GUI programming question

[Mark Haney]

WipeOut wrote:
> Hi All..
> 
> I have a small project that needs a simple GUI app developped to 
> simplify firing off complicated command lines..
> 
> Initially it will require a few variables to be typed in and then will 
> have a few buttons that will perform some system tasks by running 
> commands or scripts..
> 
> I have written bash scripts and some php in the past but never a desktop 
> application..
> 
> There seems to be a huge choice of languages to do this like GTK, JAVA, 
> QT and and a few others..
> 
> In looking briefly they all seem quite complicated but JAVA has the 
> Netbeans development application which looks very useful for developing 
> the GUI, just JAVA doesn't look that simple for the logic..
> 
> Whats the easiest way to do this for someone with very little 
> programming experience??
> 
> TIA
> 

I'm curious, is there a NEED for a GUI or just a preference?

Honestly you really might be better off just building shell scripts to
streamline commands if you don't have a lot of programming experience.

But, if you are doing this to learn how to, and it's not going to be
particularly portable (i.e. only on your systems, let's say) I'd build
it in the toolkit of your Desktop Manager of choice, be it GTK for GNOME
or QT for KDE.

Personally, I've gotten away from GTK programming.  It seems to me the
differences in even a minor rev of GTK+ eats up applications.

I like the QT toolkit and there are RAD front ends to help with that.  I
know there are ones for GTK as well, but I haven't built a GTK app in years.



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