From: Dana Merrick <dana.merrick@...>
Date: 2008-03-25T21:20:41+09:00
Subject: Re: optionparser to gui automation?

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Ah, I'm sorry, I misunderstood what part of the question you were not=20
aware of. I know there are Qt and GTK toolkits for Ruby, though I've=20
tried neither. I'm looking forward to playing with the Qt one though,=20
because Qt is a blast.

http://www.arachnoid.com/ruby/RubyGUIProject/

-Dana

Mark Noworolski wrote:
> What I'm after is something like a decorator on top of optionparser tha=
t
> will create a gui for those who are averse to specifying commandline
> arguments.
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> By way of example, boolean options might show up as checkboxes.
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> mark
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> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Dana Merrick <dana.merrick@trincoll.e=
du>
> wrote:
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>> 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 standa=
rd
>>> 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 extensio=
n
>> 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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