the maximum size
-	margin    bool // add space around the frames of windows
-
-	// writeMutex protects locks the write process
-	writeMutex sync.Mutex
-
-	// used for listWidgets() debugging
-	depth int
+	baseGui          *gocui.Gui      // the main gocui handle
+	treeRoot         *tree.Node      // the base of the binary tree. it should have id == 0
+	myTree           *tree.TreeInfo  // ?
+	currentWindow    *guiWidget      // this is the current tab or window to show
+	ok               bool            // if the user doesn't hit a key or move the mouse, gocui doesn't really start
+	firstWindowOk    bool            // allows the init to wait for the first window from the application
+	refresh          bool            // redraw everything?
+	ctrlDown         *tree.Node      // shown if you click the mouse when the ctrl key is pressed
+	helpLabel        *gocui.View     // ?
+	showHelp         bool            // toggle boolean for the help menu (deprecate?)
+	FirstWindowW     int             `default:"2"`           // how far over to start window #1
+	FirstWindowH     int             `default:"0"`           // how far down to start window #1
+	FramePadW        int             `default:"1" dense:"0"` // When the widget has a frame, like a button, it adds 2 lines runes on each side
+	FramePadH        int             `default:"1" dense:"0"` // When the widget has a frame, like a button, it adds 2 lines runes on each side
+	PadW             int             `default:"1" dense:"0"` // pad spacing
+	PadH             int             `default:"1" dense:"0"` // pad spacing
+	WindowW          int             `default:"8" dense:"0"` // how far down to start Window or Tab headings
+	WindowH          int             `default:"-1"`          // how far down to start Window or Tab headings
+	TabW             int             `default:"5" dense:"0"` // how far down to start Window or Tab headings
+	TabH             int             `default:"1" dense:"0"` // how far down to start Window or Tab headings
+	WindowPadW       int             `default:"8" dense:"0"` // additional amount of space to put between window & tab widgets
+	TabPadW          int             `default:"4" dense:"0"` // additional amount of space to put between window & tab widgets
+	GroupPadW        int             `default:"2" dense:"1"` // additional amount of space to indent on a group
+	BoxPadW          int             `default:"2" dense:"1"` // additional amount of space to indent on a box
+	GridPadW         int             `default:"2" dense:"1"` // additional amount of space to indent on a grid
+	RawW             int             `default:"1"`           // the raw beginning of each window (or tab)
+	RawH             int             `default:"5"`           // the raw beginning of each window (or tab)
+	FakeW            int             `default:"20"`          // offset for the hidden widgets
+	DropdownId       int             `default:"-78"`         // the widget id to use
+	padded           bool            // add space between things like buttons
+	bookshelf        bool            // do you want things arranged in the box like a bookshelf or a stack?
+	canvas           bool            // if set to true, the windows are a raw canvas
+	menubar          bool            // for windows
+	stretchy         bool            // expand things like buttons to the maximum size
+	margin           bool            // add space around the frames of windows
+	writeMutex       sync.Mutex      // writeMutex protects writes to *guiWidget (it's global right now maybe)
+	ecount           int             // counts how many mouse and keyboard events have occurred
+	supermouse       bool            // prints out every widget found while you move the mouse around
+	depth            int             // used for listWidgets() debugging
+	newWindowTrigger chan *guiWidget // work around hack to redraw windows a bit after NewWindow()
+	stdout           stdout          // information for the STDOUT window
+	dropdown         dropdown        // the dropdown menu
+	textbox          dropdown        // the textbox popup window
+	BG               dropdown        // the background widget
+	notify           libnotify       // emulates the desktop libnotify menu
+	allwin           []*guiWidget    // for tracking which window is next
+	dark             bool            // use a 'dark' color palette
+	mouse            mouse           // mouse settings
+	showDebug        bool            // todo: move this into config struct
+	debug            bool            // todo: move this into config struct
+	starttime        time.Time       // checks how long it takes on startup
+	winchW           int             // used to detect SIGWINCH
+	winchH           int             // used to detect SIGWINCH
+	outf             *os.File        // hacks for capturing stdout
 }
 
-// deprecate these
-var (
-	initialMouseX, initialMouseY, xOffset, yOffset int
-	globalMouseDown, msgMouseDown, movingMsg       bool
-)
+// stuff controlling how the mouse works
+type mouse struct {
+	down        time.Time     // when the mouse was pressed down
+	up          time.Time     // when the mouse was released. used to detect click vs drag
+	clicktime   time.Duration // how long is too long for a mouse click vs drag
+	mouseUp     bool          // is the mouse up?
+	double      bool          // user is double clicking
+	doubletime  time.Duration // how long is too long for double click
+	resize      bool          // mouse is resizing something
+	downW       int           // where the mouse was pressed down
+	downH       int           // where the mouse was pressed down
+	currentDrag *guiWidget    // what widget is currently being moved around
+}
+
+// settings for the stdout window
+type stdout struct {
+	tk              *guiWidget // where to show STDOUT
+	wId             int        // the widget id
+	w               int        // the width
+	h               int        // the height
+	outputOnTop     bool       // is the STDOUT window on top?
+	outputOffscreen bool       // is the STDOUT window offscreen?
+	startOnscreen   bool       // start the output window onscreen?
+	disable         bool       // disable the stdout window. do not change os.Stdout & os.Stderr
+	lastW           int        // the last 'w' location (used to move from offscreen to onscreen)
+	lastH           int        // the last 'h' location (used to move from offscreen to onscreen)
+	// mouseOffsetW    int        // the current 'w' offset
+	// mouseOffsetH    int        // the current 'h' offset
+	init    bool     // moves the window offscreen on startup
+	outputS []string // the buffer of all the output
+	pager   int      // allows the user to page through the buffer
+}
+
+// settings for the dropdown window
+type dropdown struct {
+	tk       *guiWidget // where to show STDOUT
+	callerTK *guiWidget // which widget called the dropdown menu
+	items    []string   // what is currently in the menu
+	w        int        // the width
+	h        int        // the height
+	active   bool       // is the dropdown menu currently in use?
+	init     bool       // moves the window offscreen on startup
+	// Id       int        `default:"-78"` // the widget id to use
+	wId int `default:"-78"` // the widget id to use
+}
+
+// settings for the dropdown window
+type internalTK struct {
+	once     sync.Once  // for init
+	tk       *guiWidget // where to show STDOUT
+	callerTK *guiWidget // which widget called the dropdown menu
+	wId      int        // the widget id to use
+	active   bool       // is the internal widget currently in use?
+	offsetW  int        // width offset
+	offsetH  int        // height offset
+}
+
+// the desktop libnotify menu
+type libnotify struct {
+	clock  internalTK // widget for the clock
+	icon   internalTK // libnotify menu icon
+	window internalTK // the libnotify menu
+	help   internalTK // the help menu
+}
 
 // this is the gocui way
 // corner starts at in the upper left corner
@@ -118,115 +166,86 @@ func (r *rectType) Width() int {
 }
 
 func (r *rectType) Height() int {
+	if r.h0 == 0 && r.h1 == 0 {
+		// edge case. only return 0 for these
+		return 0
+	}
+	if r.h1 == r.h0 {
+		// if they are equal, it's actually height = 1
+		return 1
+	}
+	if r.h1-r.h0 < 1 {
+		// can't have negatives. something is wrong. return 1 for now
+		return 1
+	}
+
 	return r.h1 - r.h0
 }
 
