Quick GUI frontend development for command line tools?
Leo Mauler
webgiant at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 20 08:29:08 CST 2008
It sounds like you were reading my mind. "Quick and
dirty and works" is perfect for now.
--- Bradley Hook <bhook at kssb.net> wrote:
> Depending on how simple you want, you could go
> with bash + dialog or kdialog. It's an easy way
> to make all of those command line options
> mouse-clickable, doesn't require any compiling,
> and will be easy to move from machine to machine.
> But... you obviously can't do anything fancy with
> this combo.
>
> ~Bradley
>
> Leo Mauler wrote:
> > 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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