[Discuss] tool to make GUI based on shell script

[xxx xxx]

On Nov 6, 2007 10:54 PM, 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??

To some extends you are right. But it is not just limited within a GUI
application based on cdrecord. I write shell script often to simplify
command based tasks. Hence I am searching for a way to add GUI
interface to my shell scripts because a shell script has the power to
call the linux commands directly ( here cdrecord) Now it can be a GUI
for a script which can do Cd writing or some thing else. Thanks for
the hints you have given regarding python. If I go for python it would
take some time as I have never used it before but I am quite familiar
with shell scripts hence I can immediately start with any tool which
can make GUI of shell-scripts. I have intensionally skipped
Kdeveloper; Qt etc.. as those are resource hungry. Honestly speaking I
like eye candy things but give priority to those tools which can do
the exact job in a simple way. Like shell scripts.
Thanks


> 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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