+// settings that are window specific
+type window struct {
+	windowFrame *guiWidget // this is the frame for a window widget
+	wasDragged  bool       // indicates the window was dragged. This keeps it from being rearranged
+	hasTabs     bool       // does the window have tabs?
+	currentTab  bool       // the visible tab
+	selectedTab *tree.Node // for a window, this is currently selected tab
+	active      bool       // means this window is the active one
+	order       int        // what level the window is on
+	// resize      bool       // only set the title once
+	collapsed bool // only show the window title bar
+	dense     bool // true if the window is dense
+	large     bool // true if the window is huge
+	pager     int  // allows the user to page through the window
+}
+
+type colorT struct {
+	frame gocui.Attribute
+	fg    gocui.Attribute
+	bg    gocui.Attribute
+	selFg gocui.Attribute
+	selBg gocui.Attribute
+	name  string
+}
+
 type guiWidget struct {
-	// the gocui package variables
-	v       *gocui.View // this is nil if the widget is not displayed
-	cuiName string      // what gocui uses to reference the widget
-
-	WidgetType widget.WidgetType
-
-	// tw	*toolkit.Widget
-	parent   *guiWidget
-	children []*guiWidget
-
-	node *tree.Node
-
-	hasTabs    bool // does the window have tabs?
-	currentTab bool // the visible tab
-
-	value   string
-	checked bool
-
-	// the actual text to display in the console
-	labelN string
-
-	vals []string // dropdown menu items
-
-	active bool
-
-	enable       bool
-	defaultColor *colorT // store the color to go back to
-
-	// hidden bool
-
-	//	AtW int
-	//	AtH int
-
-	// direction widget.Orientation
-
-	// progname string
-
-	// the logical size of the widget
-	// For example, 40x12 would be the center of a normal terminal
-	// size rectType
-
-	// the actual gocui display view of this widget
-	// sometimes this isn't visible like with a Box or Grid
-	gocuiSize rectType
-
-	startW int
-	startH int
-
-	isCurrent bool // is this the currently displayed Window or Tab?
-	isFake    bool // widget types like 'box' are 'false'
-
-	// used to track the size of grids
-	widths  map[int]int // how tall each row in the grid is
-	heights map[int]int // how wide each column in the grid is
-
-	tainted bool
-	frame   bool
-
-	// for a window, this is currently selected tab
-	selectedTab *tree.Node
-
-	// what color to use
-	color *colorT
-}
-
-// from the gocui devs:
-// Write appends a byte slice into the view's internal buffer. Because
-// View implements the io.Writer interface, it can be passed as parameter
-// of functions like fmt.Fprintf, fmt.Fprintln, io.Copy, etc. Clear must
-// be called to clear the view's buffer.
-
-func (w *guiWidget) Write(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
-	w.tainted = true
-	me.writeMutex.Lock()
-	defer me.writeMutex.Unlock()
-	var tk *guiWidget
-	tk = me.logStdout.TK.(*guiWidget)
-	if tk.v == nil {
-		// optionally write the output to /tmp
-		s := fmt.Sprint(string(p))
-		s = strings.TrimSuffix(s, "\n")
-		fmt.Fprintln(outf, s)
-		v, _ := me.baseGui.View("msg")
-		if v != nil {
-			// fmt.Fprintln(outf, "found msg")
-			tk.v = v
-		}
-	} else {
-		// display the output in the gocui window
-		tk.v.Clear()
-
-		s := fmt.Sprint(string(p))
-		s = strings.TrimSuffix(s, "\n")
-		tmp := strings.Split(s, "\n")
-		outputS = append(outputS, tmp...)
-		if len(outputS) > outputH {
-			l := len(outputS) - outputH
-			outputS = outputS[l:]
-		}
-		fmt.Fprintln(tk.v, strings.Join(outputS, "\n"))
-	}
-
-	return len(p), nil
+	v            *gocui.View       // this is nil if the widget is not displayed
+	cuiName      string            // what gocui uses to reference the widget (usually "TK <widgetId>"
+	parent       *guiWidget        // mirrors the binary node tree
+	children     []*guiWidget      // mirrors the binary node tree
+	node         *tree.Node        // the pointer back to the tree
+	pb           *guipb.Widget     // the guipb Widget
+	wtype        widget.WidgetType // used for Tables for now. todo: fix this correctly
+	windowFrame  *guiWidget        // this is the frame for a window widget
+	internal     bool              // indicates the widget is internal to gocui and should be treated differently
+	hasTabs      bool              // does the window have tabs?
+	currentTab   bool              // the visible tab
+	window       window            // holds information specific only to Window widgets
+	value        string            // ?
+	checked      bool              // ?
+	labelN       string            // the actual text to display in the console
+	vals         []string          // dropdown menu items
+	enable       bool              // ?
+	gocuiSize    rectType          // should mirror the real display size. todo: verify these are accurate. they are not yet
+	full         rectType          // full size of children (used by widget.Window, etc)
+	force        rectType          // force widget within these boundries (using this to debug window dragging)
+	startW       int               // ?
+	startH       int               // ?
+	lastW        int               // used during mouse dragging
+	lastH        int               // used during mouse dragging
+	isFake       bool              // widget types like 'box' are 'false'
+	widths       map[int]int       // how tall each row in the grid is
+	heights      map[int]int       // how wide each column in the grid is
+	tainted      bool              // ?
+	frame        bool              // ?
+	selectedTab  *tree.Node        // for a window, this is currently selected tab
+	color        *colorT           // what color to use
+	colorLast    colorT            // the last color the widget had
+	defaultColor *colorT           // the default colors // TODO: make a function for this instead
 }
 
+// THIS IS GO COMPILER MAGIC
+// this sets the `default` in the structs above on init()
+// this is cool code. thank the GO devs for this code and Alex Flint for explaining it to me
 func Set(ptr interface{}, tag string) error {
 	if reflect.TypeOf(ptr).Kind() != reflect.Ptr {
 		log.Log(ERROR, "Set() Not a pointer", ptr, "with tag =", tag)
@@ -246,12 +265,11 @@ func Set(ptr interface{}, tag string) error {
 }
 
 func setField(field reflect.Value, defaultVal string, name string) error {
-
 	if !field.CanSet() {
 		// log("setField() Can't set value", field, defaultVal)
 		return fmt.Errorf("Can't set value\n")
 	} else {
-		log.Log(NOW, "setField() Can set value", name, defaultVal)
+		// log.Log(NOW, "setField() Can set value", name, defaultVal)
 	}
 
