From: Daniel Lucraft <dan@...>
Date: 2008-03-25T21:38:48+09:00
Subject: Re: optionparser to gui automation?

Mark Noworolski wrote:
> I'm looking to support functionality like follows:

Haven't heard of anything that automatically generates a GUI dialog from 
command line options. But there are various libraries that make it easy 
to generate dialogs from scripts. You tell it that you want the user to 
enter a String with a default and so one.

There's Dialog (http://hightek.org/dialog/) which is not exactly a GUI 
but it's a familiar interface. (Ruby wrapper here 
http://rdialog.rubyforge.org/)

Or there's Zenity (http://live.gnome.org/Zenity). If you are on Ubuntu 
try typing:

$ zenity --entry

and see what happens. From Ruby you could call out to that through 
%x{zenity --entry} and interpret the output.

Or Zerenity is a port of zenity to Ruby-Gnome2 so it is easily callable 
from Ruby.
http://code.google.com/p/zerenity/

I haven't tried these much, but there should be something there that you 
could make work.

best,
Dan
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