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Re: PC and Mac GUI?

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Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> writes:

> I have a program written in C that gets run on both a Mac and a Windows 
> PC. I wrote it to use the command line so I could easily compile for 
> either environment.
>
> The program has a dozen or so command line switches, then runs 
> uninterrupted until it finishes its task.
>
> It could really use a GUI front end to select the options on the command 
> line before it runs. I could easily write that in Objective-C for the 
> Mac, but then that wouldn't run on the PC. I haven't programmed Windows 
> since 3.0 and I don't have the tools to it now anymore.
>
> Is there some (probably interpreted) language that can run the same code 
> on both Mac and PC, present the user with a dialog box for options, 
> build up a command line, and then execute the existing command line 
> program?

I have found command-line driven dialog programs like zentity to be fine
for simple cases.  I've switched to "yad" for my own stuff because it
does a bit more and it does it a bit better but I don't think it's
available for Windows (zenity is).

-- 
Ben.

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PC and Mac GUI? Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2014-09-04 11:02 -0500
  Re: PC and Mac GUI? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-09-04 17:19 +0100
    Re: PC and Mac GUI? Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2014-09-08 08:17 -0500
  Re: PC and Mac GUI? Koneko <Koneko@idontwantspamfrom.net> - 2014-09-09 05:58 +0300
    Re: PC and Mac GUI? Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2014-09-09 08:19 -0500
  Re: PC and Mac GUI? August Karlstrom <fusionfile@gmail.com> - 2014-09-14 11:24 +0200

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