owmo-dev / example-go-tray-gui

An example desktop system tray application that can launch HTML5 windows. Go source with a build process for Windows, Mac and Linux.

ExampleTrayGUI

An example cross-platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) system tray application that can launch HTML5 windows, developed in Go including functional build process. This repository is intended as a quick reference to help others start similar projects using the referenced libraries and will not be actively maintained.

Requirements

The build process requires a .env at the root of your repo file, defining the following:

VERSION=1.0.0
NAME=ExampleTrayGUI
NAME_LOWER=example-tray-gui

Additionally, you'll need to install the following to build for all platforms:

go get github.com/akavel/rsrc
npm install --global create-dmg
brew install graphicsmagick imagemagick

https://www.docker.com/get-started

Once Docker is installed, go to Preferences > Resources > File Sharing and add your bin directory in your repository to the list of locations so that build outputs can be shared from the images.