DAdazmiller·Nov 27, 2016
ah, sorry for the confusion.
have you had a look at
https://github.com/AllenDang/w32
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A wrapper of windows apis for the Go Programming Language.
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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3 sourcesPretty basic Window creation and message loop code, but its nice to see a starting example in Go. For comparison here is a C version:
https://github.com/LeZuse/minimal-win32-app/blob/master/main...
The C code does basically the same thing but ends up being smaller because the Go code doesn't have an equivalent of windows.h with function and data type definitions. The Go code might be a little nicer if it used a Win32 API wrapper, but there doesn't seem to be a well supported and documented one out there. This was all I could find https://github.com/AllenDang/w32.
In Simple Windows GUI Application Written in GoSorry, I'm not familiar with Windows stuff. This library might be more what you have in mind then:
https://github.com/AllenDang/w32
In Go version 1 is released