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Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go

Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go

By : Andrew Williams
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Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go

Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go

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By: Andrew Williams

Overview of this book

Go is often compared to C++ when it comes to low-level programming and implementations that require faster processing, such as Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). In fact, many claim that Go is superior to C++ in terms of its concurrency and ease of use. Most graphical application toolkits, though, are still written using C or C++, and so they don't enjoy the benefits of using a modern programming language such as Go. This guide to programming GUIs with Go 1.11 explores the various toolkits available, including UI, Walk, Shiny, and Fyne. The book compares the vision behind each project to help you pick the right approach for your project. Each framework is described in detail, outlining how you can build performant applications that users will love. To aid you further in creating applications using these emerging technologies, you'll be able to easily refer to code samples and screenshots featured in the book. In addition to toolkit-specific discussions, you'll cover more complex topics, such as how to structure growing graphical applications, and how cross-platform applications can integrate with each desktop operating system to create a seamless user experience. By delving into techniques and best practices for organizing and scaling Go-based graphical applications, you'll also glimpse Go's impressive concurrency system. In the concluding chapters, you'll discover how to distribute to the main desktop marketplaces and distribution channels. By the end of this book, you'll be a confident GUI developer who can use the Go language to boost the performance of your applications.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Section 1: Graphical User Interface Development
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Section 2: Toolkits Using Existing Widgets
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Section 3: Modern Graphical Toolkits
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Section 4: Growing and Distributing Your Application
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Comparison of GUI Toolkits

Sample application

To look at a more complete application, we'll dust off the original designs for the GoMail applicationafter all, they were created with Qt Designer in the first place. We'll recreate the exact layout generated in Chapter 4Walk - Building Graphical Windows Applications, and explain the implementation as we go.

Layout

For the first time in our GoMail examples, we have a toolkit that provides all of the layouts required to match the user interface we designed at the beginning of Section 2, Toolkits Using Existing Widgets. That's perhaps no surprise, as it was created using the Qt tools, but it's a chance to explore the more complete set of layouts provided by Qt and made available...

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