 	switch field.Kind() {

table.go

@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"slices"
+
+	"go.wit.com/lib/protobuf/guipb"
+	"go.wit.com/log"
+	"go.wit.com/toolkits/tree"
+	"go.wit.com/widget"
+)
+
+/*
+func initGridPB(pb *guipb.Widget) *guiWidget {
+	var w *guiWidget
+	w = new(guiWidget)
+
+	w.pb = pb
+	w.parent = me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
+	w.wtype = widget.Window
+	w.cuiName = fmt.Sprintf("%d %s", pb.Id, "TK")
+	w.labelN = pb.Name
+	return w
+}
+*/
+
+func initGridPB(pb *guipb.Widget) *guiWidget {
+	var w *guiWidget
+	w = new(guiWidget)
+
+	w.pb = pb
+	w.wtype = widget.Grid
+	w.cuiName = fmt.Sprintf("%d %s", pb.Id, "TK")
+	w.labelN = pb.Name
+	return w
+}
+
+func showTable(t *guipb.Table) {
+	log.Info("gocui: should show table here")
+	if t == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	log.Info("gocui: table.Title", t.Title)
+	// log.Info("gocui: need to add window here id =", t.Window.Id, t.Window.Name)
+	if t.Grid == nil {
+		log.Info("gocui: missing grid widget. tree plugin error")
+		return
+	}
+	root := me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
+	parent := root.findWidgetById(int(t.Parent.Id))
+	if parent == nil {
+		log.Info("gocui: show table error. parent.Id not found", t.Parent.Id)
+		return
+	}
+
+	log.Info("gocui: need to add grid here id =", t.Grid.Id)
+	grid := initGridPB(t.Grid)
+	grid.parent = parent
+}
+
+func enableWidget(n *tree.Node) {
+	tk := n.TK.(*guiWidget)
+	tk.Enable()
+}
+
+func disableWidget(n *tree.Node) {
+	tk := n.TK.(*guiWidget)
+	tk.Disable()
+}
+
+func showWidget(n *tree.Node) {
+	tk := n.TK.(*guiWidget)
+	tk.Show()
+}
+
+func hideWidget(n *tree.Node) {
+	tk := n.TK.(*guiWidget)
+	if n.WidgetType == widget.Window {
+		tk.windowFrame.Hide()
+		tk.hideWidgets()
+	}
+	tk.Hide()
+	tk.deleteWidget()
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) deleteWidget() {
+	log.Log(INFO, "gocui deleteWidget() looking for child to delete:", tk.cuiName)
+	p := tk.parent
+	for i, child := range p.children {
+		if tk == child {
+			log.Log(INFO, "deleteWidget() found parent with child to delete:", i, child.cuiName, child.WidgetId())
+			p.children = slices.Delete(p.children, i, i+1)
+		}
+	}
+	tk.deleteTree()
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) deleteTree() {
+	for _, child := range tk.children {
+		child.deleteTree()
+	}
+	tk.Hide()
+}

textbox.go

@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
+package main
+
+// simulates a dropdown menu in gocui
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
+	log "go.wit.com/log"
+)
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) forceSizes(r *rectType) {
+	tk.gocuiSize.w0 = r.w0
+	tk.gocuiSize.w1 = r.w1
+	tk.gocuiSize.h0 = r.h0
+	tk.gocuiSize.h1 = r.h1
+
+	tk.full.w0 = r.w0
+	tk.full.w1 = r.w1
+	tk.full.h0 = r.h0
+	tk.full.h1 = r.h1
+
+	tk.force.w0 = r.w0
+	tk.force.w1 = r.w1
+	tk.force.h0 = r.h0
+	tk.force.h1 = r.h1
+}
+
+func initTextbox() {
+	if me.textbox.tk == nil {
+		// should only happen once
+		me.textbox.tk = makeNewFlagWidget(me.textbox.wId)
+		// me.textbox.tk.dumpWidget("init() textbox")
+	}
+}
+
+func (callertk *guiWidget) prepTextbox() {
+	initTextbox()
+	if me.textbox.tk == nil {
+		log.Log(GOCUI, "prepTextbox() Is Broken")
+		return
+	}
+
+	r := new(rectType)
+	// startW, startH := tk.Position()
+	r.w0 = callertk.gocuiSize.w0 + 4
+	r.h0 = callertk.gocuiSize.h0 + 3
+	r.w1 = r.w0 + 24
+	r.h1 = r.h0 + 2
+	me.textbox.tk.forceSizes(r)
+	// me.textbox.tk.dumpWidget("after sizes")
+
+	me.textbox.callerTK = callertk
+
+	// showTextbox(callertk.String())
+}
+
+func showTextbox(callers string) {
+	// tk := me.textbox.tk
+	// me.textbox.tk.dumpWidget("after sizes")
+
+	//	me.textbox.tk.Show() // actually makes the gocui view. TODO: redo this
+
+	if me.textbox.tk.v == nil {
+		log.Info("wtf went wrong")
+		return
+	}
+
+	me.textbox.tk.setColorModal()
+	me.textbox.tk.v.Clear()
+	cur := strings.TrimSpace(callers)
+	// log.Info("setting textbox string to:", cur)
+	me.textbox.tk.v.WriteString(cur)
+
+	me.textbox.tk.v.Editable = true
+	me.textbox.tk.v.Wrap = true
+
+	r := me.textbox.tk.gocuiSize
+	me.baseGui.SetView(me.textbox.tk.cuiName, r.w0, r.h0, r.w1, r.h1, 0)
+	me.baseGui.SetCurrentView(me.textbox.tk.v.Name())
+
+	// bind the enter key to a function so we can close the textbox
+	me.baseGui.SetKeybinding(me.textbox.tk.v.Name(), gocui.KeyEnter, gocui.ModNone, theCloseTheTextbox)
+
+	me.textbox.active = true
+
+	// me.textbox.dumpWidget("showTextbox()")
+}
+
+func theCloseTheTextbox(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+	textboxClosed()
+	return nil
+}
+
+// updates the text and sends an event back to the application
+func textboxClosed() {
+	// get the text the user entered
+	var newtext string
+	if me.textbox.tk.v == nil {
+		newtext = ""
+	} else {
+		newtext = me.textbox.tk.v.ViewBuffer()
+	}
+	newtext = strings.TrimSpace(newtext)
+	me.textbox.active = false
+	me.textbox.tk.Hide()
+	// log.Info("textbox closed with text:", newtext, me.textbox.callerTK.cuiName)
+
+	if me.notify.clock.tk.v != nil {
+		me.baseGui.SetCurrentView("help")
+	} else {
+		me.baseGui.SetCurrentView("msg")
+	}
+
+	// change the text of the caller widget
+	me.textbox.callerTK.SetText(newtext)
+	me.textbox.callerTK.node.SetCurrentS(newtext)
+
+	// send an event from the plugin with the new string
+	me.myTree.SendUserEvent(me.textbox.callerTK.node)
+
+	win := me.textbox.callerTK.findParentWindow()
+	if win != nil {
+		// win.dumpWidget("redraw this!!!")
+		tk := me.textbox.callerTK
+		// me.textbox.callerTK.dumpWidget("resize this!!!")
+		me.textbox.callerTK.Size()
+		me.textbox.callerTK.placeWidgets(tk.gocuiSize.w0-4, tk.gocuiSize.h0-4)
+		// tk.dumpWidget("resize:" + tk.String())
+		win.makeWindowActive()
+	}
+}

