Add GoString code generation for widgets

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Add GoString code generation for widgets #167

Open rcoreilly opened 5 years ago

rcoreilly commented 5 years ago

probably the most useful output format for the widgets is code generation, rather than the json state -- should be able to do this at any level via context menu in GoGiEditor -- then you can just quickly mock something up and get the code to recreate that, and add your methods etc from there.

rcoreilly commented 6 months ago

This would be part of a broader interactive GUI designer project -- not planned for V2 at this point.

kkoreilly commented 2 weeks ago

GoString is the standard method for this, and we could probably implement a basic version of this relatively easily just based on the already existing json:"-" struct tags. However, there would definitely be issues with closures and tree nesting. Regardless, this is not a high priority as stated above, and will probably be developed as part of some interactive GUI editor app at some point later on.