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Building Cross-Platform GUI Applications with Fyne

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800563162
Pages 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Andrew Williams Andrew Williams
Profile icon Andrew Williams

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Why Fyne? The Reason for Being and a Vision of the Future
2. Chapter 1: A Brief History of GUI Toolkits and Cross-Platform Development 3. Chapter 2: The Future According to Fyne 4. Section 2: Components of a Fyne App
5. Chapter 3: Window, Canvas, and Drawing 6. Chapter 4: Layout and File Handling 7. Chapter 5: Widget Library and Themes 8. Chapter 6: Data Binding and Storage 9. Chapter 7: Building Custom Widgets and Themes 10. Section 3: Packaging and Distribution
11. Chapter 8: Project Structure and Best Practices 12. Chapter 9: Bundling Resources and Preparing for Release 13. Chapter 10: Distribution – App Stores and Beyond 14. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: Developer Tool Installation 1. Appendix B: Installing Mobile Build Tools 2. Appendix C: Cross-Compiling

Understanding CanvasObject and the canvas package

The CanvasObject definition is just a Go interface that describes an element that can be positioned, sized, and added to a Fyne canvas. The type does not contain any information about how to draw—this information is provided by concrete types within the canvas package. These types define well-understood graphical primitives, such as Text and Line.

Before learning how to use these elements, we shall see how they look in the Fyne demo app.

Canvas demo

Before we look at how to write code that will display shapes in our window, we should look at a demo of these features in action. Using the built-in Fyne demo application, we can see what the canvas package supports. If you have not already done so, you can install and run the demo application using the following commands:

$ go get fyne.io/fyne/v2/cmd/fyne_demo
$ ~/go/bin/fyne_demo

While running the demo, tap on the Canvas item on the left navigation panel. You should...

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