From: Mark Noworolski <jmarkn@...>
Date: 2008-03-25T08:47:27+09:00
Subject: Re: optionparser to gui automation?

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What I'm after is something like a decorator on top of optionparser that
will create a gui for those who are averse to specifying commandline
arguments.

By way of example, boolean options might show up as checkboxes.

mark



On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Dana Merrick <dana.merrick@trincoll.edu>
wrote:

> You're probably looking for something like this:
>
> ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/optparse/rdoc/
>
> HTH,
> Dana Merrick
>
> Mark Noworolski wrote:
> > I'm looking to support functionality like follows:
> >   1. You start a ruby program with commandline arguments (in a standard
> > optionparser kind of way)...
> >   2. If you do not provide any, a GUI pops up, asking you for things
> that
> > would otherwise be on the commandline.
> >   3. Ideally, this is automated with semi-sane defaults for the gui
> view.
> >
> > I would expect that there might be some sort of optionparser extension
> that
> > might do this but googling has not helped me out so far...
> >
> > Does anybody know of anything like this?
> >
> > mark
> >
>
>

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