Quick GUI frontend development for command line tools?
Bradley Hook
bhook at kssb.net
Fri Jan 18 13:50:40 CST 2008
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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