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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Fedora 31 : The Fyne UI toolkit for Go programming language.

Today I will show you how to use a UI toolkit with the Go programming. language. The development team comes with this toolkit at the GitHub official webpage.
Fyne is an easy to use UI toolkit and app API written in Go. It is designed to build applications that run on desktop and mobile devices with a single codebase...
[mythcat@desk ~]$ sudo dnf install golang
[sudo] password for mythcat:
...
Installed:
  golang-1.13.6-1.fc31.x86_64            golang-bin-1.13.6-1.fc31.x86_64       
  golang-src-1.13.6-1.fc31.noarch        mercurial-4.9-2.fc31.x86_64           

Complete! 
First is need to install these packages with DNF tool:
[root@desk mythcat]# dnf install libX11-devel libXcursor-devel libXrandr-devel libXinerama-devel 
mesa-libGL-devel libXi-devel
Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:28 ago on Sun 16 Feb 2020 12:25:04 PM EET.
Package libX11-devel-1.6.9-2.fc31.x86_64 is already installed.
Package mesa-libGL-devel-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 is already installed.
Package libXi-devel-1.7.10-2.fc31.x86_64 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
...

Installed:
  libXcursor-devel-1.1.15-6.fc31.x86_64           libXinerama-devel-1.1.4-4.fc31.x86_64           
  libXrandr-devel-1.5.2-2.fc31.x86_64             libXrender-devel-0.9.10-10.fc31.x86_64          

Complete! 
Let's install the fyne toolkit and the demo application:
[mythcat@desk ~]$ go get fyne.io/fyne
[mythcat@desk ~]$ go get fyne.io/fyne/cmd/fyne_demo/
I run the demo with this command and works very well:
[mythcat@desk ~]$ go run /home/mythcat/go/src/fyne.io/fyne/cmd/fyne_demo/main.go