Gooey/docs/Other-Languages.md

Using Gooey as a frontend for any language.

Gooey can be used as the frontend for any language. Whether you've built your application in Java, Node, or Haskell, Gooey can still be used to create a fast, free UI with just a little bit of Python.

Gooey let's you specify the target that is should execute during runtime as an argument to the main decorator.

Clojure example:

lein new app clojure-program

(ns clojure-program.core
  (:gen-class))

(defn -main
  "Tiny example."
  [& args]
  (println "here are the args: " args)
  (doseq [x (range 10)]
    (println x)
    (Thread/sleep 500)))    

lein uberjar

./target/uberjar/clojure-program-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT-standalone.jar

java -jar target/uberjar/clojure-program-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT-standalone.jar -arg1 foo -arg2 bar

here are the args:  (-f foo -b qwer)
0
1
2
3
etc...

mkdir clojure-ui-example 
cd clojure-ui-example 

virtualenv venv
pip install gooey

mkdir resources

src/main.py

from gooey import Gooey, GooeyParser, local_resource_path


jar_path = local_resource_path('resources/clojure-gooey-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT-standalone.jar')

@Gooey(image_dir=local_resource_path('stuff/images/'), target='java -jar ' + jar_path)
def main():
    parser = GooeyParser(description="My program")
    parser.add_argument('filename', metavar='Filename', help='filename', widget='FileChooser')
    parser.parse_args()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()