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[tortech] GUIs in linux
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Brent Oster
2005-04-05 06:39:09 UTC
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So I've been toying with tk, and find it kind of annoying. I need to
build a GUI around a shell script. Does anyone have any recommendations?

- Brent
Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-05 18:10:22 UTC
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On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:39:09AM -0400, Brent Oster wrote:
| So I've been toying with tk, and find it kind of annoying. I need to
| build a GUI around a shell script. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Well there are gtk bindings for php, and wxwindows bindings for python,
perl (probably php as well) and many other scripting languages.

Some of those are probably a nicer place to start. I suspect if you
want it to work on things other than unix, then wxwindows+python is the
best bet, but for unix systems only, any of them should do. Probably
the cleanest would be one of the python ones.

For example:
libwxgtk2.4-python: wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (wxPython
binding)

That is wxwindows implemented using gtk, scriptable from python. Same
code _should_ run on windows or mac as well which is rather neat.

There is a package with example code too.
'apt-cache search python gtk' should help you find something.

Len
Brent Oster
2005-04-05 18:49:33 UTC
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On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

| On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:39:09AM -0400, Brent Oster wrote:
| > So I've been toying with tk, and find it kind of annoying. I need to
| > build a GUI around a shell script. Does anyone have any recommendations?
|
| Well there are gtk bindings for php, and wxwindows bindings for python,
| perl (probably php as well) and many other scripting languages.

Hmm... php-gtk sounds interesting. I think I'll check that out, thanks.
:)

- Brent

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