Re: PC and Mac GUI?

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From	August Karlstrom <fusionfile@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: PC and Mac GUI?
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On 2014-09-04 18:02, Mark Storkamp wrote:
> 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?
>

Another option is to transcompile the C program to Javascript (via LLVM) 
with Emscripten and create the GUI with HTML and CSS. Then it will work 
in any browser with Javascript support.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Emscripten


-- August

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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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