Designing a GUI.

[Zippoxer]

Is there any GUI designer that generates code that some library that
has a binding for Go can execute?
If it's not clear, I just want to use a GUI designer instead of
programming my GUI (GTK / FLTK / whatever).

[Alexander Neumann]

If you are doing Windows stuff, you may want to try Walk. It comes
with the ui2walk tool, which generates Go code from Qt Designer .ui
files.

https://github.com/lxn/walk

- Alex

[Zippoxer]

Nice. thanks.

[abiosoft]

go-gtk https://github.com/mattn/go-gtk

[Zippoxer]

Does it have a designer?

On Jul 8, 11:25 pm, abiosoft <abiol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> go-gtkhttps://github.com/mattn/go-gtk

[bflm]

On Saturday, July 9, 2011 1:11:15 PM UTC+2, Zippoxer wrote:

Does it have a designer?

I think http://glade.gnome.org/ is worth taking a look. 

[Zippoxer]

But it doesn't generate Go code :\

[Honza]

Then binding gtk-builder is one way and writing a glade-xml2go tool is another ;-)

Dne 9.7.2011 15:30 "Zippoxer" <zipp...@gmail.com> napsal/a:

But it doesn't generate Go code :\

On Jul 9, 2:23 pm, bflm <befelemepesev...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday, July 9, 2011 1:11:15 PM ...

[Zippoxer]

So that's where C++ is easier than Go.
Thanks anyway, fortunately I was just interested, not going to design
any GUI.

On Jul 9, 4:35 pm, Honza <befelemepesev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Then binding gtk-builder is one way and writing a glade-xml2go tool is
> another ;-)
>

> Dne 9.7.2011 15:30 "Zippoxer" <zippo...@gmail.com> napsal/a:

[Zippoxer]

Take my first sentence of my last message and add " in the meantime"
before the dot.

On Jul 9, 4:35 pm, Honza <befelemepesev...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Then binding gtk-builder is one way and writing a glade-xml2go tool is
> another ;-)
>

> Dne 9.7.2011 15:30 "Zippoxer" <zippo...@gmail.com> napsal/a:

[DisposaBoy]

Why is it so important for it to be able to generate code?

Just curious...

[Zippoxer]

Because I don't want to design my GUI by writing a Go code, but to
visually design it (much faster and easier).

[Honza]

That's independent from the method which creates the GUI at runtime. Generating Go code for that task is only one of them. Loading the .glade definition of the visually designed GUI by a C or Go lib is another.

Dne 9.7.2011 21:07 "Zippoxer" <zipp...@gmail.com> napsal/a:

Because I don't want to design my GUI by writing a Go code, but to
visually design it (much faster and easier).

On Jul 9, 5:23 pm, DisposaBoy <disposa...@konnichi.com> wrote:

> Why is it so important for it to b...

[DisposaBoy]

But you wouldn't need to. You design your ui using glade in the case of gtk which gives you a ui(ui builder, the old glade format is long dead) file e.g my.ui.

You then load this at runtime, it even does automatic event binding etc so you most likely don't even need to write code to connection events to your buttons etc.

If you state some reasons for requiring the code generated maybe we can make some alternative suggestions because in practice, generated code has no benefit over separating the two concerns - I'd go as far as saying it has non whatsoever.

[Lockal]

> So that's where C++ is easier than Go.

Go can be used for GUI programming. At least we should not reinvent
meta-system (signals/slots in qt or delegates in C#), because we
already have channel mechanism.
Someone still have to implement this approach in Go before we can use
it.

[Alexander Neumann]

Sure, if you don't consider type safety a benefit.

[DisposaBoy]

Type safety of what? Sorry I guess I just don't get it.

[Alexander Neumann]

With generated code, you obviously access all widgets in your ui in a
type safe way. If you load your ui description at runtime, you throw
type safety out the window. You will have to do lookup by name / id
and perform a type assertion to access any widget in your dynamically
loaded ui.