[Discuss] tool to make GUI based on shell script

[Owen Stampflee]

I know this list is full of perl people, so I'll add some more fuel to
the fire against the most commonly abused language... but glade and
pygtk are both fairly simple and easy to use applications/APIs.

On Nov 6, 2007 9:24 AM, John Blomfield <jabfield at shaw.ca> wrote:
> xxx xxx wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I like the cdrecord tools as a DVD/CD writer. K3B is a great GUI based
> > on cdrecord but it is too much bloated and dose not fit if we ask for
> > a fast, lightweight weight GUI which even runs well with old hardware.
> > So I have written a shell-script based on cdrecord and later I have
> > further modified it with "dialog" command to get a nice CUI. Hence
> > users don't need to remember all the cdrecord commands. I wounder if
> > there is any tool which allows to modify a shell script with nice GUI.
> > gtkdialog is there but is there any thing else which fits well with
> > puppy's objective "Fast, lightweight and nice looking" ?
> >
> > Is there anything from foxtoolkit ? Kindly let me know.
> > thanks
> >
> I am not absolutely sure that I understand exactly what you are trying
> to do but I assume you are trying to produce a GUI interface (front-end,
> wrapper call it what you will ) for the command line program cdrecord??
> Are you also wishing to do this using a script type programming
> language??  If this is the case then a possible solution is to use the
> Python scripting language, see www.python.org for references and
> tutorials.  Python includes a complete library of classes that allow you
> to program GUI's, as well as using it as an interpretive language for
> simple tasks and scripts.  Other solutions would include using the C
> based gtk library of functions or the gtkmm a C++ wrapper for for gtk
> both require a large time investment if you have not used them before.
> Then of course you can use the Qt C++ library of classes for GUI
> programming (my favourite) but again a steep learning curve. You can use
> KDevelop IDE to help with both gtkmm and Qt or there is a nice IDE for
> Python called Eric.  Also gtk has glade to help with GUI dialog design
> and Qt has QtDesigner.
>
> John Blomfield
>
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