tree.go

@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-/*
-	This is reference code for toolkit developers
-*/
-
-import (
-	"go.wit.com/widget"
-)
-
-// Other goroutines must use this to access the GUI
-//
-// You can not acess / process the GUI thread directly from
-// other goroutines. This is due to the nature of how
-// Linux, MacOS and Windows work (they all work differently. suprise. surprise.)
-//
-// this sets the channel to send user events back from the plugin
-func Callback(guiCallback chan widget.Action) {
-	me.myTree.Callback(guiCallback)
-}
-
-func PluginChannel() chan widget.Action {
-	return me.myTree.PluginChannel()
-}

treeAdd.go

@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	log "go.wit.com/log"
+	"go.wit.com/toolkits/tree"
+	"go.wit.com/widget"
+)
+
+var fakeStartWidth int = me.FakeW
+var fakeStartHeight int = me.TabH + me.FramePadH
+
+// setup fake labels for non-visible things off screen
+func setFake(n *tree.Node) {
+	var w *guiWidget
+	w = n.TK.(*guiWidget)
+	w.isFake = true
+
+	w.gocuiSetWH(fakeStartWidth, fakeStartHeight)
+
+	fakeStartHeight += w.gocuiSize.Height()
+	// TODO: use the actual max hight of the terminal window
+	if fakeStartHeight > 24 {
+		fakeStartHeight = me.TabH
+		fakeStartWidth += me.FakeW
+	}
+}
+
+// mostly just sets the colors of things
+func addWidget(n *tree.Node) {
+	if !me.ok {
+		log.Log(INFO, "addWidget() START NOT OKAY")
+		log.Log(INFO, "addWidget() START NOT OKAY")
+		log.Log(INFO, "addWidget() START NOT OKAY")
+		waitOK()
+	}
+	tk := n.TK.(*guiWidget)
+	log.Log(INFO, "setStartWH() w.id =", n.WidgetId, "n.name", n.String())
+	switch n.WidgetType {
+	case widget.Root:
+		log.Log(INFO, "setStartWH() rootNode w.id =", n.WidgetId, "w.name", n.String())
+		// tk.color = &colorRoot
+		setFake(n)
+		return
+	case widget.Flag:
+		// tk.color = &colorFlag
+		setFake(n)
+		return
+	case widget.Window:
+		tk.frame = false
+		tk.labelN = tk.GetText() + "  X"
+		// tk.setColor(&colorWindow)
+		me.newWindowTrigger <- tk
+		redoWindows(0, 0)
+		return
+	case widget.Stdout:
+		tk.labelN = "moreSTDOUT"
+		n.State.ProgName = "moreSTDOUT"
+		n.State.Label = "moreSTDOUT"
+		tk.isFake = true
+		return
+	case widget.Tab:
+		// tk.color = &colorTab
+		return
+	case widget.Button:
+		tk.setColorButton()
+		if tk.IsEnabled() {
+		} else {
+			tk.setColorDisable()
+		}
+		return
+	case widget.Checkbox:
+		tk.setColorInput()
+		tk.labelN = "X " + n.State.Label
+		return
+	case widget.Dropdown:
+		tk.setColorInput()
+		return
+	case widget.Textbox:
+		n.State.Label = ""
+		tk.labelN = "    "
+		// tk.color = &colorDropdown
+		tk.setColorInput()
+		return
+	case widget.Combobox:
+		// tk.color = &colorCombobox
+		tk.setColorInput()
+		return
+	case widget.Box:
+		// tk.color = &colorBox
+		tk.isFake = true
+		setFake(n)
+		return
+	case widget.Grid:
+		// tk.color = &colorGrid
+		tk.isFake = true
+		setFake(n)
+		return
+	case widget.Group:
+		tk.setColorLabel()
+		tk.frame = false
+		return
+	case widget.Label:
+		tk.setColorLabel()
+		tk.frame = false
+		return
+	default:
+		/*
+			if n.IsCurrent() {
+				n.updateCurrent()
+			}
+		*/
+	}
+	tk.dumpWidget("addWidget()unknown")
+}

