Ui: platform-native GUI library for Go. This is a library that aims to provide simple GUI software development in Go. It is based on my libui, a simple cross-platform library that does the same thing, but written in C. It runs on/requires. The library has a C interface, but the underlying implementation varies: Objective-C for Mac OS X, C for Windows, and C for Linux. Radarsat1 on May 20, 2016 Actually SWT was one of the most pleasant experiences I've had coding GUI stuff. A tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C/Golang to build modern cross-platform GUIs. Also, there are Rust bindings, Python bindings, Nim bindings, Haskell, C# bindings and Java bindings available. The goal of the project is to create a common HTML5 UI. Apr 23, 2017 First, it is possible, but why would you want to spend years reinventing the wheel when there are so many perfectly great wheels out there. You need to learn a lot about graphic controllers, drivers, and so much more. Problem 1: Each graphics card. GUI Toolkits. Edit page on GitHub. This page contains a list with a couple of known toolkits for Graphical User Interfaces that you can use in your Mono software. If you need help to know which one is the best for your project, please have a look at Choosing a GUI Toolkit. Gtk# Banshee, a GTK# app. Jul 26, 2015 Creating your own GUI library in C/C. I wanted to make a GUI based program in C but i found everything too simple,non-standard C or i just didn't like it.I am also bored and need some huge project to work on.But thing is that i can't understand how GUI libraries work,i surfed on net and found nothing.Can anyone explain me. Imgui alternatives and similar libraries Based on the 'GUI' category. PublicDomain libui. 9.2 9.1 imgui VS libui Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports. Mac OS X, Linux and other platforms with a.
Unfortunately, not every Mac app has scripting support, and those that do may not always have scripting support for every task you want to automate. You can often work around such limitations, however, by writing a user interface script, commonly called a UI or GUI script. A user interface script simulates user interaction, such as mouse clicks and keystrokes, allowing the script to select menu items, push buttons, enter text into text fields, and more.
User interface scripting relies upon the OS X accessibility frameworks that provide alternative methods of querying and controlling the interfaces of apps and the system. By default, accessibility control of apps is disabled. How to show library in users mac. For security and privacy reasons, the user must manually enable it on an app-by-app (including script apps) basis.
Launch System Preferences and click Security & Privacy.
Click Accessibility.
Choose an app and click Open.
When running an app that requires accessibility control for the first time, the system prompts you to enable it. See Figure 37-1.
Attempting to run an app that has not been given permission to use accessibility features results in an error. See Figure 37-2.
Note
To run a user interface script in Script Editor, you must enable accessibility for Script Editor.
Admin credentials are required to perform enable user interface scripting.
User interface scripting terminology is found in the Processes Suite of the System Events scripting dictionary. This suite includes terminology for interacting with most types of user interface elements, including windows, buttons, checkboxes, menus, radio buttons, text fields, and more. In System Events, the process
class represents a running app. Listing 37-1 shows how to target an app using this class.
APPLESCRIPT
Listing 37-1AppleScript: Targeting an app for user interface scriptingtell application 'System Events'
tell process 'Safari'
-- Perform user interface scripting tasks
end tell
end tell
To control the user interface of an app, you must first inspect the app and determine its element hierarchy. This can be done by querying the app. For example, Listing 37-2 asks Safari for a list of menus in the menu bar.
APPLESCRIPT
Listing 37-2AppleScript: Querying an app for user interface element informationtell application 'System Events'
tell process 'Safari'
name of every menu of menu bar 1
end tell
end tell
--> Result: {'Apple', 'Safari', 'File', 'Edit', 'View', 'History', 'Bookmarks', 'Develop', 'Window', 'Help'}
Accessibility Inspector (Figure 37-3) makes it even easier to identify user interface element information. This app is included with Xcode. To use it, open Xcode and select Xcode > Open Developer Tool > Accessibility Inspector.
Once you know how an element fits into an interface, you target it within that hierarchy. For example, button X of window Y of process Z
.
Use the click
command to click a button. Listing 37-3 clicks a button in the Safari toolbar to toggle the sidebar between open and closed.
APPLESCRIPT
Listing 37-3AppleScript: Clicking a buttontell application 'System Events'
tell process 'Safari'
tell toolbar of window 1
click (first button where its accessibility description = 'Sidebar')
end tell
end tell
end tell
--> Result: {button 1 of toolbar 1 of window 'AppleScript: Graphic User Interface (GUI) Scripting' of application process 'Safari' of application 'System Events'}
Menu items can have a fairly deep hierarchy within the interface of an app. A menu item generally resides within a menu, which resides within a menu bar. In scripting, they must be addressed as such. Listing 37-4 selects the Pin Tab menu item in the Window menu of Safari.
APPLESCRIPT
Listing 37-4AppleScript: Choosing a menu itemtell application 'System Events'
tell process 'Safari'
set frontmost to true
click menu item 'Pin Tab' of menu 'Window' of menu bar 1
end tell
end tell
--> Result: menu item 'Pin Tab' of menu 'Window' of menu bar item 'Window' of menu bar 1 of application process 'Safari' of application 'System Events'
Note
Scripting the user interface of an app can be tedious and repetitious. To streamline the process, consider creating handlers to perform common functions. For example, Listing 37-5 shows a handler that can be used to choose any menu item of any menu in any running app.
APPLESCRIPT
Listing 37-5AppleScript: A handler that chooses a menu itemon chooseMenuItem(theAppName, theMenuName, theMenuItemName)
try
-- Bring the target app to the front
tell application theAppName
activate
end tell
-- Target the app
tell application 'System Events'
tell process theAppName
-- Target the menu bar
tell menu bar 1
-- Target the menu by name
tell menu bar item theMenuName
tell menu theMenuName
-- Click the menu item
click menu item theMenuItemName
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
return true
on error
return false
end try
end chooseMenuItem
Listing 37-6 calls the handler in Listing 37-5 to select the Pin Tab menu item in the Window menu of Safari.
