Building GUI Applications with Fyne and Go (Golang)
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Many developers are intimidated by the idea of writing a desktop application, and this is probably because of the rise of web based applications. In fact, some university computer science programs do not even devote an entire course to developing GUI applications, and that’s unfortunate.
Go, sometimes referred as Golang, has quickly risen in popularity over the past decade, and has become extremely popular for building REST APIs, back end applications, and network software. One question that comes up a great deal online, though, is how one might go about building a desktop application using Go. For quite some time, the default answer was use Qt and CGO bindings, but several years ago a new project emerged — one that makes it relatively easy to build GUI applications in pure Go: the Fyne project. Fyne is a project is based around the premise that it should be free and simple to develop an application that can run on all platforms without modification or adaptation. Fyne apps are installed like regular applications on all platforms and deliver great performance and solid user experience.
With Fyne, you can write your code once, in pure Go, and deliver applications that run on Mac OSX, Windows, Linux, Android devices, iOS devices, and as WebAssembly in the browser.
This course is intended to cover the basics of building a GUI application in pure Go. We will cover:
Building Desktop applications: we’ll build two: a MarkDown editor and an application that allows users to track (fictional) Gold investments and get real-time information on Gold prices.
We will cover:
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How to work with the Fyne Canvas
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How to work with Fyne Windows
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How to use (and customize) Widgets, including dialogs, text, labels, input fields, forms, and tables
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How to validate user input
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How to fetch external resources from remote servers and use them in our application
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How to use containers to arrange things in a window
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How to embed a sqlite database into a desktop application
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How to build custom menu items and link them to actions
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How to read and write files from your application
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How to read and write preferences
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How to bundle assets (e.g. images) into a Fyne application
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How to build a single binary with a custom icon
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How to sign a Mac OS X application for distribution
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Getting started with the MarkDown editor
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Adding a Main Menu to our Application
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Making Menu Items Functional: Saving files
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Opening files
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Adding a filter to the open file command
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Making the Save menu item functional
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Packaging our application
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Writing a simple test for our application
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Defining a custom theme
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Setting up a simple application
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Getting started on the user interface
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Getting the current price of gold from an external site
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Writing tests for our gold prices logic
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Creating and returning the prices container
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Displaying prices in our application window
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Writing a test for the getPriceText function
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Creating a toolbar
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Writing a test for the toolbar
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Adding application tabs
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Getting the Gold Price Chart
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Creating and returning the priceChart container
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Handling the situation when no network is available
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Displaying the chart in our application window
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Writing a function that will refresh all Gold price information
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Enabling the refresh icon in the toolbar
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Updating gold prices in the background
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Setting up a database repository
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Implementing a sqlite Repository
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Implementing a sqlite repository, continued
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Setting up our testing environment for db-sqlite.go
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Testing our sqlite database repository
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Connecting our application to sqlite
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Setting up a test repository
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Getting started with the holdings tab
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Getting the slice of holdings and testing our currentHoldings function and
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Testing our getHoldingSlice function
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Building the table widget
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Getting the information we need in order to refresh the holdings table
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Creating the refreshHoldingsTable function
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Displaying the holdings table in our application (finally!)
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Manually entering some data into sqlite
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Changing the container type for our holdings table
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Fixing a problem with the delete button
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Enabling the add holdings button in the toolbar
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Adding validation to our add holdings dialog
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Fixing a problem with the way prices display, and writing a simple test
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Installing a Makefile -
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Adding an icon, and building an executable
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Setting up preferences for our application
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Enabling the preferences icon in the toolbar
