Good to see some progress on the GUI front - I think you are up to something ! Rusco
On Thursday, 10 November 2016 20:34:36 UTC, therecipe wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > I would like to officially announce the project I'm working on for a while > now. > It's a binding for the Qt framework + some tools to help you with > development and deployment of your Qt applications. > > The most interesting feature of the Qt framework for the Go community is > probably that it can be used to develop native looking GUI applications for > various platforms without the need to make platform specific changes to > your code. > Beside the GUI modules Qt also includes: a webengine (chromium), several > multimedia functions, access to bluetooth + nfc, access to various hardware > sensors, gamepad support, access to position informations and much more ... > The Qt article on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software) > > > There are two caveats for those who intent to use the binding: > > 1. You code won't be pure Go anymore, as this binding heavily relies on > cgo. > 2. The binding dynamically links to Qt's libraries, which results in > 25-50mb (depending on the platform) uncompressed libs that have to be > deployed along with you binary. > (But it's also possible to link against the static Qt libs and remove this > need. And there is also work being done to reduce the size of the dynamic > libs in the upcoming versions of Qt.) > > > For the pro side, I should probably mention that: > > 1. The deployment to most platforms is pretty trivial (that includes cross > compiling). (And there will be even more supported platforms in the future) > 2. That the binding is almost complete and already supports most Qt > modules (30+). > 3. There are a lot of examples to get you started. (And porting over > existing C++ examples should be super simple) > > > If someone is interested in testing it out, it can be found here: > https://github.com/therecipe/qt > > > Or if you just want to take a quick look and test the examples on Linux > and you are familiar with Docker. > You could use one of the images as well: `docker pull therecipe/qt:base` > And simply run `qtdeploy build desktop` in one of the `$GOPATH/src/ > github.com/therecipe/qt/internal/examples/` > <http://github.com/therecipe/qt/internal/examples/> sub-sub folders. > (inside the container) > There will be a new folder created called `deploy`, which should contain > everything that is needed to run the application on a regular 64-bit Linux > system. > > > Please let me know what you think. > Any feedback is welcome :) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