treeDraw.go

@@ -0,0 +1,271 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"strconv"
+
+	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
+	log "go.wit.com/log"
+	"go.wit.com/widget"
+)
+
+// don't draw widgets that are too far down the window
+func (tk *guiWidget) doNotDraw() bool {
+	var check bool
+	switch tk.WidgetType() {
+	case widget.Button:
+		check = true
+	case widget.Label:
+		check = true
+	default:
+	}
+	if !check {
+		return false
+	}
+	win := tk.findParentWindow()
+	if win == nil {
+		// don't draw anything if you can't find the parent window
+		return true
+	}
+
+	h := tk.gocuiSize.h0 - win.gocuiSize.h0
+
+	if h > 20 {
+		return true
+	}
+
+	return false
+}
+
+// page widgets in the window
+func (tk *guiWidget) pageWidget() *rectType {
+	r := new(rectType)
+
+	var check bool
+	switch tk.WidgetType() {
+	case widget.Button:
+		check = true
+	case widget.Label:
+		check = true
+	default:
+	}
+	if !check {
+		return nil
+	}
+	win := tk.findParentWindow()
+	if win == nil {
+		// don't draw anything if you can't find the parent window
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	r.w0 = tk.gocuiSize.w0
+	r.h0 = tk.gocuiSize.h0
+	r.w1 = tk.gocuiSize.w1
+	r.h1 = tk.gocuiSize.h1
+
+	// r.h0 = tk.gocuiSize.h0 - win.gocuiSize.h0
+
+	if r.h0 > 20 {
+		return r
+	}
+
+	return r
+}
+
+// display's the text of the widget in gocui
+// deletes the old view if it exists and recreates it
+func (tk *guiWidget) drawView() {
+	var err error
+	log.Log(INFO, "drawView() START", tk.WidgetType(), tk.String())
+	if me.baseGui == nil {
+		log.Log(ERROR, "drawView() ERROR: me.baseGui == nil", tk)
+		return
+	}
+
+	if tk.cuiName == "" {
+		log.Log(ERROR, "drawView() tk.cuiName was not set for widget", tk)
+		tk.cuiName = strconv.Itoa(tk.WidgetId()) + " TK"
+	}
+	log.Log(INFO, "drawView() labelN =", tk.labelN)
+
+	// this deletes the button from gocui
+	me.baseGui.DeleteView(tk.cuiName)
+	tk.v = nil
+
+	a := tk.gocuiSize.w0
+	b := tk.gocuiSize.h0
+	c := tk.gocuiSize.w1
+	d := tk.gocuiSize.h1
+
+	/*
+		// testing code for paging large windows
+		if tk.doNotDraw() {
+			return
+		}
+
+			if tk.window.pager != 0 {
+				if r := tk.pageWidget(); r == nil {
+					// if nil, draw whatever it is anyway
+				} else {
+					if r.Width() == 0 && r.Height() == 0 {
+						// don't draw empty stuff
+						return
+					}
+					a = r.w0
+					b = r.h0
+					c = r.w1
+					d = r.h1
+				}
+			}
+
+			if tk.WidgetType() == widget.Window || tk.WidgetType() == widget.Flag {
+				if tk.window.pager != 0 {
+					if tk.gocuiSize.Height() > 40 {
+						tk.window.large = true
+						tk.gocuiSize.h1 = tk.gocuiSize.h0 + 40
+						d = tk.gocuiSize.h1
+					}
+				}
+			}
+	*/
+
+	// this is all terrible. This sets the title. kinda
+	if tk.WidgetType() == widget.Window {
+		tk.textResize()
+		tk.full.w0 = tk.force.w0
+		tk.full.h0 = tk.force.h0
+
+		// for windows, make it the full size
+		a = tk.full.w0
+		b = tk.full.h0
+		c = tk.full.w0 + tk.gocuiSize.Width()
+		d = tk.full.h0 + tk.gocuiSize.Height()
+	} else {
+		if tk.internal {
+			// do nothing
+		} else {
+			tk.textResize() // resize gocui frame to the widget text
+		}
+		a = tk.gocuiSize.w0
+		b = tk.gocuiSize.h0
+		c = tk.gocuiSize.w1
+		d = tk.gocuiSize.h1
+	}
+
+	tk.v, err = me.baseGui.SetView(tk.cuiName, a, b, c, d, 0)
+	if err == nil {
+		tk.dumpWidget("drawView() err")
+		log.Log(ERROR, "drawView() internal plugin error err = nil")
+		return
+	}
+
+	if !errors.Is(err, gocui.ErrUnknownView) {
+		tk.dumpWidget("drawView() err")
+		log.Log(ERROR, "drawView() internal plugin error error.IS()", err)
+		return
+	}
+
+	if tk.v == nil {
+		log.Info("MUTEX FAIL. tk.v == nil here in drawView()")
+		log.Info("MUTEX FAIL. tk.v == nil here in drawView()")
+		log.Info("MUTEX FAIL. tk.v == nil here in drawView()")
+		return
+	}
+
+	// this actually sends the text to display to gocui
+	tk.v.Wrap = true
+	tk.v.Frame = tk.frame
+	tk.v.Clear()
+	fmt.Fprint(tk.v, tk.labelN)
+
+	// tmp hack to disable buttons on window open
+	if tk.WidgetType() == widget.Button {
+		if tk.IsEnabled() {
+		} else {
+			tk.setColorDisable()
+		}
+	}
+
+	switch tk.WidgetType() {
+	case widget.Button:
+		if tk.IsEnabled() {
+			if tk.isWindowDense() && tk.isInGrid() {
+				tk.setColorButtonDense()
+			} else {
+				tk.setColorButton()
+			}
+		} else {
+			tk.setColorDisable()
+		}
+	default:
+	}
+
+	if tk.v == nil {
+		log.Info("MUTEX FAIL 2. tk.v was deleted somehow tk.v == nil here in drawView()")
+		log.Info("MUTEX FAIL 2. tk.v == nil here in drawView()")
+		log.Info("MUTEX FAIL 2. tk.v == nil here in drawView()")
+		return
+	}
+
+	// if you don't do this here, it will be black & white only
+	if tk.color != nil {
+		tk.v.FrameColor = tk.color.frame
+		tk.v.FgColor = tk.color.fg
+		tk.v.BgColor = tk.color.bg
+		tk.v.SelFgColor = tk.color.selFg
+		tk.v.SelBgColor = tk.color.selBg
+	}
+
+	log.Log(INFO, "drawView() END")
+}
+
+func (w *guiWidget) DrawAt(offsetW, offsetH int) {
+	// w.setColor(&colorActiveW)
+	w.placeWidgets(offsetW, offsetH) // compute the sizes & places for each widget
+	// w.dumpWidget(fmt.Sprintf("DrawAt(%d,%d)", offsetW, offsetH))
+}
+
+func (w *guiWidget) simpleDrawAt(offsetW, offsetH int) {
+	// w.setColor(&colorActiveW)
+	w.dumpWidget("simpleDrawAt()")
+}
+
+// display the widgets in the binary tree
+func (w *guiWidget) drawTree(draw bool) {
+	if w == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	w.dumpWidget("in drawTree()")
+	if draw {
+		// w.textResize()
+		w.Show()
+	} else {
+		w.Hide()
+	}
+
+	for _, child := range w.children {
+		child.drawTree(draw)
+	}
+}
+
+func (w *guiWidget) Show() {
+	if w.isFake {
+		// don't display fake widgets
+		return
+	}
+
+	if w.Hidden() {
+		// recursively checks if the parent is hidden
+		// never show hidden widgets
+		return
+	}
+	if me.debug {
+		w.dumpWidget("drawView()")
+	}
+
+	w.drawView()
+}

treeInit.go

@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
+/*
+	DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
+
+	this file is the same for every GUI toolkit plugin
+	when you are making a new GUI toolkit plugin for
+	a specific toolkit, you just need to define these
+	functions.
+
+	for example, in the "gocui" toolkit, the functions
+	below are what triggers the "gocui" GO package
+	to draw labels, buttons, windows, etc
+
+	If you are starting out trying to make a new GUI toolkit,
+	all you have to do is copy this file over. Then
+	work on making these functions. addWidget(), setText(), etc.
+
+	That's it!
+*/
+
+package main
+
+/*
+	This is reference code for toolkit developers
+
+	This is how information is passed in GO back to the application
+	via the GO 'plugin' concept
+
+	TODO: switch this to protocol buffers
+*/
+
+import (
+	"time"
+
+	log "go.wit.com/log"
+	"go.wit.com/toolkits/tree"
+	"go.wit.com/widget"
+)
+
+// Other goroutines must use this to access the GUI
+//
+// You can not acess / process the GUI thread directly from
+// other goroutines. This is due to the nature of how
+// Linux, MacOS and Windows work (they all work differently. suprise. surprise.)
+//
+// this sets the channel to send user events back from the plugin
+func Callback(guiCallback chan widget.Action) {
+	me.myTree.Callback(guiCallback)
+}
+
+func PluginChannel() chan widget.Action {
+	initOnce.Do(initPlugin)
+	for {
+		if me.myTree != nil {
+			break
+		}
+		log.Info("me.myTree == nil")
+		time.Sleep(300 * time.Millisecond)
+	}
+	return me.myTree.PluginChannel()
+}
+
+func FrozenChannel() chan widget.Action {
+	return me.myTree.FrozenChannel()
+}
+
+func initTree() *tree.TreeInfo {
+	t := tree.New()
+	t.PluginName = PLUGIN
+	t.Add = newAdd
+	t.SetTitle = setTitle
+	t.SetLabel = setLabel
+	t.SetText = setText
+	t.AddText = addText
+
+	t.Enable = enableWidget
+	t.Disable = disableWidget
+
+	t.Show = showWidget
+	t.Hide = hideWidget
+
+	t.SetChecked = setChecked
+	t.ToolkitInit = toolkitInit
+	t.ToolkitClose = toolkitClose
+	t.ShowTable = showTable
+
+	return t
+}

