Quick GUI frontend development for command line tools?

[Leo Mauler]

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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