Goey

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.

Install

The package can be installed from the command line using the go tool.

go get bitbucket.org/rj/goey

Linux

Although this package does not use CGO, some of its dependencies do. The build machine also requires that GTK+ 3 is installed. This should be installed before issuing go get or you will have error messages during the building of some of the dependencies.

On Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev

Getting Started

Package documentation and examples are on godoc.
The minimal GUI example application is onebutton, and additional example applications are in the example folder.
A mock widget is provided in the mock package (documentation).

Windows

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.