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I have always dream of hybrid software, meaning GUIs which show in real time the CLI equivalent of each one of your actions on the GUI, so later on everything y

by notgood 10y ago

I have always dream of hybrid software, meaning GUIs which show in real time the CLI equivalent of each one of your actions on the GUI, so later on everything you did in the GUI is combinable/scriptable, etc

flukus 10y ago
Doesn't apple have something like that? Either way, I think log files of actions taken are much more debuggable than watching a computer control the gui.
- iainmerrick 10y ago
  Yes, AppleScript did this way back in the pre-OS X days -- but only if you added Apple Events support to your app, which was extremely fiddly and tedious. Their current tool Automator is supposed to do this, but I don't know how widely it's supported. I suspect just like everything else, it has niche of users who love it and depend on it. It's not something your typical Mac user would think to reach for.
omribahumi 10y ago
Is macro recording (and editing) still a thing? I haven't used MS Office in a while...
voltagex_ 10y ago
I've seen a few ffmpeg GUIs that show you the exact command that will be executed. nmap's Zenmap also shows you the command it's using.
ioseph 10y ago
Most SQL GUI's do this, same for git wrappers
- notgood 10y ago
  Cool, although when I think about this I usually imagine it on Photoshop and similar apps, and later on using such commands from python or something.
adiabatty 10y ago
Sounds like macro recording in Office. You'd start recording, do some things, stop recording, and then you could see the VB code you generated and could edit it.
- anthk 10y ago
  SmallTalk
pjc50 10y ago
I think AutoCAD does this? I actually built one of these hybrids for a piece of chip design software, where scripting is very much expected. Architectural bonuses were that it was almost like having a GUI microservice; it could iterate separately, be written in a different language, and crash separately too.
- galfarragem 10y ago
  It does. I don't know any professional user that doesn't use the CLI. (I'm an architect). I still dream with the day that Photoshop gets one also..

by notgood 10y ago

flukus 10y ago

Doesn't apple have something like that? Either way, I think log files of actions taken are much more debuggable than watching a computer control the gui.

iainmerrick 10y ago
Yes, AppleScript did this way back in the pre-OS X days -- but only if you added Apple Events support to your app, which was extremely fiddly and tedious. Their current tool Automator is supposed to do this, but I don't know how widely it's supported. I suspect just like everything else, it has niche of users who love it and depend on it. It's not something your typical Mac user would think to reach for.

omribahumi 10y ago

Is macro recording (and editing) still a thing? I haven't used MS Office in a while...

voltagex_ 10y ago

I've seen a few ffmpeg GUIs that show you the exact command that will be executed. nmap's Zenmap also shows you the command it's using.

ioseph 10y ago

Most SQL GUI's do this, same for git wrappers

notgood 10y ago
Cool, although when I think about this I usually imagine it on Photoshop and similar apps, and later on using such commands from python or something.

adiabatty 10y ago

Sounds like macro recording in Office. You'd start recording, do some things, stop recording, and then you could see the VB code you generated and could edit it.

anthk 10y ago
SmallTalk

pjc50 10y ago

I think AutoCAD does this? I actually built one of these hybrids for a piece of chip design software, where scripting is very much expected. Architectural bonuses were that it was almost like having a GUI microservice; it could iterate separately, be written in a different language, and crash separately too.

galfarragem 10y ago
It does. I don't know any professional user that doesn't use the CLI. (I'm an architect). I still dream with the day that Photoshop gets one also..