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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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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

Walk - Building Graphical Windows Applications

Walk is a Windows GUI toolkit for the Go programming language—its purpose is to enable us to build native desktop GUI applications for Windows using Go. It's built on top of the win package by the same authors, which is a direct Go binding of the Windows API. The main API is designed to make working with the Windows API (WinAPI) both easier and more in keeping with Go design principles.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Background and aims
  • Get started with Walk
  • Benefits of a declarative API
  • Building a user interface
  • Walk in a cross-platform application

Let's get started exploring the background of the Walk project and its solution for Go apps developed for the Windows platform.

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