APPLESCRIPT
Some menus contain other menus. In these cases, it may be necessary to select a menu item in a submenu of a menu. Listing 37-7 demonstrates how this would be done by selecting a submenu item in Safari.
APPLESCRIPT
Listing 37-7AppleScript: Selecting a submenu itemtell application 'System Events'
tell process 'Safari'
set frontmost to true
click menu item 'Email This Page' of menu of menu item 'Share' of menu 'File' of menu bar 1
end tell
end tell
--> Result: {menu item 'Email This Page' of menu 'Share' of menu item 'Share' of menu 'File' of menu bar item 'File' of menu bar 1 of application process 'Safari' of application 'System Events'}
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This is a list of Library packages implementing a graphical user interface (GUI) platform-independent GUI library (PIGUI). These can be used to develop software that can be ported to multiple computing platforms with no change to its source code.
Name | Owner | Platforms | License |
---|---|---|---|
Chromium Embedded Framework | CEF Project Page | Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows | Free: BSD |
CEGUI | CEGUI team | Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows | Free: MIT |
Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) | Enlightenment.org | X11, Wayland, Microsoft Windows, macOS, DirectFB, Tizen | Free: BSD, LGPL, GPL |
Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK) | Bill Spitzak, et al. | X11, Microsoft Windows, macOS | Free: LGPL |
GTK+ formerly GIMPToolkit | GNOME Foundation | Linux (X11, Wayland), Microsoft Windows, macOS, HTML5 | Free: LGPL |
IUP | Tecgraf, PUC-Rio | X11, Microsoft Windows | Free: MIT |
JUCE | Roli Ltd. | X11, Linux[clarification needed], macOS, iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows | Mixed: GPL, proprietary |
LiveCode | LiveCode, Ltd. | X11, macOS, Microsoft Windows | Proprietary |
MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers formerly NuTCRACKER | DataFocus, Inc. | Microsoft Windows from X11 code[clarification needed] | Proprietary |
Nana | Jinhao | Linux, Microsoft Windows | Free: Boost |
Qt | Qt Project | Linux (X11, Wayland), OS/2, macOS, iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows | Mixed: LGPL, GPL, or proprietary |
Ultimate++ | Ultimate++ | X11, PocketPC, WindowsCE, Microsoft Windows | Free: BSD-like |
wxWidgets formerly wxWindows | wxWidgets team | X11, Wayland, OpenLook,[clarification needed]macOS, iOS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2 | Free: wxWindows |
Name | Owner | Programming Language | Platforms | License |
---|---|---|---|---|
Swing | Oracle Corporation | Java | Windows, Linux X11, macOS | Free: CDDL, GPL with linking exception |
JavaFX | Oracle Corporation | Java | Windows, Linux X11, macOS, Android, iOS | Free: CDDL, GPL with linking exception |
SWT | Eclipse Foundation | Java | Windows (Win32), Linux (GTK+), macOS (Cocoa) | Free: Eclipse |
Apache Pivot | Apache Software Foundation | Java | Windows, macOS, Linux | Free: Apache |
Xojo | Xojo, Inc. | Xojo | Windows, macOS, Linux (X11), iOS, web | Proprietary |
Tcl/Tk | Open source | Tcl | Windows, OS/2, X11, OpenLook,[clarification needed] Mac, Android | Free: BSD-style |
LCL, Lazarus | Open source | Free Pascal | Windows (Win32, Qt), Linux (GTK+, Qt), macOS (Qt, Carbon, Cocoa) | Free: GPL, LGPL |
Delphi, FireMonkey | Embarcadero Technologies | Object Pascal | Windows, macOS, iOS, Android | Proprietary |
VisualWorks | Cincom | Smalltalk | Windows, OS/2, Linux (X11), OpenLook,[clarification needed] Mac | Proprietary |
Pharo | Pharo community | Smalltalk | Windows, Linux (X11), macOS | Free: MIT, part Apache 2.0 |
Mono, GTK# | Xamarin | C# | Windows, Linux (X11, Wayland), macOS | Free: MIT, LGPLv2, GPLv2 (dual license) |
Kivy | Kivy | Python | Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, iOS | Free: MIT |
WxPython | Python | Linux, Windows, macOS | Free: wxWindows | |
Unity | Unity Technologies | C#, JavaScript, Boo | Windows, X11, macOS, Android, iOS also features cross-platform Web player | Proprietary, based on open-source |
Apache Flex Formerly Adobe Flex | Apache Software Foundation | ActionScript, Flash, Adobe AIR | Windows (x86, x64), macOS, Android (ARM, x86), iOS, Web (SWF) | Free: Apache |
Flutter | C, C++, Dart | Android, iOS (experimental: Web, Linux, Windows, macOS) | Free: New BSD License | |
Uno Platform | nventive | C#, XAML, WASM | Windows, iOS, Android, Web (WebAssembly), experimental macOS) | Free: Apache |
Name | Owner | Platforms | License |
---|---|---|---|
VisualAge for C++, Smalltalk | IBM | Various | Proprietary |
Name | Owner | Comment |
---|---|---|
AppWare | Novell | Has been de-emphasized (commonly viewed as dropped) by Novell |
Zinc Application Framework | Professional Software Associates | May still be supported, but no new sales |
Open Interface | Neuron Data | One of the earliest PIGUI supported DOS, macOS, OS/2, VMS, Microsoft Windows 3.0 |