Please save gxui

[fithi...@gmail.com]

Golang needs a supported (possibly from a big vendor) GUI layer, just like swt,javafx. Please restart development of gxui.

There are other alternatives.like libui but they are just unofficial alternatives.

It would be a boost to the community to have an official well supported UI library in Golang to give a graphical look to applications.

In this respect "Please save gxui".

[Bruno Albuquerque]

https://github.com/golang/exp/tree/master/shiny

This is as official as it goes. :)

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[Vasileios Anagnostopoulos]

I prefer gxui. The image_viewer in samples folder is the definition of simplicity.

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[Bruno Albuquerque]

Well, the OP wanted an "official" GUi layer. Shiny is as official as it gets.

[Daniël de Kok]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 11:46 AM, <fithi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be a boost to the community to have an official well supported UI
> library in Golang to give a graphical look to applications.

That would be a terrible case of NIH. Building good and comprehensive
GUI libraries is a lot of work, even more if you want to have a native
look and feel and integration with the host system.

I would rather like to see some well-maintained Go-esque bindings
against existing frameworks (e.g. Qt for desktop) than something that
is incomplete and does not behave as native.

Kind regards,
Daniël

[Gerard]

"go get github.com/golang/exp/shiny/..." results in 10 messages of " use of internal package not allowed". It still looks at internal packages at "golang.org/x/exp/shiny". I will file an issue.

[Seb Binet]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Gerard <gvds...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "go get github.com/golang/exp/shiny/..." results in 10 messages of " use of
> internal package not allowed". It still looks at internal packages at
> "golang.org/x/exp/shiny". I will file an issue.

you are not supposed to go-get shiny from github.com/... but rather
from golang.org/...

so, yes, probably, please file an issue, but one about a missing
vanity-import :)

BTW, I have been playing with migrating github.com/BurntSushi/imgv
image viewer from a bare X11 to shiny.
that's there:
https://github.com/sbinet/iview

(doesn't compile b/c I need a way to change the window size)
it's somewhat more complicated than gxui's image_viewer but that's (I
think) because iview provides more features.

-s