treeWidget.go

@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+
+	"go.wit.com/log"
+	"go.wit.com/toolkits/tree"
+	"go.wit.com/widget"
+)
+
+func initWidget(n *tree.Node) *guiWidget {
+	var w *guiWidget
+	w = new(guiWidget)
+
+	w.node = n
+	w.cuiName = strconv.Itoa(w.WidgetId()) + " TK"
+	// w.WidgetType() = n.WidgetType
+	w.labelN = n.State.Label
+	if w.labelN == "" {
+		// remove this debugging hack once things are stable and fixed
+		w.labelN = n.GetProgName()
+	}
+	w.frame = true
+	w.enable = n.State.Enable
+
+	if n.WidgetType == widget.Root {
+		log.Log(INFO, "setupWidget() FOUND ROOT w.id =", n.WidgetId)
+	}
+
+	if n.WidgetType == widget.Grid {
+		w.widths = make(map[int]int)  // how tall each row in the grid is
+		w.heights = make(map[int]int) // how wide each column in the grid is
+	}
+
+	p := n.Parent
+	if p == nil {
+		log.Log(ERROR, "parent == nil", w.String(), n.WidgetId, w.WidgetType())
+		return w
+	}
+	if p.TK == nil {
+		if n.WidgetId == 0 {
+			// this is a normal init condition
+		} else {
+			log.Log(ERROR, "parent.TK == nil", w.String(), n.WidgetId, w.WidgetType())
+		}
+		return w
+	}
+
+	// set the parent and append to parent children
+	var ptk *guiWidget
+	ptk = p.TK.(*guiWidget)
+	w.parent = ptk
+	ptk.children = append(ptk.children, w)
+	return w
+}
+
+func setupCtrlDownWidget() {
+	a := new(widget.Action)
+	a.ProgName = "ctrlDown"
+	a.WidgetType = widget.Dialog
+	a.WidgetId = -1
+	a.ParentId = 0
+	// n := addNode(a)
+	n := me.myTree.AddNode(a)
+
+	me.ctrlDown = n
+}
+
+func (w *guiWidget) deleteView() {
+	// make sure the view isn't really there
+	// log.Log(GOCUI, "deleteView()", w.cuiName, w.WidgetType(), w.WidgetId())
+	me.baseGui.DeleteView(w.cuiName)
+	w.v = nil
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) String() string {
+	// deprecate this?
+	curval := strings.TrimSpace(tk.labelN)
+	if curval != "" {
+		return curval
+	}
+	curval = strings.TrimSpace(tk.GetLabel())
+	if curval != "" {
+		return curval
+	}
+	curval = tk.GetText()
+	if curval != "" {
+		return curval
+	}
+	curval = tk.node.String()
+	if curval != "" {
+		return curval
+	}
+	curval = strings.TrimSpace(tk.node.ProgName())
+	if curval != "" {
+		return curval
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) Visible() bool {
+	if tk == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	if tk.v == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	tk.v.Visible = true
+	return true
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) Hide() {
+	tk.deleteView()
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) SetVisible(b bool) {
+	if b {
+		tk.Show()
+	} else {
+		tk.Hide()
+	}
+}

view.go

@@ -1,54 +1,56 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
 package main
 
 import (
-	"bufio"
 	"strings"
 
-	"go.wit.com/log"
 	"go.wit.com/widget"
 )
 
-func splitLines(s string) []string {
-	var lines []string
-	sc := bufio.NewScanner(strings.NewReader(s))
-	for sc.Scan() {
-		lines = append(lines, sc.Text())
+// expands the gocuiSize rectangle to fit
+// all the text in tk.labelN
+func (tk *guiWidget) textResize() {
+	var w, h int = 0, 0
+
+	for _, s := range strings.Split(tk.labelN, "\n") {
+		s = strings.TrimSpace(s)
+		// log.Log(INFO, "textResize() len =", len(s), i, s)
+		if w < len(s) {
+			w = len(s)
+		}
+		h += 1
 	}
-	return lines
+
+	// todo: fix all this old code
+	if tk.WidgetType() == widget.Textbox {
+		if w < 5 {
+			w = 5
+		}
+	}
+
+	// this is old code. now move this somewhere smarter
+	tk.gocuiSize.w1 = tk.gocuiSize.w0 + w + me.FramePadW // TODO: move this FramePadW out of here
+	tk.gocuiSize.h1 = tk.gocuiSize.h0 + h + me.FramePadH // TODO: fix this size computation
 }
 
-func (w *guiWidget) textResize() bool {
-	// w := n.tk
-	var width, height int = 0, 0
-	var changed bool = false
-
-	for i, s := range splitLines(w.labelN) {
-		log.Log(INFO, "textResize() len =", len(s), i, s)
-		if width < len(s) {
-			width = len(s)
-		}
-		height += 1
+// deletes every view
+func (w *guiWidget) hideWindow() {
+	if w == nil {
+		return
 	}
-	if w.gocuiSize.w1 != w.gocuiSize.w0+width+me.FramePadW {
-		w.gocuiSize.w1 = w.gocuiSize.w0 + width + me.FramePadW
-		changed = true
+	w.Hide()
+	for _, child := range w.children {
+		child.hideWindow()
 	}
-	if w.gocuiSize.h1 != w.gocuiSize.h0+height+me.FramePadH {
-		w.gocuiSize.h1 = w.gocuiSize.h0 + height + me.FramePadH
-		changed = true
-	}
-	if changed {
-		// w.showWidgetPlacement("textResize() changed")
-	}
-	return changed
 }
 
 func (w *guiWidget) hideWidgets() {
 	if w == nil {
 		return
 	}
-	w.isCurrent = false
-	switch w.node.WidgetType {
+	switch w.WidgetType() {
 	case widget.Root:
 	case widget.Flag:
 	case widget.Window:
@@ -88,7 +90,7 @@ func (w *guiWidget) hideFake() {
 func (w *guiWidget) showFake() {
 	if w.isFake {
 		w.drawView()
-		w.showWidgetPlacement("showFake:")
+		w.dumpWidget("in showFake()")
 	}
 	for _, child := range w.children {
 		child.showFake()

