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Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go
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Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go

by Andrew Williams
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
450 pages
11h 59m
English
Packt Publishing
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Shiny - Experimental Go GUI API

Shiny is an experimental GUI library designed from scratch and written purely in Go. It was created to explore what's possible when building a cross-platform GUI for the Go language. It is not an official GUI toolkit for Go (though it was created by developers at Google) but provides a solid basis for graphical applications on most supported Go platforms.

This chapter explores how to use the Shiny project to build cross-platform graphical applications without the need for C libraries or pre-installed dependencies. The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • The design principles of the Shiny project and its widgets
  • How the toolkit is built to support multiple platforms without external drivers or ...
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