Ecosyste.ms: Awesome

An open API service indexing awesome lists of open source software.

Awesome Lists | Featured Topics | Projects

https://github.com/sciter-sdk/go-sciter

Golang bindings of Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/script engine for modern UI development
https://github.com/sciter-sdk/go-sciter

go-binding golang-bindings gui htmlayout sciter tiscript

Last synced: about 14 hours ago
JSON representation

Golang bindings of Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/script engine for modern UI development

Awesome Lists containing this project

README 

        
# Go bindings for Sciter



[![AppVeyor status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/rphv883klffw9em9/branch/master?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/pravic/go-sciter)

[![Travis Status](https://travis-ci.com/sciter-sdk/go-sciter.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.com/sciter-sdk/go-sciter)

[![License](https://img.shields.io/github/license/sciter-sdk/go-sciter.svg)](https://github.com/sciter-sdk/go-sciter)

[![Join the forums at https://sciter.com/forums](https://img.shields.io/badge/forum-sciter.com-orange.svg)](https://sciter.com/forums)



Check [this page](http://sciter.com/developers/sciter-sdk-bindings/) for other language bindings (Delphi / D / Go / .NET / Python / Rust).



----



# Attention



The ownership of project is transferred to this new organization.

Thus the `import path` for golang should now be `github.com/sciter-sdk/go-sciter`, but the package name is still `sciter`.



# Introduction



This package provides a Golang bindings of [Sciter][] using cgo.

Using go sciter you must have the platform specified `sciter dynamic library`

downloaded from [sciter-sdk][], the library itself is rather small

 (under 5MB, less than 2MB when upxed) .



Most [Sciter][] API are supported, including:



 * Html string/file loading

 * DOM manipulation/callback/event handling

 * DOM state/attribute handling

 * Custom resource loading

 * Sciter Behavior

 * Sciter Options

 * Sciter Value support

 * NativeFunctor (used in sciter scripting)



And the API are organized in more or less a gopher friendly way.



Things that are not supported:



 * Sciter Node API

 * TIScript Engine API



# Getting Started



###  At the moment only **Go 1.10** or higher is supported (issue #136).



 1. Download the [sciter-sdk][]

 2. Extract the sciter runtime library from [sciter-sdk][] to system PATH



    The runtime libraries lives in `bin` `bin.lnx` `bin.osx` with suffix like `dll` `so` or `dylib`



    * Windows: simply copying `bin\64\sciter.dll` to `c:\windows\system32` is just enough

    * Linux:

      - `cd sciter-sdk/bin.lnx/x64`

      - `export LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD`

      - `echo $PWD >> libsciter.conf`

      - `sudo cp libsciter.conf /etc/ld.so.conf.d/`

      - `sudo ldconfig`

      - `ldconfig -p | grep sciter` should print libsciter-gtk.so location

    * OSX:

      - `cd sciter-sdk/bin.osx/`

      - `export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD`



 3. Set up GCC envrionmnet for CGO



    [mingw64-gcc][] (5.2.0 and 7.2.0 are tested) is recommended for Windows users.



    Under Linux gcc(4.8 or above) and gtk+-3.0 are needed.



 4. `go get -x github.com/sciter-sdk/go-sciter`



 5. Run the example and enjoy :)



# Sciter Desktop UI Examples



![](http://sciter.com/screenshots/slide-wt5.png)



![](http://sciter.com/screenshots/slide-norton360.png)



![](http://sciter.com/screenshots/slide-norton-nis.png)



![](http://sciter.com/screenshots/slide-cardio.png)



![](http://sciter.com/screenshots/slide-surveillance.png)



![](http://sciter.com/screenshots/slide-technology.png)



![](http://sciter.com/screenshots/slide-sciter-ide.png)



![](http://sciter.com/screenshots/slide-sciter-osx.png)



![](http://sciter.com/screenshots/slide-sciter-gtk.png)



# Sciter Version Support

Currently supports [Sciter][] version `4.0.0.0` and higher.



[Sciter]: http://sciter.com/

[sciter-sdk]: http://sciter.com/download/



# About Sciter



[Sciter][] is an `Embeddable HTML/CSS/script engine for modern UI development, Web designers, and developers, can reuse their experience and expertise in creating modern looking desktop applications.`



In my opinion, [Sciter][] , though not open sourced, is an great

desktop UI development envrionment using the full stack of web technologies,

which is rather small (under 5MB) especially compared to [CEF][],[Node Webkit][nw] and [Atom Electron][electron]. :)



Finally, according to [Andrew Fedoniouk][author] the author and the Sciter

`END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT` , the binary form of the [Sciter][]

dynamic libraries are totally free to use for commercial or

non-commercial applications.



# The Tailored Sciter C Headers

This binding ueses a tailored version of the sciter C Headers, which lives in directory: `include`. The included c headers are a modified version of the

[sciter-sdk][] standard headers.



It seems [Sciter][] is developed using C++, and the included headers in the

[Sciter SDK][sciter-sdk] are a mixture of C and C++, which is not

quite suitable for an easy golang binding.



I'm not much fond of C++ since I started to use Golang, so I made this

modification and hope [Andrew Fedoniouk][author] the author would provide

pure C header files for Sciter. :)



[CEF]:https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef

[nw]: https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js

[electron]:https://github.com/atom/electron



[author]: http://sciter.com/about/

[mingw64-gcc]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/