Quick GUI frontend development for command line tools?

[Leo Mauler]

--- "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO"
<brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov> wrote:

> Are wanting to create like a single page GUI 
> with checkboxes for individual features and 
> maybe a browse box to point to the files to 
> act on?

That would be good enough for some of the things I had
in mind.  For example, Astrolog has built-in graphics
support, so all a user needs is something to make
selecting the right command line options a lot easier.
 Astrolog wouldn't even need a browse box.  

A GUI for mencoder and transcode would make it a
little easier to play around with conversion options,
such as tweaking the home movies to fit on a single
DVD when normal DVD settings would require two DVDs.
 
> I've often wondered what would be a good tool 
> to create something like this.  I think I would 
> also have the command that you are building
> display on the window as you add options and 
> then you could copy and paste into a script or 
> to a console window.  
 
Interesting, I hadn't thought of a tool which created
the command line text for you to cut-and-paste into a
window, but it is a good idea.  I suppose it is
roughly what I had in mind in the first place, as all
I envisioned was a GUI which stepped in, made
selecting command line program options easier, and
then ran the complete command line command as the GUI
exited itself.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leo Mauler
> 
> 
> There are a few command line applications for 
> which I would like to have a GUI, or for which 
> I've found a GUI I'm just not happy with.  I 
> use mencoder and transcode a bit but I'm not 
> happy with the GUI frontends I've found for 
> those applications.  I also have a friend who 
> is interested in the Astrolog astrology 
> application but who is very unhappy with the
> command line interface, a potential Linux 
> convert if a GUI can be discovered.  KAstrolog 
> has been out of development for so long I can't 
> seem to compile the thing.
> 
> I haven't written any code in ten years so I'm
> looking for something to create GUI Frontends 
> without too much programming experience.


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