TAtagrun·Jun 2, 2014
Is GTK3 good enough? https://github.com/conformal/gotk3
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gotk3
Go bindings for GTK3
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jul 2013 | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 2013 | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2013 | 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2013 | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 2013 | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2013 | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Apr 2014 | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2014 | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2014 | 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesI built go-webkit2 to make it easy to run a headless WebKit on a Web server to serve static HTML pages (generated from an AngularJS app) to search engines and other clients without JavaScript support. Right now it supports the most common operations and works well for headless browsing and GTK+ widget embedding. I will be implementing the rest of the WebKitGTK+ v2 API in the coming weeks.
go-webkit2 also hooks into https://github.com/crazy2be/gojs to enable execution of JavaScript in the context of the browser window. The README at https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/go-webkit2/re... has an example of this.
I have a full project demonstrating the usage of go-webkit2 to run a headless browser and expose operations in a more friendly, Go-idiomatic API: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/webloop/readm.... It's called W
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ebLoop and is like PhantomJS for Go. It's not ready for release, but if you are playing around with go-webkit2, it might be helpful.
Thanks to https://github.com/crazy2be for CRing my gojs patches and the Conformal folks for making https://github.com/conformal/gotk3.
I am on ubuntu raring with the packaged golang and I can't compile your example code, copied directly out of Sample Use.
kbarrett@vernon-linux:~/go-work/gotk$ go version
go version go1.0.2
kbarrett@vernon-linux:~/go-work/gotk$ go build
# github.com/conformal/gotk3/glib
glib.go:380[/tmp/go-build210667265/github.com/conformal/gotk3/glib/_obj/glib.cgo1.go:370]: function ends without a return statement
glib.go:743[/tmp/go-build210667265/github.com/conformal/gotk3/glib/_obj/glib.cgo1.go:741]: function ends without a return statement
function ends without a return statement. If this is a problem with my version of go, I will try and fetch the latest head from git. I am interested!
sudo go get github.com/conformal/gotk3/gtk -- gives the same error.
In Gotk3: GTK3 the Go way