widget.go

@@ -1,198 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"strconv"
-
-	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
-	"go.wit.com/log"
-	"go.wit.com/toolkits/tree"
-	"go.wit.com/widget"
-)
-
-func initWidget(n *tree.Node) *guiWidget {
-	var w *guiWidget
-	w = new(guiWidget)
-
-	w.node = n
-	w.cuiName = strconv.Itoa(w.node.WidgetId) + " TK"
-	w.WidgetType = n.WidgetType
-	w.labelN = n.State.Label
-	if w.labelN == "" {
-		// remove this debugging hack once things are stable and fixed
-		w.labelN = n.GetProgName()
-	}
-	w.frame = true
-	w.enable = n.State.Enable
-
-	if n.WidgetType == widget.Root {
-		log.Log(INFO, "setupWidget() FOUND ROOT w.id =", n.WidgetId)
-	}
-
-	if n.WidgetType == widget.Grid {
-		w.widths = make(map[int]int)  // how tall each row in the grid is
-		w.heights = make(map[int]int) // how wide each column in the grid is
-	}
-
-	p := n.Parent
-	if p == nil {
-		log.Log(ERROR, "parent == nil", w.String(), n.WidgetId, w.WidgetType)
-		return w
-	}
-	if p.TK == nil {
-		log.Log(ERROR, "parent.TK == nil", w.String(), n.WidgetId, w.WidgetType)
-		return w
-	}
-
-	// set the parent and append to parent children
-	var ptk *guiWidget
-	ptk = p.TK.(*guiWidget)
-	w.parent = ptk
-	ptk.children = append(ptk.children, w)
-	return w
-}
-
-func setupCtrlDownWidget() {
-	a := new(widget.Action)
-	a.ProgName = "ctrlDown"
-	a.WidgetType = widget.Dialog
-	a.WidgetId = -1
-	a.ParentId = 0
-	// n := addNode(a)
-	n := me.myTree.AddNode(a)
-
-	me.ctrlDown = n
-}
-
-func (w *guiWidget) deleteView() {
-	// make sure the view isn't really there
-	log.Log(GOCUI, "deleteView()", w.cuiName, w.WidgetType, w.node.WidgetId)
-	me.baseGui.DeleteView(w.cuiName)
-	w.v = nil
-}
-
-func (w *guiWidget) IsCurrent() bool {
-	if w.node.WidgetType == widget.Tab {
-		return w.isCurrent
-	}
-	if w.node.WidgetType == widget.Window {
-		log.Log(GOCUI, "IsCurrent() found current window", w.cuiName, w.String())
-		log.Log(GOCUI, "IsCurrent() window w.isCurrent =", w.isCurrent)
-		return w.isCurrent
-	}
-	if w.node.WidgetType == widget.Root {
-		return false
-	}
-	return w.parent.IsCurrent()
-}
-
-func (tk *guiWidget) String() string {
-	return tk.node.String()
-}
-
-func (tk *guiWidget) Visible() bool {
-	if tk == nil {
-		return false
-	}
-	if tk.v == nil {
-		return false
-	}
-	tk.v.Visible = true
-	return true
-}
-
-func (w *guiWidget) Show() {
-	// always should the dropdown widget
-	if w == me.dropdownV {
-		me.dropdownV.drawView()
-		return
-	}
-
-	// don't display fake widgets
-	if w.isFake {
-		return
-	}
-
-	// if this isn't in the binary tree
-	// it's some internal widget so always display those
-	if w.node == nil {
-		w.drawView()
-		return
-	}
-
-	// always show window titles
-	if w.node.WidgetType == widget.Window {
-		w.drawView()
-		return
-	}
-
-	if w.node.WidgetType == widget.Dropdown {
-		log.Log(NOW, "Show() dropdown", w.cuiName, w.String())
-		log.Log(NOW, "Show() dropdown n.Strings() =", w.node.Strings())
-	}
-	if w.node.WidgetType == widget.Combobox {
-		log.Log(NOW, "Show() dropdown", w.cuiName, w.String())
-		log.Log(NOW, "Show() dropdown n.Strings() =", w.node.Strings())
-	}
-
-	// if the widget is not in the current displayed windo
-	// then ignore it
-	log.Log(GOCUI, "Show() widget =", w.cuiName, w.String())
-	log.Log(GOCUI, "Show() w.IsCurrent() returned", w.IsCurrent())
-	if !w.IsCurrent() {
-		log.Log(GOCUI, "Show() NOT drawing", w.cuiName, w.String())
-		return
-	}
-	log.Log(GOCUI, "Show() drawing", w.cuiName, w.String())
-
-	// finally, check if the widget State is hidden or not
-	if w.node.Hidden() {
-		// don't display hidden widgets
-		return
-	}
-
-	// okay, if you made it this far, then display the widget
-	w.drawView()
-}
-
-func (tk *guiWidget) Hide() {
-	tk.deleteView()
-}
-
-func (tk *guiWidget) SetVisible(b bool) {
-	if b {
-		tk.Show()
-	} else {
-		tk.Hide()
-	}
-}
-
-func (tk *guiWidget) findWidgetByName(name string) *guiWidget {
-	if tk.cuiName == name {
-		return tk
-	}
-	for _, child := range tk.children {
-		found := child.findWidgetByName(name)
-		if found != nil {
-			return found
-		}
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-func (tk *guiWidget) findWidgetByView(v *gocui.View) *guiWidget {
-	if tk.v == v {
-		return tk
-	}
-	if tk.cuiName == v.Name() {
-		log.Log(NOW, "findWidget() error. names are mismatched or out of sync", tk.cuiName)
-		log.Log(NOW, "findWidget() or maybe the view has been deleted")
-		// return tk
-	}
-	for _, child := range tk.children {
-		found := child.findWidgetByView(v)
-		if found != nil {
-			return found
-		}
-	}
-	return nil
-}

window.go

@@ -1,28 +1,264 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2025 WIT.COM Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by the GPL 3.0
+
 package main
 
 import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+
+	log "go.wit.com/log"
+	"go.wit.com/toolkits/tree"
 	"go.wit.com/widget"
 )
 
