From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-07-29T04:15:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Best OS-X GUI creator for non-programmer


On Jul 28, 2007, at 2:07 PM, 12 34 wrote:

> I've written a relatively simple script which has about five
> files/directories that need to be selected and several other options.
> They are currently manually set in the script, i.e., as variables. I'd
> like to have a GUI and here is what I think are my requirements:
>
> OS X-prefer native, but web would be OK since I don't need a fancy
> interface
> Select files (show the last selection used as the default, even if  
> used
> weeks later)
> Select folders (show the last selection used as the default, even if
> used weeks later)
> Drop down selection for some options
> Check boxes for other options
> A confirmation window listing the options selected with "a go back" or
> "go ahead choice"
> Run the script
> Progress bar
> Report when finished.
>
> I'm not a programmer. Not obvious to me how to implement this in  
> XCode.
> My XCode experience is pretty much limited to a simple AppleScript app
> about two years ago. I am missing that when creating an AppleScript  
> app
> that after creating the UI (in IB), XCode creates such things "on  
> awake
> from nib" and "on clicked" which got me over one big hump. I'm looking
> for something similar for Ruby--RubyCocoa doesn't seem to do this; and
> this is the difficult part for me. Or am I missing something? Or is  
> this
> going to be in Leopard?
>
> I've read at least 20 threads on this site and via Google. I've looked
> at some of the documentation for the universal GUIs and the learning
> curves seems as tough as XCode. None of the tutorials that I've  
> seen for
> XCode go as deep as selecting files/folders and saving the choices.
>
> I can imagine how this might be done in Rails (zero experience, but  
> I've
> done a little PHP and imagine that choices can be stored in MySQL
> databases,text files or YAML).
>
> Maybe my question is: Is XCode or Rails the easiest way to go for a
> non-programmer? I also looked at newcocoa, but since I don't know  
> Rails,
> it wasn't a help.
>
> I realize this is a big question, but thanks for any ideas. Or  
> books to
> read?
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>

Consider Rails, but there is a lot to learn there. It's Ruby, but not  
quite like working with a usual script.
Perhaps easier, and definitely native GUI look, consider Platypus:
http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus