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Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go

You're reading from   Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go Build responsive, cross-platform, graphical applications with the Go programming language

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138412
Length 450 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Williams Andrew Williams
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Graphical User Interface Development FREE CHAPTER
2. The Benefits of Native Graphical Applications 3. Graphical User Interface Challenges 4. Go to the Rescue! 5. Section 2: Toolkits Using Existing Widgets
6. Walk - Building Graphical Windows Applications 7. andlabs UI - Cross-platform Native UIs 8. Go-GTK - Multiple Platforms with GTK 9. Go-Qt - Multiple Platforms with Qt 10. Section 3: Modern Graphical Toolkits
11. Shiny - Experimental Go GUI API 12. nk - Nuklear for Go 13. Fyne - Material Design-Based GUI 14. Section 4: Growing and Distributing Your Application
15. Navigation and Multiple Windows 16. Concurrency, Networking, and Cloud Services 17. Best Practices in Go GUI Development 18. Distributing Your Application 19. Installation Details 20. Cross Compiler Setup 21. Comparison of GUI Toolkits
22. Connecting GoMail to a Real Email Server 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Sample application

To look at a more complete application, we'll dust off the original designs for the GoMail application—after all, they were created with Qt Designer in the first place. We'll recreate the exact layout generated in Chapter 4, Walk - 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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