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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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Widgets

As a project that has focused more on the capabilities of cross-platform graphical rendering on the lower layer, Shiny toolkit does not come with many standard widgets. A lot of work has gone in to setting up the building blocks so that applications can provide their own widgets, but if you are looking to use built-in types, the list provided by the widget package is as follows:

  • Flow: This is a container that lays out its children along a horizontal or vertical axis (set in Flow.Axis or NewFlow()).
  • Flex: Actually, in a flex sub-package, this is a container that lays out its children according to the CSS flexbox algorithm. As with widget.Flowthe parameters for the layout are set on the flex.Flex container.
  • Image: This widget renders ...
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