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I've used wish (https://linux.die.net/man/1/wish https://linux.die.net/man/1/wish) for this in the past and it works pretty well. It used to come installed on m

• tobias12345 5y ago
  Both are wonderful options for some use cases. I would also take one of thise approaches for the simple demo in the blog post. But the system UI that is also linked in there is something that goes beyond what you can do with e.g. zenity. This kind of puts (almost) all the power of a modern UI description language in reach of shell scripts.
• kps 5y ago
  And tksh (shell with tk builtins), which made (makes, if you take the trouble to install it now) it trivial to add a simple GUI to an existing shell script.
  • mst 5y ago
    Do you happen to know where there's a copy of the source? The stuff on the tcl wiki all seems to be dead and that sounds fascinating to take apart to learn how it works.
    • kps 5y ago
      https://github.com/att/ast https://github.com/att/ast There's not really much to it; it's just an example of extending ksh with more builtins, which is simple by design. (I really miss what this did for Sun's dbx debugger — instead of being inside some tool with yet another idiosyncratic command language, your shell just grew commands for interacting with the process being debugged.)
      • mst 5y ago
        Aha, I shall have a dig through https://github.com/att/ast/tree/master/src/lib/libtksh https://github.com/att/ast/tree/master/src/lib/libtksh then. Thank you kindly.