How can I use Go to make a GUI window? - go

I am in need to make a simple window in Go to display some text,
there is no need for a real GUI like interface.
How can I make a window like this using Go?

walk is the most common library used for basic GUI development.
You can import the package using:
go get github.com/lxn/walk
I assume you are working at windows OS so create an exe and run it.
More Information about this can be gathered from its source.
Visit https://github.com/lxn/walk

A nice-looking cross-platform UI can be created using HTML5/CSS/JS. You may open a native window with a full-screen browser engine (webview) in it showing your UI.
There is a tiny wrapper library for webviews on Windows, MacOS and Linux - https://github.com/zserge/webview
You can connectyour UI and the core app parts using Go-to-JS bindings (webview library provides those) or a websocket.

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UI Automation for AppleTV system using XCode

Is UI automation available for the main menu of the Apple TV and not a specific application? I already setup the whole UI testing thing using XCode and tried using the remote control but it is only available for the application that was defined using XCUIApplication.
So is it possible to control the whole system rather than a specific application? I was thinking of something similar to pyatv but using XCode since I might be able to get more information concerning the current focused apps and so on.
There is an API XCUIApplication(bundleIdentifier: ) to interact with not-AUT apps. You need to substitute the right identifier for this Springboard-like interface. Maybe it is a Headboard, but I'm not sure.
Bundle identifiers of tvOS apps https://github.com/rzakhar/XCTApps/blob/master/Sources/XCTApps/tvOS.swift

What are the ways or tools available to inspect element in a Mac desktop application

We have firebug or chropath or inspect element methods to find locators of a web application. Similarly, how to identify element of a Mac desktop application (for example, iTunes desktop app)?
Thanks in advance.
Use Accessibility Inspector,just type in Inspector in the spotlight. So far, its able to get class, text and labels, but not well recognize using it with Appium. I am hoping for a better more accurate tool.
You can use pyatom (python library for automated testing on MAC).
PyAtom is Python library to fully enable GUI testing of Mac applications via the Apple Accessibility API.
Github link - https://github.com/pyatom/pyatom

Electron prompt support

I am looking for a native (OS X) prompt module when working on Electron, something like the window popped up when I click 'Join Other Network...':
This offers the ability to get inputs and process the data returned. So Dialog in Electron may not work here (at least I did not figure it out). I found this issue, but I cannot understand it.
Right now my approach is to open up a browserWindow to to ipc with main thread, but the most critical issue is that, it does not feel like native!
Any help is appreciated!
Electron currently does not have this functionality built in. As far as I know this UI is fully custom, the OS API does not have a direct way to create this UI. For this reason it is likely Electron will never have this functionality.
Your only options are to mimic the native UI in CSS or create a node module that accesses the OS APIs to build your desired UI.

Building an Application like Chrome App Launcher

How would one go about building an Application like the Google Chrome App launcher like the one they released for windows, it seems like a simple application that just appears over its taskbar icon, however I wanted to know more about what could be used to make such an app.
Chrome and its app launcher are all open source, so you can have a look. However there is probably a lot of Chromium knowledge required to be able to navigate the code.
Some details:
the launcher is native c++
it runs in the same process as the Chrome browser
there is no practical way to get the location of the taskbar button, so it is faked using the cursor.
Some trivia:
the app launcher is called the app list internally
the launcher was originally implemented on ChromeOS, and was first ported to work on Windows. That was simple. It was later ported to Mac OS X (just released!) which was more complicated

Using Qt in a pre-existing x-platform project?

I have an existing cross platform project that runs on Mac, Linux and Windows.
Now, I want to add a 'native' UI to it - the ability to show some popup windows (to request user credentials) and perhaps FileOpen dialogs. By native I mean I want to use the systems build in file-open dialog - so on the Mac the mac file finder is shown and on Windows the shells file open window is shown.
Qt seems a good fit - its samples show that it can show the correct dialog on all platforms.
However, all the available Qt samples start at the very base level - assuming the entire project is developed in Qt. Is it possible to initialize and use Qt in a more ad-hoc fashion :- i want to keep all my Qt UI code in a seperate dll/dylib/so file with some simple exports (think ShowLoginPopup).
I think that the easiest approach would be to do it the other way around - having the Qt GUI drive the rest of the application. Qt is event based and does rely on its event loop, so you need to keep that running.

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