Windows GUI Library - wingui

Golang GUI library for windows, UI created by ResEdit or Visual Studio Resource Editor

Lightweight, high performance and small executable file size Windows GUI library.

UI Design tool

ResEdit

Visual Studio Resource Editor

Other dialog box editor

Requires

GCC (Optionally, windres.exe can be used to generate a syso file from res or rc.)

MinGW http://www.mingw.org

or

TDM-GCC http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/

windres.exe

This tool in TDM-GCC-64/bin/windres.exe,don't know where in MinGW.

You can also use rc.exe and link.exe to generate syso file.

Usage

Simple usage:

Generate x.syso file from rc or res file use windres.exe tool.

generate syso file:

windres -i emptyProject/Debug/resource.res -O coff -o vsui.syso

or

windres -i ui/ui.rc -O coff -o ui.syso

main.go

package main

import "github.com/whtiehack/wingui"

func main() {
	dlg, _ := wingui.NewDialog(101, 0, nil)
	dlg.SetIcon(105)
	btnok, _ := wingui.BindNewButton(1002, dlg)
	btncancel, _ := wingui.BindNewButton(1003, dlg)
	btnok.OnClicked = func() {
		dlg.Close()
	}
	btncancel.OnClicked = btnok.OnClicked
	dlg.Show()
	// This invoke is optional.
	wingui.SetCurrentDialog(dlg.Handle())
	wingui.MessageLoop()
}

run: go run .

Don't use go run main.go, because golang can't load x.syso files.

More examples

Examples

see https://github.com/whtiehack/wingui/tree/master/examples

Welcome PRs.

References

https://github.com/lxn/walk

https://github.com/sumorf/gowi

https://docs.microsoft.com/zh-cn/windows/win32/

https://docs.microsoft.com/zh-cn/windows/win32/uxguide/controls

https://docs.microsoft.com/zh-cn/windows/win32/controls/window-controls

Screenshot

UI Screenshot details

Effect

File size

ResEdit

ResEdit Download

Visual Studio Resource Editor

TODOs

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• Edit

• Static Text

• Image

• ComboBoxx

• ListBox

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Button

• PushButton
• CheckBox
• Radio Button

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• Slider Control

• Progress Bar

• Tab Control

• ListView Control

• Spin Control

• Rich Edit

• DateTimePicker

• Month Calendar

• TreeView Control

• Hot Key

• Accelerator

• Menu

Recommend

If you need to do complex GUI programs, you can use govcl or walk.