From: Handy Gandy Date: 2010-09-03T17:10:21+09:00 Subject: GUI for commandline programs I'm looking for a simple, easy to learn, low weight GUI for use in Ruby programs that mainly use the command line but where a bit of GUI might be in order. To give a clearer idea, let me show some examples: 1) Going to a youtube user that has multiple playlists, parsing the playlist then opening a GUI with a list of the playlists so you can chose which to download. 2) At a point in the program, you need to specify a folder to store your data in, so you want to pop open a folder save dialog box, then continue with your basic commandline program. 3) A loop in a program input a file, parses the input and creates a (directed acyclic) graph from it. There is a bug someplace between the parser and the graph generator. You put a form at the beginning showing input data some intermediate variables, and drawing the graph as it evolves to visualize what is going wrong. I hope from these three examples that the things I am looking for in a GUI toolkit clear. The GUI elements are incidental to the main program, the main program is a commandline program and for some reason or other a part of the program is made simpler with a bit of GUI. This however is only the case if the GUI is itself simple. Spending a lot of time setting up an application loop and a GUI justs mucks things up in this case. Also, in each case the GUI portion is started and stopped several times in one run of a program. Suggestions?