Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: multi-platform GUI front end? Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:06:45 +1200 Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net wtiZn081rfEAFEH+ALz5pwk23F3CP6bZ8suwM7/xOsIyK0bgZiZ3uZAuL8UwNgmf8O Cancel-Lock: sha1:zwK7QRlxBcCtCHEQ+nXoAakrW9I= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; SunOS i86pc; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120423 Thunderbird/12.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:2249 On 09/26/12 04:00, Mark Storkamp wrote: > I've written a non-interactive command line utility that I use for > manipulating 3D model files. I wrote it in C under OSX, and it also > compiles and runs on Windows. I'm happy with it just as it is, but > others have started using it too and they are not happy with having to > type out command line arguments such as --yrotate=5.4 etc. Rather than > rewrite it separately for OSX and Windows to use dialog boxes, I would > rather just write a front-end for it in a language that will run as-is > on Linux, Mac and Windows. But I don't know what language that would be. > Possibly something that runs in a browser? I desperately need > suggestions. Thanks. Would it be easier to have it read options from a configuration file? Anything GUI based is notoriously difficult to drive from a script. -- Ian Collins