Current Go-Thrust Version 0.3.3 Current Thrust Version 0.7.5
go get -d github.com/miketheprogrammer/go-thrust
# -d instructs go get not to try to build, after go get, please do following the install instructions
#install deps
go get -v github.com/alexcesaro/log
irc: #breach on freenode - this is the entire breach/thrust community gitter.im : https://gitter.im/miketheprogrammer/go-thrust - focused on go-thrust. 
On Linux/Darwin
Start Go Thrust using source and GoLang runtime
#install deps
go get -v github.com/alexcesaro/log
# build tutorials
go build -o tutorial/bin/basic_window tutorial/basic_window.go
go build -o tutorial/bin/basic_menu tutorial/basic_menu.go
go build -o tutorial/bin/basic_menu_events tutorial/basic_menu_events.go
go build -o tutorial/bin/basic_session tutorial/basic_session.go
go build -o tutorial/bin/basic_multiple_windows tutorial/basic_multiple_windows.go
go build -o tutorial/bin/advanced_session tutorial/advanced_session.go
go build -o tutorial/bin/basic_webserver_app tutorial/basic_webserver_app.go
# then execute one of the many tutorials
#./tutorial/bin/basic_window
#./tutorial/bin/basic_menu
#./tutorial/bin/basic_menu_events
#./tutorial/bin/basic_multiple_windows
#./tutorial/bin/advanced_session
#./tutorial/bin/basic_webserver_appOn Windows just use go run
go run tutorial/basic_window.go
# ... etceteraGo-Thrust is a cross platform GUI Application development base. It aims to provide the essentials to create a cross platform application using web technologies such as, (HTML,CSS,JS), as well as new technologies like Websockets, Webview, etcetera. Go-Thrust is the supported Go Library for accessing the underlying technology Thrust. Thrust builds upon the efforts of predecessors like ExoBrowser, Node-Webkit, and Atom-Shell to create an easily buildable Webbrowser base. Thrust consists essentially of a C/C++ implementation of the Chromium Content Library (Blink/V8) and abstracts away most of the nitty gritty platform specific implementations.
While Go Thrust and Thrust are in their infancy, they already provide some pretty nice features. Expect many more to come.
Thrust exposes all of this beautifully over an Stdin/Stdout pipe speaking a JSONRPC protocol.
- Tutorials
- GoDoc
- In addition to all the documentation and tutorials, there are examples in the examples directory. For instance there is a basic chat client/server example. Chat code taken with License from Tv42 birpc/examples, modifed to work with thrust.
Currently Darwin handles Application Menus different from other systems. The "Root" menu is always named the project name. However on linux, the name is whatever you provide. This can be seen in demo.go, and can be alleviated by trying to use the same name, or by using different logic for both cases. I make no attempt to unify it at the library level, because the user deserves the freedom to do this themselves.
This thrust client exposes enough Methods to be fairly forwards compatible even without adding new helper methods. The beauty of working with a stable JSON RPC Protocol is that most methods are just helpers around build that data structure.
Helper methods receive the UpperCamelCase version of their relative names in Thrust.
i.e. insert_item_at == InsertItemAt
Please note **** That the intended use case of Application Menus is to only support OSX and Unity/X11 global menu bars. This means that you should implement most menus in html and javascript, using IPC/RPC to communicate with the host application. The side effect is primarily that Windows, and certain unix/linux systems will not load ApplicationMenus
To use go-thrust as a library, simple use the code in the same way you would use any GoLang library.
- More info to come on Prepping releases.
Linux, Darwin, Windows. Windows - Stable as of 0.3.0
Unfortunately because Thrust is built around C and Go its not exactly portable to Android and IOS, this may be possible in the future, but not yet. However, since we are primarily building a web app, we may be able to do something at a later time. For instance, there is work being done on allowing java to run go libraries. This would allow us to hopefully covert our application menus, to maybe just an html menu at the top, and just serve the page, instead of using Thrust. Thats all for the future however, for now, enjoy CPD for Linux,Darwin,Windows.
Any user of Go-Thrust should feel free to contribute Ideas, Code, anything that can help move this project in the right direction. The ideal goal is to stay as much out of the way, but still provide a useful system.
Some questions and thoughts:
There needs to be a UI => Application Connector. Unfortunately this is such an important part in the system design I dont think just one person should decide how it will look. As of right now in go-thrust's current state, you have to do any boilerplate webserver code yourself. For instance, I want to plug my ui, into GoLang, how do I do it. Create a Websocket server, use JSONRPC similar to how Go-Thrust contacts thrustcore. Ideally this process can be abstracted out a bit, but how do we develop a system generic enough to expose common interfaces and methods.
For example, do we write and manage api bindings for every go stl object. Like Filesystem. What is important to the core, and what can an implementor add.
