About Walk

Walk is a "Windows Application Library Kit" for the Go Programming Language.

Its primarily useful for Desktop GUI development, but there is some more stuff.

Setup

Make sure you have a working Go installation. See Getting Started

Note

Go 1.0.x doesn't work with walk anymore, Make sure you use Go 1.1.x or later.

To Install

Now run go get github.com/kumakichi/walk

Using Walk

The preferred way to create GUIs with Walk is to use its declarative sub package, as illustrated in this small example:

`main.go`

package main

import (
    "github.com/kumakichi/walk"
    . "github.com/kumakichi/walk/declarative"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    var inTE, outTE *walk.TextEdit
    var mw *walk.MainWindow

    if err := (MainWindow{
        AssignTo: &mw,
        Title:   "SCREAMO",
        MinSize: Size{300, 200},
        Layout:  VBox{},
        Children: []Widget{
            HSplitter{
                Children: []Widget{
                    TextEdit{AssignTo: &inTE},
                    TextEdit{AssignTo: &outTE, ReadOnly: true},
                },
            },
            PushButton{
                Text: "SCREAM",
                OnClicked: func() {
                    outTE.SetText(strings.ToUpper(inTE.Text()))
                },
            },
        },
    }.Create()); err != nil {
        // do some work
    }

	mainIcon, err := walk.NewIconFromResource("101")
	if err != nil {
        // do some work
	}
	mw.SetIcon(mainIcon)
    mw.Run()
}

Create Resource file `version.rc`

#include "winver.h"
#define RT_MANIFEST  24
#define CREATEPROCESS_MANIFEST_RESOURCE_ID 1
//#define ISOLATIONAWARE_MANIFEST_RESOURCE_ID 2
//#define ISOLATIONAWARE_NOSTATICIMPORT_MANIFEST_RESOURCE_ID 3
#define IDI_ICON_S 101
#define IMG_SET 102

IDI_ICON_S       ICON      "a.ico"
IMG_SET        BITMAP        "Settings.bmp"

CREATEPROCESS_MANIFEST_RESOURCE_ID RT_MANIFEST MOVEABLE PURE
{
 "<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""UTF-8"" standalone=""yes""?>"
 "<assembly xmlns=""urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"" manifestVersion=""1.0"">"
     "<assemblyIdentity version=""1.0.0.0"" processorArchitecture=""*"" name=""SomeFunkyNameHere"" type=""win32""/>"
     "<description>Your application description here.</description>"
         "<dependency>"
             "<dependentAssembly>"
                 "<assemblyIdentity type=""win32"" name=""Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls"" version=""6.0.0.0"" processorArchitecture=""*"" publicKeyToken=""6595b64144ccf1df"" language=""*""/>"
             "</dependentAssembly>"
         "</dependency>"
 "</assembly>"
}

Then compile the resource file using the windres tool, like this:

windres -o version.syso version.rc

Build app

In the directory containing main.go run

go build

To get rid of the cmd window, instead run

go build -ldflags="-H windowsgui"

Run app

demo.exe

Sample Output (Windows XP)

More Examples

There are some examples that should get you started.

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data		data
declarative		declarative
examples		examples
l10n		l10n
tools/ui2walk		tools/ui2walk
AUTHORS		AUTHORS
LICENSE		LICENSE
README.mdown		README.mdown
action.go		action.go
actionlist.go		actionlist.go
application.go		application.go
bitmap.go		bitmap.go
boxlayout.go		boxlayout.go
brush.go		brush.go
button.go		button.go
cancelevent.go		cancelevent.go
canvas.go		canvas.go
checkbox.go		checkbox.go
clipboard.go		clipboard.go
closeevent.go		closeevent.go
color.go		color.go
combobox.go		combobox.go
commondialogs.go		commondialogs.go
composite.go		composite.go
condition.go		condition.go
container.go		container.go
cursor.go		cursor.go
customwidget.go		customwidget.go
databinding.go		databinding.go
dateedit.go		dateedit.go
dialog.go		dialog.go
error.go		error.go
errorevent.go		errorevent.go
event.go		event.go
font.go		font.go
form.go		form.go
gridlayout.go		gridlayout.go
groupbox.go		groupbox.go
icon.go		icon.go
image.go		image.go
imagelist.go		imagelist.go
imageview.go		imageview.go
indexlist.go		indexlist.go
inifilesettings.go		inifilesettings.go
intevent.go		intevent.go
keyboard.go		keyboard.go
keyevent.go		keyevent.go
label.go		label.go
lineedit.go		lineedit.go
lineerrorpresenter.go		lineerrorpresenter.go
listbox.go		listbox.go
mainwindow.go		mainwindow.go
maptablemodel.go		maptablemodel.go
menu.go		menu.go
messagebox.go		messagebox.go
metafile.go		metafile.go
models.go		models.go
mouseevent.go		mouseevent.go
notifyicon.go		notifyicon.go
numberedit.go		numberedit.go
path.go		path.go
pen.go		pen.go
point.go		point.go
progressbar.go		progressbar.go
progressindicator.go		progressindicator.go
property.go		property.go
pushbutton.go		pushbutton.go
radiobutton.go		radiobutton.go
rectangle.go		rectangle.go
reflectmodels.go		reflectmodels.go
registry.go		registry.go
simpletypes.go		simpletypes.go
size.go		size.go
spacer.go		spacer.go
splitter.go		splitter.go
splitterhandle.go		splitterhandle.go
splitterlayout.go		splitterlayout.go
statusbar.go		statusbar.go
tableview.go		tableview.go
tableviewcolumn.go		tableviewcolumn.go
tableviewcolumnlist.go		tableviewcolumnlist.go
tabpage.go		tabpage.go
tabpagelist.go		tabpagelist.go
tabwidget.go		tabwidget.go
textedit.go		textedit.go
toolbar.go		toolbar.go
toolbutton.go		toolbutton.go
tooltip.go		tooltip.go
treeitemevent.go		treeitemevent.go
treeview.go		treeview.go
user_def.go		user_def.go
util.go		util.go
validators.go		validators.go
walk.go		walk.go
webview.go		webview.go
webview_dwebbrowserevents2.go		webview_dwebbrowserevents2.go
webview_idochostuihandler.go		webview_idochostuihandler.go
webview_ioleclientsite.go		webview_ioleclientsite.go
webview_ioleinplaceframe.go		webview_ioleinplaceframe.go
webview_ioleinplacesite.go		webview_ioleinplacesite.go

License

kumakichi/walk

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