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Portable GUI shell scripting?
I have some scripts that run in Windows, and the ability to put a GUI
layer over them is kind of appealing. So when I stumbled over http://wizapp.sourceforge.net/ I thought that was rather cute. (Reading the "advanced batch scripting" art of the manual impresses upon me that no sane person should write Windows batch scripts, however. :-) ) I believe wizapp should work fine from under any Unix environment for Windows (Cygwin, UWin, SFU, etc.), with maybe one obvious trick needed. Then I went looking and found a nice paper on using GUI equivalents to shell components for teaching shell programming to students, at http://jan.netcomp.monash.edu.au/xsc...gramming2.html and that seemed cute too. So I wondered whether there was a minimalist extension like wizapp that would be available as a single command (you give wizapp various options to tell it what kind of GUI panel to look like), so that you could write portable GUI shell scripts. E.g. if wizapp were ported to X/Unix, the scripts would be portable. That'd be one solution. I know many people will say "Just use Tk/Tcl", but that suffers from two problems: each new version breaks all previous scripts; and I don't know the language; and it's lower level than shell scripting (it's similar to http://www.satisoft.com/satshell/: see the code for the /etc/passwd demo: http://www.satisoft.com/examples/sat...iewpasswd.html to see what I mean); and Tk/Tcl represents a hefty install on every target system (wizapp is just the single executable); and I can't count. :-) luke |
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