+func (tk *guiWidget) setTitle(s string) {
+	if tk.WidgetType() != widget.Window {
+		return
+	}
+	if tk.v == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	tk.setColorWindowTitleActive()
+	rect := tk.gocuiSize
+	rect.w1 = rect.w0 + tk.full.Width() + 1
+	// rect.h1 = rect.h0 + 1
+	me.baseGui.SetView(tk.v.Name(), rect.w0-1, rect.h0, rect.w1+1, rect.h1, 0)
+	tk.v.Clear()
+	f := "  %-" + fmt.Sprintf("%d", tk.full.Width()-3) + "s %s"
+	tmp := tk.GetLabel()
+	labelN := fmt.Sprintf(f, tmp, "X")
+	tk.v.WriteString(labelN)
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) redrawWindow(w int, h int) {
+	if tk.WidgetType() != widget.Window {
+		return
+	}
+	// tk.dumpWidget(fmt.Sprintf("redrawWindow(%d,%d)", w, h))
+	if tk.full.Height() > 40 {
+		tk.window.dense = true
+	}
+	// pin the window to (w,h)
+	tk.gocuiSize.w0 = w
+	tk.gocuiSize.h0 = h
+	tk.gocuiSize.w1 = w + len(tk.GetLabel())
+	tk.labelN = tk.GetLabel() // could set XX here also but don't have final size of window yet
+	tk.force.w0 = w
+	tk.force.w1 = w
+	tk.force.h0 = h
+	tk.force.h1 = h
+
+	tk.setFullSize() // might make the green box the right size
+
+	tk.frame = false
+	tk.hasTabs = false
+
+	tk.DrawAt(w, h)
+	// tk.setColor(&colorActiveW) // sets the window to Green BG
+	tk.setColorWindowTitleActive()
+
+	if tk.window.collapsed {
+		// don't show anything but the title bar
+		tk.hideWindow()
+		return
+	}
+	tk.placeWidgets(w, h) // compute the sizes & places for each widget
+
+	// this is a test. this should not be needed
+	tk.full.w0 = tk.force.w0
+	tk.full.h0 = tk.force.h0
+
+	tk.setFullSize()
+	tk.Show()
+	if tk.v == nil {
+		log.Info("redrawWindow on tk.v == nil")
+		standardExit()
+	}
+	tk.v.Clear()
+	fmt.Fprint(tk.v, "ZZZ"+tk.GetText())
+	tk.showWidgets()
+
+	if tk.windowFrame == nil {
+		tk.addWindowFrameTK(0 - tk.WidgetId())
+		tk.windowFrame.makeTK([]string{""})
+	}
+
+	// this seems to correctly create the window frame
+	r := tk.getFullSize()
+	tk.windowFrame.gocuiSize.w0 = tk.force.w0
+	tk.windowFrame.gocuiSize.w1 = r.w1 + 1
+	tk.windowFrame.gocuiSize.h0 = tk.force.h0 + 2
+	tk.windowFrame.gocuiSize.h1 = r.h1 + 1
+	tk.windowFrame.full.w0 = tk.force.w0
+	tk.windowFrame.full.w1 = r.w1 + 1
+	tk.windowFrame.full.h0 = tk.force.h0 + 2
+	tk.windowFrame.full.h1 = r.h1 + 1
+	tk.windowFrame.setColorWindowFrame()
+	tk.windowFrame.Hide()
+	tk.windowFrame.Show()
+
+	// set the window frame below the window widget, but this resizes the window widget it seems
+	me.baseGui.SetViewBeneath(tk.windowFrame.cuiName, tk.cuiName, 1)
+	// so now we have to resize the window frame, but this moves it to the top?
+	me.baseGui.SetView(tk.windowFrame.cuiName, tk.windowFrame.full.w0, tk.windowFrame.full.h0, tk.windowFrame.full.w1, tk.windowFrame.full.h1, 0)
+
+	// so we have to redraw the widgets in the window anyway and then they will appear above he frame
+	tk.hideWidgets()
+	tk.showWidgets()
+
+	// draw the window title
+	tk.setTitle(tk.GetLabel())
+}
+
 // re-draws the buttons for each of the windows
-func (w *guiWidget) redoWindows(nextW int, nextH int) {
-	var startW int = nextW
-	var startH int = nextH
-
-	for _, child := range w.children {
-		if child.node.WidgetType != widget.Window {
-			continue
+func redoWindows(nextW int, nextH int) {
+	for _, tk := range findWindows() {
+		// tk.dumpWidget(fmt.Sprintf("redoWindowsS (%d,%d)", nextW, nextH))
+		if tk.window.wasDragged {
+			// don't move windows around the user has dragged to a certain location
+			tk.makeWindowActive()
+		} else {
+			w, _ := me.baseGui.Size()
+			if nextW > w-20 {
+				nextW = 0
+				nextH += 4
+			}
+			// probably a new window?
+			tk.redrawWindow(nextW, nextH)
 		}
+		// tk.dumpWidget(fmt.Sprintf("redoWindowsE (%d,%d)", nextW, nextH))
 
-		child.frame = false
-		child.hasTabs = false
-
-		child.gocuiSetWH(nextW, nextH)
-		child.Hide()
-
-		child.drawView()
-		sizeW := child.gocuiSize.Width()
-		nextW += sizeW + 4
-		child.redoWindows(startW+3, startH+2)
+		// increment the width for the next window
+		nextW += tk.gocuiSize.Width() + 10
+		// nextH += 10
 	}
 }
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) addWindowFrameTK(wId int) {
+	n := tk.addWindowFrame(wId)
+	tk.windowFrame = n.TK.(*guiWidget)
+}
+
+func (win *guiWidget) addWindowFrame(wId int) *tree.Node {
+	n := new(tree.Node)
+	n.WidgetType = widget.Flag
+	n.WidgetId = wId
+	n.ParentId = 0
+
+	// store the internal toolkit information
+	tk := new(guiWidget)
+	tk.frame = true
+	tk.labelN = "windowFrame text"
+	tk.internal = true
+
+	tk.node = n
+	if tk.node.Parent == nil {
+		tk.node.Parent = me.treeRoot
+	}
+
+	// set the name used by gocui to the id
+	tk.cuiName = fmt.Sprintf("%d DR", wId)
+
+	// tk.color = &colorGroup
+
+	// add this new widget on the binary tree
+	tk.parent = win
+	if tk.parent == nil {
+		panic("addDropdown() didn't get treeRoot guiWidget")
+	} else {
+		tk.parent.children = append(tk.parent.children, tk)
+	}
+
+	n.TK = tk
+	return n
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) isWindowActive() bool {
+	if !(tk.WidgetType() == widget.Window || tk.WidgetType() == widget.Stdout) {
+		// only allow Window or the Stdout widgets to be made active
+		return false
+	}
+	return tk.window.active
+}
+
+// always redraws at the corner of the gocuiSize box
+func (tk *guiWidget) makeWindowActive() {
+	if !(tk.WidgetType() == widget.Window || tk.WidgetType() == widget.Stdout) {
+		// only allow Window or the Stdout widgets to be made active
+		return
+	}
+
+	if tk.WidgetType() == widget.Stdout {
+		me.stdout.outputOnTop = true
+	} else {
+		// me.stdout.outputOnTop = false // ?
+	}
+
+	// disable and increment all the windows
+	for _, tk := range me.allwin {
+		tk.window.order += 1
+		tk.window.active = false
+		// tk.setColor(&colorWindow) // color for inactive windows
+		tk.setColorWindowTitle()
+	}
+
+	// set this window as the active one
+	tk.window.active = true
+	tk.window.order = 0
+
+	tk.redrawWindow(tk.gocuiSize.w0, tk.gocuiSize.h0)
+	setThingsOnTop() // sets help, Stdout, etc on the top after windows have been redrawn
+
+	/*
+		// print out the window list
+		for _, tk := range me.allwin {
+			log.Info("makeWindowActive() Window", tk.labelN, tk.window.active, tk.window.order)
+		}
+	*/
+}
+
+func (tk *guiWidget) makeTK(ddItems []string) {
+	items := strings.Join(ddItems, "\n")
+	tk.labelN = items
+	tk.SetText(items)
+	tk.gocuiSize.w0 = 100
+	tk.gocuiSize.w1 = 120
+	tk.gocuiSize.h0 = 15
+	tk.gocuiSize.h1 = 18
+	/*
+		var err error
+			tk.v, err = me.baseGui.SetView(tk.cuiName,
+				tk.gocuiSize.w0,
+				tk.gocuiSize.h0,
+				tk.gocuiSize.w1,
+				tk.gocuiSize.h1, 0)
+			if err != nil {
+				log.Info("makeTK() err", err)
+				return
+			}
+			if tk.v == nil {
+				return
+			}
+			tk.v.Wrap = true
+			tk.v.Frame = true
+			tk.v.Clear()
+			fmt.Fprint(tk.v, items)
+	*/
+	tk.Show()
+}
+
+func (win *guiWidget) checkWindowClose(w int, h int) bool {
+	s := fmt.Sprintf("mouse(%d,%d) ", w, h)
+	offW := win.full.w1 - w
+	offH := h - win.full.h0
+	s += fmt.Sprintf("offset(%d,%d)", offW, offH)
+	if (offW < 2) && (offH < 2) {
+		log.Info("attempting close on ", s, win.cuiName)
+		me.myTree.SendWindowCloseEvent(win.node)
+		// store the stdout corner for computing the drag size
+		return true
+	}
+	// log.Info("not attempting close on ", s, win.cuiName)
+	return false
+}