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Re: multi-platform GUI front end?

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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

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multi-platform GUI front end? Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-25 11:00 -0500
  Re: multi-platform GUI front end? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-09-25 12:01 -0500
  Re: multi-platform GUI front end? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-09-25 18:27 +0100
  Re: multi-platform GUI front end? Willem <willem@turtle.stack.nl> - 2012-09-25 21:11 +0000
  Re: multi-platform GUI front end? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-09-26 12:06 +1200

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