Quick GUI frontend development for command line tools?

[Leo Mauler]

--- "Monty J. Harder" <mjharder at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 20, 2008 8:25 AM, Leo Mauler
> <webgiant at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> There's nothing about what you just said that
> requires a GUI.  ChUI works
> well, too. (Isn't that right, Hal?)
> 
> The program could be written to run in a
> character-mode environment, so that it would 
> run equally well in an xterm.  Maybe even
> better, if it were mouse-aware.  An additional 
> feature that could be really helpful is to save
> the command in a small script in the user's 
> home directory, whence it could easily be 
> re-used.

Personally I just want something which prevents the
need to look up the command line options every time I
want to try something different.  That would suffice
for mencoder and transcode.  However, the GUI was to
be for my friend with his interest in Astrolog.


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