GUI for Go

Wen-Pin Hsieh

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Jun 29, 2016, 9:51:44 PM6/29/16

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Hi all,

I am new to go language.

Now I am trying to develop a GUI tool with go.

Are there any good choices such as QT or others to make the GUI

Thanks

wp

Shy Robbiani

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Jun 30, 2016, 1:08:29 PM6/30/16

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I lost a little bit the focus on this topic but you might take a look at the various projects on Github dealing with GUIs.

The following links provide an overview of what's available today.

http://libs.club/golang/media/gui

https://golanglibs.com/category/gui

Qt bindings are just one way to go. As kind of an IDE for Go I'm using LiteIDE X which based on Qt. LiteIDE X runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It's quite stable and fast. You might take a look at the project on https://github.com/visualfc/liteide to get an idea how it is done and how much work is involved.

Due to the many issues I had with almost any of the existing GUI projects I tried, I left the traditional approach and started to provide the GUI part in browser technology. I have to admit that doing so I have some open issues as well, but the problems are no longer related to dependencies and the like.

Shy

Juan F. Giménez Silva

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Jun 30, 2016, 7:16:48 PM6/30/16

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I've done some stuff with gotk https://github.com/gotk3/gotk3
It's a gtk3 binding set and is pretty easy to use. I'm not sure if it supports Windows.

Sangeeth Kumar

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Jun 30, 2016, 10:20:30 PM6/30/16

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I use liteide in Windows and I'm really satisfied with its features.

There are multiple minor options that make you work seamlessly, almost avoiding the use of command line itself.

Rio M

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Jul 1, 2016, 4:30:39 AM7/1/16

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I hope for project based on Javascript+Golang server (like http://electron.atom.io/).

Mandolyte

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Jul 1, 2016, 6:05:31 AM7/1/16

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I noticed that the QML project has been forked, so it may have some new energy

parais...@gmail.com

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Jul 1, 2016, 6:33:08 AM7/1/16

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AFAIK none of the projects related to GUI programming in Go are professional grade or nearly complete. There are some bindings for QML and Gtk3 but there are extremely limited.

You'd be better off using C++ ,C(with GObject), Javascript, Python,Vala or Java here. All these languages have robust solutions for GUI programming.

Peter Howard

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Jul 1, 2016, 10:31:40 AM7/1/16

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My github project shows a simple way to make a go gui based on an html5 model by using css and the Bootstrap library and go's template package. It also shows how to compile the whole thing including the dedicated local server and the html and css into a single executable. https://github.com/peterhoward42godesktopgui.

Fino

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Jul 1, 2016, 10:35:31 AM7/1/16

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may be we need to wait for webassembly's golang translate.

but some platform native features still cannot be done in a brower.

BR fino

Lucio

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Jul 1, 2016, 10:41:16 AM7/1/16

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https://github.com/peterhoward42/godesktopgui

A missing "/" in the middle.

Matt Harden

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Jul 2, 2016, 12:21:36 AM7/2/16

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Don't forget that gopherjs is a thing.

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