--- "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" [email protected] wrote:
Are wanting to create like a single page GUI with checkboxes for individual features and maybe a browse box to point to the files to act on?
That would be good enough for some of the things I had in mind. For example, Astrolog has built-in graphics support, so all a user needs is something to make selecting the right command line options a lot easier. Astrolog wouldn't even need a browse box.
A GUI for mencoder and transcode would make it a little easier to play around with conversion options, such as tweaking the home movies to fit on a single DVD when normal DVD settings would require two DVDs.
I've often wondered what would be a good tool to create something like this. I think I would also have the command that you are building display on the window as you add options and then you could copy and paste into a script or to a console window.
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.
-----Original Message----- From: Leo Mauler
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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