Opening 2 identical windows simultaneously from one set of code - user-interface

Question

I am using following code to create and show a window with GUI components as label, entry and button:
// modified from: https://github.com/andlabs/ui/wiki/Getting-Started
package main
import ("github.com/andlabs/ui")
func makewinfn() {
var name = ui.NewEntry()
var button = ui.NewButton("Greet")
var greeting = ui.NewLabel("")
box := ui.NewVerticalBox()
box.Append(ui.NewLabel("Enter your name:"), false)
box.Append(name, false)
box.Append(button, false)
box.Append(greeting, false)
mywindow := ui.NewWindow("MyTitle", 200, 100, false)
mywindow.SetChild(box)
button.OnClicked( func (*ui.Button) {greeting.SetText("Hello, " + name.Text() + "!") } )
mywindow.OnClosing( func (*ui.Window) bool { ui.Quit(); return true } )
mywindow.Show()
}
func main() {
ui.Main(makewinfn)
// HOW TO CREATE AND SHOW ANOTHER SUCH WINDOW HERE ?
// ui.Main(makewinfn) // this opens window only after first is closed.
}
It works well, but as I mentioned in title and as commented in code above, how can I open two such windows simultaneously from main function?
Repeating ui.Main(makewinfn) in main function leads to second window opening only after first is closed.
Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

In UI libraries usually the components or widgets you build the interface with have parents, and usually a single component may have at most one parent.
So if you want 2 windows, having the same components, you still have to create those components in 2 instances, because a component cannot be added to 2 different parents (in 2 different windows).
So simplest would be to move the component and window creation logic into a function, and call that twice from the function you pass to ui.Main():
func createWindow() {
var name = ui.NewEntry()
var button = ui.NewButton("Greet")
var greeting = ui.NewLabel("")
box := ui.NewVerticalBox()
box.Append(ui.NewLabel("Enter your name:"), false)
box.Append(name, false)
box.Append(button, false)
box.Append(greeting, false)
mywindow := ui.NewWindow("MyTitle", 200, 100, false)
mywindow.SetChild(box)
button.OnClicked( func (*ui.Button) {greeting.SetText("Hello, " + name.Text() + "!") } )
mywindow.OnClosing( func (*ui.Window) bool { ui.Quit(); return true } )
mywindow.Show()
}
func makewinfn() {
createWindow()
createWindow()
}
Using this createWindow() function of course is not a requirement, you could have a loop in makewinfn() with 2 iterations, each which could create a window.
The above example creates 2 identical windows, but they will be "independent". If you enter a text in one of them and click on its button, the result will only be seen in its containing / parent window. This is possible because each component has been created twice.
If you wan to customize the windows, you could pass a parameter to createWindow() so the window and its content could be customized / personalized based on its value. For example:
func createWindow(id string) {
var name = ui.NewEntry()
var button = ui.NewButton("Greet " + id)
var greeting = ui.NewLabel("")
box := ui.NewVerticalBox()
box.Append(ui.NewLabel("Enter your name " + id + ":"), false)
box.Append(name, false)
box.Append(button, false)
box.Append(greeting, false)
mywindow := ui.NewWindow("MyTitle " + id, 200, 100, false)
mywindow.SetChild(box)
button.OnClicked( func (*ui.Button) {greeting.SetText("Hello, " + name.Text() + "!") } )
mywindow.OnClosing( func (*ui.Window) bool { ui.Quit(); return true } )
mywindow.Show()
}
func makewinfn() {
createWindow("one")
createWindow("two")
}

Answer 2

I don't know Go but assuming the GUI works like any other language I've used, in your makewinfn function you can simply create more windows by calling ui.NewWindow() again.
func makewinfn() {
var name = ui.NewEntry()
var button = ui.NewButton("Greet")
var greeting = ui.NewLabel("")
box := ui.NewVerticalBox()
box.Append(ui.NewLabel("Enter your name:"), false)
box.Append(name, false)
box.Append(button, false)
box.Append(greeting, false)
mywindow := ui.NewWindow("MyTitle", 200, 100, false)
mywindow.SetChild(box)
button.OnClicked( func (*ui.Button) {greeting.SetText("Hello, " + name.Text() + "!") } )
mywindow.OnClosing( func (*ui.Window) bool { ui.Quit(); return true } )
mywindow.Show()
myOtherWindow := ui.NewWindow("MyOtherTitle", 200, 100, false)
myOtherWindow.Show()
}