Package goey provides a declarative, cross-platform GUI for the Go language. The range of controls, their supported properties and events, should roughly match what is available in HTML. However, properties and events may be limited to support portability. Additionally, styling of the controls will be limited, with the look of controls matching the native platform.

The package can be installed from the command line using the go tool. However, depending on your OS, please check for special instructions below.

go get github.com/chaolihf/goey

No special instructions are required to build this package on windows. CGO is not used.

This package requires the use of CGO to access GTK, which must be installed. The GTK libraries should be installed before issuing go get or you will have error messages during the building of some of the internal packages.

On Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev

This package can be built to target Cocoa using GNUstep, which must be installed. Most users are unlikely to want to use this option, but it can be useful for development. The libraries for GNUstep must be installed before issuing go get or you will have error message during the building of some of the internal packages.

On Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install gnustep-devel

To force the use of GNUstep, build using the build tag cocoa.

This package requires the use of CGO to access GTK, which must be installed. The GTK libraries should be installed before issuing go get or you will have error messages during the building of some of the internal packages.

There is a in-progress port for Cocoa. It is currently being developed using GNUstep on Linux, but has been developed based on documentation from Apple. All controls, except for the date control (which is not available in GNUstep), are implemented. However, additional testing, especially on Darwin, is still required.

If you can either test on Macs, or provide build systems, please contact us.

Package documentation and examples are on godoc.

The minimal GUI example application is onebutton, and additional example applications are in the example folder. Some of the example show the options available for the widgets, for example align and paragraph.

New layout widgets can be developed entirely in Go. For testing, a mock widget is provided in the mock package.

To get properly themed controls, a manifest is required. Please look at the source code for the example applications for an example. The manifest needs to be compiled with github.com/akavel/rsrc to create a .syso that will be recognize by the go build program. Additionally, you could use build flags (-ldflags="-H windowsgui") to change the type of application built.

Windows	Linux (GTK)	MacOS (Cocoa)

Feedback and PRs welcome.

In particular, if anyone has the expertise to provide a port for MacOS, that would provide support for all major desktop operating systems.

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